RIDDELLS OF ROXBURGHSHIRE, SCOTLAND,
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Jane Riddell (1), only daughter of Andrew¹ (1), of Enfield, was
married Jan. 14, 1773, to Robert-Sadlier Moody, Esq., of Asply Guise.
She died Oct. 10, 1825, and was buried at St. Mary-le-Bone. Mr. Moody
was a commissioner of Her Majesty's Victualling-board; he was born
March 21, 1744, died Nov. 9, 1825, and was buried at St. Mary-le-Bone.
Rev. Henry-Riddell Moody was a son of Robert.
THIRD GENERATION.
Rignald-Charles Riddell (1), second son of John (1), was married.
Sept. 8, 1862, to Maria-Isabella, eldest daughter of Augustus-Charles Sky-
mer, Esq., late major of the Sixteenth Lancers. The marriage was at
Priestbury.
Walter-Kenneys Riddell (1), third son of John (1), of Enfield,
Middlesex, died at Brussels, in 1849.
RIDDELLS OF ROXBURGHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
[CREATED BARONETS MAY 12, 1628.]
Gervasius de Rydale' (1), a son of Philip (1), of that family whose
genealogy will be found in this work under the designation of "Riddells
of Ardnamurchan, Scotland" (which see), accompanied David, Prince of
Cumberland, into Scotland* early in the twelfth century, and became so
great a favorite that he was appointed the first High Sheriff of Roxburgh-
shire, and received grants of lands there as a reward for services faith-
fully performed. He must have been a very influential man, for he was a
constant attendant on royalty, as shown by crown charters to which he
was a witness, and especially that celebrated document, the "Inquisito
Principis Davidis," one of the most ancient records in Scotland, being
dated as early as A. D. 1116. Gervasius married Christiana de Soulis,
and by her had issue, of whom hereafter. His wife was a liberal donor to
Jedburgh monastery, and Gervasius, when he was advanced in life,
assumed the ecclesiastical garb, and died at Jedburgh in the odor of
sanctity. This was a prevailing custom and considered a great privilege,
namely, that those who had led a secular and a sinful life sought to atone
for the past by dying in a monastery; this practice was also followed by
many whose lives had been peaceful and blameless, a manifest reverence
in religion, although a religion of error.
Walter de Ridale' (1), a son of Philip⁹ (1), who was son of Galfridus
Ridel of France, and brother of Gervasius, before mentioned, accompa-
nied Prince David to Scotland, and like his brothers, enjoyed the friend-
ship and patronage of royalty. He was a witness to crown and other
charters of importance, but that to himself, from King David I, of the
Sir Walter Scott says tradition carries the history of this family to a point ex-
tremely remote, and is sanctioned by the discovery of two stone coffins, one con-
taining a pot with ashes and arms, dated A. D. 727; the other dated A. D. 936, and
filled with the bones of a man of gigantic size.
One writer says Gervaise Ridale received from Earl Henry, son of David, King
of Scotland, a grant of lands called Prenwent sete, now Primside, near Yetholm,
about three miles from the English border.
