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The Ranger and Gledhill families were connected by the marriage of Alfred William Holwell Ranger to Maude Thornber Gledhill in Australia in 1899
The Ranger and Gledhill families were connected by the marriage of Alfred William Holwell Ranger to Maude Thornber Gledhill in Australia in 1899
Amorial Bearings granted to Thomas Gledhill (abt 1560) in 1612.
The Arms and Crest confirmed and allowed by Sir Richard St. George Kt; Norroy Kinge at Armes by patent dated 24th November 1612. The 10th reign of King James.
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Descendency Chart of Henry De Gledhill
Descendency Chart of Henry De Gledhill
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Henry De Gledhill 1292 = ? de Barkisland
William De Gledhill 1327 =
Adam Gledhill 1359 =
John Gledhill 1392 =
Thomas Gledhill 1415 =
John Gledhill 1440 =
Thomas Gledhill 1468 = Janet Woodhead
Thomas 1492 = Agnes Savile ( 1st. marriage ) ( 2nd. unknown) ( 3rd. Agnes ?)
John Gledhill = Elizabeth Walker ( 1st. Marriage ) ( 2nd. Cicely Thornhill)
Thomas Gledhill abt. 1560 = Edith Harrison ( 2nd. Marriage )- Mary Wade ( 1st. Marriage ) (father of Sir Richard Gledhill b 1616 Brother of Thomas Gledhill abt 1593)
Thomas Gledhill abt. 1593 =
William Gledhill 1616 = Elizabeth Flather
William Gledhill 1647 = Sarah Brooke
William Gledhill 1671 = Mary Rayner
Richard Gledhill abt. 1697 =
Jermiah Gledhill 1720 = Martha Shaw ( 1st. Marriage ) ( 2nd. Diana ?)
William Gledhill 1746 = Mary Bentley
Samuel Gledhill 1779 = Annie Heald
Benjamin Gledhill 1818 = Jane Illingworth
Issac Gledhill 1850 = Emma Foster
Maude Thornber Gledhill 1877 = Alfred William Holwell Ranger
Alfred Charles Ranger 1903 = Ellen Theresa Hooper
Judith Ellen Ranger 1943 = Russell Albert James Dorhauer & Malcolm Holwell Ranger 1949 = Ann Veronica Reynolds 1949
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Note: Birth dates sourced from Family Search LDS Records may not be entirely accurate
Copies of images of the Battle of Marston Moor
Oliver Cromwell and a regiment of Parliamentary Foot at the Battle of Marston Moor on 2nd July 1644 in the English Civil War: picture by Ernest Crofts
Sir Richard Gledhill 1616-1644 (Brother of Thomas Gledhill 1593)
Richard was educated for the law at Lincoln's Inn, and when the civil war split England He took up the Royalist cause and became a captain of a troop of horse, under the famous cavalry general, Sir Marmaduke Langdale. For some notable act of gallantry he was knighted by the Marquis of Newcastle, and as Sir Richard Gledhill, Knight, met his fate in battle, being killed on Hessay Moor, near York in 1644. (The battle of Marston Moor) He was buried in St. Martin's Micklegate July 8th of that year.
According to historian Edward Lamplough, writing in 1891, “Gledhill… died in his own house an hour after he succeeded in gaining its shelter. He had received twenty-six wounds”. It is not clear if by “his own house” Lamplough means Barkisland Hall. Travelling the distance from Marston Moor with such grievous injuries seems to preclude it, as does the fact that Sir Richard is buried at the Church of St. Martin on Micklegate in York, rather than locally.
Yet if he had died at the Hall, it might explain why so many generations of Barkisland folk believed his restless spirit haunted the building and its environs. Sadly, accounts of his phantom are vague and by the early Twentieth Century the story seemed to exist as nothing more than a indistinct notion in the local psyche. There are no first or even second-hand accounts of encounters with the revenant, only a brief mention in a newspaper article from 1931, which simply states “Richard Gledhill’s ghost is said to haunt the area around Barkisland Hall”.
Source: Ghosts and legends of the Lower Calder Valley
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City of York after The Battle of Marston Moor on 2nd July 1644 in the English Civil War
Cavalry Action at the time of the English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor 2nd July 1644 in the English Civil War
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