[1] His paternal grandparents were Christopher Paston and Anna Audeley.
His maternal grandparents were Thomas Knyvett, 4th Baron Berners and the former Muriel Parry.
[2] His aunt, Muriel Knyvett, was the second wife of Sir Edmond Bell.
Before her death in January 1635, they were the parents of:[1] After Lady Katherine's death he married Margaret Hewitt, a sister of Sir George Hewitt, at St Mary Aldermary,London, on 27th July 1640.
[1] Through his only son Robert, he was a grandfather of William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, who married the widowed Charlotte Howard (née FitzRoy), the acknowledged, but illegitimate, daughter of King Charles II and Elizabeth Killigrew Boyle.