RIDLEYS, LORDS OF RIDLEY, ENGLAND.
413
Judith Ridley10 (1), eldest daughter of Sir John' (4), who was of Rid-
ley, in Cheshire, married to John Lee, of Adlington.
Susan Ridley10 (2), second daughter of Sir John' (4), married to Wil-
liam Grovesnor, or Grosvenor, of Eton, Knt.
ELEVENTH GENERATION.
Sir Henry Ridley" (1), eldest son and successor to Sir Thomas¹º (1),
married Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Worsley, Knt., and had issue,
of whom hereafter. He was a knight.
John Ridley" (5), second son of Sir Thomas10 (1), of Ridley in
Cheshire, married a daughter of Sir William Tatton, of Wilsey, Knt.
Nothing said of issue.
Sir Thomas Ridley" (2), a son of Sir Thomas10 (1), of Ridley, in
Chestershire (he was third son), married Julian, daughter (and heir) of
Sir Thomas or Lambert Burdett, of Ridley in Northumberland. For the
descendants of this Thomas, see "Ridleys of Ridley in Northumberland."
Isabella Ridley" (1), eldest daughter of Sir Thomas10 (1), of Ridley
in Cheshire, married, firstly, to Sir William Gosworthe; secondly, to Sir
John Scott, Lord-Chief-Justice of Common Pleas.
Jayne Ridley" (1), second daughter of Sir Thomas10 (1), of Ridley
in Cheshire, married to Sir Woodgreate Harbottell, Knt.
TWELFTH GENERATION.
Sir Robert Ridley12 (2), eldest son and successor of Sir Henry" (1),
was of Ridley in Cheshire; married Anchitellis, daughter of Sir William
Bramnowe, of Bramnowe (another pedigree reads "Bramond"), and had
issue, of whom hereafter.
THIRTEENTH GENERATION.
Sir Thomas Ridley¹8 (3), a son and successor of Sir Robert¹² (2), was
of Ridley in Cheshire, as head of this family. He was a knight; mar-
ried a daughter of Sir William Davenport, and had issue a daughter, who
was his heir.
18
Jane Ridley 13 (2), only daughter of Sir Robert¹2 (2), married to John
Marbury.
FOURTEENTH GENERATION.
Margaret Ridley (2), a daughter of Sir Thomas18 (3), was the last
of this branch of the Ridley family. She married Richard Egerton, and
had a son Thomas Egerton, of Ridley in Cheshire. It will be seen that
there was another descent in the same County, called "Lords of Ridley,"
which ended in an heir female married to Sir Robert Danyell, and I can-
not tell how these two branches are related.
-
RIDLEYS, LORDS OF RIDLEY, ENGLAND.
According to Ormerod's "History of Chester," this branch of the Ridley
family, or "de Rideleigh," as he calls them,-owned the manor of
Ridley, in Cheshire, as per the years stated below. Mr. Lowe, a Cheshire
author, says the family who lived at Ridley Hall, when it was a depen-
dency of the Knight Hospitallers, assumed the local surname "de Ride-
