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Although there were contemporary rumours of a secret marriage, Hatton appears to have remained single, and his large and valuable estates descended to his nephew, Sir William Newport ( 1560-1597 ), who took the surname Hatton.

When Sir William Hatton died without male issue in 1597, the estates passed to a kinsman, another Sir Christopher Hatton ( d. 1619 ), whose son and successor, Christopher, was created Baron Hatton of Kirby.