RIDDELLS OF NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD.
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William Ridell' (3), third son of John (1), was mayor of Newcastle-
on-Tyne in 1500. No account of a family.
TENTH GENERATION.
Peter Ridell¹º (2), eldest son of Thomas (4), was his father's heir;
he married Dorothy, daughter of John Brandling, who was mayor of the
city of Newcastle in 1509, and a sister of Sir Ralph Brandling, Knt.
(see "Burk's Commoners, vol. 2, page 39), and had issue, of whom here-
after. He was a merchant-adventurer in Newcastle, in 1549.
ELEVENTH GENERATION.
Thomas Ridell" (5), eldest son and heir of Peter¹0 (2), died without
children.
Peter Ridell (3), second son of Peter (2), was of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, and succeeded his brother Thomas, before mentioned. He married
Eleanor, daughter of John Swinburn, of Newcastle, and had issue several
children, of whom hereafter.
William Ridell" (4), third son of Peter¹0 (2), was of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, a merchant-adventurer, and sheriff of that borough in 1575. Was
mayor of Newcastle in 1582, 1590, and 1595. This worshipful citizen
was married twice; his first wife, Annie, daughter and heiress of William
Lawson, was the mother of one son, who became his father's heir. By
the second wife, Barbara, daughter of Alderman Bertram Anderson (who
died in 1627, and was buried on the 11th of November; her will bears
date 30th October, 3d year of the reign of Charles I), he had eight sons
and one daughter.
Eleanor Ridell" (1), eldest daughter of Peter¹º (2) was the wife of
Henry Lawe.
Katherine Ridell" (1), second daughter of Peter¹º (2), was married
in 1580, to Anthony Lawe.
TWELFTH GENERATION.
William Ridell¹2 (5), eldest son of Peter¹¹ (3), born in 1581.
Peter Ridell12 (4), second son of Peter¹¹ (3), born in 1591.
Thomas Ridell¹2 (6), third son of Peter" (3), was born in 1599.
Barbara Ridell12 (1), a daughter of Peter (3), born in 1584; was
married, first, to John Southeron, and secondly, to Anthony Theabold.
Sir Thomas Ridell¹² (7), the eldest son of William" (4), was knight-
ed by King James I, in the first year of his reign (1603). He was Sheriff
of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1601; mayor in 1604 and 1616, and Member of
Parliament for that borough in1620, and again with his brother Peter, be-
fore mentioned, in 1628. He was a "Knight of Gateshead in the Palatin-
ate of Durham." He was bailiff of Gateshead in 1605, 1614, and 1620.
His father had obtained, in 1569, a case from the crown of coals, "cum les
water pyttes in campis de Gatshed"; and he himself was one of the Grand
Lessees, as they were styled, of the Corporation of Newcastle, on the as-
signment of Thomas Sutton, founder of the Charter House, of the Lord-
ships of Gateshead and Whickham, and the parks, wastes, and coal mines
belonging to them, acquired in consideration of £12,000 paid down, but said
by Dr. Craddock, archdeacon of Northumberland, to be then worth £50,-
000 per annum. He built him a pleasant seat out of the hospital of St.
Edmund, in Gateshead, with an extensive prospect out on the fell, which
