Mark Steward

His uncles included Robert Steward (died 1557), Dean of Ely, and Edmund Steward (died 1559), Dean of Winchester 1554–1559 and another who became Pastor of the English congregation at Frankfurt where he was an associate of John Knox.

The Steward family had been settled in East Anglia from the fifteenth century.

[1] As a younger son with no paternal inheritance, he was obliged to make his own career.

[1] He married Anna Huick, a daughter of Robert Huick, MP, physician to Queen Elizabeth I, by whom he had issue one son and one daughter:[1] Upon Steward's death, Ann married secondly Giles Killingworth of Pampisford & Balsham Place Manor[5] She died before September 1617 when Killingworth remarried.

His estate of Stuntney in Cambridgeshire was eventually inherited by his cousin Elizabeth Steward and her son, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.