RIDLEYS OF WILLIMOTESWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND.
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FIFTH GENERATION.
Robert Ridley' (4), son of Robert (3), "Lord of Ridley," was twenty
years old at the death of his father, in the twenty-third year of Edward
III (1350).* He married Margaret, who died at the age of 36, in the
thirty-ninth year of Edward III (1368), leaving issue.
Robert Ridley' (5), a son of William (2), lived in the thirteenth year
of the reign of Edward III (1340); married, firstly, Agnes, the daughter
of Kenrick de Cholmondelegh, thirteenth year of Edward III (1340),
and, secondly, Isabella, a widow, fourth year of Richard II (1381). There
was issue by the first wife.
SIXTH GENERATION.
Kenrick Ridley (1), son of Robert' (5), thirty-second year of Edward
III (1361); married Christian, and is supposed to be ancestor of
Richard de Ridelegh, of Tarporley, who married at Weverham in 1408
to Ellen, daughter of John Masey, of Kelsall; living in the eighth year
of Henry VI (1430).
William Ridley (3), a son of Robert (4), was his father's heir, and
became "Lord of Ridelegh." He married Alice, daughter of Richard de
Prestloud, between the thirty-sixth and thirty-ninth (1365-8) years of the
reign of Edward III, and had issue a daughter.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
Alice Ridley (1), daughter of William (3), was born in 1376; was
married to Robert Danyell, and had a son, Sir Robert Danyell, who was
"Lord of Ridlegh" (and heir to his mother, Alice), in the second year of
the reign of Henry VI (1424). This ends the descent of this branch of
the Ridley family of Cheshire.
RIDLEYS OF WILLIMOTESWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Thomas Ridley¹ (1), was the third son of Sir Thomas10 (1), " of Rid-
ley," in Cheshire. He married Julian, daughter of Sir Lambert Burdett,
and in consequence of this alliance became possessed of landed estates in
Northumberland, which were subsequently denominated "Ridley," pre-
sumably in memory of the ancient manor owned by the family in Chester.
I am well satisfied that "Ridley" in Tynedale was in possession of the
family of that name some time before Willimoteswick came to them.
Thomas had a son.
SECOND GENERATION.
John Ridley (1), a son of Thomas' (1), married a daughter of Sir
John Grey, a Knight of Chilwick, and inherited from his mother, Julian
In the year 1350, Robert de Rydgeleph (Ridley) held four acres of land in what
is now called the township of Ridley, Edisbury Hundred, of Cheshire, -the site
of the Manor house of Ridley, from St. John of Jerusalem; and the residue of
the whole manor, from John de St. Pierre, Knt., by the service of one Knight's Fee.
In 1329 the Manor was called "Ridleigh," and in 1424, "Ridley."
