RIDLEYS OF OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA.
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Edna-E. Ridley' (1), eldest daughter of Dee¹ (1), was born in Lamar
County, Tex., and is eight years old (1880).
Thomas-W. Ridley (10), a son of Dee
County, Tex., and is now (1880) six years old.
(1), was born in Lamar
Eugene Ridley (1), a son of Dee (1), was born in Lamar County,
Tex., and died at the age of six months.
Ella-Hugh Ridley (2), eldest daughter of Young (2), was born in
Liberty County, Tex., Dec. 24. 1866.
John-Day Ridley (15), eldest son of Young (2), was born in Lib-
erty County, Tex., July 11, 1868.
Bettie-Lavinia Ridley (1), second daughter of Young¹ (2), was born
in Liberty County, Tex., July 27, 1870.
Charles-Sumerfield Ridley (4), second son of Young* (2), was born
in Liberty County, Tex., Feb. 4, 1872.
Mattie-Emma Ridley (2), third daughter of Young' (2), was born
in Liberty County, Tex., Aug. 2, 1873.
Ida-Gertrude Ridley (1), fourth daughter of Young (2), was born
in Liberty County, Tex., Sept. 21, 1878.
Rufus-Jerome Ridley (3), a son of Jerome (1), was born in Kerr
County, Tex., April 22, 1878.
RIDLEYS. OF OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA.
[VIRGINIAN BRANCH.]
Bromfield Ridley¹ (1), son of James Ridley, was descended from an
old and distinguished family that came from England to Virginia in 1635
(see "Ridleys of Southampton County, Virginia"). He was probably
educated in Virginia, but with other members of the same family early
settled in North Carolina. The date of his birth is not known. He was
settled as a lawyer at Oxford, Granville County, as early as 1770, and evi-
dently several years earlier than that date. He is said to have been a
man distinguished in his profession, but no published account of his life.
can now be found. He resided at a beautiful country-seat called "Nine
Oaks," about eleven miles from Oxford, now owned and well kept by
Samuel-Smith Cooper. Mr. Ridley married Frances Henderson, daughter
of Judge Henderson, of Revolutionary days, and granddaughter of Judge
John Williamson, whose wife was the daughter of Lord George Keiling
(or Kelling) who had his property confiscated in England, and lost his
seat in the House of Lords, in consequence of his Protestant religious
principles, and had issue by that lady eight children, of whom hereafter.
Mr. Ridley acquired wealth, and gave his sons a liberal education, and
means sufficient for a good start in life. He died in 1796, and is thought
to have been rising sixty. Tradition represents him as a gentleman of
great dignity of deportment and fine appearance.
SECOND GENERATION.
Dr. James Ridley2 (1), eldest son of Bromfield¹ (1), was born at Ox-
ford, N. C., about the year 1776; married Elizabeth-Taylor Lewis, of Gran-
ville County, a lady of remarkable beauty, and connected by ties of blood
