RIDDELLS OF SWINBURNE AND FELTON.
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Dorothy Riddell¹8 (1), eldest daughter of Thomas¹ (13), died young.
Barbara Riddell¹8 (3), second daughter of Thomas¹ (13), was the
wife of a Mr. Nelson, of Lancashire, an esquire.
[One daughter, whose name does not appear, was the wife of
Maxwell, Esq., of Scotland. Some say there was a son named Edward,
who died when a child, but I cannot tell certainly about him.]
NINETEENTH GENERATION.
Thomas Riddell¹º (15), eldest son and heir of Thomas¹8 (14), was of
Swinburne Castle, County of Northumberland. He married, April 19,
1790, Margaret, daughter of William Salvin, Esq., of Croxdale, and by
her had an only son, who predeceased him. He died himself in 1798,
and was succeeded by his youngest and only surviving brother.
Edward-H.-Widdrington Riddell (3), second son of Thomas¹8 (14),
inherited the estates of the Widdringtons through his mother, who
was the heiress, and was consequently styled "of Felton and Horsley."
He married, June 20, 1792, Isabella, fifth daughter of William Salvin,
Esq., of Croxdale Hall, County of Durham, and sister of the wife of his
brother Thomas, before mentioned; but died without issue, Jan. 26, 1793,
at Stella Hall, Durham. His widow was married in 1803, to Ralph
Riddell, Esq., of Cheeseburn Grange. The manor of Felton, which came
to this family of Riddell from the Widdringtons, comprised Old Felton,
Acton, Swarland, Framlington, Glantlees, and Over-Isger. It anciently
belonged to the barony of Mitford, and was given by Henry I to William
Bertram; but in the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward II it was
possessed by Andromare de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, who was mur-
dered in France, after which it passed successively to the Earls of Athol,
the Perceys, the Scropes, the Lisles, and the Widdringtons. The prop-
erty of Horsley came to the Riddells through the Widdringtons' inter-
marriage with the Horsleys, an ancient Northumberland family, long seated
at Long Horsley, whence the surname.
Ralph Riddell19 (4), third son of Thomas¹8 (14), succeeded to the
estates of Felton and Horsley at the decease of his brother Edward,
issueless, in 1793. He married, July 23, 1801, Elizabeth, daughter of
Joseph Blount, Esq., second son of Michael Blount, Esq., of Maple Dur-
ham, and had issue, of whom hereafter. Mr. Riddell was passionately
fond of rearing and training race-horses, and eminently successful on the
"turf"; yet he was no gambler, but of steady and retiring habits, to
which deafness gave him more than a natural relish. His noted horse
"Doctor Syntax," won about twenty gold cups; another called "XYZ,"-
"that bonnie steed that bang'd them a' for pith and speed,"-carried off
nine gold cups; and his "Don Carlos was the winner of the same num-
ber, when he was purchased for the Russian government, and sent over to
that country. Mr. Riddell gave up his racing establishment a few years
before his death, which took place on the 9th of March, 1833, when he
was sixty-three years of age. He was a man of unbounded kindness,
and exceeding liberality to the poor. In consequence of the steady and
uniform adherence of this family to the Roman Catholic faith they have
not figured in the higher offices of the county.
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Mary Riddell (2), eldest daughter of Thomas18 (14).
Dorothy Riddell (2), second daughter of Thomas's (14), died un-
married.
Elizabeth Riddell¹ (3), third daughter of Thomas18 (14), was married
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