416 RIDLEYS OF WILLIMOTESWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Burdett, an estate in Northumberland which was called "Ridley"; said
property held in consideration that the heirs should bear the Burdett
coat-armour, quartered before those of Ridley forever; otherwise the
lands were to go to the Barons of Grayslock. This John had two children.
Anne Ridley (1), a daughter of Thomas' (1), and his wife, Julian
Burdett, married to Sir John Witterington.
THIRD GENERATION.
He
Anthony Ridley (1), a son of John² (1), married Beatrice, a daughter
and heiress of John Thirkell, Esq., and had issue, of whom hereafter.
was "of Ridley in Northumberland."
FOURTH GENERATION.
Nicholas Ridley (1), son of Anthony (1), married a daughter of Sir
John Cramlington, of Cramlington, and had issue.
Odard* Ridley (1), second son of Anthony (1), was evidently by a
second wife, who was a daughter of Odard de Willimoteswick; and be-
came heir of that property. The pedigree is obscure in some connections.
He was living in 1280.
Thomas Ridley' (2), third son of Anthony (1), was living in 1300,
and died previous to 1303. He married Majory, daughter of Whitefield,
of Whitefield.
FIFTH GENERATION.
Thomas Ridley (3), eldest son of Nicholas (1), married to Audry,
sister of Sir William Musgrave, and was styled "of Ridley in Northum-
berland" (1440). He had issue.
John Ridley (2), second son of Nicholas (1), married Margaret,
daughter of Richard Horton, and had issue (1446).
Nicholas Ridley (2), third son of Nicholas (1), married to Annie,
daughter of John Lawson, and had issue. He is styled in one pedigree
"of Willimoteswick " (1450).
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SIXTH GENERATION.
Thomas-Baron Ridley (4), son of Nicholas (2), was styled "of
Hamstead Hall"; he married Alice, daughter and co-heir of Clement
Skelton, Esq., of Brampton (another authority says "Alice, daughter of
Arthur Skelton, of Brampton"), and died in 1320, leaving issue.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
Hugh Ridley (1), presumably a son of Thomas (4), was living as
early as 1371, and was a man of great wealth and influence. His name
occurs in the "Hiis testibus" of deeds about the manor of Haltwhistle
and Colonwade in 1372, and in connection with lands in Reedsdale in the
second year of the reign of Richard II (1378). The several pedigrees in
the British Museum and in local histories do not agree concerning this
man; one tabular pedigree calls him son of Nicholas and Alice Skelton.
* ODARD DE RIDLEY witnessed a charter in Northumberland in 1280. Nicholas
de Ridley, son of Thomas, executed a charter in 1250; he was grandson of Nicholas
de Willimoteswick, who lived in the time of King John (1166-1216), who was a son
of Odard de Willimoteswick, who witnessed a charter at Hexham Abbey in the time
of Henry II (1206-72). The last-named was probably a brother of John Fitz-Odard,
Baron of Emildon (who was living 1161-82), and son of Odard, Viscount of North-
umberland, mentioned as such in 1110 and 1130, when Governor of Bauburgh; he
was son of Odard de Loges, Viscount of Northumberland.
