She was the aunt to the future Parliamentarian leaders Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden.
[3] They were active supporters of the Puritans and in their home in Hatfied they had a portrait of Theodore Beza.
[4] They had nine surviving children, including four sons, Thomas (c.1585-1644), Robert (?-1642), Francis (?-before 1628) [5] and John (?-1631), who died in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years War.
[6] Her son, Thomas's second wife was Judith Barrington who was also a notable supporter of puritan clergy and one of her correspondents.
[8] All three of her son-in-laws and her two elder sons were MPs at one stage or another; these family connections put Barrington at the centre of a powerful political clique.