RIDLEYS OF WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
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Lieujeney Ridley (1), eldest son of John³ (2), was born Jan. 19,
1872.
Philip-E. Ridley (1), second son of John³ (2), was born Oct. 7,
1874.
Lewis-F. Ridley' (1), third son of John (2), was born Oct. 3, 1876.
Frederick-L. Ridley (1), fourth son of John (2), was born Dec. 8,
1877.
John-Franklin Ridley' (5), eldest son of Roberts (3), was born in
Wilkinson County, Ga., Sept. 19, 1872.
William-Edward Ridley (3), second son of Robert (3), was born
in Wilkinson County, Ga., May 19, 1874.
Joel-Hardie Ridley (2), third son of Roberts (3), was born in Wil-
kinson County, Ga., Nov. 20, 1875.
Julia-Antoinette Ridley (2), a daughter of Robert³ (3), was born
in Wilkinson County, Ga., March 12, 1878.
RIDLEYS OF WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
[VIRGINIAN BRANCH.]
William Ridley' (1) was descended from the Ridley family of South-
ampton County, Virginia, and was presumably a son of William Ridley,
who settled in the County Isle of Wight, Va., in the early part of the
eighteenth century. Some descendants of this William say he was born
in England or Wales. He went from Virginia to Gates County, N. C.,
when a young man, and thence removed to Wake County, where he mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Howell and Isabella Lewis (she was born
April 10, 1761), of Granville County, where Mr. Ridley made his perma-
nent residence. He was a farmer by occupation; died in the prime of
life (previous to 1810), leaving four children, of whom hereafter. The
family residence and plantation (consisting of five hundred acres) were
sold by Mrs. Ridley to a Mr. Montague in 1810. The family was con-
sidered rich.
SECOND GENERATION.
Col. Howell-Lewis Ridley' (1), a son of William¹ (1) and his wife,
Elizabeth Lewis,* born in Wake County, N. C., about 1776; married Mil-
dred Cobb, and lived on a farm in Granville County until the death of his
wife, when he went to Oxford, in the same County, and lived with his
only son, of whom more hereafter. I do not know how he came by the
title of colonel; he may have been in the war of 1812. He was a culti-
vated gentleman, wealthy, and very fond of sporting with fine horses and
dogs. He died in 1823 at Oxford, N. C.
* It will be seen by reference to notes connected with genealogy of the Ridley
family of Oxford, N. C., that they were intermarried with the families of Lewis and
Cobb, evidently of the same stock as the above mother and wife of Colonel Ridley,
and these double ties of blood bound the two branches of the Ridley family to-
gether. I have not learned the exact degree of relationship between Elizabeth
Lewis, wife of William Ridley, and Elizabeth-Taylor Lewis, wife of Dr. James
Ridley; both were of Granville County, N. C.
