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RIDLEYS OF WALLTOWN, ENGLAND.
YET STEL BELEVES TO HAV AGAEN
THROUGH CHRIST A NEW RESURRECCION.
AL FRENDES MAY BE GLAD TO HAER
WHEN HES SOUL FROM PAEN DID GO
OUT OF THES WORLD AS DOETH APPEAR
IN THE YEER OF OUR LORD
A. D. 1562. xx."*
SECOND GENERATION.
Elizabeth Ridley2 (1), only daughter of John' (1) and his wife Eliza-
beth, married Thomas Ridley, a great-grandson of Sir Nicholas Ridley;
hence, as the wife was a great-granddaughter of the said Sir Nicholas,
she and her husband were of the same generation, counting the descent
from the same original ancestor (see Ridleys of Willimoteswick" and
"Ridleys of Unthank "). She had issue one son, and perhaps others, of
whom hereafter.
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THIRD GENERATION.
John Ridley (2), a son of Thomas Ridley and Elizabeth Ridley² (1),
who was the daughter and sole heir of the original John Ridley, of Wall-
town, and Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Ridley, of Unthank, married
to Annie, daughter and executrix of Charlton, of Hesliside, North-
umberland, and was living in the year 1615; he had issue two sons and
four daughters, of whom hereafter. It will be seen that the Walltown
family of Ridley became extinct in the male line with the death, in 1562,
of the first John Ridley, and that by the intermarriage of the aforesaid
Thomas, the descent counted from the male side comes down from the
Willimoteswick family.
FOURTH GENERATION.
John Ridley (3), eldest son and heir of John³ (2), of Wallsend, and
Annie Charlton, became of Walltown, Northumberland. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Charlton, Esq., of Charlton Hall, Cumber-
land (of the same family as his mother), and had issue four sons and
four daughters, of whom hereafter.
Elizabeth Ridley (2), eldest daughter of Johns (2) and Annie Charl-
ton, married to William of the Morrelea.
Willard Ridley (1), second son of John (3), of Walltown, and his
wife, Annie Charlton, married Annie, daughter of Woodman, and by
her had three sons and one daughter. This Willard was styled "of Lon-
don and Walltown." He is presumed to be the same as referred to by
Surtees in the singular Northumberland ballad, as "Will of the Wall,”
for in a note to Sir Walter Scott he says, "Will of the Wall' means Wil-
lard Ridley of Walltown," hence he was engaged in the encounter with
the Featherstonhaughs at the time that the clan of Ridley killed Albany,
the chief of that house.
Margaret Ridley' (1), second daughter of John (3), of Walltown,
and his wife, Annie Charlton, married to Ralph Thurlway.
Thomasin Ridley (1), third daughter of John (3), of Walltown, and
his wife, Annie Charlton, married Daniel Stoughton.
*The above inscription was transcribed from a copy sent me by the Rev. Dixon
Brown, of Unthank Hall, Northumberland, Eng.; he lives near Haltwhistle Church-
yard, and the inscription was easily accessible. I cannot interpret all the lines,
and it is believed that some of the letters have been worn away by lapse of time.
It will be seen that the surname is spelled Redle, which was not unfrequent on
ancient documents and monuments.
