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Part 5. The Revells of Yorkshire (up to ca 1650).
Fourth Major Revision in progress February 20th 2013
Compiled by Mike Clifford
Feel free to use this information but please acknowledge Rotherham Web
[rotherweb@blueyonder.co.uk] where the related documents and updates are hosted. Corrections,
comments and additional information welcome.
Introduction
Hunter’s Familiae Minorum Gentium suggests in a pedigree (MS 170)1 that the Revells of Yorkshire, as well as the Revells of
Derbyshire, are descended from the Revells of Newbold Revell, Warwickshire. Such an account has been posted on Genforum
with the suggestion that the move north commenced in the early 14 th century in the time of Sir John Revell of Newbold Revell
(~1290–1353).2 The line is said to descend from Sir John’s brother Thomas who was associated with Derbyshire, through his
second son Thomas who was knighted 1313, to grandsons Thomas (who moved to Stannington but died without issue) and
Edward. Assuming Sir John’s brother Thomas was born ca 1290, then Thomas’ son Thomas could have been born ca
1310–1320 and the grandsons 1330 to 1350. The grandsons might then have lived to as late as 1400 or even 1420.
However, this Pedigree 170 is much in doubt. Pedigree 171, prepared in the early 19th century and commencing ca 1500, is
considered to be more reliable. However, information provided by Thomas’s will and Sheffield Manor records demonstrates
that this pedigree is also inaccurate in the early stages. As discussed below, several individuals shown in this pedigree should
appear one generation earlier, or with different parents.
In an area of ca 4 miles radius, centred just north of Sheffield, there is a significant number of references to mediaeval Revells,
in their various spellings, from the second half of the 12 th century onwards, possibly suggesting that this name was established in
this area long before the supposed migration from Warwickshire, and with a substantial presence by the late 14 th century. There
are north-eastern outliers also at Wombwell, Pontefract, Ulleskelf and Scarthingwell, and later Selby. These individuals do not
necessarily belong to the same ancestral line. There is evidence suggestive of possible connections to the Derbyshire Revells
further discussed below — see also Part 4.
Early Mediaeval Revells in Yorkshire from ca 1100 to ca 1450
According to Hunter the Domesday survey named six small tracts Haldworth, Ughill, Withala, Wadsley, Sceuelt and Onesacre.
The first four became part of the Saxon manor of Hallam and passed to Roger de Busli and then the Lovetots. The chapelry of
Bradfield embraces the northern part of the Saxon manor of Hallam. The manor of Bradfield seems first to have been mentioned
about 1316 but seems to have merged with the manor of Sheffield. 3
The earliest record that I have so far located refers to a Rogero de Rivill in 1161 in connection with Burley and Burleystone
(Birley Edge, Bradfield) and the Convention between Richard de Lovetot and the Monks of Ecclesfield, mentioned in
Eastwood’s Ecclesfield (page 399).4 This Convention is referred to in ‘The monastic order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215‘,5 as
involving the de Luvetot family and a cell of the Norman Abbey of St Wandrille based some 20 miles from Rouen. The de
Luvetot family were from Yvetot in Normandy where the Abbey was a major landowner, and it is suggested that the Cell was
established ca 1086. It is recorded that ‘Richard II founded the Carthusian convent of saint Ann, without the walls of Coventre;
in 1386 he transferred to it all the estate and interest in Ecclesfield, which the house of saint Wandrille had then formerly
enjoyed’.6 It is thought that the tithes of Bradfield were at one time given to the Abbey of St Wandrille.7, 8
1 Pedigree of Revel http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/tree.htm
2 http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?stannington::revell::574.html
3 Hallamshire http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ML8AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=%22where+is+haldworth%22&source=bl&ots=uch3ELPEpt&sig=nByHFC5iFmxe4KeMP7IjNiuWJrs
&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CLudUtCvNMPE7AbxsYHABw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22haldworth%22&f=false
4 "A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a selection of local names, and some notices of folklore, games and
customs. [And Supplement to the Sheffield glossary]"
http://www.archive.org/stream/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft_djvu.txt
5 ‘The monastic order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215 ‘ By Janet E. Burton
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4n2saB3FVHIC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=%22Abbey+of+St+Wandrilles+%22&source=bl&ots=aYoCM7dOh&sig=PpiGSL5syzBG6RSZqE6Wf-yhAqY&hl=en&ei=FMVJSuqpIKaRjAe7p7Ri&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8
6 ‘Sheffield Manorial Records’
7 Nottinghamshire History http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/white1875/priory_part1.htm
8 Hallamshire http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ML8AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=%22where+is+haldworth%22&source=bl&ots=uch3ELPEpt&sig=nByHFC5iFmxe4KeMP7IjNiuWJrs
&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CLudUtCvNMPE7AbxsYHABw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22haldworth%22&f=false
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Comments, corrections and additions to Rotherham Web [rotherweb@blueyonder.co.uk]
Although the details are sketchy, this provides circumstantial evidence for a link to William de Revell and Bernard de
Neufmarché who were active at Llanfilo in Wales ca 1090 — see Part 1 — and to Coventry (Warwickshire) — see Parts 2 & 3.
A William de Lovetot possessed estates in Hallamshire and in Huntingdonshire, 9 and had four sons, Richard (mentioned above)
inherited the lands in Hallamshire, Nigel who inherited lands in Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire, Henry and Hugh. 10 The
John de Lovetot who acquired the land of John Revell of Bengeo (see Part 11) is possibly a descendent of Richard.11
A Ralph Reuel is listed as a ‘mercator’ in Sheffield in the 1196 Pipe Roll. A William de Riuill is listed in the Yorkshire Feet
of Fines in 1202 with regard to the purchase of six bovates of land and appurtenances at Scardingwell.12 A Walter Revell is
recorded in the Yorkshire Assize Roll for the Wapentake of Dickering (East Riding, Filey and Bridlington area) in the period
1202 to 1208,as follows: ‘Walter Revil [?] appeals Ralph de Mapelton of robbery. He put himself in mercy and [made] a fine’.13
In 1232 / 3 a Petrus de Rivall was Sheriff of Yorkshire, 14 and his signature appears as a witness to an Edward III Charter to the
Borough of Chesterfield, dated 1233.15 Other records name this Sheriff as Peter de Rivalis who is described elsewhere as the
nephew or natural son of Bishop Peter de Roches, and thus he seems unlikely to be a Revell.16, 17 He is probably the ‘Peter de
Rievall sheriff of Bucks, and Bedf’ referred to in 1233.18
From the late 13th century there are three comparatively well-documented concentrations of Revells, one in the ‘Territory of
Saxton’, one at Skipton / Bolton Abbey, and the other in the ‘Soke of Bradfield’ — see Table 5a. There are also a few disjointed
records that might be associated with one of these concentrations.
9 Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire Volume 1 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75948
10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Lovetot
11 BHOL http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=75948&filename=fig17.gif&pubid=442
12 Feet of Fines http://www.archive.org/stream/pedesfiniumeborr00grearich#page/30/mode/2up
13 Yorkshire Assize Rolls page 27 http://ia600200.us.archive.org/6/items/cu31924017614615/cu31924017614615.pdf
14 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/yrksdict/HighSheriffs.html
15 Records of the Borough of Chesterfield http://www.archive.org/details/recordsofborough00yeatrich
16 http://www.ashdownforest.org/history/history_roman_1300.php
17 Winchester http://www.archive.org/stream/winchesterwithma00benh/winchesterwithma00benh_djvu.txt
18 Parochial Antiquities http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pk0AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA299&dq=%22Peter+Rievall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3sPsTvuAOZLt8QPjkvz0CQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%2
2Peter%20Rievall%22&f=false
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Revells in the Territory of Saxton and Wapentake of Barkestone
It is possible that some of these records that appear sometimes as Rievell or Rievilla relate to Reinevilles rather than Revells.
However, it has not been possible to locate any reference to an Alexander de Reineville.
An ‘Alexander de Rievill’ who witnessed a grant to the hospital of St. Peter, York, by William de St Eloy and Emma his wife
dated to the period 1170–1177,19 and a similar grant by William de Argentom dated to the period 1170 to 1185, 20 must have been
born no later than the period 1150 to 1157. This Alexander’s residence is uncertain, but as recorded below this forename is
clearly associated with the Revells of the Territory of Saxton in the first half of the 13 th century.
At some date in the period 1180 to 1195 Willelmo de Rivill witnessed a grant as follows: ‘Grant by Humphrey de Veilli to Hugh
son of Walter in free marriage with Rohaise, sister of the grantor…’,21 and at some date before 1202, probably ca 1195, a
Willelmus de Rivill is a witness to a grant made by Hugh de Swillington. 22 The Feet of Fines records on August 7th 1202 that a
Willelmus de Riuill was holding land at ‘Scaedingwell’ [Scarthingwell],23 and Early Yorkshire Charters record that William de
Rivill recovered land in Scarthingwell in 1202.24 Scarthingwell is some nine miles east of Swillington. It may be the same
person who witnessed a grant by Peter de Touleston to the Brethren of the Hospital of Jerusalem in the period 1196 to 1210.
This William de Rivill was presumably born not later than ca 1175.
A grant by Durand son of Drew to the canons of Bolton made in the period 1190 to 1210 was witnessed by a Willelmo de
Rievill,25 but this does not appear in the Bolton Abbey Cartulary as assembled by Legg — see below. Although initially the
connection with the canons of Bolton suggsests that this might be one of the William Revells clearly associated with the area
around Glusburn, the date and the spelling suggest that it might be the individual from the Territory of Saxton.
Early in the 13th century a William de Reuill son of Thomas de Reuill witnessed a document in the ‘Leiger of St Leonard’s of
Yorke’ describing a gift made to the Hospital of St Peter of York by Roger son of Ankelin de Huck,26 and he might be the
Willelmo de Rivilla who witnessed an undated charter made during the service of Prior Fulk at Pontefract (ca 1231–1234).27
The Fine Rolls for Henry III dated 1236 / 7 have an entry concerned with matters in Barkestone, ‘William [Rivill] son of John
Rivill], and Alexander de Rivill for default fined 10s’.28 In 1249 there is reference in an Inquisition to an Alexander de Ryvill
who is detained in prison at York accused of the murder of John de Neusum. A case was made by Alexander’s supporters, that
he has been wrongly accused.29 A sartatement on the web, citing Wheater's History of Sherburn & Cawood records that ‘An
Alexander Revill and his son Robert [Revell] gifted 40 acres of land 'in the territory of Saxton' in the first year of the reign of
Edward I (1272)’,30 and there is a reference in a charter of king Henry III (1216–72) of a gift made to Clementhorpe Nunnery
(York) by an ‘Alexander de Rievill’,31 but this is a confirmation of a gift, and possibly one made much earlier.
In 1250 a Robert de Ryvill is named in the Curia Regis Rolls along with an Alan le Fraunceys,32 an ancestor of the wife of one
of the East Anglian Revells — see Part 13. However, Matt Tompkins suggests that the connection between Robert and Alan is
almost certainly too distant to be of particular significance, as follows:
‘Robert de Ryvill is just one of the 12 jurors who gave a verdict that a ditch or drain in Wytegift belonged the abbot of Selby as
a lay owner, and not as the rector of the church of Adlingfleet (the church had been appropriated by the abbey, i.e. it had made
itself the rector, and kept the great tithes, leaving only the lesser tithes for the vicar it appointed there, presently John le
Fraunceys). So Ryvill was at best one of Fraunceys’ parishioners, at worst just someone who had been called as a juror
because he lived in the vicinity of Wytegift’.
19 Early Yorkshire Charters
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kTuGgWHnAaIC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=%22de+Rievill%22&source=bl&ots=vRZDRcQM7Q&sig=c
rDmXrBEdlDAnyYFznCKL7Rt3Ss&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T5EDUsWGI8W40QWSoGgAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22de%20Rievill%22&f=false
20 Early Yorkshire Charters http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyyorkshirech02farruoft/earlyyorkshirech02farruoft_djvu.txt
21 Early Yorkshire Charters Volume 3 http://archive.org/stream/earlyyorkshirech03farruoft/earlyyorkshirech03farruoft_djvu.txt
23 Pedes Finium Ebor http://www.archive.org/stream/pedesfiniumebor00pleagoog#page/n68/mode/1up/search/riuil
26 Yorkshire Archaeological Society http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae00socigoog#page/n81/mode/1up
27 The Chartulary of St John http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseriesyor02socigoog#page/n365/mode/1up/search/rivill
28 http://www.frh3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_004E.html
29 Yorkshire Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries12yorkuoft#page/14/mode/2up/search/ryvil
30 http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=57630&p=3&topicID=2820076
31 Monasticon Anglicanum Volume 4 page 323 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RPpAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA324-IA1&lpg=PA324IA1&dq=%22thomas+de+rievill%22&source=bl&ots=dPquUT9cG_&sig=_ZEW27VevX0sJ6MOb9Wbm34iFns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RN0HULeG
C6_Z0QWio63EBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=clementhorpe&f=false
32 Curia Regis Rolls
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6K_aH_xJ_2wC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=%22+de+couegrave%22&source=bl&ots=LYPezrWYr&sig=L1Ty88JWE6gFAQp_thFRfo2qpsg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TJ6VT5vFDsjS0QWXwP2AAg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=r
yvill&f=false
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It is recorded that Alan le Fraunceys had ‘ free warren in his demesne lands in Bedelingham, co Cambridge, in Fencotes by
Fletham, and Fencotes by Skurverton, co York’.33 Fencotes by Fletham is near Northallerton and it is impossible to connect this
Robert to the better documented Revells.
In 1264 a Thomas de Reynel participated in the Inquisition Post Mortem for Roger de Quency, Earl of Winchester, concerned
particularly with property in Yorkshire near Kippax and Pontefract. 34 The use of the name ‘de Reynel’ in association with ‘de
Quincy’ rather suggests that this Thomas might be one of the Revells from Cambridgeshire who adopted Reynel and where the
de Quincy family held land.
A William de Ryvil was the deacon and vicar at Tadcaster in 1299,35, 36 and he is probably son of Oto de Ryvil.37 In 1303 it is
recorded in the Close Rolls ‘Hugh son of Alan Calle of Tadecastre acknowledges that he owes to William [Revell], son of Oto de
Ryvill, chaplain 8l. 10s. 0d; to be levied in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co York’.38 In 1311 a ‘William de
Rievill’ witnessed a grant by ‘John son of Ranulf’ of land at Newhay near Drax.39
A Roger de Ryville is named in a writ dated 1302 that refers to the ‘Forest of Galtres’ at Skelton, near York,40 about 13 miles
from Towton. At about the same date (possibly 1309) a Roger de Ryvill is mentioned in the Close Rolls with regard to payment
of a debt at York,41, 42 as follows: ‘Roger de Riville of Scardingwells acknowledges that he owes to John le Heyward 60 marks
to be levied in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in York’. A Rogerum de Ryvill is mentioned about 1315 as one of
the participants in ‘Kirby’s Inquest’ with regard to the Wapentake of Barkestone,43 an area roughly centred on Sherburn-in-Elmet
and including Pontefract, Scarthingwell, Shadwell, Tadcaster, and Towton,44 and more or less equivalent to the Territory of
Saxton. It is probably the same Roger de Rivill who is mentioned as a witness in 1332 to a document referring to the Manor of
Toneton,45 (= Towton?). In 1333 a Maude de Ryvill is recorded as the deforciant with regard to ‘one messuage, 120 acres of
land, 10 acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, and 20s. rent, in Saxton and Scarthingwell’.46
By the late 14th century the Revell family property in the Ulleskelf and Scarthingwell area had descended through at least three
generations from Alexander Revell (extant 1272) to Robert Revell (extant 1393) and William Revell (Extant 1391–1406).47, 48
The Robert Revell extant 1393 is well documented. For example, Rob de Ryvill witnessed grants or releases referring to
property in ‘Barston’ on July 7th 1356,49 at Lumby November 2nd 1359,50 at ‘Hornyngton, Kydal and Poterton’ on August 15th
1361,51 as a witness to a document relating to the ‘manor of Addewik’ [Adwick-on-Dearne] dated January 28th 1369 / 70,52 at
Shireburn on June 1st 1376,53 and at ‘Kyrkfenton’ on July 7th 1379.54 Robert Ryuyll is recorded as a farmer in Saxton paying
£24 in the 1379 Poll Tax for Yorkshire, and in the Fine Rolls for 1383, 1384 and 1386 he is recorded as of ‘Barston’.55 In
Robert Ryvill was enfeoffed on December 7th 1384 ‘of a toft in Tadcastre, adjacent to the cemetery of the parish church, held in
chief as parcel of the manor of Tadcastre, and for the feoffees after seisin had,to alienate the same in mortmain, to a chaplain
for celebrating divine service daily in Tadcastre according to their ordinance’.56 In 1392 the Feet of Fines refers to a Robert
Ryuelle and Katherine his wife as deforciants, and property in ‘Lasingcroft (in Barwick in Elmet), 'Shepyne', Barrowby (in
Garforth), Garforth, West Garforth (in Garforth), Micklefield, South Milford (both in Sherburn in Elmet), Grimston (in Garton
and Roos), Barnbow (in Barwick in Elmet)’.57
33 Charter Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarcharter01cunngoog#page/n160/mode/1up
34 Yorkshire Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250582#page/n125/mode/2up/search/reynel
35 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/PhotoTs/WRY/TadcasterStMary_Incumbents.html
36 The register of John le Romeyn Lord Archbishop of York http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/1286-1296-john-romanus-york-provincearchbishop/the-register-of-john-le-romeyn-lord-archbishop-of-york-1286-1296-volume-2-kro/page-39-the-register-of-john-le-romeyn-lordarchbishop-of-york-1286-1296-volume-2-kro.shtml
37 ‘The Register of Archbishop Henry of Newark’ http://www.archive.org/stream/registerofjohnle02york#page/318/mode/2up/search/ryvil
38 http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero00changoog#page/n102/mode/1up/search/ryvil
39 Charter Rolls http://archive.org/stream/calendarcharter00cunngoog/calendarcharter00cunngoog_djvu.txt
40 ‘Yorkshire Inquisitions’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250616#page/n37/mode/2up/search/ryvil
41 Close Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero00changoog#page/n203/mode/1up/search/ryvil
42 C 241/62/150 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=2240&POSCATLN=7&POSCATID=146000*5090335
43 ‘Kirkby’s Inquest’ http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=moa&cc=moa&sid=95e3f6e828e116b80d4cccd93c806bc1&view=text&rgn=main&idno=AHE1873.0001.001
44 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Saxton/index.html
45 "Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office"
http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero03offigoog/calendarclosero03offigoog_djvu.txt
46Feet of Fines http://www.archive.org/details/feetoffinesforco42bail
47 SC 8/213/10645 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7720070&queryType=1&resultcount=1440
48 http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=57630&p=3&topicID=2820076
49 DD/FJ/1/197/4 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=157-ddfj_1-2&cid=-1#-1
51 Yorkshire Deeds
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m8gLvYH1FAsC&pg=PA84&dq=ryvell&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fRCbUsHpGqOM7Qa_sYCQAw&ved=0CGUQ6
AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=ryvell&f=false
52 DD/FJ/4/33/2 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=157-ddfj_2&cid=3-20-2-2#3-20-2-2
55 http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffinero10greauoft#page/18/mode/2up/search/ryvil
56 Patent Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FHMedieval&CISOPTR=77534&CISOSHOW=76652
57 CP 25/1/278/146, number 26 http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_278_146.shtml#26
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This Roberte Rynell is named in a case brought before the king’s council in 1393, as follows:
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‘1393 ? To the very powerful and very gracious lord, our lord the king, and his council in this present parliament 2 humbly
petition Robert of Werkes- worth and Margaret his wife that, whereas Percival Pensax, 3 William his son, Robert Rynell and
Robert Sherman with great company of many other abettors of his and common malfeasors came with force and arms to the
house of the said Robert and Margaret at Ulskelf 4 in the county of York on Wednesday before Ascension Day 5 last, and there
despoiled the said Robert and Margaret of their said house, and took and destroyed all their goods and chattels found therein,
and cut down and wasted the trees growing in their garden, and wrongfully and illegally ousted them from their said house and
all their other lands and tenements there, so that the said Robert and Margaret do not dare to approach heir said house or to
pursue the common law for fear of their lives; moreover since the said Percival will not come to answer any writ of the king that
they can purchase against him, to the great damage and ruin of the said Robert and Margaret; which wrongs and grievances
have been found by inquisition taken of the most sufficient persons in the county regarding the aforesaid matter and returned to
the chancery and sent to the king's bench; may it please your highness to send for the said Percival and the other malfeasors
mentioned above to come to answer, and to ordain that the said Robert and Margaret can again have and enjoy their said
house, lands and tenements; for God and in way of charity.
[Endorsed: — ] Inasmuch as Percival Pensax and William his son herein described have been indicted before the sheriff of York
of the articles herein written, as appears by the said indictment returned in the chancery and sent to the king's bench, and also
because it is testified that the said Perci- val is a common malfeasor and maintainer in the county, in consideration of the fact
that the suppliants because of (their) poverty cannot have recovery by the common law, it is accorded and agreed that writ
should be sent to the sheriff of York to take and arrest the said Percival and William and the other malfeasors herein named
wherever they can be found within his bailiwick, (whether) within franchise or without, 6 and to bring them before the council of
our lord the king there to answer the said suppliants for the wrongs and damages specified in this petition, further to do and
receive what shall be awarded by the said council in this affair, under penalty of £100. ; and that writ should also be sent to the
said Percival and ^ the others upon their allegiance to come and answer, to do and receive after the form above given. 7’.
John Reuel and Ellen his wife are deforciants with reference to a messuage in Pontefract in 1393. 59
In 1379 a Cecily Ryuyll of Shadwell who paid 4d is listed in the Subsidy Roll.60 In 1407 it is recorded ‘Order to Thomas
Egmanton, escheator in the county of York, to cause Thomas Aunger and Alice his wife, sister and heir of Agnes late the wife of
William Ryvell of Skyrthyngwell, to have full seisin of all the lands which the said William on the day of his death held by the
courtesy of England after the death of Agnes of the inheritance of Alice ; as the king has taken the homage and fealty due from
Thomas by reason of his having issue by Alice for the lands thus held by William of the king in chief’.61 From this and other
sources it is clear that William Ryvell (Revyll) married Agnes de Cawood and died in 1407.62, 63, 64, 65 Another reference to
these Revells establishes that William who married Agnes de Cawood was extant as early as 1321, suggesting that there might
have been two Williams. This reference states, ‘…for on the 15th Richard II, 1321, William Revyll and Agnes, his wife, another
of the heirs of Adam Cawood…’.66
In 1360 a Hugh Rennell is mentioned in a grant that refers to Wombwell, 67 but other associated records suggest that the name
might be Lannell rather than Revell. Wombwell is ca 13 miles from Stannington, Ughill, Handsworth and Bradfield.
Scarthingwell is ca 40 miles north-east from Stannington, ca 25 miles from Wombwell and ca 20 miles from Boroughbridge
where a John Revell fought, see Part 1 and Part 8.
58 http://archive.org/stream/selectcasesbefor00englrich/selectcasesbefor00englrich_djvu.txt
59 CP 25/1/279/147, number 9. http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_279_147.shtml#9
60 Subsidy Rolls http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/SubsidyRolls/WRY/Thorner.html
61 Fine Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffinero13greauoft/calendaroffinero13greauoft_djvu.txt
62 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Creek/8404/Cawood.html
63 ‘Inquisitions Post Mortem’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250624#page/n51/mode/2up/search/ryvel
64 ‘Inquisitions Post Mortem’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250624#page/n71/mode/2up/search/ryvel
65 ‘Inquisitions Post Mortem’
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval2&CISOPTR=80369&REC=0&CISOBOX=ryvel*
66 ‘The History of the Parishes of Sherburn and Cawood’ By William Wheater
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GtigUDztDqMC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=Manor+of+Toneton&source=bl&ots=_vCOAtKblP&sig=lkZk1T_9P9SesoLxj8xdjfyZvo&hl=en&ei=EMagSvaYO5DbjQe3qSvDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=Revyll&f=false
67 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=202-spst_1&cid=4-11-124-20&kw=yorkshire%20reinell%20rennell#4-11-124-20
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Revells associated with Bolton Abbey and Skipton in west Yorkshire
There are a number of scattered documents that connect a branch of the Revells to the area around Bolton-in-Craven (Bolton
Abbey) and Skipton. Their origins and connections to the other Revells are not certainly known but there might be connections
to the Revells of Bengeo and the Revells of Somerset.
The recovered Cartulary of Bolton Abbey, produced as a PhD thesis at the University of Sheffield’s department of History by
Katrina Jane Legg and entitled ‘An Edition of the Coucher Book and Charters of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire)’ is an invaluable
source used to update this section.
Reginaldus (Reynald) Revell probably born late 11th century and associated before 1135 with Embsay /
Bolton Priory, Yorkshire
Legg shows a memorandum that is probably the first reference to the monastery at Embsay, and which can be dated to the period
October 19th 1120 to August 4th 1121:
‘Memorandum concerning the foundation of a monastery of regular canons at Embsay, by William Meschin and Cecily de
Rumilly, with the gift of Holy Trinity church, Skipton, with its chapel at Carleton, and the vill. of Embsay’.68
In a History of Bolton Priory it is recorded as follows:69, 70
‘In 1120 the church in Embsay came into prominence when REYNALD was appointed as the first Prior of a Monastery which
was to be built at Embsay. The foundation charter reads:
To Turstin, by the grace of God Archbishop of York, and to all the son’s of Holy mother church, William Meschin and Cecily my
wife, greeting. Know ye that we give and grant to Reynald the prior, the church of the Holy Trinity Skipton, with its chapel of
Carlton, with all the appurtenances, and the whole will of Embsay, with all its appurtenances and its right boundaries, to make
therefrom a church of canons regular, in pure alms, for the health of our souls and of those of our ancestors and successors.
These being the witnesses:- H. the Chaplain, Reynald Revel, R. the mason, Everard the mason’.
The account in History of Bolton Priory goes on to say that the church of Holy Trinity at Skipton was also granted to the Austin
,
Friars of Huntingdon and there is a suggestion that the Monks at Embsay came from Huntingdon. 71 72
Legg dates this foundation charter as written in the period October 19 th 1120 to January 10th 1135 / 6 (when William Meschin
died), and comments that the the prior, Reginald, was probably one of the original canons from Huntingdon. 73
A later gift dated to the period 1130 to 1154 records that Reginald Revell held lands at Sutton [Sutton-in-Craven some six miles
south of Embsay] and establishes a link to king David of Scotland:74
‘Gift in pure and perpetual alms by Cecity de Rumilly to the canons of Saint Mary and Saint Cuthbert, Embsay, of the vill of
Kildwick with mill and soc of the mill, up to Aspsick, and all the lands held by Reginald Revel in Sutton, offered by herself and
William, nephew of David I of Scotland, son of Duncan, by a knife on the altar of Saint Mary and Saint Cuthbert’.
The account in a Thoresby Society publication is similar, but differs specifically by stating ‘Reynald Revel’.75
The connection to Huntingdon, and to king David, collectively could suggest a possible connection to Odo Revell and the
Revells of Bengeo, but this has not been proven.
Only two explicit references to Reynald Revell have been located and they are in the Hisotry of Bolton Priory and Priory of St
Mary, Bolton-in-Wharfedale, see above, but this appears to be synonymous with Reginaldus Revell. A Reginaldus Revell is
mentioned as a witness in several documents concerned with Embsay Priory, which subsequently became Bolton Priory, but his
status is not defined in any way, and while plausible, it is not certain that he is the Prior. The earliest of these records is dated in
68 An Edition of the Coucher Book and Charters of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire), Volume 2 page 5 Katrina Jane Legg PhD Thesis 2002 University of
Sheffield
69 Monastic matrix pages 201–7 http://monasticmatrix.org/MatrixTextLibrary/mm-S13366-dugdalew-augustinia-bolton.pdf
70 Bolton Priory http://www31.us.archive.org/stream/publications30thoruoft#page/50/mode/2up
71 Bolton Priory http://www31.us.archive.org/stream/publications30thoruoft#page/50/mode/2up
72 The history and antiquities of the Deanery of Craven http://www.skiptoncastle.co.uk/uploads/25_Parish-of-Skipton.pdf
Sheffield
Sheffield
75 Priory of St Mary, Bolton-in-Wharfedale http://archive.org/stream/publications30thoruoft#page/n7/mode/2up
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the period ca 1120 to 1135 and the latest to the period 1130 to 1154,76 but the events described could all have occurred in the
period 1130 to 1135. This Reginaldus Revell must have been born no later than the first decade of the 12th century. If he is the
prior Reynald, it is likely that he was born in the late 11th century.
A Richard Revell extant late 12th early 13th century
There are nine imprecisely dated documents in the Bolton Abbey Cartulary that refer to a Richard Revell, with deduced extreme
dates of 1155 and 1267, possibly suggesting that they refer to more than one individual of the same name. However, all eight
could have originated in the period 1200 to 1229. This Richard’s date of birth is not known.
This Richard Revell was a landholder at Kildwyk [Kildwick some two miles north of Sutton-in-Craven], suggesting a
connection to Reginald Revell. In a record dated within the period 1155 to 1207 Richard Reuel made a gift of one bovate of
land and the millpond of Kildwick to the estate of Bolton Priory at Cononley. 77 This gift was confirmed by Avice de Revest at
some date in the period 1175 to 1219, and by Roger de Montbegon at some date in the period 1205 to 1222. 78 The witnesses to
Richard Reuel’s gift include ‘Reiner de Flandrensi’ and his son Adam.79 Reinerus is also recorded as a witness to a document
dated to the period 1202 to 1203.80 He was of age by 1166 and is said to have been succeeded by his son before 1205. 81
Richard Revell’s ancestry is not certainly known. A possible candidate is Richard Revell the son of Sherrif Richard Revell
of Somerset who travelled extensively and is reliably recorded in Somerset (March 31st 1215), in Northamptonshire (1216,
1220), in Jedburgh (1203 × 1207, possibly 1204), in Scotland (November 4th 1203 and October 6th 1220 or 1221) and in Ireland
(1210). He is thought to have died about 1222 and this plus the fact that he is never described as ‘knight’ might eliminate him.
Robert Revell, extant early 13th century.
Early Yorkshire Families contains a record of a gift of land at Marton near Boroughbridge by Agnes de Flamville to St Peter’s
hospital, York, dated to the period 1203–1217, that is witnessed by a Roberto de Rivill.82 His origins are not known, but he
must have been born no later than ca 1197 and is thus a contemporary of Walter Revell, discussed below, rather than Walter
Revell’s son Robert.
It may be significant that Marton is only some six miles north of Hopperton where Walter Revell is known to have had a toft.
However, Marton is only some 20 miles north of Scarthingwell and the Territory of Saxton, and it should be noted that a Hugone
de Toulestone and a Roberto de Barkestone also witnessed this gift, members of two families also associated with the Revells of
the Tadcaster area.
Walter Revell, dead by 1255, father of William and Robert.
This Walter Revell of Glusburn is named in eight imprecisely dated documents in the Bolton Abbey Cartulary that potentially
span the period 1155 to 1267. However, it is clear from one record, see below, that he was dead by 1255, and from another that
he was the father of a William Revell. A record in the Close Rolls indicates indirectly, see below, that there was also a son
Robert Revell.83 Although it is possible that there were two Walter Revells it should be noted that all the events described in
these imprecisely dated documents could have occurred in the period 1200 to 1242.
‘Gift in free, pure and perpetual alms by Walter Revel of Glusburn, together with his body for burial, to the canons of Bolton of
one acre of arable land lying at the head of the bridge of Kildwick towards Glusburn, between the way which leads to Glusburn
and the water of the Aire, and Siketon' which ends in the river Aire. Warranty clause. fc. 1200–1255’. 84
At some uncertain date, but no later than the early 13th century, the Fountains Abbey Chartulary records the gifting by Alice
Pigun to Nicholas Maleverer and his wife Alice of a toft at Hopperton, and this land is decribed as ‘et quod jacet propinquius
76 The Coucher Book of Bolton Priory http://www.tamesisbooks.com/store/catalog/docs/9781903564165.pdf
77 An Edition of the Coucher Book and Charters of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire), Volume 2 page 209 Katrina Jane Legg PhD Thesis 2002 University
of Sheffield
See also The History of Cononley http://lakelanddawndesigns.com/cpick/THE%20HISTORY%20OF%20CONONLEY.pdf
of Sheffield
79 http://scriptor.deeds.utoronto.ca:7777/d_mech/doc/d_traindoc.jsp?dnum=00555134
80 http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:85/chartex/0055/00550069.xml
81 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-10/1128985301
82 Eraly Yorkshire Families
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VRfxelohUfoC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22de+Rivill%22+yorkshire&source=bl&ots=9wLdUU5zgI&
sig=3-QH9za5GCIvMWDxcuNDI15vPs0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i94HUuKxDI-Z0AWq4GwDw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22de%20Rivill%22%20yorkshire&f=false
83 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval2&CISOPTR=63735&REC=0&CISOBOX=revel
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tofto de Walteri de Rivill’, i.e. placed next to the toft of Walter de Rivill.85 This is probably the Walter Revell associated with
Glusburn and it is the firat indication that he held land over a wider area. Hopperton is some 30 miles east of Glusburn.
Walter Revell’s date of birth is not known, but late 12th or very early 13th century seems likely.
Robert Revell, son of Walter, ?–1243–1263–?
The Close Rolls dated 1263 contain an entry regarding the misdemeanours in the forests of Blackburn and Barnoldswick, west of
Skipton and Bolton Abbey, of an unruly band of men including ‘Willelmus Revel, Robertus frater ejus’.86 These brothers were
presumably born no later than ca 1243 and possibly somewhat earlier. It is probably this Robert Revell who is a witness at
some uncertain date in the period 1230 to 1267 to a gift by William Farnhill to the canons of Bolton of land at Cononley.87 Legg
draws attention to what is thought to be another document recording this event, which has a larger list of witnesses, including a
William Revell, plausibly Robert’s brother. In ‘The Honour and Forest of Pickering’ there is a reference to a document
concerned with the forest thought to be dated to the early part of the reign of Henry III (1216–72). This reports the ‘verdict of
twenty-four knights and free tenants of Yorkshire’ including a Robert de Riville but nothing more is said of him. 88
William Revell a son of Walter, and a younger William Revell born ca 1263
As discussed more fully below, there are records of a William Revell who contributed to an IPM held in 1308 and declared that
he was aged 45, hence born ca 1263 / 4.89 Although this date of birth might be inaccurate, it is unlikely that this William Revell
could be the individual who was clearly of age in 1268 and hence born no later than ca 1247.90 It is not always possible to
determine to which of these individuals certain records refer and for convenience they are dealt with in one section.
A grant by Durand son of Drew to the canons of Bolton made in the period 1190 to 1210 was witnessed by a Willelmo de
Rievill,91 but this does not appear in the Bolton Abbey Cartulary as assembled by Legg. Accordingly, this witness might be a
different person — indeed the spelling suggests that it might be the individual associated with the Territory of Saxton — see
above.
There are 13 documents in the Bolton Abbey Cartulary that refer to a William Revell. Of these, ten are imprecisely dated with
deduced extreme dates of 1155 and 1310, possibly suggesting that they refer to more than one individual of the same name.
However, they could all have originated in the period 1212 to 1260 and two of these records can be dated more precisely, one to
the period June 24th 1258 to November 11th 1267,92 and the other precisely to December 22nd 1268,93 establishing that this
particular William Revell was born no later than ca 1247. One of these 12 documents, dated to the period 1230 to 1260,
describes William Revell as a son of Walter Revell of Glusburn, who was dead no later than 1255,94, 95 and this William
Revell is variously described as ‘de Guisburne’ or ‘de Glusburn’, presumably Glusburn some half mile north of Sutton-inCraven and 1½ miles south of Kildwick. As stated above, this earlier William Revell is referred to in the Close Rolls dated
1263 along with his brother Robert Revell.96
A William Revell is a witness to an inquisition dated February 28th 1274 / 5 concerned with the election of a Prior at Bolton
Abbey ,97 and a ‘William le Revell’ likewise to a final concord dated October 14th 1280 involving the Prior and a local
landholder,98 might be the same individual. However, records dated later than ca 1284 when the younger William Revell would
have been of age, might refer to the other William Revell.
85 Early Yorkshire Charters http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xz05ySRdnoC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=%22de+Rivill%22+yorkshire&source=bl&ots=iusT2fp4ZM&sig=bbTTPG0rVqmg_aNnNN_fQwyH4sE&hl
=en&sa=X&ei=i94HUuKxDI-Z0AW-q4GwDw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=snippet&q=de%20rivill&f=false
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88 The Honour and Forest of Pickering http://www.archive.org/stream/honorforestofpic04turt#page/n19/mode/2up/search/Riville
89 Calendar of Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924011387838#page/n61/mode/2up
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97 Yorkshire Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250582#page/n177/mode/2up/search/revel
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For example, Legg draws attention to a record in the Compotus where a William Revel is named in the Bolton Abbey accounts
for the year November 11th 1296 to November 11th 1297,99 and it is clearly the younger William Revell named in the IPM for
‘Richard, son and heir of Adam de Stubhuse’ dated 1308 that states inter alia ‘William de Rivill, knight, aged 45, says the same,
and knows it because he married his wife on Sunday after the Epiphany, 14 Edw. I, and the said Robert was born on the eve of
All Saints following’.100 Ages recorded in IPMs are often imprecise but this William Revell would surely know if he were 45 or
65 and cannot realistically be the brother of Robert. This William de Rivill was therefore born ca 1263 / 4 and married January
1286 / 7.
At some uncertain date in the period 1290 to 1295 there is a record of a grant 101 and quitclaim 102 by a Mauger le Vavasur to his
‘Avunculus’ William Revell of the Manor of Draughton, and its subsequent granting by a William Revel to Alan de Middleton
on September 29th 1297.103 It is stated in this grant that the ‘manor of 'Drachton' which Alice [née Revell]widow of Sir Mauger
le Vavasur, his grandfather, was holding in dower in that vill’ but the intermediate generation, i.e. the parents of Mauger le
Vavasur making the grant, are not stated. It is tentatively concluded that William Revell, the avunculus is the earlier William
Revell son of Walter, and the William Revell named in the 1297 grant is the William Revell born ca 1263, possibly a son or
nephew. The investigations below were necessary to put this reference into context.
Alice Revell, possibly a daughter of Walter, ?–1251–1256–1295.
As discussed more fully below there are clear records of an Alice Revell who married Mauger le Vavasour before 1276 and who
must have been born no later than ca 1256, and perhaps somewhat earlier because her husband’s first wife died before 1271.
This Alice Revell is defined as having a brother William Revell,104 but it is not clear whether her brother is the William Revell
born ca 1263, or the William Revell son of Walter, although this latter is probably the more likely. Alice was widowed by
1277,105 and died June 2nd 1295.106
Amabilla Revell, extant mid-13th century?
Amabilla Revell along with a William Revell, and others, is recorded as owing homage to Matilda, the widow of Richard of
Tong, when Matilda gifted land at Trepwood to the canons at Bolton.107 Amabilla Revell’s status is uncertain, as is the date of
the gift, estimated by Legg to be in the period 1200 to 1268. Amabilla must be a contemporary of William Revell son of
Walter but her relationship is not known. Walter Revell and subsequently his son William Revell held land at Trepwood of
Richard Tong and William Revell gifted this to the canons of Bolton at some date in the period 1230 to 1260.108 Because
Walter Revell was dead by 1255 it seems likely that Amabilla Revell owed homage about the middle of the 13th century.
The Vavasour –Revell connections
The history of the le Vavasour family is complex and some published records are clearly incorrect because of the confusion of
one Mauger with another, through confusing their wives, and with the name Alice and Agnes seemingly being interchanged.
The most useful accounts are those of John Watson,109, 110 and the account of the Vavasours of Baildon 111 that cites verbatim
records from the De Banco Rolls and the Assize Rolls not otherwise easily accessible. The account that follows has been
prepared with the assistance of John Watson and is based on these plus the Fine Rolls, Close Rolls, Patent Rolls and Inquisitions
Post Mortem that are available electronically.
A William le Vavasour who died ca 1190 had two sons, Robert the elder and Mauger (1) the younger, born ca 1175, died 1219,
who married Agnes de Denton. William le Vavasour’s son Mauger (1) had a son William who had two sons, Mauger (2) and
John.
of Sheffield
100 Calendar of Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924011387838#page/n61/mode/2up
101 MD59/6/Drau/1 http://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SMD0059%2f1%2f14%2f1&pos=1
102 MD59/1/Ask/28 http://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SMD0059%2f1%2f4%2f9&pos=2
104 Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n51/mode/2up/search/vavasour
105 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FHMedieval2&CISOPTR=64503&CISOSHOW=63736.
106 Fine Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FHMedieval&CISOPTR=35322&CISOSHOW=34521
of Sheffield
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http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/ca523e8712618e82/e04ade70fdbe9418?lnk=gst&q=revel#e0
4ade70fdbe9418
110 The Vavasours of Hazlewood http://yorkshireancestors.blogspot.com/2008/08/vavasours-of-hazlewood.html
111 Baildon and the Baildons. A history of a Yorkshire manor and family Volume 1 http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/william-paleybaildon/baildon-and-the-baildons-a-history-of-a-yorkshire-manor-and-family-volume-1-lia/page-48-baildon-and-the-baildons-a-history-of-ayorkshire-manor-and-family-volume-1-lia.shtml
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This Mauger (2) born probably in the period 1215 to 1225, grandson of Mauger (1), married twice, first Joan de Duston daughter
of William de Duston (of Duston and Wyclive in Northamptonshire) who brought him the manor of Wykele [Weekley, near
Kettering]. Mauger (2) took the losing side in the Barons’ Revolt and the Close Rolls dated 1265 refer to the Manor of Wykele
being taken into the King’s hands. 112 His first wife died before 1271 leaving an heir, Mauger (3) of full age, as recorded in her
father’s IPM.113 Mauger (3) received his inheritance having done homage as recorded in the Fine Rolls dated December 27th
1276.114
Mauger (2) died in or before 1276 having married second an Alice, thought to be Alice Revell, who survived him and claimed as
dower from Mauger (3) one third of her husband’s estate, including the Manor of Dragton, as indicated by the following records:
The Close Rolls dated July 17th 1277 record that ‘Roger le Marescal came before the king at Worcester, on Saturday after SS.
Philip and James, and sought to replevy to Mauger [Mauger (3)] son of Maurice [Mauger (2)] le Vavasour the latter's land in
Denton, Aswych, Wolston, Dragton, and Scarneston, which was taken into the king's hands for his default in the king's court
against Alice, late the wife of Mauger le Vavasur [Mauger (2)]’.115
The De Banco Rolls dated 1277 state: ‘Alice widow of Mauger le Vavasur [Mauger (2)] claimed against Mauger [Mauger (3)]
son of Mauger le Vavasur [Mauger (2)] one third of 7 carucates and 20 marks rent in Denton, £11 rent in Sharleston, a carucate
and £10 rent in Drathon [Draughton, near Skipton], a carucate and £15 rent in Askwith, and 2 carucates in Wlsington [Owston]
as dower. Mauger said that the King held all the property’.
Duston and Wyclive are respectively some eight and 11 miles south-east of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, and this
establishes a plausible connection between William of Newbold Revell who held land at Long Buckby and at least one of the
Yorkshire Williams.
In 1290 it is recorded in the De Banco Rolls that ‘Alice widow of Mauger le Vavasur [Mauger (2)], Master John de Ragenville,
William Revel and Richard le Vavasur, executors of the will of the said Mauger, sued John le Espicer of York for a debt of
£30’.116 Alice’s death is recorded in the Fine Rolls dated June 22nd 1295,117 as follows: ‘Order to the same to take into the
King's hand the lands late of Alice la Vavasur, deceased, tenant in chief’ and in a gift dated October 19th 1291 that reads.
‘By William de Wycle to Sir Mauger le Vavazur kt.[Mauger (4)], and Agnes his wife of his manor of Denton and lands at
Askewyth which the lady Alice Rivel before her death held as dowry, along with the reversion of the lands which Peter de Lund
holds there for his life’,118 records that her property held as dower (not dowry) and in trust by William de Wycle [Weekley]
following her death, is returned to Mauger (4) the heir of Mauger (3). Mauger (4) was dead by November 21st 1293.119
Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire describe this Alice Revell as a sister of a William Revell,120 but this pedigree
contains many easily demonstrable errors.
It is now possible to rationalise these relationships expressed in the quitclaim and grant dated to the period 1290 to 1293.121 The
Latin ‘avunculus’ can mean ‘great uncle’, and in that case Mauger (4)’s grandmother Alice Vavasour née Revell and William
Revell are indeed siblings as suggested in the pedigree. However, Alice Revell’s date of birth is not certainly known. Because
she married before 1276 she was born before 1256, but on the pesent evidence it is impossible to judge whether she is sister to
the earlier William Revell or the later William Revell born ca 1263.
In an earlier account it was suggested that this Alice might be the brother of William of Fortho (Northamptonshire) discussed in
Part 1. However, because the manor of Draughton is subsequently granted by a William Revel to Alan de Middleton on
September 29th 1297,122 the grant cannot have been made by William of Fortho who apparently was dead by that date. An
alternative candidate is perhaps the Yorkshire William Revell born ca 1263 and married ca 1286, and if is indeed the case it
rather suggests that he is the son of William of Fortho. However, while plausible, this relationship is unproven and it must be
noted that there is much scope for confusion because of the multiple William revells extant in this period.
There is another Vavasour–Revell connection involving Robert le Vavasour born ca 1190, brother to Malger (1). It seems that
Robert’s grandfather, Malger le Vavasour, living at the time of the Domesday, held estates in Yorkshire and in Derbyshire.
These Derbyshire estates passed in due course to his great grandson Robert le Vavasur, who married in 1210 and was Sheriff of
Nottingham and Derby as early as 1236. He was known also as ‘Sir Robert Vavasour of Shipley’. Note that this is Shipley, near
112 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FHMedieval2&CISOPTR=70807&CISOSHOW=70135
113 BHOL http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=108035
115 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FHMedieval2&CISOPTR=64503&CISOSHOW=63736.
116 Baildon and the Baildons. A history of a Yorkshire manor and family Volume 1
118 WYL639/13 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=205-wyl639&cid=-1#-1
120 Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n51/mode/2up/search/vavasour
121 MD59/1/Ask/28 http://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SMD0059%2f1%2f4%2f9&pos=2
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Derby, and not Shipley, near Bradford in Yorkshire, and this Sir Robert Vavasour of Shipley is not to be confused with Sir
Robert Vavasour of Yorkshire.123
Sheriff Robert of Shipley is in 1255 / 6 associated with a Henry Revell,124, 125 — see also Part 6 and Table 1b, possibly his
bailiff. This Henry Revell must have been born no later than ca 1235. Mauger le Vavasour (3) who married Alice Revell was
born ca 1246.
The later Revells associated with Bolton Abbey and Skipton
A Roger de Ryvyle is referred to in an undated 14th century grant, as follows:
‘Grant: Roger son of Otho of Ryvyle (?) to John of Thornhill, Lord of Hundesworth of land called Ryvyle Rode and quit claim
by John of Thornhill to William of Soothill senior of 2s annual rent from watermill at ? Esoteclogh’.126
A feoffment dated December 29th 1305 kindly transcribed by Ann Bennett reads ‘Feoffment Roger son of Otto de Ryvyle to
William de Soothill, junior. Tenements at Hegh Hirst in Wadsworth by Midgeley with wood called Swithen Clif’,127 referring to
property in the general area of Hebden Bridge and some 20 miles from Bolton Abbey.
Ann Bennett advises that the Wadsworth family have connections to Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, and as grocers and
apothecaries in London, raising again the possibility that the two groups of Revells are also connected in some way. Further
research is required.
Thomas Revell son of William ?–1253–1326–?
A Thomas Revell is recorded in the late 13th to early 14th century, for example in the period 1292 to 1319, as a witness to
documents concerning the monks at Bolton.128 One of these is precisely dated to November 11th 1305.129 ‘Kirby’s Inquest’ also
lists a Thomas Ryvel holding a Knight’s fee at Boghton [Bolton in Craven],130,131 near Skipton, in 1302 / 3 and it is probably this
Thomas Revel who is a witness in 1297 at the Inquisition post mortem of John de Longvilers,132 and who is present at several
Inquisitions concerned with property at Bolton-in-Craven in the period 1303 to 1307.133 It is almost certainly this Thomas
Reuel, who aged 50 in 1303 / 4, married his wife Eva at Christmas 1288 or 1289. 134 A Thomas Revel witnessed a lease dated
November 11th 1313,135 and the Inquisition for Robert de Clifford held at Skipton in 1314,136 and is mentioned until at least 1325
/ 6.137, 138
Charters associated with the Manors of Elslack and Glusburn show this Thomas Revell as a son of William Revell, and as
having a daughter Olyve Revell who married Johannes de Sutton. Olyve was a widow by 1321,139 when she quitclaimed
property at Guisburn to her son Thomas de Sutton.140
123
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/ca523e8712618e82/e04ade70fdbe9418?lnk=gst&q=revel#e0
4ade70fdbe9418
124 Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry III, vol. 4, p. 432
125 Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry III, vol. 4, p. 459
126 DD/SR/209/4 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=157-ddsr_3&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
127 Ref SU/B 14 West Yorkshire Archives, Halifax, courtesy of Ann Bennett
128 An Edition of the Coucher Book and Charters of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire), Volume 2 pages 201 and 267 Katrina Jane Legg PhD Thesis 2002
University of Sheffield
of Sheffield
130 Inquisitions and Assessments http://www.archive.org/stream/inquisitionsasse06grea#page/108/mode/2up
131 ‘Kirkby’s Inquest’ http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=moa&cc=moa&sid=95e3f6e828e116b80d4cccd93c806bc1&view=text&rgn=main&idno=AHE1873.0001.001
132 ‘Yorkshire Inquisitions’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250608#page/n79/mode/2up/search/revel
133 'Yorkshire Inquisitions’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250616#page/n93/mode/2up/search/reuel
134 ‘Yorkshire Inquisitions’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084250616#page/n109/mode/2up/search/reuel
135 Yorkshire Deeds Volume 10 pages 12–13.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N6MzT2dw5K4C&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22henry+de+hertelington%22&source=bl&ots=lNu_SQa0
Uq&sig=3onG3cAVP2RoLSkrIVQb2frARAA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z4c0UYTfLsKx0AXcx4DgBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22henry%20de%
20hertelington%22&f=false
136 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae07socigoog#page/n375/mode/1up
137 Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica http://www.archive.org/stream/collectaneatopo16nichgoog#page/n312/mode/1up
138 http://slbarchives.hull.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%2
8%28text%29=%27revel%27%29
139 Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica http://www.archive.org/stream/collectaneatopo16nichgoog#page/n310/mode/1up/search/revel
140 http://slbarchives.hull.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%2
8%28text%29=%27revell%27%29
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‘I, Olivia, daughter of Thomas Revell, in pure widowhood have quit-claimed to Thomas, my son, begotten with John de Sutton,
all the right and claim which I have, have had, and by reason of dower, inheritance or acquisition might have had in a certain
messuage and two ox gangs of land in Glusburn, which Thomas Revell gave to John de Sutton with me in free marriage’.141
Thomas Revell subsequently quitclaimed this same property to Gilbert de la Legh in 1323 / 4. 142, 143 It seems likely that Olyve
Revell was born no later than ca 1284 and hence her father Thomas Revell no later than ca 1264, and her grandfather William
Revell no later than ca 1244 thus suggesting that she is a greatgranddaughter of Walter Revell.
Yet another William Revell?
William the father of Thomas Revell (above) was presumably born no later than ca 1233, and cannot be a person of the same
name recorded in the mid 14th century. This later William Revel is a witness to a Boltan Abbey charter, undated but thought to
ca 1346,144 or possibly earlier, and he is desribed as holding lands to the east of Adam de Baildon.
This Adam de Baildon acquires land from Richard Tonge by gift witnessed by Walter Revell and which Adam subsequently
gifted to the canons witnessed by William Revell.145
On June 6th 1362 William Revell witnessed a grant by John de Schardburgh to Robert Pedefer of Glusburn.146
Other 14th century Revells
On July 28th 1343 a Robert Revell witnessed a grant made by John Pedefer in connection with the marriage of his daughter
Annabel.147
In 1393 a Robert Ryvill is witness to a grant made at Skelton and referring to property at many locations in Yorkshire, including
Broghton and Glusburn.148
In 1399 a John Rynell witnessed a quitclaim referring to land at ‘Draghton’,149 possibly Draughton near Skipton. At some date
in the period 1406 to 1437 a Thome Ryvele and a Roberto Ryvele are described as of ‘Westlilleburn’,150 but this is near Alnwick,
Northumberland, some 150 miles north-east and they might not be connected.
In the late 14th century, probably ca 1373, an Otto de Rivill is mentioned in connection with land at Wadsworth, near Halifax and
some 18 miles south of Skipton. 151 This is elsewhere recorded as follows, ‘Know ye that I Otto de (Rivill ?) have given to
Richard de Stansfeld for his homage and service, one oxgang of land in Waddesworth, to wit, that which Richard Talvas
sometime held, and lies in the field of Waddesworth and in Crimlishworth. To have and to hold &c. Harleian MS. 797, aa 138’
but no date is given.152 In ‘A short history of Todmorden’ this event is dated 1372.153
The appearance of the forename ‘Otto’ especially at the turn of the 13th century suggests a connection to the Revells of the
Territory of Saxton and Wapentake of Barkestone, with William and Roger possibly being brothers. As so often, the repetition
of forenames makes it very difficult to establish family relationships. However, the explicit description of one William de Rivill
of Bolton Abbey as ‘knight’, almost certainly establishes that he is not the same person as William de Ryvil the deacon and vicar
at Tadcaster who would have been afforded the courtesy ‘Sir’.
141 http://www.sutton-in-craven.org.uk/stellch11.asp
142 U DDCA2/20/4 Hull University Archives http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/dserve/search_advanced.htm
143 Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica http://www.archive.org/stream/collectaneatopo16nichgoog#page/n311/mode/1up/search/revel
144 Baildon and the Baildons. A history of a Yorkshire manor and family Volume 2
http://www.archive.org/stream/baildonbaildonsh02bail/baildonbaildonsh02bail_djvu.txt
145
An Edition of the Coucher Book and Charters of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire), Volume 2 page 260 Katrina Jane Legg PhD Thesis 2002
University of Sheffield, page 259.
146 Yorkshire Deeds Volume 5 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7aIVpvaUSfwC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=glusburn+revell&source=bl&ots=Cb9w88vB3&sig=LfKpfnsPvE_swoB18PL9gN7rdcI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pFYKUtr_NoTU0QXFioHoCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=glus
burn%20revell&f=false
147 Yorkshire Deeds Volume 5 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7aIVpvaUSfwC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=glusburn+revell&source=bl&ots=Cb9w88vB3&sig=LfKpfnsPvE_swoB18PL9gN7rdcI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pFYKUtr_NoTU0QXFioHoCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=glus
burn%20revell&f=false
148 U DDPA/10/1 Univeristy of Hull Archives http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/dserve/search_advanced.htm
149 FH3004 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=154-fh_1-3&cid=-1#-1
150 The Register of Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham, 1406–1437
http://books.google.com/books?id=5AApAAAAYAAJ&q=Ryvele&dq=Ryvele&hl=en&ei=dCuFTLrqMpCVswajk72aBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&
ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ
151 A concise history of the parish and vicarage of Halifax
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qGCvAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA526&lpg=PA526&dq=%22de+rivill%22&source=bl&ots=Ld6G5Y9rFL&sig=pleD
eCRrOhLXcERxBRSEg14sxZQ&hl=en&ei=TaQtTPvqOKGgsQazsri2Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#
v=onepage&q=%22de%20rivill%22&f=false
152 Stansfield of Stansfield in the parish of Halifax http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-stansfeld/history-of-the-family-of-stansfeld-ofstansfield-in-the-parish-of-halifax-and-it-nat/page-11-history-of-the-family-of-stansfeld-of-stansfield-in-the-parish-of-halifax-and-it-nat.shtml
153 A short history of Todmorden http://www.archive.org/stream/shorthistoryofto00holduoft#page/58/mode/2up/search/rivil
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Revells in the Soke of Bradfield and Manor of Sheffield
There are records for Revells in an area of about six miles diameter just north-west of Sheffield encompassing Bradfield,
Ecclesfield, Smallfield, Ughill, and especially Dungworth (various spellings), that with some small gaps continue for nearly 800
years. The earliest record so far located is dated ca 1252 and reads ‘JOHN REVEL, of Dingworth, in Coy Ebor, Roger Got
(dead) of Bradfield, John G'man (dead), of Mortonleigh, Nicholas de Ramphord, Hugo de Holden, John de Okes, Roger
Scoticus, who are (Tires) of the County of York, are malefactors’. John Ryvel of Dingeworth was fined 2 Marcs.154
There are three undated, but mediaeval records that refer to a Richard Rivell of Dungworth, and his son William Rivell, and
several witnesses.155 These records can be dated to the second half of the 13 th century by other records that refer to the witnesses
and are further discussed below with regard to the Spoyne family (see below).
These witnesses include an Elias de Midhope, of Penistone. In 1281 Dionysia is recorded as the widow of Elias de Midhope but
another individual of that name is listed in the 1297 lay subsidy, 156, 157 and someone of the same name died in 1337.158 A
William Brun is recorded in Staffordshire in 1262.159 A Roger de Mora is recorded in Staffordshire during the period 1228 to
1290,160,161 and Adam his son at a similar period.162 An Adam de Mora is recorded at Bradfield in the 1279 Lay Susbsidy, 163 and
in 1333, possibly after Adam’s death, his son John had land at Waldershelfe. 164 Of particular interest are Thomas de Morewood
and John de Witeley. Thomas is recorded in the period 1270 to 1295 and the Morewood estates are described as just west of
Stannington and just south of Dungworth.165 John de Witeley is recorded in the period 1270 to 1314 and has connections to
Coventry in Warwickshire.166, 167
It is also interesting to note that a Ralph de Mora was Sheriff of Devon in the period 1202 to 1204, 168 Devon and Somerset being
another stronghold of the early Revells. Indeed an Adam de Stawell, described as brother and heir of Richard Revell of Curry
Rivel, Somerset (1202–1225) and son of Richard Revell (died 1213) are well documented, 169 and discussed more fully in a
section devoted to the west country. Adam de Stawell is described in an early document as ‘ …quas etiam Adam de Stawell,
frater, et haeres Richardi Revell…‘ = ‘furthermore, Adam de Stawell who was the brother and heir of Richard Revel’. Note, the
Latin ‘frater’ commonly translated as ‘brother’ in old texts can also mean ‘cousin’ and ‘cousin´ in old English might mean
‘kinsman’ in a rather general sense.
A ‘Richard Rynellus’ witnessed a 13th century document ‘confirming a grant from Thomas son of Theomas de Furniwall to
Thomas son of Roger de Haldwrth his heirs and assignes, excepting men of religion (clerics) and jews’ that was held in
‘hastilar’ service of the grantor. The land was in Haldworth ‘lying between the wood called Lockesley on the east and the brook
called le Sputesyke on the west; and between the water called Stene in the south and the moor called Onesmore in the north..’.
It is thought by some that Thomas Furnivall the second who died before 1279 is the grantor, 170 and by others that it was the first
Thomas Furnivall who was Baron in the period 1274 to 1279.171 ‘Richard Rinellus’ is also a witness to a similar grant by the
same grantor of adjacent land to ‘Thomas son of Ralph “sub monte”…’.172 A Richard Revell (Ricardus Riuel), very probably
the same person, is listed in the 1297 Lay Subsidy for Bradfield.173
It should be noted that the majority of people recorded in the Lay Subsidy are defined by a geographic name rather than a
modern surname and it is quite possible that some of these are Revells. For example, Adam de Wggil (Ughill?) might be the
Adam Revell referred to below. There is also a ‘Thomas de Smalfeld’, a ‘Thomas de Haldewrth’ and ‘Willelmus de Bradefeld’,
locations strongly associated with the Revells. Indeed, the absence of any other explicit references to Revells in any form of the
name makes it almost certain that some of these cryptic references must have been to relatives of this Richard Revell, and as
explained in the introduction to the volume there were probably some Revells established there who were not mentioned because
154 The Feudal History of the County of Derby Volume 3 Part 5 by John Pym Yeatman. http://www.belperresearch.com/books/Historical/Yeatman.htm
155 MD244/37, MD244/38 & MD244/40 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=207-md244&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
156 The early history of Stocksbridge and district
157 Lay Subsidy http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries16yorkuoft#page/84/mode/2up
158 http://www.mustardpot.co.uk/history.htm
159 Pleas of the Forest Before Alan La Zouche https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52373
160 Lancashire Assize Rolls http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=69818
161 DR10 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=188-dr10_1-3&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
162 Roll No. 31. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52385
164 PHC/227 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=133-phc&cid=-1#-1
165 glaham http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-29323.html
166
http://www.coventrycollections.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=42
04&dsqSearch=(RefNo=%27BA%27)&PF=Yes
167 Quitclaim to Land in Coventre. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67088
168 A chorographical description or survey of the county of Devon. By Tristram Risdon
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w_0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA441&dq=rivell+sheriff&lr=&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a
169 https://remote.surrey.ac.uk/view/article/,DanaInfo=.awxyCs2lvzmnynMq32+23394?docPos=1
170 ‘Descriptive catalogue of the Charters’ http://www.archive.org/stream/chartersrollsdee00shef#page/n35/mode/2up/search/hastilar
171 ‘The Herald and Genealogist Volume 3. ’ http://www.archive.org/stream/heraldgenealogis03nich#page/334/mode/2up/search/hastilar
172 ‘Descriptive catalogue of the Charters’ http://www.archive.org/stream/chartersrollsdee00shef#page/2/mode/2up/search/rinel
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they did not have taxable chattels. A footnote in the Bradfield section on page 84 of this Lay Subsidy transcription records
‘John de Midhope gives land in Burghwallis to Richard de Bosco his brother’ a relationship that would otherwise have been
impossible to discern. Another example from the ‘Early history of Stocksbridge’ referring to the ‘Patrimony of Wilsons of
Broomhead Hall’ dated ca 1280 is :
‘Thomas, son of Thomas de Furnival, gives for a certain sum of money, to John de Whitley, son of Ralph de Smalfield and to
his heirs or assigns…’.174
An Adam Revell and a William Revell are referred to in Court Baron Records during the period 1277 to 1287. An undated
document, but thought to relate to the period 1260 to 1270, states ‘Thomas de Fulnewall (i.e., Furnivall), Lord of Halumshyre,
[Charter.] grants to William, son of Adam de Revell (?) and his heirs and assigns," except religious men and Jews," two
bovates of land which Roger Boll formerly held in villenage in the vill of Dungworthe (co. York)," Saving to me and my heirs
suits at two great courts of Sheffield." Rent, six shillings’.175
Whether or not Adam de Revell and Adam de Stawell of Somerset, born no later than the first decade of the 13 th century (see
Part 1) are one and the same is not clear. An Adam Revell is a witness to an ancient deed, dated 1270, in Bath, Somerset, 176 but
otherwise this particular forename occurs rarely among the Revells.
Although there is circumstantial evidence of links between Yorkshire and Warwickshire, it is not possible definitely to connect
these Yorkshire Revells to those associated with other geographic areas. The nearest in name and geography so far identified is
an outlawed Richard Revell with regard to whom at Stafford in 1307 the Sheriff returned ‘12d. for the chattels of Richard
Revel, who had fled’.177
There are several old documents from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps that refer to the Revells.178 For example, a
quitclaim dated 1307 states ‘Ricardus Ryvel to John, son of Richard, at Longlkon’.179 The location of Longlkon is uncertain, but
possibly Locksley (Loxley). It is probably the same Ricardus Ryvel who witnesses a quitclaim dated 1311,180 and another dated
1332 refers to ‘Willelemus filius Willelemi Ryvel de Dungeworth’ and property at Dungworth. 181
The Wheat Collection, as transcribed by Peter Youle, contains a document that refers to a Peter Ryuel as a witness to a
quitclaim dated August 1st 1334, as follows, ‘dated at Bradfeld, from Thomas del Bromyheued to Richard his son and to his
heirs and assigns, of all right and claim etc, in one piece of arable land and in; adow with its appurtenances, which Roger juxta
aquam formerly held; to wit, it lay between the mill of Bradfeld on the east part and the water of Akeden on the west part.
Witnesses: Peter Ryuel, William son of Henry Moor (de Mora), William Kyrig, William son of Roger, John Tagge.182
A Thomas Ryuel and a John Ryuel are mentioned in connection with debts owed to the Priory of Ecclesfield in 1337
(Eastwood’s Ecclesfield page 124) or some say 1329.183 In 1337 a William, son of Thome de Reuill witnessed a document
about property in York (Yorkshire?),184 and a William Ryvell sold a messuage at Dungworth to a Thomas Revell the same
year.185 On November 20th 1363 a document in the Fine Rolls refers to ‘John Ryvel, tailleur’ and many others with regard to
land in ‘Sheffield, Ecclesfield, Bradfield and Handesworth’ 186
The 1379 Subsidy Roll (Poll Tax) for Yorkshire lists 13 Revells in the Bradfield (B) / Ecclesfield (E) area and another four at
Handsworth, as follows:187, 188
 Thomas Rynell' and Oubray uxor ejus (E)
 Johannes Ryuell' & Margareta uxor ejus and Isabella seruiens ejus (B)
 Ricardus Ryuyll' & Johanna uxor ejus and Thomas filius ejus (B). Richard and Thomas each paid £4.189, 190
174 The early history of Stocksbridge and district
175 ‘Collections for a History of Staffordshire page 30’ http://www.archive.org/details/collectionsfor1921stafuoft
176 Ancient Deeds belonging to the Coroporation of Bath page 141
http://www.archive.org/stream/ancientdeedsbelo00corp/ancientdeedsbelo00corp_djvu.txt
177 Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 7, part 1
178 Sir Thomas Phillipps’ collection http://www.textmanuscripts.com/manuscript_description.php?id=3041&%20cat=History+%26+Literature
179 Phillipps MS 30607 http://www.textmanuscripts.com/manuscript_description.php?id=3041&%20cat=History+%26+Literature
180 Phillipps MS MS 40792(4) http://www.textmanuscripts.com/manuscript_description.php?id=3041&%20cat=History+%26+Literature
182 http://youle.info/history/fh_material/Wheat_collection.txt
183 "A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a selection of local names, and some notices of folklore, games and
customs. [And Supplement to the Sheffield glossary]"
http://www.archive.org/stream/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft_djvu.txt
184 http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae00socigoog#page/n81/mode/1up
186 http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffiner07greauoft#page/270/mode/2up
187 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/SubsidyRolls/WRY/Ecclesfield.html
188 http://www.4crests.com/revell-coat-of-arms.html
189 http://www.le.ac.uk/cgibin/tab_int/usr/netscape/suitespot/docs/ee/pot/ptyorks/ptyorks?operation=retrieve&record=19370&referrer=http://www.le.ac.uk/english/pot/na
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Thomas Ryuell' & Beatrix uxor ejus (B)
Rogerus Ryuell' & Margareta uxor ejus (B)
Alicia uxor Johannis Ryuell' (B)
In addition ‘Adam Reuell, Johanna uxor ejus, Smyth’and ‘Johannes Reuell and Johanna’ are listed for Handsworth parish.
There are also at Handsworth an ‘Agnes Ryell and Edena, her daughter’, and ‘William and Isabel Ryol and Jane their daughter’,
all of whom might be Revells.
In 1379 John Raynald, Chaplain (floreat Ecclesfield 1379–1403) is mentioned in feoffments. In some instances Reynald /
Raynald has been taken as equivalent to Revell, but that is by no means certain in this instance.
In 1379 one of these deeds states ‘Thomas Frereson of Wirhall, and Robert Seyngnor of the same, give to Agnes who had been
the wife John Ryvell, all the lands, which they hold in Haldworth by the gift and feoffment of John Ryvell, her former husband,
and after her decease to William, son of Thomas Ryvell, of Haldworth’. 191
William son of Thomas Ryvell of Haldworth (Holdworth, Bradfield) is mentioned again in 1389,192, 193 in a document that
states ‘Wm son of Thomas Ryvell of Haldworth, gave to Dom John Raynald of Ecclesfield, Chaplain, premises that formerly
belonged to John Ryvell, ….’. However, it is stated by Sir George Reresby Sitwell that Eastwood was incorrect in his dating of
this second record, and that it should be 1382 not 1389. More importantly, it should be ‘Wm son of John Ryvell of Haldworth’
in both of these deeds.194
This Agnes is possibly the widow Agnes Ryell listed as of Sheffield parish in the 1379 Subsidy Roll, but it has not been possible
to locate William son of John Revell in the roll.
On March 9th 1384 John de Morwood surrendered land at the Bailiff’s Court to Richard Ryuyll of Dungworth. Richard must
have been of age and therefore was born not later than ca 1367, but perhaps as early as ca 1334.
A John Ryvelle officiated at a court in the Soke of Ecclesfield in 1386.195 In 1389 there is a deed relating to Bradfield and
Ughill that refers to ‘John Reynald of Bradfield’ with witnesses including ‘William de Schagn, John Morwood, John Matt,
Richard Rynett’.196 John Raynald might well be the Chaplain, and ‘Richard Rynett’ is probably a mistranscription of ‘Richard
Ryvell’.
A ‘Ryc Ryvell’ witnessed at Bradfield a quitclaim of ‘Joan the daughter of John de Bromhead’ dated January 25th 1398. It is
suggested by Hunter that this was one of the last usages of the geographic name ‘de Bromhead’ and that it subsequently became
‘Wilson of Bromhead’ and ultimately ‘Wilson’.197 This statement prompts the question as to whether any of the individuals
identified by the geographic terms Dongworth, Ughill or Bradfield were, or subsequently became, Revells.
On June 24th 1402 a Richard Ryuell and John de Morewood are witnesses to a document ‘Quitclaim (Lat), dated at Braddefeld,
from Magote then formerly wife of Adam de Bakon of Braddefeld, in her widowhood, to Agnes de Morewodd her daughter, of al
her right and claim in one messuage and one oxgang, with their appurtenences, in Braddefeld; which descended to her in right
of inheritance, after the -death of the son of Robert Tynker of the same place’.198
On January 25th 1437 / 8 Thomas Reyvell of Dongworthe surrendered to Henry **** of Stannyngton a close formerly
belonging to Robert Tynker le Naylor of Bradfelde. 199 From a subsequent document it seems that the person to whom Thomas
surrendered was a Henry Wrastler.
A John Ryvelle is recorded as sworn at an inquest held in 1440.200 A Thomas Ryvelle of Stannyngton who was elected a court
sub-official at Bradfield in 1440,201 is possibly the person fined xxviii d for ‘Pannage of swine’ in the forest of Ryvelinge in
190 http://www.le.ac.uk/cgibin/tab_int/usr/netscape/suitespot/docs/ee/pot/ptyorks/ptyorks?operation=retrieve&record=19372&referrer=http://www.le.ac.uk/english/pot/na
mes/yksfram.html
191 History of the Parish of Ecclesfield By Jonathan Eastwood
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sgEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=eastwood+%22history+of+ecclesfield%22#PPA148,M1
192 The Herald and genealogist (1862) http://www.archive.org/details/heraldgenealogis03nich
193
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sgEWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:ecclesfield&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny
_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&ei=Nq5US7-WM46szAT4spXACQ&cd=2#v=snippet&q=revell&f=false
194 The Hurts of Haldworth
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kOIxAQAAIAAJ&q=ryvell&dq=ryvell&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pxWbUrDSO8SVhQfx4YCQCg&ved=0CEUQ6AE
wBDg8
195 ‘Sheffield Manorial Records’
196 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=207-md244&cid=21&kw=yorkshire%20reynall%20reynald%20reynalds%20reynalls%20reynell%20reinell%20renell#2-1
197 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Volume 5 http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae13socigoog#page/n90/mode/1up
198 The Wheat Collection
199 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~exy1/fh_material/Wheat_collection.txt
200 ‘Sheffield Manorial Records’ page 48
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1441. On May 4th 1441 it is recorded in the Sheffield Manorial Records, ‘John de Barnesley (ii d) was attached, to answer to
Thomas Ryvell concerning a plea of debt and did not appear, therefore in mercy; and [the bailiff was] bidden to distrain’ and
‘From John de Barnesley (ii d) for leave to settle with Thomas Ryvell, in a plea of debt; therefore in mercy’.202 (Note that the
webpage dates this 1551 but it has been confirmed by examination of the original publication that this is a typographical
error and should be 1441)
John Ryvell of Ughull, John Ryvell of Dungeworth and a John Ryvell of Bradfeld are mentioned in Sheffield Manorial Court
records dated 1441,203 almost certainly three contemporaries named John (certainly Dungeworth and Ughill are different people
as they are both listed as paying fines at the same Court on the same date). On June 8th 1441 John Mychell of Sheffield owed
money to John Ryvell of Dungeworth.
Also on April 18th 1441 it was recorded that John Revell of Bradfield was holding land following the death of Agnes late wife
of Richard and of whom he is heir. This was disputed and an inquisition was held. There were protracted dealings with this
matter over several sittings of the court, but the decision seems to have gone against the defendant, John Ryvell of Bradfield,
son of Richard and Agnes, who on June 8th 1441 sought leave to settle with Geoffrey Waynewryght, Richard Roger and Robert
de Shawe.
A grant dated July 2nd 1466 made by ‘John Shaw, late of Uggill to Joan Werall and Joan Maryott of Uggill’ is witnessed by
‘John Revel, junior of Uggill’.204 Some 100 years later there is a reference in a document digitised by the New Mills Local
History Society to a Hugh Ryvell paying ‘vj d … for rent of one toft and three acres land there [Haggell = Ughill]’. The
Greave, Hawkesworth, Marriott, Shaw and Warrell families are also mentioned,205 and it seemd likely that Hugh Ryvell is a
descendent of John Ryvell.
A Richard Ryvell is mentioned in 1441 with reference to settling a debt and it might be the same person referred to in 1481
Sheffield Court Records, as follows: ‘At Sheffield Court. Thomas Car by Richard Revell surrendered one messuage and one
bovate of hastilar land with appurtenances in Halome, and a messuage and croft of hastilar land, called Edecroft, to the use of
John Mechell for ever. Fined 3/4d. and did fealty’.206 The significance of ‘hastilar’ has been debated and is thought possible
refers to land held by military service, perhaps supplying weapons or personnel (hasta = spear).
Presumably Richard Revell is connected to John Ryvell of Dungeworth discussed above, because he is referred to in
connection with land in Halome called Edecroft that he surrendered to the Mechell family, 207 and for which he asked the court to
enforce payment of a debt by John Mychell of Sheffield. In 1483 it is recorded that ‘At Sheffield Court. Robert Calboke by
Robert Cotere and John Beighton surrendered 1 messuage and 1 bovate of hastilar land with appurtenances in Halome, and
another messuage and croft of hastilar land called Edecroft, to the use of Margerie, once wife of John Mechell, for ever. Fine
3/4, and did fealty’.208 Edecroft was still in the Mitchell family in 1603. 209
Towards the end of the 15th century it is clear that there were at least seven Revell households established within the Bradfield
area, see Table 5a, but only one of these is well documented from the turn of the century.
A very important source of information for this period is the publication ‘A Descriptive catalogue of Sheffield Manorial Records
from the 8th year of Richard II to the Restoration’ by T. Walter Hall published in 1926. Unfortunately, this is not easily
accessible, but much of what follows has been taken from it. Fortunately the related volume ‘Descriptive catalogue of the
charters, rolls, deeds, pedigrees, pamphlets, newspapers, monumental inscriptions, maps, and miscellaneous papers forming the
Jackson collection at the Sheffield public reference library’ by T. Walter Hall and Thomas A. Hermann and published 1914 is
more easily consulted.210
202 http://history.youle.info/fh_material/manorial.html page 38
203 http://history.youle.info/fh_material/manorial.html
204 Wil D/4/1/16 http://www.calmview.eu/SheffieldArchives/CalmView/Overview.aspx?s=revel
205 http://www.newmillshistory.org.uk/sbook12.html
206 SpSt/17/1/1 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-spst_1&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
207 SpSt/17/1/1 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-spst_1&cid=1-3-1#1-3-1
208 SpSt/17/1/2 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-spst_1&cid=1-3-2&kw=edecroft#1-3-2
209 SpSt/17/3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-spst_1&cid=1-3-1#1-3-1
210 Jackson Collection http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028219636
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Disjointed Mediaeval Records of Revell in the Bradfield Area
Date
1334
1337
Bradfield
1379
Alicia wife of John
John and Margaret
Richard and Johanna, and
son Thomas
Roger and Margaret
Thomas and Beatrix
1384
1385
1386
1389
1398
1402
1438
1440
1441
1483
1494
1500
Dungworth
Ecclesfield
Peter Ryvell
John Ryvell
Thomas Ryvell
Holdworth
Handsworth
John Raynald, Chaplain
Thomas and Oubray Ryuell
William Ryvell
Agnes widow of John Ryvell
William son of Thomas Ryvell
Adam and Johanna Reuell
Johannes and Johanna Reuell
Joan Reuel
Agnes Ryell, daughter Edena,?
William and Isabel Ryol and
Jane their daughter ?
John Raynald, Chaplain
William son of Thomas Ryvel
Stannington
Ughill
Thomas Ryvelle
John Ryvell
Richard Ryvell
Richard Ryvell
John Ryvelle
Ryc Ryvell
Richard Reyvill
Richard Ryvell
John Ryvell
John Revell
Thomas Reyvell
John Ryvell
Agnes Ryvell
John the heir of Richard and Agnes
Thomas Ryvell
John Ryvell
John Revell
Richard Ryvell
Thomas Revell
Thomas Revell
Thomas Ryvelle
These records are taken from a series of catalogues of charters, deeds, court rolls, etc. relating to Sheffield, published by T. Walter Hall, and are available in Sheffield Public Library,
and some on-line from World Vital Records by subscription.
It is not unreasonable to assume that those who were in a position to be recorded at any of the above dates were of age and probably born some 20 years (or more) prior to the date of the record.
For example, those married or widowed in 1379 were born not later than ca 1359, and in the case of Richard and Johanna, not later than ca 1343 as their son must have been at least 16 in 1379 to
appear in the Subsidy Roll. It is clear from these records that there were several Revell households within the Soke of Bradfield and more some little way north as discussed below. It is clear
therefore that if they are descended from a single person (and this is by no means certain), then that person must have been several generations earlier
Disjointed Mediaeval Records of Revells in the Territory of Sexton and Wapentake of Barkestone
Date
1272
Wapentake of Barkestone
Alexander Revell and his son Robert
1315
Rogerum de Ryvill
Manor of Towton
Ulleskelf
Cawood
Scarthingwell
William Ryvell who married Agnes
1332
1391
1393
1403
1406
1407
Rogerum de Ryvill
William Ryvell
William Ryvell
William Ryvell
William Ryvell
William Ryvell
William Ryvell and Agnes his wife
Robert Ryvell
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The Revells of Ricardfeild
There are several key documents in the Sheffield Manor records. One dated to the late 13th century refers to a grant that names
the grantor as ‘Peter son of Nicholas de Rechorfeld and Beatrice his wife’.211 If ‘Rechorfeld’ is ‘Ricardfeild’ it appears that the
Revells have yet to arrive there because their name does not appear in the grant. In 1340 the Liber Finium refers to ‘a plot of
land in Dungworth described as Ricardfeild’.212
In 1481 Richard Revell is described as ‘the lord’s Reve’, i.e. the individual within the borough responsible for collecting the
rents due to the lord.
On June 8th 1490 there is a grant:
‘Grant by John Morwode of Bradfield to John Rewell of the same, and William Hudson of Rotherham, of all his lands
tenements and appurtenances, also all his goods and chattels, fixed and moveable, alive and dead, also all his debts wherever
they may be found; to hold to the said John and William and the chief lords of the fee. Warranty. Sealing clause. Witnesses
William Obson; John Waynwryght and Richard Lokyslay. At Bradfield’.213
A John Rivill, presumably the same person, is a witness on August 1st 1490 to another grant by ‘John Morewode del Okes to
Thurstan Smyth, Chaplain’.214
A record dated March 10th 1492 / 3 states ‘Richerd Revill by Thomas Revill surrendered a close in Ricardfeild, to the use of
John Revill his younger son in tail, with remainder to Thomas Revill brother of the same Richard in tail male, with remainder
to John Revill brother in tail male, with remainder to John Revill younger brother in tail male with remainder to the right heirs
of the aforesaid Richard for ever; and the aforesaid Thomas gave to the lord of fine iis for it, because the aforesaid John Revill
the younger son was dead without heirs of his body; to hold to him [Thomas] in form aforesaid, the aforesaid close called
Ricardfeild, saving to the lord the fine, when it accrued, for any remainder as above’.215
Hall draws attention to this phrasing that suggests Richard and Thomas had two brothers, both called John. Hall cannot offer an
explanation. Certainly at that period there is evidence for what might be four John Revells, described variously as ‘of Bradfield’,
‘of Dongworthe’, ‘of Ughull’ and ‘of Eklesfeild’. It is clearly stated that John son of Richard is dead without heirs by that date.
Perhaps the ‘simplest’ explanation is that there are three brothers and a half-brother in the older generation.
Another record dated October 1st 1494 refers to a ‘Thomas Revell lately of Sheffield’ who is (re)presented by a John Reyvill, as
‘surrendering a close in Dungworth within the Soke of Bradfield to Thomas Ryvell son of Richard Revell’.216 It was specified
that in case of Thomas Revell the son of Richard Revell having no heirs the property was to revert to the heirs of Thomas
Revell lately of Sheffield. Although not explicitly stated the ‘close in Dungworth’ might well be ‘Ricardfield’ referred to in
1492 / 3.
It is clear from this record that Revells associated with the Bradfield area were established in or near Sheffield before the end of
the 15th century but the exact location is uncertain. Of the locations definitely associated with the Revells, Heeley is probably
the closest to the centre of modern Sheffield (ca two miles), with Ecclesfield, Handsworth and Wadsley some four miles away.
It is reasonable to infer from these documents that Thomas Revell son of Richard who took over land in Dungworth must have
been of age in 1494 and therefore was probably born in the period ca 1450 to ca 1475. Accordingly, at least the oldest of the
three or four brothers was probably born in the period ca 1425 to ca 1450. It is not difficult to envisage a descent from the earlier
Revells active ca 1440 summarised in the preceeding Table in this document and Tables 5a, 5b and 55
Similarly, Thomas Revell son of Richard must have been of age in 1494 and was therefore born not later than ca 1475,
consistent with Richard being born not later than ca 1455, and possibly somewhat earlier. As described below, this line from
Richard to Thomas can be traced as the Revell family who took over property known as Ricardfeild — see Tables 5b and 5c.
It is interesting to note that pedigree 170, that is considered the more inaccurate, includes an early reference to a ‘William Revell
of Rickardfield’ as the fourth son of a Sir Thomas Revell who was supposedly born in 1424. This William’s descendants are not
211 Jackson Collection http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028219636#page/n135/mode/2up
212 ‘Sheffield Manorial Records’ by T. Walter Hall page 200
213 Yorkshire Deeds Volume 10 page 33 by M.J. Stanley Price
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N6MzT2dw5K4C&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=%22Robert+de+Mountney+%22&source=bl&ots=lNu_SQ73
Sy&sig=_Wy1SiHdW6xRQqFbPizJyGwSKgw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z3w0UZ_3IsGJ0AXd_oGoAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=furniuilly%20%22
&f=false
214 Yorkshire Deeds Volume 10 pages 33–4 by M.J. Stanley Price
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N6MzT2dw5K4C&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=%22Robert+de+Mountney+%22&source=bl&ots=lNu_SQ73
Sy&sig=_Wy1SiHdW6xRQqFbPizJyGwSKgw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z3w0UZ_3IsGJ0AXd_oGoAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=furniuilly%20%22
&f=false
215 ‘Sheffield Manorial Records’ by T. Walter Hall
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recorded but William would probably have been born ca 1450 to 1460, and if he did exist, there might in fact be some sort of
connection to the unequivocally documented three / four brothers discussed above.
There is a document dated February 21st 1476 that refers to a Thomas Revell as follows, ‘Attorney from Henry son and heir of
Thomas Eueryngham of Staynburgh, co. York, esquire, to Thomas Revell, to receive seisin of all the lands in Calvore and
Bramelegh which his father had jointly with John, Earl of Shrewsbury, and John, his son and heir, of the feoffment of Robert
Staforthe of Ayome [Eyam],’.217 ‘Calvore’ = ‘Calver’ and is about 11 miles from Stannington, about 10 miles from Chesterfield
and about 17 miles from Higham in Derbyshire. The Derbyshire Revells, notably Thomas of Higham who died at some time in
the period 1474 to 1489,218 held land at Chesterfield, Newbold, Brimington, Tapton and Whittington, 219 — see Part 4 — and on
the evidence currently available it seems likely that this refers to Thomas of Higham
The Archives of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester include a reference to ‘Richard Bradfelde (cf. Bradfield) or Revell professed
1 August 1529’ the name reflecting the fact that the monks were known by forename and place of origin. He was present at the
election of Lawrence Dan (Dann) as prior in 1532. 220 However, this might be Bradfield in Norfolk (near North Walsham), in
Essex (near Manningtree) or Berkshire (near Reading).
Descendants of the Four Brothers
In so far as is possible the following sections will follow the descent from the three / four brothers generation by generation.
However, there are data available for individuals who cannot at present be connected to this descent and these data will be
presented as isolated cameos either based on an established family connection or a geographic connection. In some cases this
might require certain information to be repeated for reasons of clarity. With regard to the data, in all cases priority is given to
wills, parish records, manor records and similar, and the pedigrees are only used when supported by other evidence.
Descendants of Richard
Richard clearly had at least two sons, Thomas and John. Little is known of them beyond they were of age in 1493 and hence
born not later than ca 1473, and Thomas was older than John who was dead without issue by 1493. Nothing is known for
certain of Thomas’s descendents, if any.
Descendants of John the younger and John the elder
There is at present no way of distinguishing between these two brothers, one of whom is presumably a step-brother, but one is
clearly described in Sheffield Manorial records as the father of Thomas Revell of Stannington, and the other died without
issue.
Thomas Revell of Stannington, son of John. Thomas probably born ca 1490, no later than 1499, and
died 1556
Note that the earliest document so far located connecting a Revell with Stannington is dated 1440.221 The will is available of
Thomas Revell of Stannington and Bradfield who died in 1556. His date of birth is not known, but there appear to have been
at least eight children born and all but two married before the start of the Bradfield registers in 1559. This suggests that the first
child was born no later than ca 1519 and thus Thomas Revell no later than ca 1499 but possibly somewhat earlier. A birth for
Thomas in the final decade of the 15th century is eminently plausible but it seems unlikely that he might be the Thomas Revell
of Sheffield who must have been born no later than 1475.
T. Walter Hall refers to a Sheffield Manor record dated 1544 (page 204) suggesting that Thomas Revell’s first son George
Revell had no children and they jointly surrendered a close in Dongworth on June 3rd 1544 to Robert Revell (Thomas’s second
son) — presumably both were of age in 1544 and thus Robert Revell born no later than ca 1524, and their father Thomas
Revell no later than ca 1500, consistent with the estimate above.
Another interesting and potentially important document, dated in the period 1533 to 1538, refers to Thomas Revell son and heir
of John Revell describing a claim in the Sheffield Manor court by a John Spoyne (Spowyn) that Thomas is guilty of ‘Detention
of deeds relating to messuages and land in Dungworth.: York’,222 and this must surely refer to the property in Dungworth which
is part of the marriage settlement made by Thomas Revell for his daughter Genet Revell who married Richard Spoyne and who
217 http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028029050#page/n89/mode/2up/search/revel
218 The Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Williams, C.J. 'The Revell family of Carnfield' 1971, 91, 141–163.
219 D37 M/F2 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=026-d37&cid=5-1-2&kw=whittington%20%20revell#5-1-2
220 Archives of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester
http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?Mode=Search&PathList=%2F&SearchWords=bradfelde&x=0&y=0
222 C 1/884/27-28 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-2451774&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5
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is named in his will. This identifies Thomas Revells’s father as one of the two John Revells and suggests that Genet married
within the period 1533 to 1538, and was therefore born not later than the period 1513 to 1518, and her father born not later than
1493 to 1498, again consistent with the estimates above.
‘At a court held at Sheffeld the 14th September in the 38th year of Henry VIII [1546], Richard RAWSON the elder, by Thomas
REVELL and John BRIGHT, surrendered etc two messuages Iying in Dungworth and Storthes and a toft in Stannyngton etc, to
the use of Richard RAWSON the younger, son of Robert RAWSON deceased, and his heirs for ever, which were granted to the
said Richard RAWSON the younger; to hold to him and his heirs for ever, by services etc, fine for entry iiii s; and the same
Richard RAWSON the younger surrendered etc the same messuages and toft, to the use of the said Richard RAWSON the elder,
grandfather of the aforesaid Richard the younger, and his assigns for his life, and after the decease of the aforesaid Richard
RAWSON the elder then one third part of the said two messuages lands and tenements, to remain to Joan daughter of John
Burton, whom the said Richard RAWSON the younger intended to marry, and her assigns for her life; provided always that the
aforesaid Richard RAWSON the elder should not assign nor grant the aforesaid messuages toft etc to any person except the said
Richard RAWSON the younger; which premises were granted to the said Richard the elder for life in form aforesaid; to hold by
services etc, fine for entry xii d. Examined by John GRENE clerk of the court’.
Thomas who died in 1556 is documented in pedigree 171 as having three sons, Gregory Revell, Richard Revell and Robert
Revell, but Richard is not named in his will. The will of Thomas Reyvill of Stannington and Bradfield is dated October 1st
1556 and was probated March 27th 1556 / 7 and, for the most part, is easy to read. He requests to be buried in the churchyard of
St Nicholas at Bradfield in the place where his wife is buried. Her name is not too clear but is probably Alice.
Thomas refers in his will to two sons (Gregory Revell and Robert Revell), and five daughters (three married, Elizabeth
Beighton, Agnes Burrows and Genet Spoyne) and two unmarried (Alice Revell and Ellen Revell). As discussed above there
is evidence for a son George Revell extant 1544 and there could have been other children who died young, and it is quite likely
that these births spanned some 16 to 20, or even 25 years. An Agnes Burroughs née Revell, widow of W. Burroughs, was
buried Sheffield on October 20th 1592.
Thomas’ son Gregory Revell married Elizabeth Barber in 1547 and there is circumstantial evidence that Ellen Revell married
Edward Greyve in 1559, placing their births in the range ca 1525 to 1540, again consistent with the estimates above.
Note that there is some evidence to suggest that his (third ?) son Robert might have been born as early as 1516, see below, and
if this is correct, then Thomas was almost certainly born no later than ca 1490.
At some date in the period 1504 to 1515 a Thomas Reyvell is recorded as the plaintiff and a John Smyth the defendant with
regard to the detention of deeds relating to property in York(shire?),223 who might be this individual. This again suggests an
early date of birth no later than the range 1484 to 1495.
However the Thomas Revell referred to in ‘The Feudal History Of The County of Derby’ by John Pym Yeatman (Volume 3,
Section 6 Chapter 9)224 as being listed among the ‘Foresters of Campana’ on August 1st and October 6th 1526, and April 13th
1527, as deputy to George Meverill is almost certainly a different person. The Forest of Campana is also known as the ‘Forest
of the High Peak’,225 almost certainly too far west to be associated with the Revells of Bradfield. In 1509 there are two grants
relating to land in Buxton to which a ‘Thomas Revell, gent.’ is a witness,226, 227 and their possible identity is discussed in Part 4.
George Revell, apparently first son of Thomas
This George Revell is known only from a Sheffield Manor record dated 1544 (page 204) suggesting that Thomas Revell’s first
son George Revell had no children and that jointly with his father he surrendered a close in Dongworth on June 3 rd 1544 to
Robert Revell, possibly Thomas’s second son, although pedigree 171 suggests that Robert might be younger than Gregory, see
below.
Richard Revell dead by 1544, possibly second son of Thomas?
This Richard Revell is shown as of Brampton-en-le-Morthern the second son of Thomas in pedigree 171 but is otherwise
poorly documented. There are some known errors in pedigree 171 and this might be another one. He is not named in Thomas’s
will dated 1556 and must have died prior to that date. It is possible that he had died before 1544 when his father Thomas Revell
and eldest brother, George Revell, surrenderd property to Robert Revell.
He is possibly the Richard Revell mentioned in the Sheffield Manorial Records in 1544.
223 C 1/351/36 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-2434501&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5
224 http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:mgutTZaolW0J:freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marchington/word-docs/Fedual-sec-6-vol-3locked.doc+%22fudal+history%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
225 The Royal Forests of England http://ia600309.us.archive.org/4/items/royalforestsofen00coxjuoft/royalforestsofen00coxjuoft.pdf
226 http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/wolleycharters/DetailResult.aspx?CharterId=953
227 http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/wolleycharters/DetailResult.aspx?CharterId=580
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There is a possibilty that Richard of Brampton-en-le-Morthern (son of Thomas) might be confused with Richard of
Stannington (son of Gregory and grandson of Thomas) although the grandson was probably born no earlier than ca 1547.
Pedigree 172 suggests that Richard Revell of Brampton-en-le-Morthen is the father of the Thomas Revell who married Anne
West née More. Great uncertainty surrounds this branch of the Revells but there is good evidence to suggest that that Thomas
was born ca 1518 and it is thus virtually impossible for him to be a son of Richard son of Thomas who died 1556. It is more
likely that this Richard was either a brother, cousin, nephew or uncle. Thomas Revell who married Anne West née More is
further discussed below.
Gregory Revell who died 1588, third or fourth son of Thomas
York registry contains the will of ‘Gregorie Reivell of Stainington in Bradfeild, yeoman’ dated October 7th 1588.228 Gregory
Revell and his descendants are shown in Table 5d.
Gregory Revell’s date of birth is not known, but was probably within the period 1515 to 1527 based on estimates of his father’s
date of birth and the known date of Gregory’s marriage to Elizabeth Barber (Barbor) in 1547,229, 230 but note there is some
evidence to suggest that his brother Robert shown as younger in pedigree 171 was born ca 1516, see below.
Gregory Revell’s marriage is clearly documented. The relevant deed states: ‘Thomas Revell father of Gregory surrendered
his property in Stannyngton and Sheffield to Gregory and his wife Elizabeth Barber’.231 An alternative account of the same
event reads, ‘Thomas Revell surrendered into the hands of the Lord all and singular all that his messuage land and meadow and
tenement, with the appurtenances, in Stanyngton or within the Soke of Sheffield, to the use of Gregory Revel, son and heir of the
said Thomas, and the heirs of his body between him and Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Barbor lawfully begotten; and for
default of such issue, with remainder to Robert Revell, son of the said Thomas Revell for ever; … and he gave to the Lord on
account of fine for entry 7 shillings and 8 pence’.232
Gregory surrendered some of his property back to his father Thomas, for life, later in 1547.233 A Gregory Revell is listed in
the index to the ‘Enrolments of Leases’ dated 1552.234
Gregory Revell is said to have had three children by Elizabeth (Richard, Rowland and Dorothy) but if at Bradfield, the
baptisms predate 1559, or if the family were Catholic at that date, then the births may not have been recorded in the parish
registers.
A Thomas Revell son of Gregory buried Bradfield February 22nd 1575 might have been another of his children.235
The Beighton pedigree in Familiae Minorum Gentium shows an unnamed daughter of Gregory Revell marrying John Beighton
of Hilltop,236 but this should be Gregory’s sister Elizabeth Revell as identified in their father Thomas Revell’s will dated 1556.
The Bradfield parish register and NBI has Elizabeth [Revell] the wife of J. Beighton buried at Bradfield on January 16 th 1592 /
3.
Thomas’s son Gregory ‘surrendered a messuage and all their lands wheresoever in Haldesworth within the Soke of Bradfield,
to the use of Thomas Spyne for life.…’ on February 13th 1560 / 61,237 and is mentioned in connection with land at Stannington in
1566.238
The Gregorye Reyvell involved in the arbitration of a disagreement, between Henry Gelat on the one hand and Henry Morton
and Henry Ibbotson on the other, dated July 12th 1565,239 and the Gregorie Revell involved in the ’Perambulation of the bounds
of the Manor of Sheffield’ recorded in 1574 is probably Gregory son of Thomas.
On June 9th 1573 a ‘Gregory Reyvell and John Reyvell tenants of the lord’, are named in connection with the surrender by John
Steide of property in ‘Onsaker, within the soke of Brad (sic) ; to the use of Margarete Steide wife of the said John and to the use
of Peter Steyde (sic), Francis Steyde, Elizabethe Steide (sic), and Agnes Steyde (sic), sons and daughters of the said John
228 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries01assogoog#page/n110/mode/1up/search/revil
229 http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1993072
233 http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-175490.html
234 http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportdep01offigoog#page/n354/mode/1up/search/revel
235 ‘Bradfield, West Yorkshire, Parish Registers 1559-1722' by Arthur Briarly Browne, 1905 http://www.archive.org/details/registersofbradf01brad
236 http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsofha38harluoft#page/646/mode/2up
239 Sheffield and its environment in the 13th to 17th centuries
http://www.archive.org/stream/sheffielditsenvi00hallrich#page/8/mode/2up/search/reyvel
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Steide’.240 The identity of John Stead’s wife, and the connection to the Revells, is unclear. Note however, that the Stead of
Onseacre pedigree suggests that a Margaret Revell, daughter of Revell of Smallfield, married a Nicholas Stead241 who is
further discussed below.
An item concerning the history of Stannington Hall in the ‘Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society’ reads as follows:
‘On September 30th, 1580 John Parker of Norton Lees, Esq., in consideration of the sum of 220 pounds and 10 shillings paid to
him by Gregory Revell of Stannington, yeoman bargained and sold to the said Gregory "the eighth part of all that messuage
then commonly known by the name of Stannington Hall, situate, lying, and being in Stannington within the parish of Bradfield
within the county of York; and the eighth part of the houses, edifices and buildings, orchards, yards, and gardens to the same
messuage belonging." In addition to the eighth part of the hall the sale included altogether seventy-one acres, including a close
or ground containing twenty-six acres called Hall Cliff’.242
The same transaction is recorded in the Wheat Collection as follows:243
‘1580 October ist, in the 22nd of Elizabeth. Bargain and Sale (Lat) fromJohn Parker of Norton Lees in the county of -Derby
esquire to Gregory Reyvell of Stanyngton in- the county of York yoman ; of one parcel of land containing one rod, at one time in
the tenure or occupation of Robert Greaves, lying -in Stanyngton afore said in a certain place called The Overstorthe, between
lands of the most noble George earl of Shrewsbury on the cast and lands of William Creswick on the west; to have and to hold to
the said Gregory Reyvell and his heirs, to the proper behoof and use of himself Gregory Reyvell his heirs and assigns for ever,
holding of the chief lord etc, for services etc. Witnesses: Richard Cok, Laurence Hall, Henry Barbor, John Bromeley, John
Spone, John Beighton, Richard Greaves, Henry Shawe and to the delivery of seisin, Francis Creswick, Edward Creswick, John
Skynner, Herry Shawe, William Gryue, Robert Waynewright. Vellum: one skin 11 X 51. NB : the attestation clauses say that the
deed was s~ and ~Yemd but no ~has bem-atta~; it is-s~ per me
~n- - 40
1580 October Ist, in 22nd year of Elizabeth.M~ MW Sale (Lat) from John Parker of Norton Lees esquire to Gregorye Revell of
Stannyngton yoman, of all the lands- and hereditaments granted by the above abstracted indenture (41) of the previous, day
made between the same parties, including the one eight share of Stannyngton -Hall, which is -described after all the other
properties and the rents. Vellum: one skin 12* X 91, no seal
NB : this is a copy made by Peter Tryppett and Jasper Fysher. This bargain and sale was not an indenture in English made
between vendor and purchaser, as was the one of the previous day: but it was a deed poll in Latin, under the seal of the grantor.
No witnessis are mentioned and the writing in places is illegible. The necessity for this deed poll following the indenture of 'the
previous day is not obvious’.
The death of Gregory Revell’s first wife Elizabeth is not clearly recorded. There are burials at Bradfield for Elyzabeth Revell
dated February 25th 1565 / 6 and April 25th 1569 and it is likely that one of these relates.
In 1580 Gregory Revell son of Thomas, married secondly an Alice and is recorded as holding property at Stannington that was
granted to the Beighton family.244 This deed was witnessed by a John Revell, a Richard Revell and a William Revell but their
exact identities are uncertain. John might be John Revell of Smallfield, see below. Richard might be Gregory’s son, or his
uncle. Gregory was buried at Bradfield on March 23rd 1588, and his will (which is difficult to read) refers to Alice his wife,
members of the Barber family (to which his first wife belonged), a natural daughter Ellin, and sons Richard and Rowland.
According to the Familiae Minorum Gentium Pedigree 171, Gregory’s son Rowland moved to Dronfield / Cold Aston, and one
of his descendents is associated with Shifnal, as discussed below and in Part 13.
Robert, third or fourth son of Thomas, and the Revells of Ricardfeild 1516–1524–1544–1597
It has not been possible to determine Robert Revell’s date of birth but he is identified as a son of Thomas in a deed dated 1544
that refers to the ‘surrender of the reversion after the decease of the said Thomas Revell, of the close in Dongworth ….. to the
use of Robert son of the aforesaid Thomas…’,245 suggesting that he was born not later than ca 1524. He is also referred to in
the 1547 deed referring to the marriage of Robert’s elder brother Gregory, as follows:246
‘Thomas Revell surrendered into the hands of the Lord all and singular all that his messuage land and meadow and tenement,
with the appurtenances, in Stanyngton or within the Soke of Sheffield, to the use of Gregory Revel, son and heir of the said
Thomas, and the heirs of his body between him and Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Barbor lawfully begotten; and for default
241 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/stead.htm
242 Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society Volume 2 page 129 http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/8957stannington-hall/
245 Sheffield Manor Records
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of such issue, with remainder to Robert Revell, son of the said Thomas Revell for ever; … and he gave to the Lord on account of
fine for entry 7 shillings and 8 pence’.
Robert son of Thomas is probably father of three daughters and two sons who were baptised Bradfield in the period 1559 to
1570, but the birth of his eldest son, Robert junior, predates the Bradfield registers. Robert senior’s birth was probably in the
period 1515 to 1525, and he married before 1559. His wife has not been identified but might have been ‘Agnes, wyfe of Robert
Revell’ who was buried Bradfield on May 16th 1603.
Robert senior is probably the Robert Revell of Stannington who witnessed the will of Ellin Greave of Stannington (Robert’s
married sister) in 1594, and this event might be associated with the record in 1594 of a William Revell and Thomas Revell
named as plaintiffs and Ralph Greaves as deforciant in connection with ‘two messuages with lands in Bradfield, Morewood and
Ughill’.247 Robert Revell was buried at Bradfield on July 29th 1597. Robert senior’s children are discussed in a separate
section, below.
This close at Dongworth appears to have been part of the property subsequently known as Ricardfeild and would have been
surrendered by Robert son of Thomas to his own son Robert except that (according to T. Walter Hall) his first son had no
children (probably buried Bradfield on November 30th 1582), and it went to Robert’s second son William by default on
September 23rd 1589. William the second son was baptised at Bradfield on February 27th 1563 / 4. Some unreferenced trees on
the web claim that this William was the son of Robert Revell and Eleanor Frecheville, but that Robert died in 1555 and
Robert's widow Eleanor married Jeffrey Wastness — see Part 4 and Table 4a.
It is possible that he might be this Robert Revell named in the Conisbrough Court Roll in 1536, as follows: ‘Fine 2d Robert
Yngle puts himself in mercy for a licence to agree with Robert Revell in a plea of debt’,248 in which case he was probably born
no later than ca 1516 but that would make him rather old to be fathering children in 1570.
William Revell of Rickettsfield son of Robert who married Jane Revell son of John of Smallfield
Bradfield parish registers contain a record ‘Willm Revell and Jane Revell, maryed (at) Edynsore, 12 Jul 1592’, but the exact
significance of this is not known. Edynsore = Edensor and is near Chatsworth (Derbyshire) but there is no record in the
Edensore parish register for this marriage, nor indeed for any Revells. Edensor is about 15 miles south-west of Bradfield.
After much searching it seems very likely that the bride is Johan, daughter of John Revell of Smalfeild, baptised December
22nd 1566, because his will (dated 1620, but impossible to read in its entirety) refers to ‘son-in-law William Revell’, and
‘Thomas Revell son of daughter Joan, deceased’. Joan’s mother Elizabeth Eyre belonged to the Grainfoot Eyres. Grainfoot
Farm and Grainfoot Cottage were abandoned during the flooding of Ladybower Reservoir, 249 and their precise location is
uncertain, but they were probably midway between Bradfield and Hathersage, some six miles from each, and about 13 miles
north of Edensor.
This family are discussed more fully in the section dealing with the Revells of Smallfield.
Thomas Revell’s daughters Alice and Ellen
The two unmarried daughters named in Thomas Revell’s will in 1556 are also identified clearly in the will of Philip Morton of
Bradfield, dated June 14th 1550, that includes a bequest ‘also to Alicie Revell and Elene, doughtours of Thomas Revell, either
of them a yowe‘.250 Their subsequent marriages, if any, are not known for certain. However, a Robert Reyvell of Stannington
witnessed the will of Ellin Greave of Stannington, written November 28 th 1594 and apparently refers to her ‘late husband Robert
Greaves’,251 and this is probably connected to the marriage at Bradfield of Ellen Revell and Edward Greaves on February 4th
1559 / 60.
Thomas Revell’s daughters who married before 1556
Little has been found relating to the other daughters.
It is clear from Thomas Revell’s will that his daughter Agnes Revell married William Burrows.
247 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49713&strquery=revell
248 Conisbrough Court Roll
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/conisbrough/luceneweb/display.jsp?file=browse%2Froll_1536_2.html&section=p_78&hil=revell#p_78
249
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:UEXyFzpTaj8J:ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/bevan_phd_2005/ahds/dissemination/pdf/Ph
D_Chap8_Dam_Building.pdf+%22grainfoot+farm%22+hathersage&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgZomWuY5FiltupNAlBLiezN1AwzO
VrwtRi1J0FUVi8xy60PGA1elVMDqy8ENRUcIzxT5VEZIQsEoArnjoFnWZMRWR_VIe4iwRkV52b9xbq5geE_fpNaOve3MS6IhDQ1wee_vq&sig=AHIEtbSKrbdKUqNqdZvhHW07
nNp3N5lxig
250 http://www.archive.org/details/aselectionofwill06surtuoft
251 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smithysgenealogy/pdf_files/E_H_YORKSHIRE.pdf
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Elizabeth Revell who married John Beighton of Hilltop is often shown as a granddaughter of Thomas (daughter of
Gregory)252 but Thomas’s will seems clear. An Elizabeth, wife of John Beighton, was buried Bradfield on January 16 th 1592 /
3. Margaret Beighton, a niece to Elizabeth’s husband John (daughter of Robert Beighton, sometimes shown as Thomas) married
first Harris253 and then John Revell of Ogston sometime between 1577 and 1581 — see Part 4, and this indicates some
interaction between the Revells of Derbyshire and the Revells of Yorkshire.
Genet Revell married Richard Spoyne. The surname Spoyne (Spyne, Spone, Spoone) is not commonly encountered. On June
8th 1566 there is a document that refers to ‘John Spoyne the son of Richard Spoyne recently deceased’ and a payment (20 pounds
thirteen shillings and threepence) made to them by Gregory Revell. Gregory is almost certainly Thomas’ son and Richard
Spoyne probably the former husband of Gregory’s sister Genet. 254 There is an earlier Manor court document (dated in the period
1533 to 1538) that connects a John Spoyne (Spowyn) to a Thomas, son and heir of John Revell. As discussed above this
document refers to ‘Detention of deeds relating to messuages and land in Dungworth.: York’,255.and provides the only explicit
evidence so far located for the identity of Thomas Revell’s father.
Interestingly The Revells of Warwickshire had connections in 1408,256, 257 — see Part 2.— to the Happisford family, merchants
of Coventry, who in turn are connected with the Spyne family in 1404. 258 There is an undated, but late 13th century, record of a
grant ‘by William de Spina to Richard del Sac de Dungwith of his right in the plot of land bought by the grantor from William
del Storthes and called New Meadow.’ The witnesses include Richard Riuel and William his son.259 William de Spina and
Richard Rivell of Dungworth are jointly witnesses to ‘Feoffment of land in Ughill woods t. Bradfield, once held by William de
Dymot ‘260 and ‘Feoffment of land in Sigsworth called the Hollynwellker‘261 This appears to be another tenuous link between the
Yorkshire Revells and the Warwickshire Revells.
An obscure Thomas Revell
On October 15th 1572 an unidentified Thomas Revell was granted power of attorney to deliver seisin with regard to a grant by
Edward Warcoppe of Warcoppe, Westmorland to George earl of Shrewsbury of land at Stubbs Walden (Walden Stubbs,
Womersley near Pontefract) and tenements in Doncaster and Lytle Smeaton. 262 This might be the Thomas Revell mentioned in
1571 as the plaintiff in connection with lands at ‘Lands in Hymsworth and Woodhowse’,263 presumably Hemsworth some six
miles south of Pontefract and Woodhouse near Sheffield. Plausibly he is the Thomas Revel of Womersley whose will, dated
April 13th 1592, is recorded in the York Registry. 264 Womersley is some eight miles from Pontefract, and some three miles from
Walden Stubbs.
The origin of this Thomas Revell is obscure, but he cannot be Thomas Revell who died 1556 or his grandson Thomas of
Shifnall, son of Richard and Margaret who was baptised 1582.
Potential candidates include Thomas, extant 1560, and named (but not explicitly identified as a son) in the will of William of
Brinsworth and Thomas who married Ann West née More, estimated to have been born not later than ca 1542. This Thomas,
sometimes described as Thomas of Stannington, is probably associated with Gregory of Stannington, and Gregory’s
descendants are certainly associated with the Percy family of Stubbs Walden some 50 years later.
However, on geographic grounds, an otherwise unknown Revell associated with the Territory of Saxton and Wapentake of
Barkestone is a possibility.
255 C 1/884/27-28 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-2451774&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5
256 A. 6614 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64381
257 A. 6922 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64384
258 http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsdugd17dugduoft#page/44/mode/2up/search/spyne
259 ‘Yorkshire Archaeological Journal’ http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae02socigoog#page/n71/mode/1up/search/Riuel
260 MD244/37 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=207-md244&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
261 MD244/38 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=207-md244&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
262 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae02socigoog#page/n84/mode/1up/search/revel
263 Yorkshire Fines http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49650&strquery=Revel
264 York Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries01assogoog#page/n209/mode/1up
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Revells in Yorkshire from ca 1550 to ca 1650
More extensive records are readily available for the period from 1550 to 1650, but they are not complete. Among the more
useful documents are transcriptions of the registers for the parishes of Bradfield (1559–1722)265, 266 and Ecclesfield (1558–
1619).267 For Rotherham, baptisms are available on the IGI for the period 1542 to 1563, and on GENUKI. 268 Some marriages
are available on the IGI, and a much more comprehensive Phillimore transcript of the marriages is available for the period 1540
to 1837,269 and some burials are available in the NBI. For Sheffield baptisms and marriages are available on the IGI from 1560
to 1719. Burials from 1560 to 1653, and marriages and baptisms from 1560 to 1686 are accessible in a digitised transcript.270,
271, 272
Another of T. Walter Hall’s extensive publications, ‘Descriptive Catalogue of Charters, Copy Court Rolls and Deeds
(forming part of the Wheat collection)’ is again invaluable.
The descendants of Gregory Revell ca 1520–1588
Dorothy Revell daughter of Gregory
Dorothy is identified as a daughter of Gregory in notes to Sheffield Manor records. According to Pedigree MS 171 Dorithie
Revell married Francis Pole.273 Francis Pole is described as ‘of Spinkhill and Wakebridge’ and his will is dated October 30th
1591.274 There is no obvious reference to her in Gregory’s will, but parts of it are difficult to read.
Ellen Revell, natural daughter of Gregory
Ellen is identified in her father’s will dated 1588 and was presumably baptised prior to 1559. The reference in the will to a
‘sonne of Edward Barber’ suggests that it is this Ellen who married Edward Barber at Bradfield on November 21 st 1575. This
conclusion is supported by a lease dated April 14th 1628 as follows: ‘Edward Barbor, of Wadsley, county Yorkshire, yeoman, to
Thomas Revell, of Stannington, county Yorkshire, yeoman’ that refers to land at Wadsley called ‘Heringehorpe’ and also to his
wife Ellen Barbor.275 Thomas Revell, of Stannington was one executor of the will dated February 13th 1626 / 7 of a William
Barber, cutler of Owlerton, in which he stated that ‘his executors to have the messuage called Heyringthorpe and all the lands
leased to him by his brother, Edward Barbor’.276 The relationships are made clearer in a quitclaim dated November 6 th 1632, as
follows:
‘Thomas Revell, of Stannington, county Yorkshire, and Henry Page, of Bolsterstone, county Yorkshire, both yeomen, to the
Governors
The messuage called Haringthorpe and appurtenant land, which was given by Francis Barber to his son, Edward, by a deed of
23 April 1624 (GS/143); leased by Edward to his brother William by a deed of 23 April 1624; and the lease was left by William
Barber in his will of 13 February 1625/6 to his executors, Revell and Page (GS/147); and bought by the Governors (GS/160162) in 1632’.277
The identitiy of this Thomas Revell of Stannington is not entirely clear, but very probably Thomas Revell who moved to
Shifnall, who would have been a nephew of Ellen.
Thomas Revell son of Gregory
A Thomas Revell described as a son of Gregory was buried at Bradfield on February 22nd 1575 / 6 and might have belonged to
this family.
265 www.Englishparishregisters.com
266 http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofbradf01brad#page/n3/mode/2up
267 http://www.archive.org/details/firstbookmarria00scotgoog
268 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/RotherhamBaptisms1542-1563.html
269 http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshiremarriag01blag#page/52/mode/2up/search/revel
270 http://www.archive.org/stream/parishregisterof58shef#page/n7/mode/2up
273 http://www.archive.org/stream/familiaeminorumg01hunt#page/683/mode/2up/search/revel
274 The History of the County of Derby Part 2. Glover, S.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1OUKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=%22german+pole%22+dorothy&source=bl&ots=wRG1Ej
C_ws&sig=_Lk2XmlrRGnr9UsOAQN7KF_GRHs&hl=en&ei=H7CTqzKG8K78gPy9ujJCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22german%20pole%22%20dor
othy&f=false
275 GS/2/1/36 http://www.calmview.eu/SheffieldArchives/CalmView/Overview.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog
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Richard Revell son of Gregory, and Richard’s children
Richard is identified in his father’s will, dated 1588. Richard Revell married Margret Revell at Bradfield on October 29th
1581 and she must be the daughter of a William Revell either the person baptised at Bradfield on September 4 th 1560 or the
person baptised October 26th 1560. (It seems likely that the other Margaret Revell married George Hyll at Bradfield on July
29th 1584).
This Richard Revell, his wife Margaret Revell née Revell and son Thomas Revell (baptised Bradfield September 26th 1582),
are recorded as a Catholic family of Stannington, 278 and the family is referred to as recusants in the period 1601–1623,279, 280, 281
282
for example, in 1604 there is a record for Bradfield, as follows: 283
‘Margaret ye wief of Richard Revell of Stannington. Thomas there sonne of xx years of age. Non-communicants at Easter
last’.
Pedigree MS170 and MS171 show children Thomas Revell, Rowland Revell, Gregory Revell and Robert Revell, but there is
no baptism at Bradfield for Rowland.
Thomas Revell, son of Richard and Margaret
Thomas Revell son of Richard was baptised at Bradfield on September 26th 1582. In 1604, apparently aged 20 years, Thomas
is listed along with his parents as a recusant.284
In 1613 Paver’s Marriage Licences records that their son Thomas Revell of Ecclesfield is to marry Ann Wilson of Bradfield at
either place.285 They married at Bradfield on November 16th 1613. On April 13th 1615 Richard Revell of Stannington
surrendered his messuage lands in the Manor of Sheffield to Thomas Revell his son and heir and Christopher Wilson of
Bromehead, Thomas’s father-in-law.286 Anne Wilson was baptised at Bradfield on April 15th 1593 and was a beneficiary in her
father’s will, dated July 12th 1622.287
Thomas Revell and his family are said to have moved to Shifnal, but the date of the move is not certain. There are several
records of a Thomas Revell of Stannington who can be associated with an Ellin Revell the illegitimate daughter of Gregory
Revell, and her husband Edward Barber of Wadsley and family from at least 1626 to 1632. 288, 289, 290
Thomas and Ann’s son Edward Revell seems still to be in Yorkshire in 1638, and it is possible that his siblings were baptised at
Bradfield as late as 1636, because in the period 1615 to 1636 there are baptisms at Bradfield for eight daughters and five sons of
a Thomas Revell, but it is not clear whether they all belong to this family. Thomas and Anne are certainly the parents of
Rosimonde Revell (baptised Bradfield April 22nd 1615) because she purchased from the Leicesters the advowson of Stirchley
Church (Shropshire) in 1669. Rosimonde died in 1690.291 Pedigree 171 indicates that Thomas and Anne’s eldest son was
Edward Revell (baptised August 17th 1617) and he had land at Stannington. This Edward must be the Edward Revell, Captain
of Horse, in Sir Richard Leveson’s Regiment, listed among the ‘Indigent Officers of County Salop’ in 1661 / 2.292 See also part
13.
Rowland Revell who married Elizabeth Percy, son of Richard omitted from the register of baptisms?
Rowland Revell, son of Richard, is shown in Pedigree 171 but it has not been possible to find a baptism for him. It is clear that
at the relevant period, 1582 to 1597, there are two fathers named Richard Revell whose children are baptised at Bradfield.
There is, however, a gap (1583 to 1588) in the baptisms of those children that can be attributed unequivocally to Richard son of
Gregory and it is possible that Rowland’s baptism was never entered. Malcolm Nunn of Bradfield Archives comments:
‘I have often wondered how accurate the early registers were, I think I have read somewhere that registers were only recorded
when the Archbishop of York asked for details (probably quarterly) and the individual recordings were probably done in batches
rather than as they happened, I suspect that the Rector or Curate wrote this on bits of paper and pushed them somewhere until
278 "A list of the Roman Catholics in the county of York in 1604. [microform] Transcribed from the original ms. in the Bodleian library"
http://www.archive.org/stream/MN42006ucmf_4/MN42006ucmf_4_djvu.txt
280 http://www.archive.org/stream/MN42006ucmf_4/MN42006ucmf_4_djvu.txt
282 Catholic Recusants in Yorkshire
http://sheffieldindexers.com/TradeDirectories.php?year=&directory=&forename=&surname=Revell&occupation=&address=&current_page=3
283 ‘A List of the Roman Catholics in the County of York’ http://www.archive.org/stream/MN42006ucmf_4#page/n5/mode/2up
284 ‘A List of the Roman Catholics in the County of York’ http://www.archive.org/stream/MN42006ucmf_4#page/n5/mode/2up
286 http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae13socigoog/yorkshirearchae13socigoog_djvu.txt
287 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae13socigoog#page/n111/mode/1up/search/revel
288 GS/2/1/36 http://www.calmview.eu/SheffieldArchives/CalmView/
291 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18133
292 Collectanea topographica et genealogica http://www.archive.org/stream/collectaneatopog07londuoft#page/316/mode/2up
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requested to send them to the Bishop, this theory bears out as when you look at the originals it appears that batches were done
in the same handwriting etc.
I also reckon that if this was the case then some could have been lost or misread when he came to recording details at a later
date’.
It was at one stage thought that this Rowland Revell must be the individual of that name baptised on September 8 th 1602, son of
William Revell, but this now seems less likely, but it might be that he is the ‘servant to Mr Lister, attorney’ referred to in the
will of Rowland of High Green in 1623. In so far as it is possible to determine, the following records could reasonably refer to
Rowland Revell son of Richard Revell.
It is said that Rowland married first Faith, but no independent evidence has been found to support this. However, it is clearly
documented that a Rowland Revell who married Katheren had at least five children who died young buried at Bradfield, as
follows:
‘A Child of Rowland Revell, of Stanington, bur 12 Sep 1617.
A Child of Rowland Revell, bur. 9 Jul 1618.
A Child of Rowland Revell, bur. 30 Oct 1619.
A Child of Rowland Revell, buried 4 Jul 1621.
A Child of Rowland Revell, bur. 18 Dec 1623.
There is no surviving record of their baptism at Bradfield (and if they were born before the start of the Bradfield registers in
1559 they would not have been described as children) so either all the baptisms were lost or they were baptised elsewhere. His
wife Katheren was buried there in January 1623 / 4, and it is plausible that ‘Katheren’ abbreviated to ‘Kath’ has been misread
or mis-transcribed as ‘Faith’.
Assuming that these records do refer to the same Rowland, then he married second Elizabeth Percy. It is said that Elizabeth
Percy was born at Stubbs Walden about 1604 and her brother John about 1584, 293 the children of Francis Percy and Frances
Vavasour.294 This pedigree decribes Francis Percy as of Scotton in Yorkshire, but others say he is of Scotton in Lincolnshire.
Examination of the Lincolnshire Scotton parish registers has found no evidence to support this. 295
Roland Revell, late of Stannington, is included in a list of Catholic recusants in 1632,296 and an indictment, dated July 19th
1641 stating ‘True bills that Roland Revell late of Bradfield co. York, gentleman, Elizabeth his wife’ also refers to them.297 It is
possibly this Rowland who in 1632 / 3 witnessed the will of William Birkes, husbandman of Ecclesfield.298
Sheffield Archives has a record (MD2284) that is a ‘Certificate of safe passage granted to Rowland Revell, prisoner of the
Parliamentary forces, August 1644’.299
The will of a Roland Revell of Stannington and Bradfield dated April 12 th 1644 refers to his wife Elizabeth (née Percy), his
children Bridget Revell (for whom no baptism located), Ann Revell (baptised November 29th 1634), Gregory Revell his heir,
underage (baptised March 2nd 1635 / 6), Gertrude Revell (baptised April 6th 1640) and Richard Revell (baptised February 5th
1640 / 1). (Apart from Richard these baptisms at Bradfield are difficult to locate because the father was recorded as
Row. Revell). Rowland also refers to his brother Thomas Revell (shown as older in pedigree 174) and Thomas’s eldest son
Edward Revell, plus Rowland’s brother-in-law John Percy and a cousin Eliza Woodruffe.300
In 1679 it must be Rowland’s son, widow and grandchildren who are listed as recusants, as follows:
‘Gregory Revill of Ecclesfeild’,301 and the list for Bradfield was ‘Eliz. Revill Widd., Eliz. Wildsmith Widd., Geartrick Revill,
Ann Revill. Mary Smalfeild, John Wildsmith and his wife, George Hillton and his wife, Roseman Fenton, John Brittilbanck,
Will. fenton, Jane Dungworth, Rowland Revill, Ursely Revill’.302
293 http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PERCY.htm
294 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/percy.htm
295 Scotton (Lincolnshire) Parish Records http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=779951&iid=348225
297 http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae06socigoog#page/n176/mode/1up/search/revel
298 http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Rh2tVUgXZAJ:freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smithysgenealogy/pdf_files/A_D_YO
299 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:vIgjThEuqnUJ:https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/dms/scc/management/corporatecommunications/documents/leisure-culture/libraries-copyright/publications/English-Civil-War-Study-Guide-v1-0PDF/English%2520Civil%2520War%2520Study%2520Guide%2520v10%2520PDF.pdf+&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjQKR1pulGEg9JMnLqcacSi1ktyCOSKTX1vp27N0F1uVgdj98tOFyTT8j8OEvf3GbM3u07EM
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300 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/tree.htm
301 The non-conformist register http://www.archive.org/stream/nonconformistreg00heyw#page/120/mode/2up
302 The non-conformist register http://www.archive.org/stream/nonconformistreg00heyw#page/128/mode/2up
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Eliza Woodruffe and a link to the Gunpowder Plot
The cousin ‘Eliza Woodruffe’ is possibly Elizabeth Woodrove who married Richard Speight at Darrington on September 22 nd
1654.303 Darrington is some six miles north-west of Walden Stubbs. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Woodrove vicar of
Darrington, was baptised at Darrington on December 18th 1638.304
Richard Woodrove of Woolley, second son of Francis (extant 1595–1618) who had property near Doncaster and Pontefract,
married Elizabeth, according to some the daughter of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland.305 The connection between this
Thomas Percy and Francis Percy, Rowland Revell’s father-in-law, is obscure.
The description of Elza Woodruffe as cousin would make more sense if she were the daughter of Thomas Percy of Walden
Stubbs, the comparatively poorly documented second son of Francis Percy and thus elder brother to Elizabeth who married
Rowland Revell.306, 307, 308
The exclusion of this Thomas Percy from the pedigree prepared in 1612 is said to be because he was the Thomas Percy
associated with Guy Fawkes, who at one time resided in Scotton, 309 and the Gunpowder Plot. The following account appears in
‘Lays and leaves of the forest; a collection of poems, and historical, genealogical & biographical essays and sketches, relating
chiefly to men and things connected with the royal forest of Knaresborough’ by Thomas Parkinson.
‘There is no direct proof that Thomas Percy, a leading spirit in the plot, was of the Scotton branch. But Francis Percy, the head
of the house in 1585 A.D., who had also married a Vavasour of Weston, had, among his five sons, one named Thomas, who is
unaccounted for in the pedigrees of 1612 A.D. Considering, therefore, that Guy Fawkes was brought up with this family here,
and that the two names are so closely associated afterwards, the coincidence is, at least, significant. The family were zealous
Roman Catholics. The wife of Thomas Percy, the conspirator, was sister of the brothers John and Christopher Wright, also
conspirators’.310
According to FindMyPast, York Archdiocese has a record of a licence issued in 1591 for the marriage of a ‘Thomas Percy’ and a
‘Mtha Right’ and they married that year at Ripon Cathedral.
The will of Lucy Percy, Rowland Revell’s sister-in-law
Elizabeth Percy’s younger sister, Lucy Percy, held land at Womersley and on indictment as a papist in 1651 was reduced to
receiving only one third of the associated income.311 The will of Lucy Percy of the parish of Smeaton, county York, dated April
8th 1669, mentions her nephew Richard Revell, and nieces Gertrude and Ann Revell.312 The failure by Lucy Percy to mention
Bridget Revell has led to the conclusion that she was a daughter of Roland’s first wife, Faith, but independent and unequivocal
evidence for this has not so far been located.
Gregory / George Revell of son of Richard and Margaret
A Gregory Revell is shown in Pedigrees 170 and 171 but is otherwise poorly documented. A George Revell son of Richard
was baptised Brafield on January 22nd 1588 / 9 and it is thought that the original text, possibly with the name ‘Gregorie’
abbreviated has been misread as ‘George’. Gregory’s putative father, Richard of Stannington is mentioned in connection
with property in Owlerton and Waddesley in 1608.313
A document of court proceedings at Rotherham dated July 19 th 1641 refers to George Revell and his wife Alice Revell of
Ecclesfeilde who did not attend church on Aptil 1st that year might refer to them.314
A Gregory Revell, yeoman, of Waddesley is referred to in a mortgage referring to land at Bradwell dated June 21st 1648 and a
Gregory Revell and a Thomas Revell are the plaintiffs in an equity pleading at Wadsley in 1651, defendants Elizabeth Grey,
Dowager Countess of Kent, and Durant Alsop.315
303 Registers of Darrington http://ia600409.us.archive.org/33/items/registerofparish49darr/registerofparish49darr_bw.pdf
304 Registers of Darrington http://ia600409.us.archive.org/33/items/registerofparish49darr/registerofparish49darr_bw.pdf
305 Pedigree of Woodruffe http://archive.org/stream/pedigreewoodroo00woodgoog#page/n48/mode/2up/search/percy
306 http://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk/ftrees/Vavasour.pdf
307 http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=4946:422&ref2=4946:442
308 A History of the House of Percy http://ia700209.us.archive.org/21/items/historyofhouseof01bren/historyofhouseof01bren_bw.pdf
309 Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannia.com/history/g-fawkes.html
310 Lays and leaves of the forest p153 http://ia600302.us.archive.org/17/items/laysleavesoffore00parkiala/laysleavesoffore00parkiala_bw.pdf
311 Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers Volume III http://archive.org/stream/recordseries20yorkuoft/recordseries20yorkuoft_djvu.txt
312 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/tree.htm
313 Feet of Fines http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFH40&CISOPTR=97209&REC=0&CISOBOX=revel*
315 C 6/112/86
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On May 19th 1654 a Thomas Revell, yeoman, of Waddsley agrees to abide with an arbitration relating to the same property
referred to in the earlier mortgage, as follows: ‘Thomas Revell, yeoman, of Waddsley, to Thomas Bradwell the elder, yeoman, of
Bradwell, in £100, to abide by the decision of Rowland Eyre of Hassoppe and Robert Eyre of Highlowe, arbitrators appointed to
decide a dispute concerning the possession of lands in Bradwell and to deliver up the deeds of title, etc.’.316
It is thought that Gregory is the poorly documented son of Richard Revell of Stannington, and that Thomas might be
Gregory’s nephew (as suggested in Pedigree 171). The Revells of Wadsley are further discussed below.
Wadsley is very close to Walkley, 1½ miles east of Stannington, four miles north-west of Heeley, four miles south-west of
Ecclesfield.
Rowland Revell ?–1566–1633–? son of Gregory, and Rowland’s children
Rowland Revell son of Gregory late of Stannington is identified in his father’s will and a bond dated 1588, and in Pedigrees
171 and 172 he is described as Rowland of Cold Aston / Dronfield, both in Derbyshire. His date of birth can be estimated as not
later than ca 1566, and possibly before 1559 when the Bradfield parish registers commence. His date of death is not known, and
it is quite likely that two individuals have been confused.
The NBI records a Rowland Revell buried Dronfield on September 6th 1628 but another is recorded in the area at least until
1633. A Rowland Revell was assessed for tax at Staveley, Aston or Barley, Derbyshire, in 1599, 317 and 1603,318 and this might
be the same person as listed in 1624,319 and recorded as a Freeholder at Couldaston in 1633. 320 This latter record clashes with
the burial in 1628 and there must be another Rowland, possibly a son or other relative. Note that Rowland son of Richard who
married Elizabeth Percy was living 1641.
To further complicate matters, Rowland son of Gregory’s marriage has not been identified unequivocally, but is probably to
Grace Royce at Sheffield on June 27th 1585.
In 1594 a Rowland Revell, Yeoman of Cold Aston, was a party to a Deed of Settlement that refers to the Gill family and
property at Norton (Derbyshire) just across the river from Heley. 321 This deed granted land to be held in trust and is of particular
interest because it includes land also at Allerton Bywater, a location subsequently associated with Rowland’s son John — see
below. Pedigree 172 in ‘Familiae Minorum Gentium’, shows Rowland as the second son of Gregory Revell of Stannington.
This Rowland had at least four children, two baptised at Bradfield (John Revell on July 10th 1586 and Elizabeth Revell on
April 25th 1589) and two baptised at Dronfield (William Revell on July 7th 1594 and Dorithie Revell on June 25th 1598). There
is no independent proof that the father at Dronfield is the same Rowland as at Bradfield, but it is recorded in Hunter’s
‘Hallamshire’ (page 207) that John Bright who in 1620 was living at Brincliffe Edge in the Manor of Ecclesfield married on
January 17th 1612 / 3 Elizabeth, the daughter of Rowland Revell of Cold-Aston.322 John and Elizabeth had a daughter Ellen,
baptised Sheffield St Peter on November 1st 1626.
The possibility that Rowland’s wife was the Katherine Revell buried Chesterfield on March 17th 1597 / 8 can be discounted as
it would not fit easily with the baptism (June 25th 1598) of Rowland’s daughter Dorithie (unless her mother died in childbirth
and her baptism was delayed). It is perhaps more likely that Katherine is the wife of Hugh Revell of Palterton whose will is
dated 1597 — see Part 4 and Part 6.
It has not been possible to locate a baptism for Robert Revell son of Rowland who is shjown in the pedigrees. Possibly he was
born at about the time of the move to Dronfield, some time between ca 1589 and ca 1594, and not baptised at either location.
Alternatively, he could be the Robert Revell son of Richard baptised Bradfield on January 31st 1590 / 1. However, an
argument might also be made that he is connected to the Thomas Revell of uncertain origin who before 1575 married Lucy
Leete of Eversden, Cambridgeshire, and who subsequently was schoolmaster at Dronfield — see below and Part 11.
William Revell of Cold Aston, a son of Rowland Revell of Cold Aston
316 Bag C/1785 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-bagc_1-1&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
317 JDANHS 1901, XXIII, 7.
318 JDANHS 1919, XLI, 80.
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319 The History of the Borough of Chesterfield
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CBxYvQ5UeM4C&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22+edward+revell%22+chesterfield&source=bl&ots=2j
CxY6aAT&sig=kLuaHkn1xGWFULkr0vK3ytaXEz8&hl=en&ei=GLLFS7nzI6KI0wTrmrW9BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CAsQ6
AEwAg#v=onepage&q=revel&f=false
320 http://youle.info/history/fh_material/freeholders_1633.txt
321 Jackson Collection http://www.archive.org/stream/chartersrollsdee00shef#page/142/mode/2up/search/revel
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William of Cold Aston, a son of Rowland Revell of Cold Aston, baptised July 7th 1594, had six children, John Revell (August
24th 1620), Elizabeth Revell (April 22nd 1622 who in 1647 married George Eyre of Hathersage), Marie Revell (December 12th
1624), Anne Revell (January 28th 1626), Dorothie Revell (April 3rd 1628), Isabell Revell (September 8th 1633) and Alice
Revell (November 5th 1637) all baptised at Dronfield.
It is probably this William Revill, described in Paver’s marriage records as ‘of Dransfeild, co. Darbie’ who married Isabella
Bilcliffe of Castleton, Yorkshire, on October 17 th 1619,323 and who was involved in petitions referring to ‘Cole Aston’ dated
1649,324, 325 and described as Yeoman of Cold Aston, in his will dated January 20th 1652 / 3 and proved September 30th 1653 by
daughters Isabel Revell and Grace Revell,326 that refers also to daughters Elizabeth Revell and Alice Revell. Grace Revell’s
baptism has not been located.
John Revell of Castleford, Arksey and Bentley, a son of Rowland Revell of Cold Aston
John Revell a son of Rowland Revell of Cold Aston is shown in the pedigree and is described as ‘John Revell of Bentley’ in
his brother William Revell’s will dated 1653. The Royalist Composition Papers,327 record John Rivell of Arksey holds
property ar Norton and Aston in Derbyshire, and at Castleford, Yorkshire, ‘in right of his wife’. Bentley and Arksey are barely
one mile apart, and Castleford is some 15 miles north west. Norton, Aston and Dronfield are some 25 miles south west.
He is described as ‘John Revell of Castleforthe’ in a deed by ‘John Bullocke of Darleighe’ (Darley, Derbyshire) dated
September 25th 1622 that refers to the rectory of Norton that was formerly part of the ‘late Monastery or Priory of
Beaucheiffe’,328 and as John Revell of Castleford to whom the rectory at Arksey was leased on March 15 th 1623 / 4.329 In 1626
property at Castleford and Allerton-by-water was leased by William Sagar to John Revell.330 Allerton Bywater is some two
miles north of Castleford.
In the period 1631 / 2 to 1633 / 4, a John Revell, gent., is described as the farmer of the rectory of the parish church of
Arksey.331 It is probably this John Revell who (along with John West and William West) was enfeoffed on June 12 th 1631 by
Robert Carlyle of Doncaster with ‘messuage and lands in Long Sandall, and other lands in Wheatley, Doncaster, and Bentley, to
the use of John Carlyle and Elizabeth his wife …’.332 The Inheritance Disputes Index records a dispute between Carlille and
Revill dated 1663 with regard to the estate of Robert Carlill (C10/73/27).
In 1632 John Revell is referred to in an indenture of covenant as follows, ‘John Bright of Brendcliff Edge and Elizabeth, his
wife, of the one part, and Thomas Burton of Cartledge in Dronfeld parish, co. Derby, esq., and John Rewell of Arksey, gent., of
the other part, declaring the uses of a fine respecting a messuage and closes at Brendcliff Edge’.333 This must be the John
Bright who on January 17th 1612 / 3 at Dronfield married Elizabeth, the daughter of Rowland Revell of Cold-Aston and who
in 1620 was living at Brincliffe Edge in the Manor of Ecclesfield. 334 He is probably the John Bright referred to in Thomas
Revell of Heley’s will dated 1627 — Thomas’s daughter Elizabeth Revell married Richard Crawshaw son of Richard of
Worsbrough in 1632.335 Worsborough is some 14 miles south of Castleford and the same distance west of Arksey.
In 1638 the West Riding Quarter sessions record that a John Huscroft of Arksey, husbandman, was found guility of stealing ‘a
messof peas’ value 2s, the property of John Revell, gent.336
In 1639 a collection of property in and around Arksey is described as held by John Revell, gent., as follows: ‘Rectory of Arksey,
a parcel of ground converted into an orchard called the Cony Garth, a close of pasture called Deanes Inge, 3r. of pasture in
Great Hutchin Croft, 1a. pasture in Meane Hutchin Croft, the Master Close of pasture, the Parson Croft close, all in Arksey; a
messuage, orchard, garden and adjacent closes called Almholme Closes, in Almholme; the Tyeth Laith in Bentley; the Chappell
323 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/YKS/Pavers1619.html
324 Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048993557;q1=Revell;start=1;size=25;page=search;seq=134;view=image;num=108
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326 Abstracts of Probate http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractsofproba06chur#page/368/mode/2up/search/revel
327 Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers Volume 2 page 92
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328 Calendar of the records of the County of Derby http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarrecords00unkngoog#page/n176/mode/1up
329 CWM/186 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-cwmba&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
330 DD154/29 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=207-dd154&cid=-1#-1
331 CP.H.1926 http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/causepapers/causepaper.jsp?id=81019
332 ‘Collections for a History of the ancient family of Carlisle’ by Thomas Carlisle
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333 BAG/13/10/26 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=133-bag&cid=1-13-10-9-16&kw=rewell#1-13-10-9-16
335 Bar D/407 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-bard&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
336 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=160
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Yeard close in Bentley with the dovecote there; 25a. in the fields of Arksey; 18a. meadow in Bentley Inge, Arksey Inge and Inge
More in Arksey’337.
On October 1st 1646 it is recorded that John Rivell of Arksey ‘Compounds for delinquency in assisting the King's forces. Never
went from home, yet is sequestered’.338 On October 30th 1646 the Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers state:
‘His delinquency that he did assist the forces raised against the Parliament and took upon him to be a chief constable contrary
to order of law and by colour of that office forced men into the commission of array and executed several warrants for raising
moneys, provisions and arms against the Parliament; he hath lived for 2 years past at his dwelling house at Almeholme under
the protection of Parliament as is certified Sep. 23, 1646; he hath taken the Covenant before Wm Barton and the Oath here Oct.
I, 1646. He is seized in lands in Astone and Norton co. Derby and of other lands in right of his wife in Castleford of the yearly
value 21". He is possessed of the remain of a term for 8 years in lands in Almholme holden from Sr Thomas Ingram Knt at the
rent of 4" 4" 1d worth 13"; of the remain of a like term in lands in Bently holden from Sr Tho" Ingram at 13" 6s 8d rent, worth
20". He hath personal estate worth 60"; is indebted 200’.
An associated document dated September 23rd 1646 states:
‘CERTIFICATE from W. Armytage and Wm Copley that John Revell hath lived 2 years last past at his house.339
In 1647, the parcel of land described in 1639 is referred to as ‘all lately held by John Revell, gent.’.340
On October 15th 1651 it is recorded of John Revell of Arksey that ‘he has undervalued his real estate 60l. a year, and his
personalty 500l’. 341
Marriages and Children
The identity of John Revell’s wife, and the date of their marriage, has not been certainly identified. It is possible that he married
twice. According to Paver’s Marriage Licences John Revill, of St Mary’s, Bishophill senior, York, (Note ‘senior’ relates to the
church, not the groom), married Elizabeth Shillito of Castleford in 1615,342 and that event might well relate to John Revell of
Arksey. However, Boyds Marriage Index records at Arksey the marriage in 1619 of a John Revell to Elizabeth Hall but as
discussed elsewhere it is quite likely that this marriage relates to John Revell of Whiston because their son Nathaniell is
closely associated with the Hall family of Stockbrigg near Arksey.
The Arksey parish registers and / or the NBI have records of his children, as follows. Elizabeth Revile baptised September 3rd
1626 and John Reviele baptised March 6th 1628 / 9 who as ‘Johannes Revell, son of John Revell’ was buried there on October
11th 1644. The NBI records the burial at Arksey also of an Ann Revile, daughter of John Revile, on July 17th 1630, but her
baptism has not been located and must have been elsewhere. An Elizabeth Revell, wife of John Revell, was buried at Arksey
on January 18th 1639 / 40.
An Elizabeth Revell, spinster, of Almholme, in the parish of Arksey is mentioned in a bond of August 6 th 1648 that names also
Godfrey Copley of Sprotborough and Peter Burton of Doncaster, Woollen Draper. Godfrey Copley is separately named in a
bond and mortgage with John Revell, gent., of Arksey dated November 1st 1648.343 It seems likely that this Elizabeth Revell,
spinster, is John of Arksey’s daughter described in Pedigree 172 as ‘sole daughter & heir, wife of John Copley of Skelbrook, co
York & Cold Aston, gent.’. Assuming that the marriage took place ca 1648, Elizabeth was born not later than ca 1630 and the
baptism in 1626 is probably hers. She was buried at Skelbrook on June 18th 1700.344
John Revell of Doncaster
Doncaster borough records have references to a John Revell of Doncaster dated 1686, as follows:
‘1 September, 1686. Information of Elizabeth Carre. That in January last (informant and one Enos Thomas being both then
servants to John Revell, Esq., in Doncaster) they sat together in their master's house about 10 o'clock at night and the said Enos
told informant that Mrs. Martha Foxcroft then servant to John Copley, Esq., went into bed to the said John Revell in Mr.
Copley's house when Mrs. Revell lay in childbed and that after that time the said Martha Foxcroft eat egg-shells when other
servants went to their dinners.
338 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=59710&strquery=Rivell
339 Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers pages 92 and 93
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341 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=59443&strquery=Revell
342 Paver’s Marriage Licences http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/YKS/Pavers1615.html
343 CD/164a, CD/164b, CD/163 and CD/162 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-cd&cid=1-919&kw=arksey%20revell%20revill#1-9-19
344 Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire http://www.archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati05dugd#page/54/mode/2up/search/revel
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3 September, 1686. Enos Thomas, sworn before the mayor, denies the whole information and says he knows not nor believes any
such thing’. 345
‘4 September, 1686. Information of Elizabeth Carr. That on the 1st September last she was about to give information against
Eneas Thomas for some words spoken by him against John Revell, Esq., and Mrs. Martha Foxcroft, when the said Eneas, in Mr.
Copley's house, having a rapier by his side said ''Goddamn thee; if you say aught against me I will stab thee." Informant further
says that she is afraid of some bodily harm being done to her by the said Eneas or someone acting under him’. 346
The precise identity of this John Revell of Doncaster is uncertain. John Copley is possibly the son (born December 4th 1657) of
John Copley (1626–1672) who ca 1648 married Elizabeth Revell, described by Dugdale as ‘daughter and heir of John Revell
of Cold Aston’.347 John Revell of Cold Aston = John Revell of Arksey was born in 1586 and cannot be this John Revell of
Doncaster. John Revell, the son of John Revell of Arksey, and brother to Elizabeth Revell, died in 1644 and is thus not a
candidate.
It is clear from the Arksey Doncaster parish records that in the area there was another Revell family, possibly related. 348 An
Anne Revell married John (Corker) Cookes? at Doncaster on February 12th 1632 / 3, an Elizabeth Revell married Richard
Sugden at Doncaster on October 18th 1636, and a Thomas Revill married Elizabeth Hirste at Doncaster on August 27th 1639.
He is possibly the Thomas Revell recorded as the father of a Samuell Revell baptised on September 8th 1646 at Arksey All
Saints. In 1657 an Elizabeth Revell alias Hurste, the only child of Thomas Hurste of Doncaster was named as Thomas
Revell’s administrator.349
A possible connection to Revell of Ogston
Turbutt in his book ‘History of Ogston’ shows a John Revell of Ogston (son of William Revell and Mary Sitwell) who was
born ca 1666 and who ca 1684 married Elizabeth Copley (baptised Doncaster May 30 th 1665, daughter of Robert Copley of
Doncaster). This John Revell was buried at Shirland on August 17th 1699 and his widow married second John Battie of
Wormsworth.
It is unclear whether Robert Copley of Doncaster is related to John Copley of Skelbrook.
On January 2nd 1685 Elizabeth Revell, daughter of William Revell and Mary Sitwell, married Samuel Gardiner, Rector of
Eckington at Dronfield. Their daughter Ann Gardiner is named in the will of her uncle Revell of Ogston dated 1699.
Thomas Revell, Schoolmaster of Dronfield
According to R. A. Redfern in ‘The Dronfield School’, Thomas Revell was the first schoolmaster at Dronfield, serving from
1579 to 1584,350 but it is clear from Turbutt’s History of Derbyshire that there was a school there from at least 1496.351 The free
school was founded there in 1579 by Henry Fanshawe, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, 352 who in 1567 obtained the parsonage
and tithes of Dronfield by exchange with Queen Elizabeth I of other lands also formerly belonging to Beauchief Abbey. Henry
Fanshawe’s will, dated 1567, specified that four year’s profits from the parsonage at Dronfield should be used to found a
grammar school. 353 The ‘Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe’ go on to say ‘The Free School of Henry Fanshawe in Dronfield,
known as the Dronfield Grammar School, was founded in 1579 by Thomas Fanshawe, in accordance with the will of his uncle,
under letters patent granted by Queen Elizabeth, the vicar and six of the most honest and discreet men of the parish being
appointed governors, and Thomas Fanshawe and his heirs, or in default of them the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, having
authority to make rules and appoint the masters of the school’.
The Dronfield parish registers of baptisms and marriages are available from 1560 (1577 is incomplete) and the earliest Revell
record is dated 1582. These parish registers record the birth of three daughters to a Thomas Revell, apparently the schoolmaster
there, as more fully discussed below, but Thomas’ ancestry is not entirely clear. This Thomas Revell appears to be the husband
of Lucy Leete of Eversden, Cambridgeshire, and the Leete pedigree is shown in the 1575 and 1619 ‘Visitations of Cambridge’.
These have a record ‘Lucy ux. Thomas Revell of Darbyshire’,354 but it is not clear whether or not that marriage predates 1575.
345 A calendar of the records of the Borough of Doncaster http://archive.org/stream/acalendartoreco00unkngoog#page/n138/mode/2up
346 A calendar of the records of the Borough of Doncaster http://archive.org/stream/acalendartoreco00unkngoog#page/n140/mode/2up
347 Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire http://ia600402.us.archive.org/0/items/dugdalesvisitati05dugd/dugdalesvisitati05dugd_bw.pdf
348 Yorkshire Marriage Registers http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshiremarriag03blag#page/52/mode/2up/search/revel
349 Inquisitions Post Mortem http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries01yorkuoft#page/180/mode/2up/search/revel
350 The Dronfield School by R. A. Redfern, published by The Cottage Press in 1994.
351 A History of Derbyshire by Gladwyn Turbutt, published by Merton Priory Press, 1999.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Dronfield/index.html
352 The Gentleman’s Magazine
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=svwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=dronfield+schoolmaster&source=bl&ots=tcMPiwXMmB&s
ig=b2TX_d2p12m-klulFcz8FgyAtSQ&hl=en&ei=ttjGTOBE4OQjAfZqpVC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBjge#v=onepage&q=dronfield&f=false
353 The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/anne-harrison-fanshawe/the-memoirs-of-ann-lady-fanshawewife-of-the-right-honble-sir-richard-fanshaw-sna/page-19-the-memoirs-of-ann-lady-fanshawe-wife-of-the-right-honble-sir-richard-fanshawsna.shtml
354 ‘The Family of Leete’ http://www.archive.org/stream/familyofleete00leet#page/n107/mode/2up/search/revel
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However, Luce Leete is mentioned in Flower’s will apparently of age but apparently unmarried in 1580,355 and presumably she
married shortly thereafter as their first daughter Susan Revell is baptised at Dronfield on June 22nd 1582, followed by Diana
Revell (December 25th 1583) and Flower Revell (January 1st 1584 / 5).
Lucy’s father is shown as William Leete of Eversdon, who died before 1560, and Lucy’s mother as Flora (Flower) Browne of
Yorkshire, but her husband’s ancestry is less clear. Although he is described in the pedigree as ‘of Darbyshire’ that might
simply reflect his appointment to Dronfield School from 1579. He might well be the individual of that name who ‘matriculated
sizar’ from St John’s, Cambridge, in 1569.356 If correct, then this would place his birth as no later than 1550.
In the Hilary term 1599 / 1600 a ‘Thomas Revell and Lucy his wife’ are the deforciants and a William Staynroope and Dorothy
his wife are the plaintiffs in connection with ‘two acres of meadow in Gresbrooke and Rotherham’,357 and although some 14
miles north-east of Dronfeld this might be the same family. There are other records connecting the Revells to land and property
at Gresbrooke and Rotherham in 1565 (John Revell and Margery his wife),358 and 1599 / 1600 and 1602 (Roland Revell and
Agnes his wife), 359, 360, 361 but it is not clear whether this is exactly the same property and whether they are connected to Thomas
Revell and Lucy.
No later references to this Thomas Revell have been located, except a possible administration at Lichfield dated 1609,362 and
there are no certain later records of his wife or daughters. However, a Flower Revell married a Robert Thurlbye on September
1st 1605 at Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire, and this might relate to his daughter.363 Her husband is probably the Robert Thirlby
who matriculated sizar 1597 / 8, BA 1601 / 2, MA 1606 (Cambridge, Corpus Christi), who was ordained deacon and priest at
Peterborough on September 23rd 1604 and inducted as perpetual vicar of St John the Baptist, Peterborough, on February 19th
1618. He died December 29th 1628 and was buried in Peterborough Cathedral. 364, 365 He was also Master of the King’s School,
Peterborough,366 initially on probation until 1614.367 He had at least two sons, Charles, and Robert Thirlby, who was rector of
Clifton, Nottinghamshire, in 1635,368 and licensed to marry Susan Leake on March 24th 1634 / 5.369 Thomas son of Robert
Thirlbeye baptised at Peterborough January 20 th 1613 / 4 probably also belongs.
A Lucy Revell buried at Wadenhoe on November 29th 1609 might conceivably be Flora Revell’s mother but further research is
required before this can be accepted as proof of a move south, but it should be noted that there are no other records of the
Revells in Wadenhoe parish during the 16th and 17th centuries.370
Lucy / Luce is not a common forename amongst the Revells and it is interesting to note that a Luce Revell was baptised at Bury
St Edmunds on February 24th 1599 / 1600, father William Revell. According to the Visitation of London, Luce Revell daughter
of William of Bury St Edmunds, was the second wife of Launcelot Thetford, Haberdasher of St Botolph’s, Aldersgate. They
married in 1620 at Bury St Edmunds (St James), or according to Boyd’s Marriage Index at Fornham St Martin, about one mile
east. It is tempting to think that she might be a grand-daughter of Thomas Revell who married Lucy Leete.
It might just be yet another coincidence but it is interesting to note that a Robert Revell of uncertain parentage was ordained
priest and deacon at Peterborough in 1617, having graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, BA 1613 / 4 and MA 1617.
371
He was Vicar of Dronfield from 1626 to at least 1638,372 and according to Cox in ‘Churches of Derbyshire’ died 1648,373 the
year in which an inventory of his library was prepared,374 and the date recorded at Lichfield for his Administration. 375
355 ‘The Family of Leete’ by Joseph Leete http://www.archive.org/stream/familyofleete00leet#page/76/mode/2up/search/flower
356 Alumni Cantabrigensis http://www.archive.org/stream/p1alumnicantabri03univuoft#page/442/mode/2up/search/revel
357 Yorkshire Fines page 136 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries08york#page/136/mode/2up
358 Yorkshire Fines http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49640
359
Yorkshire Fines page 193 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries08york#page/193/mode/2up
360
Yorkshire Fines page 198 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries08york#page/198/mode/2up
361 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries08york#page/193/mode/2up
362
Lichfield Wills http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002040964778;view=1up;seq=344
363
http://www.findmypast.ie/search?lastname=revell&lastname_variants=true&eventyear=1400&eventyear_offset=1650&region=united%20king
dom&keyword=northamptonshire
364
http://canonianblack.blogspot.co.uk/2013_06_01_archive.html
CCED http://ccedb.cch.kcl.ac.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=91077
366
Fenland Notes and Queries https://archive.org/stream/fenlandnotesand00unkngoog#page/n264/mode/2up/search/thirlby
367
The Victoria History of Northampton v.2 1906 p.210, Courtesy of Judith Armstrong
368
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CHURCHMEN-UK/2003-07/1059459641
369
CCED http://ccedb.cch.kcl.ac.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=91077
365
370
http://www.findmypast.ie/search?firstname=lucy&firstname_variants=true&lastname=revell&lastname_variants=true&eventyear=1400&event
year_offset=1700&region=united%20kingdom
371 Alumni cantabrigienses
372 Clergy of the Church of England Database http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=28757
373 Churches of Derbyshire Volume 4 http://www.archive.org/stream/notesonchurches02coxgoog#page/n530/mode/1up/search/revel
375 Lichfield Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarswillsa00philgoog#page/n550/mode/2up
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This Robert Revell is shown as a son of Rowland Revell in Pedigree 172 but it has not been possible to locate a supporting
baptism. While it is possible that this Robert Revell was born during the family’s move from Bradfield to Dronfield and
possibly baptised at some intermediate point there is no trace of a suitable baptism at Ecclesfield or Sheffield. In contrast, there
is a record of a Robert Revell son of Richard Revell baptised at Bradfield on January 31st 1590 / 1 that would fit perfectly.
However, it seems equally possible that he is connected to Thomas Revell the schoolmaster at Dronfield.
In 1592 the ‘Ely Register’ records that a William Revell performed the administration on behalf of Katherine Leete, widow of
William Leete of Oakington (Cambridgeshire) who died intestate on November 25 th 1592. Oakington is ca 10 miles from
Eversden. This William Leete is the nephew of Luce who married Thomas Revell. Possibly William Revell the administrator
and Thomas Revell the schoolmaster are connected, but their origins are obscure.
In 1590 a William Revell (apparently LLB) of Trinity College was in a position of authority at Cambridge University. 376, 377
His origins are not known, but he might be connected to Thomas Revell, armiger, recorded as Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in
1568.378 See also Part 11. William Revell of Trinity College died in 1596 and was a benefactor of the University. 379
William of Trinity College is possibly the William associated with the Leete family of Oakington but cannot be the William
associated with Bury St Edmunds, father of Luce Revell. Bury St Edmunds is some 30 miles east of Cambridge. Either
William might be connected to the Revells of Soham some 15 miles from both Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds. The IGI
records that a Thomas Revell and his wife Helen and had seven children baptised Soham in the period 1585 to 1599.
Lucy Leete’s niece, Phebe Leete, baptised at Eversdon on December 20th 1585, emigrated to New England. Note that
unreferenced guesses on the web suggest that Lucy Leete was born in the period 1540 to 1550, and married in the period 1560 to
1570, and in some cases give her husband as Thomas Brevell.
376
Cambridge records of Early English Drama http://www.archive.org/stream/cambridgeREED01nelsuoft#page/n345/mode/2up/search/revel
377
Cambridge records of Early English Drama http://www.archive.org/stream/cambridgeREED02nelsuoft/cambridgeREED02nelsuoft_djvu.txt
378
A History of the Worthies of England http://www.archive.org/stream/worthiesengland01fulluoft#page/n291/mode/2up/search/revel
379
Alumni Cantabrigenses http://www.archive.org/stream/p1alumnicantabri03univuoft#page/442/mode/2up/search/revel
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Robert, a putative son of Rowland Revell of Cold Aston, more probably a son of Richard and Margaret
Although a Robert Revell is shown as a son of Rowland Revell in Pedigree 172 it has not been possible to locate a supporting
baptism. While it is possible that this Robert Revell was born during the family’s move from Bradfield to Dronfield and
possibly baptised at some intermediate location there is no trace of a suitable baptism at Ecclesfield or Sheffield. In contrast,
there is a record of a Robert Revell son of Richard Revell baptised at Bradfield on January 31st 1590 / 1 that would fit
perfectly.
Robert Revell, Vicar of Dronfield, was an Alumnus of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, BA 1613 / 4 and MA 1617, and was
ordained priest and the deacon at Peterborough the same year. 380 He was Vicar of Dronfield from 1626 to at least 1638,381 and
according to Cox in ‘Churches of Derbyshire’ died 1648,382 the year in which an inventory of his library was prepared,383 and the
date recorded at Lichfield for his Administration. 384
Robert Revell married on February 12th 1628 / 9 a Frances Hunlocke née Staynrod (widow of Thomas Hunlocke whom she had
married at Dronfield on October 7th 1618).385 In 1630 Robert Revell is described as ‘Clerk of Dronfield’ when on October 4th his
son John Revell was apprenticed to Henry Hunlocke of the Fishmongers’ Company. 386 This strongly suggests that either this
John Revell was illegitimate, or a child of an earlier marriage, probably when Robert Revell was at Cambridge or
Peterborough. It has not been possible to locate any record of such a marriage, or indeed anything else to support it.
In 1629 Robert Revell is named with Jonas Waddington in an Exchequer document as in dispute with Lionel Fanshawe
regarding ‘A mansion house in Dronfeld, called the Grange or Parsonage House, and a tythe barn adjoining, with a dovecote.
Whether parcel of the late priory of Beauchief (Derby)’.387 As discussed below Henry Fanshawe had willed in 1567 that the
profits for four years from this parcel of land be used to found the Free School at Dronfield, where Thomas Revell was the first
schoolmaster. In 1631 / 2 Robert Revell and the other school governors are charged with ‘Alleged neglect of buildings’.388
Robert Revell was in trouble with the Church Commissioners for drunkenness and dereliction of duty in 1633. 389
Widow Frances Revell’s will dated December 10th 1650 was proved July 6th 1651 by ‘her [youngest] sons Mich., Wm. and
Lionell R.’,390 presumably sons of Robert Revell. Frances’ son from her first marriage, Francis Hunlocke, married Martha
Osbaldestone (baptised March 1st 1630 / 1, father Edward) at St Mildred Poultry with St Mary on January 8 th 1648 / 9, but she is
described in ‘Boyd’s Family Units’ as Martha Revell. Francis and Martha’s sons John and Edward Hunlocke were baptised at
St Benet Fink, London, on November 8th 1653 and July 1st 1655, respectively.
Francis Hunlocke’s will, probated August 25th 1679, describes him as a ‘painter and stainer of London’. It specified that he be
buried at All Hallowes in the Wall, and names his wife Martha, his sons George, Francis and Edward, and daughters Martha,
Sara and Penelope, and ‘my daughter the widow Hunlocke’ and his grandchildren Hunlock (Francis, Catherine and Denham,
deceased (probate granted to his brother Francis in 1677)). The identity of ‘widow Hunlocke’, presumably daughter-in-law, is
unclear. Lionell Revell and Edward Osbaldston are referred to as ‘brothers’, presumably step-brother and brother-in-law,
respectively. Widow Martha Hunlocke of Clapham’s will dated 1691 refers to her son George and his uncle Edward
Osbaldestone, son Francis and son Edward who is described as in ‘New England’, daughters Martha and Penelope, grandchild
Catherine Hunlock and daughter sarah widow of Gershon Pettit and their children.
According to ‘Boyds Family Units’ Martha’s son George Hunlock was born 1649, a Milliner, who married in 1672. Son Edward
Hunlocke’s name appears frequently with a Thomas Revell in early New Burlington records but the precise origin of that
Thomas is unclear. He is probably the Thomas who married Mary Potts (a Mary Revell is also listed) but the origins of this
Thomas are hotly debated with some connecting him to the Yorkshire Revells of Brampton and Whiston. This connection is
probably deduced, incorrectly, from his connection to Edward Hunlock and Edward’s connection to the Yorkshire Revells, and
it is much more likely that the Thomas Revell who married Mary Potts is descended from the Derbyshire Revells (See Part 4
and Table 4a).
There are several accounts of Thomas and Mary Revell’s arrival, either in 1678 with daughters Elizabeth, Hannah and
Anne,391 or on August 16th 1677 according to some accounts, 392 or on ‘The Shield of Stockton, England, (probably sailed from
382 Churches of Derbyshire Volume 4 http://www.archive.org/stream/notesonchurches02coxgoog#page/n530/mode/1up/search/revel
385 157 DD/P/70/37 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=157-ddp_2&cid=1-33-2-18&kw=dronfield%20staynrod#1-33-2-18
386 London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850
387 E 134/4Chas1/Mich2
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=4582587&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CROBERT%2CREVE
LL&accessmethod=0
388 E 134/6&7Chas1/Hil15
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=4582848&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CROBERT%2CREVE
LL&accessmethod=0
389 Calendar of State Papers
http://books.google.com/books?id=bV4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203&dq=Robert+Revel+,+Vicar+of+dronfield#v=snippet&q=revell&f=false
390 Canterbury Abstracts of Probate http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractsofproba06chur#page/368/mode/2up
391 ‘A History of Trenton 1679–1919’ The Trenton Historical Society. http://trentonhistory.org/His/colonial.html
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Hull), Daniel Towers (or Towle or Towes), master, no loadings noted, arrived at Burlington, New Jersey, in Dec. 1677).393
Some claim that their children were born Whiston but the records quoted are inconsistent with regard to date and place of birth
and baptism, some are dated post-1678, and it is not possible to confirm any of them. From as early as 1682 there are deeds
signed at Burlington by Thomas Revell and Elizabeth Revell,394 presumably a daughter who was of age. Some deeds recording
agreements with the Delaware Indians were written by this Thomas Revell.395
Robert Revell’s children
Extracted records on the IGI and Frances Revell’s 1653 will indicate that the Revell children from Frances Hunlocke née
Staynrod’s second marriage to Robert Revell (whose father is uncertain) were William (baptised Dronfield on March 11th 1629
/ 30 who presumably died young), Michael (baptised Dronfield on March 6th 1630 / 31), William (baptised Dronfield on
January 22nd 1631 / 32) and Lionell (baptised Dronfield on January 31st 1632 / 33). Robert’s date of death is unknown, but an
inventory of his library was prepared in 1648,396 and his Administration is registered at Lichfield the same year. 397
Michael’s will was proved 1659. He was a fishmonger of Old Fish Street, in the parish of St Mary Magdelene in London and
his will refers to land in Dronfield. There is reference to the children of his brothers-in-law John Revell (Rebecca, Mary,
Elizabeth and John) and Edward Revell (Deborah, Robert and Dorothy), and Michael’s brothers Lionell and William were
executors.398, 399 Michael also describes Francis Hunlocke as a brother-in-law, and it might be significant that all three brothersin-law are described as ‘Master’. These complications are further discussed in Part 3.
In 1659, a John Revell gave the profits of certain lands called the Nether and Over Deck Riddings, to the poor of the parish of
Dronfield.400 The identity of this John Revell is uncertain, but in view of the date, it might be the brother-in-law who had
inherited land from Michael Revell.
There is much confusion about this branch of the Revells, particularly about the identity and history of various Lionell Revells.
Michael’s brother Lionell is said to have been a Quaker, and Leeds University library holds correspondence dated 1693
between a Rev. Charles Wilson, Vicar of Sheffield, and a Lionel Revell, Quaker preacher. According to the Sheffield parish
register a Lionell Revell, grocer, married Anne Skargell by banns read on the 17th, 24th and 31st of October and married on
November 4th 1658.401 Interestingly, the Handsworth parish register records the marriage of a Nathaniel Revill and Anne
Skargill on November 30th 1658 — presumably this is a coincidence, and not a mis-transcribed duplicate blessing of the
marriage recorded at Sheffield. Lionell’s wife is said to have been baptised at Sheffield on October 1st 1637, the daughter of
William Skargill. There are at least two other candidates, one baptised September 23 rd 1635 daughter of Robert, and the other
baptised January 28th 1638 / 9, daughter of Thomas, who could be Nathaniel’s wife. However, the will of Robert Skargell,
cutler, written March 17th 1668, lists among the beneficiaries ‘sister Ann the wife of Lionell Revell’ and names Lionell Revell
as the guardian of his son Robert Skargell. 402
It would seem that Lionell might have married twice. Lionell and Anne had a son Samuell baptised September 5th 1659, a son
William baptised on March 8th 1663, and a son Lionell baptised April 23rd 1666 who seemingly was buried June 7th 1666. Anne
was a beneficiary in the will (written March 17th 1668) of her brother Robert Skargell, cutler of Sheffield. Anne died in 1670
and Lionel married Ruth Ely on April 24th 1672,403 and a transcription of such a record appears on ‘Ancestry’,404 and in the
online ‘Joiner Index’,405 and it is probably this Lyonell Revell who is recorded in the West Riding Hearth Tax dated 1672.406
Lionell and Ruth are said to have lived at the Cromwell House, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire where Ruth was born. On 13 th
April 1675, Lyonell Revell and Ruth surrendered the house to Joshua Ely (Ruth's brother?) and his heirs. Lionel and Ruth
392 http://www.jstor.org/pss/20083619
393 http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/shieldsp.htm
394
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VKaOB4sKiL0C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=%22thomas+revell%22+burlington&source=bl&ots=8uNFY
OsfO3&sig=RoV8S0KvQfiL8cRBM_IoQsqQCIU&hl=en&ei=wVI_S_i6MJP60wSI3oiSBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0
CBEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=revell&f=false
395 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a7bImxVoPkAC&dq=%22thomas+revell%22+burlington&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=XZcBWvmCa&sig=PS8teZis9W40Oi4qr3qhha3zwec&hl=en&ei=TmE_S5qSIYXbjQez7e2ADg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0C
BQQ6AEwBDhk#v=onepage&q=revel&f=false
398 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/ProbateRecords/WillsR.html
399 ‘Genealogical Gleanings’ http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea02wate#page/1044/mode/2up
400 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~claycross/732-744.htm
401 http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/ParishMarriageIndex.html
402 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smithysgenealogy/pdf_files/P_S_YORKSHIRE.pdf
403 ‘Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalnarrat00elyr#page/104/mode/1up
404 ‘Yorkshire Parish Records’ http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgibin/sse.dll?db=Yorkshire&so=2&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c1%2c+%2c%2c%2c1%2c+%2c%2c%2c1%2c+%2c%2c%2c1
%2c+%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c1%2c+%2c%2c&gsfn=lionel*&gsln=revel*&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo
=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=5538&ti.si=0&gss=angs-c
405 ‘The Joiner Marriage Index’ http://www.joinermarriageindex.co.uk/search.php
406 West Riding Hearth Tax http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/communities/westriding/westridingsurnames.pdf
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moved to Sheffield,407 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/lionel.htm where his activities, including as ‘Collector of the
Townes rents’ have been recorded in the period 1682 to 1691. 408 There is a record of a trader’s token issued in Sheffield,
probably about 1670, having Lionel Revel on the reverse with Zachary Wilson on the obverse.409 Although probably not
connected an Edward Revell of the George Inn, Lutterworth (Leicestershire) also had his own tokens. 410 A Thomas Revell was
paying rent in 1679, and a Nathaniel Revell paid rent in the period 1679 to 1686, but their connection to Lionell is not clear.
The ‘RG6 Society of Friends' (Quakers) Registers’ available online record births in Yorkshire of an Elizabeth Revel (April 3rd
1676), a Sarah Revel (April 30th 1678), a Lionel Revel (22nd or 28th April 1680), a Samuel Revel (June 18th 1683) and a Joshua
Revel (February 16th 1687) all with father Lionel.411 It is possible that these Quaker records are actually baptisms into the
Quaker faith rather than births, but at the moment, these birth and baptism records cannot be reconciled. Lionel Revell’s
marriages are not listed in RG6. The surviving Quaker records for Mansfield certainly include the ‘Ely’ name, but make no
reference to ‘Revel’.412 Lionell’s will dated 1699 refers to his sons Samuell and Joshua, and daughters Elyzabeth and Sarah.
Some statements in Michael Revell’s will are obscure. It seems almost certain that John Revell, and presumably Edward
Revell, were actually half-brothers, rather than brothers-in-law, to Michael Revell, fishmonger. The strongest evidence for this
is the record dated October 4th 1630 for a John Revell, son of Robert Revell of Dronfield (Clerk), when he was apprenticed to
Henry Hunlocke of the Fishmongers’ Company. 413 This John Revell must have been born no later than ca 1620 and must be
either illegitimate or a child of an earlier marriage. It has not been possible to locate a baptism record, but he might well have
been born when his father was at Cambridge or Peterborough.
However, it remains an open question whether John Revell son of Robert Revell of Dronfield is John Revell the Plymouth
Adventurer as described in this passage,’ JOHN REVELL, of London, fishmonger. He was present 28 July, 1629; chosen an
Assistant 29 October, 1629, and an Undertaker 10 December, 1629. He went to New England with Winthrop but returned
immediately. He was the only "undertaker" included in the list of gentlemen to be written to in 1634. In a list of members of the
Fishmongers Company of 1641 he is said to be resident in St. Nicholas Coleabbey; his membership of that company suggests
that he was the "brother-in-law, Mr. John Revell, i.e., half- brother, who is mentioned by Michael Revell, fishmonger of St. Mary
Magdalen, Fish Street, in his will proved 8 June, 1659. [P. C. C. 331 Pell.] He was a Plymouth Adventurer’.414 There must be
some serious doubt because someone apprenticed in 1630 is very unlikely to have been the comparatively rich person chosen in
1629.
As discussed above, an Edward Revell of Carnefield, Derbyshire, fathered illegitimate children baptised at Dronfield in 1599
and 1601 but he is unlikely to be the mysterious ‘brother-in-law’ because he would have been aged ca 80 when Michael’s will
was written, and his known children do not match the names given in Michael’s will. According to the Columbell pedigree in
Familiae Minorum Gentium an Edward Revell, also styled as of Dronfield, married Jane Columbell daughter of Peter
Columbell of Darley, Derbyshire. 415 No dates are given, but he is mentioned in the probated will of Roger Columbell of Darley,
dated 1630.416 According to this Columbell pedigree this Edward Revell of Dronfield is connected to the Chadertons of
Nuthurst, Lancashire, through his wife’s cousin Frances Columbell who married William Chaderton the son of Edmund
Chaderton of Nuthurst.
It is clear that there is much confusion surrounding these Revells and Chadertons.
For example it is elsewhere well-documented
1. that this Jane Columbell the daughter of Peter of Darley on May 31 st 1634 married at Derby Francis Revell alias
Adament, the illegitimate son of Edward Revell the Grays Inn lawyer,417 and
2.
that on June 27th 1569 this William Chaderton son of Edmund married Katheryne Revell (baptised January 6th 1552 at
St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury daughter of John Revell of London)418 — see Part 4.
407 ‘Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalnarrat00elyr#page/104/mode/1up
408 ‘Records of the Burgery of Sheffield’
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FDk3TbT2lrAC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=%22lyonell+revel%22&source=bl&ots=2FmGxH5_tU&sig=80Z
hIQXySot8KQ9bj5q-Y2NTNU8&hl=en&ei=qtXqStX2FonZQbjgojvCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=lionel&f=false
409 Journal of the British Archaeological Association http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofbritish30brit#page/30/mode/2up/search/revel
410 Lutterworth http://ia600406.us.archive.org/8/items/lutterworthjohnw00dyso/lutterworthjohnw00dyso_bw.pdf
411
http://bmdregisters.co.uk/index.php?data=TCUxNiUxRSUxRCUxOCUxMU4lMDklMTdNJTE4JTBEJTE0JTAwJTBGJTE4JTE2VCUwNyUwNV
MlMDIlMUElMURpcyUwMSU0MCUxNiUxRSUwNyUxOCUwNFclMEYlMTElMTlXJTBDJTAwRSUxOUxEUCUxRCUwQyUxRkMlMTglMUUlM
TZiRCUwNSUxNiU1Q1NLVCUwN0glMTBYTCUwRA
412 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lost-mansfield/lmmisc/quaker1.htm
413 London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850
414 ‘ADVENTURERS IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY’
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyterry/advent/advenbios.html
415 ‘Familiae Minorum Gentium ‘ http://www.archive.org/stream/familiaeminorumg01hunt#page/473/mode/2up/search/revel
416 Year Books of Probates http://www.archive.org/stream/yearbooksofproba01cantuoft#page/16/mode/2up/search/revel
418 ‘Lives of the Elizabethan Bishops of the Anglican Church’
http://www.archive.org/stream/livesoftheelizab00whituoft#page/n283/mode/2up/search/revel
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St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street and St Nicholas Cole Abbey (today located on Queen
Victoria Street)419 are within a few yards of each other, and these families might well be connected.
Other Revell records for Dronfield / Cold Aston
Note that Dronfield is in Derbyshire and the explicit statement ‘Thomas Revell of Derbyshire’ as the individual who married
Lucy Leete could reflect his living at Dronfield where he was the first schoolmaster, rather than necessarily implying a
connection to those Revells normally associated with Derbyshire. That said, Stanley C. Taylor states that a descendant of the
Ogston Hall (Derbyshire) Revells ‘started a dynasty at Coal Aston in 1598’.420 Accordingly, the Thomas and William Revell
associated with the Leetes might have originated in Derbyshire.
There is no doubt that there are complex and rather obscure interconnections between the Revells of Bradfield, Cambridge,
Dronfield / Cold Aston and Peterborough. Unfortunately, there are also connections between the Revells of Dronfield / Cold
Aston and the Derbyshire Revells who are recorded as holding land at Dronfield as early as the 15 th century. They are more
extensively discussed in Part 4 but the most immediately relevant information is summarised below.
Baptisms at Dronfield record an Edward Revell as the father of Francis Revell (May 14th 1599) and Marie Revell (September
25th 1601). These are almost certainly the illegitimate children of Edward Revell of Carnfield Hall (Carnthwaite) who married
Dorothy Chaworth née Columbell.
A final concord dated 1612 records that they also held land at Rawmarsh, as follows: 421
‘Lease for 21 years by Edward Revell of Pinxton gent and Dorothy his wife, to Edward Brooke of Rawmarsh Yorkshire tanner,
of a cottage and lands in Rawmarsh. Rent 11s. Consideration £5. 20 May’.
A document dated May 16th 1627 records ‘Covenant with counterpart by Edward Revell of Carnefield Hall esq to William Clay
of Nottingham gent, John Breward of South Normanton yeoman, and Edward Tripet of Carnefield Hall, servant, to levy a
common recovery of the manor of Carnefield with messuages and lands in Carnefield, Chesterfield, Newbold, Brampton,
Tapton, Dronfield, Brimington, Whittington, South Normanton, Alfreton, Higham and Wormhill, to uses (specified)’.422
It might be this Francis Revell who witnessed an indenture of covenant dated December 10th 1627, that refers to the Columbells
of Derby (Darley?) and Lacys of Ogson (Ogston), despite the electronic transcription stating Frances Revell.423
The mother of the illegitimate children is said to be Alice Adiman from Lancashire. Marie Revell married Randolph
Ashenhurst of Beard. Francis Revell alias Adament (Adiman) is named in a mortgage dated 1646 referring to land at
Chesterfield, Newbold, Brampton, Tapton, Dronfield, Brimington and Whittington,424 and in 1666 what is probably the same
land is referred to in a marriage settlement for his son Francis Revell on his marriage to Dorothy Wilmot.425
There is a later connection — on January 2nd 1685 Elizabeth Revell, daughter of William Revell and Mary Sitwell, married
Samuel Gardiner, Rector of Eckington at Dronfield. Their daughter Ann Gardiner is named in the will of her uncle Revell of
Ogston dated 1699.
The connections of the following are not known. An Ann Revell married William Downes at Dronfield on August 10th 1636,
and a Jane Revell married a John Hoyland on November 1st 1641, possibly John Hoyland of Dungworth, Bradfield parish,
yeoman and eldest son and heir of George Hoyland of Wath.
On May 3rd 1668 Mary Revell married Francis Woodhouse at Dronfield and on January 1 st 1683 Robert Revell of Blackwell
married Dorothy Calton, widow, of Dronfield.
419 http://web.archive.org/web/20071009113436/www.steeljam.dircon.co.uk/churches/londonchurchlocation.htm
420 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/derbyshire.htm
421 D37/MR/T/156 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=100&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27GENT%27
%29
422 D37 M/RT174–175 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27dronfield%27%29
423 D3155/6602 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=026-d3155_2&cid=11-271&kw=revell%20lacy#11-271
424 D37 M/RT201–204 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27dronfield%27%29&d
sqPos=0&dsqNum=50&PF=No
425 D37 M/RT217 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27dronfield%27%29&d
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The Revells of Brampton-en-le-Morthern, Handsworth and Whiston
It seems very likely that the Revells associated with Brampton-en-le-Morthern, Handsworth and Whiston are connected, but the
eaxact link is not known because they are poorly documented in the 15 th and 16th centuries. The web contains some information
that is demonstrably false. In other cases two claims conflict but it is not possible to decide which might be correct — possibly
both are wrong.
A connection to the More family of Chelsea, that includes Saint Thomas More, is certain. Note also that Sir Thomas More’s
sister Elizabeth (born Milk Street, London, September 22 nd 1492) married John Rastell of Coventry. 426 Their daughter Joan
married John Revell a son of Robert Revell of Byfield — see Part 3 and Table 3. Jane Flynn who is researching the
Heywoods, and Martin Wood, the author of ‘The Family and Descendants of St. Thomas More’ that was published by
Gracewing in April 2008, has each been very helpful in clarifying these links.
Because of the uncertainties surrounding these Revells of Whiston the account that follows begins with Thomas Revell of
Handsworth who married Anne West née More, then considers Thomas’s ancestors and finally his descendants. This section is
based almost exclusively on parish records, wills, deeds and other comptemporary documents rather than the various dubious
pedigrees that have been widely promulgated. In order to make sense of the relationships recorded in these documents an
additional table has been prepared in which the evidence used to establish the relationships is represented diagrammatically —
see Table 55.
Thomas Revell of Handsworth who married Anne West née More
The origin of the Handsworth Revells is not certainly known. The will of William Revell of Brinsworth dated 1560 refers to a
Thomas Revell who is not explicitly described as a son (as are two other legatees referred to) and it is thought that he is a
brother or cousin to William of Brinsworth. Cause papers dated 1574 record a Thomas Revell of Handsworth as a witness
aged 56 in a case of defamation pertaining to the then Vicar of Handsworth. 427 If the age quoted is correct, this Thomas Revell
was born 1518. A document dated September 6th 1584 and referring to property at Southwell in Nottinghamshire associated
with the Barons Wenlock of Escrick, is witnessed by a ‘Thomas Revyll of Hansworthe’ and a Henry Revell,428— see also Part
6 — who is likely to be the same person. Whether he is the Thomas Revell who witnessed a bargain and sale dated April 23rd
1596 that included land associated with the rectory of Aughton,429 is less certain as he would have been almost 80.
It seems almost cetain that some of these records refer to the Thomas Revell of Stannington who married Ann More née West,
and that the Henry Revell mentioned is the individual recorded as the father of children baptised Rotherham in the 1550s.
Henry’s connection to Thomas is unclear.
This Thomas Revell is referred to in a footnote in the 1828 publication ‘The Life of Sir Thomas More: With a Biographical
Pref., Noted, and Other Illustrations’430 that states ‘The marriage of Thomas Revel and Anne West, widow, appears in the
register of a parish near the residence of the Wests, which, there is reason to think, is a second marriage of Anne More, granddaughter to the Chancellor’. This marriage is in fact recorded in the Handsworth parish register on June 7 th 1580 and explicitly
describes Anne West as a widow, but does not describe Thomas as a widower. However, the Handsworth parish registers record
the burial of ‘Katheren wife of Thomas Revell´on April 27th 1580 and this is probably his first wife. The record of the first
marriage has not been located but, if at Handsworth, it must have been before 1558 when the parish registers commence.
Thomas Revell and Katherine had two well documented daughters but baptism records have not been located, and if at
Handsworth, must have been before 1558. Handsworth parish register records the marriage on May 25 th 1579 of Katherine
Revell to Godfrey West who was the son of John West and Ann More. 431, 432 Note that there are unreferenced records that say
426 ‘Sir Thomas More, his nephews and nieces’
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:HMxBwZPTwbgJ:www.thomasmorestudies.org/More_Nephews_Nieces.pdf+%22elizabeth+Mor
e%22+%22John+rastell%22&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgareUWUMnDD30uo1_hokeOcObst9sPfz9WItcxfwacbEZjWbU_OtHGqP8_FofEea4I973gjgQr-wp-jBEghVax5p3mgm5fw64nens2GVtnpEQXXctKH0Qph32evxbE9lCHBJ&sig=AHIEtbSeqIMowyxtJEbgdGO2H_FtUqPbNQ
427 CP.G.1681 http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/causepapers/causepaper.jsp?id=107414
428 U DDFA2/14/1
http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=1&
dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27revell%27%29
429
U DDEV/x1/21/30
http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=
Catalog&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27revell%27%29
430 ‘The Life of Sir Thomas More: With a Biographical Pref., Noted, and Other Illustrations’, by Cresacre More, Thomas More. Published by W.
Pickering, 1828
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eGqYcgB7d5IC&pg=PR43&lpg=PR43&dq=%22catherine+revel%22+yorkshire&source=bl&ots=B-fn6zukk&sig=MwiAzjlWRXpYGeEiFqQ8Wi0sfAk&hl=en&ei=SzwpSvK4CNzKjAfD4rDqCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
431 ‘The Life of Sir Thomas More: With a Biographical Pref., Noted, and Other Illustrations’, by Cresacre More, Thomas More. Published by W.
Pickering, 1828
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eGqYcgB7d5IC&pg=PR43&lpg=PR43&dq=%22catherine+revel%22+yorkshire&source=bl&ots=B-fn6zukk&sig=MwiAzjlWRXpYGeEiFqQ8Wi0sfAk&hl=en&ei=SzwpSvK4CNzKjAfD4rDqCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
432 The Genealogist http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist23selb#page/n217/mode/2up
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June 13th 1559, which is more likely to be John’s date of birth, and suggest that the marriage took place in Lancashire or
Lincolnshire. Catherine’s sister Ann Revell married John Booth of Handsworth on January 15th 1576 / 7. Pedigree 172
suggests that Thomas Revell and Katherine are the parents of Thomas Revell of Whiston but this cannot be substantiated and
is almost certainly false, as discussed further in the following section.
Thomas Revell’s second wife, Ann West née More, is the widow of John West whose father George West had married Anne’s
widowed mother Anne More née Cresacre. According to Martin Wood, the author of ‘The Family and Descendants of St
Thomas More‘, Ann West née More was born April 12th 1541.433
The burial at Handsworth on December 6th 1588 of an Anne Revell, wife of Thomas, might refer to his second wife. It seems
that Thomas was not buried at Handsworth — the Thomas Revell buried at Laughton-en-le Morthern on January 27th 1602 / 3
is a possibility. Laughton-en-le Morthern is about four miles from Whiston and about six miles from Handsworth.
This Ann West née More was the daughter of Anne Cresacre (Chrisacre) of Yorkshire and John More of Chelsea who married in
1529, John being the son of Sir Thomas More (1478–1535, Chancellor to Henry VIII) and Jane Colte. 434 There is a plaque in
Barnbrough Church commemorating these events. John More died 1547 and his widow Ann More née Cresacre married second
George West, a widower, at Barnburgh, Yorkshire on June 13 th 1559,435 who may be the George West, Esq., buried there on
June 12th 1572. His wife Ann More née Cresacre died 1577.
By his first wife, Jane Trygot, George had a son John West who at Barnbrough on June 6th 1559 married Anne More, the
daughter of his step-mother-to-be (but not a blood relative). Anne More and John West had at least three children, Godfrey,
Anne (possibly baptised Barnbrough on August 29th 1561) and Jane. Godfrey West married Catherine Revell as discussed
below — see also Table 5e.
The exact dates of many of these events seem not to have been recorded precisely, but in the period 1576 to 1588 there are
references to business dealings involving John Weste, Geoffrey Weste and a Roland Revell that mention Aughton, Aston,
Fawkeners or Cannonthorpe Hall, Handsworth and Rotherham. 436, 437
Catherine’s supposed brother is much less well documented but is said to be Thomas Revell of Whiston, who was probably born
about 1560, establishing that his mother was not Thomas’s second wife. Whiston is 12 miles from Stannington, one mile from
Brampton-en-le-Morthen, five miles from Handsworth and about ten miles from Barnburgh.
The ancestry of Thomas Revell who married Anne West née More
As stated above William Revell of Brinsworth refers to a Thomas Revell in his 1560 will but does not state their relationship
(as he did for two sons). Clearly this cannot be the Thomas Revell of Stannington who died in 1556, and it is though that he is
a brother or cousin of William of Brinsworth.
Studies of the More family and Pedigrees 171 and 172 give conflicting accounts of Thomas’s ancestry. Pedigree 172 suggests
that the Thomas Revell who married Anne West née More is the son, born ca 1530, of Richard Revell of Brampton-en-leMorthen. Richard is supposedly the second son of Sir John Revell and a brother to Gregory Revell of Stannington who died
1588. Pedigree 171 gives Richard Revell of Brampton as the second son of Thomas Revell who died in 1556, with Gregory
Revell as Richard Revell’s elder brother.
There is no convincing evidence for a Sir John Revell, or indeed any armigers among the south Yorkshire Revells. Gregory
Revell of Stannington who died in 1588 is well documented as probably the third or fourth son of Thomas Revell who died in
1556 — see above. Thomas’s will does not refer to a son Richard Revell. This leaves several possibilities for consideration.
1) Possibly Richard son of Thomas died before 1556 (the Bradfield registers begin in 1559) or before 1544 as discussed above.
The dates of birth of Thomas’s children are not known, but are unlikely to be before 1510 and are probably in the period
1520 to 1530.
2) Possibly Thomas’s father was Robert the third or fourth son of Thomas who died in 1556 rather than Richard. This Robert
did indeed have a son Thomas (baptised at Bradfield April 22 nd 1565), but this is much too late and can be discounted.
3) Possibly Thomas’s father was another Richard not descended from Thomas who died in 1556. A Richard Revell of
Stannington is named in Hunter’s ‘Hallamshire’ as father of Elizabeth Revell (born not later than ca 1516 based on the
433 ‘The Family and Descendants of St. Thomas More’ by Martin Wood
435 ‘The Visitation of Yorkshire’ http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationofyork00flow#page/346/mode/2up
436 ACM/SD/135, 136, 166, 172, 276, 298-306 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=199-acm1_2&cid=-1#-1
437 ‘Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol 7’ http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries07york#page/84/mode/2up
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marriage of her sons) and being born not later than ca 1496 might be such a candidate. 438 Such a date of birth prevents his
being a son of Thomas Revell who died in 1566 and it is more likely that he was either a brother, cousin, nephew or uncle.
Stannington is about 10 miles from Brampton-en-le-Morthen. It is possible that Richard of Stannington and Richard of
Brampton are one and the same, but the NBI contains burial records at Rotherham for two Richard Revells, one dated
August 14th 1586 and the second dated October 25th 1586, either of whom might have been of Stannington
Richard Revell of Stannington’s daughter Elizabeth Revell married John Burton of Dronfield and they had two sons. Her
husband John Burton died 1556.439 The elder son married on October 27th 1556 and the younger son on November 15th 1562.
The marriage of the younger son is confirmed in Dronfield parish register, but the elder son’s record is not in the IGI as their
records are available only from 1560.
Thomas Revell of Brampton
A Thomas Revell, Yeoman of Brampton aged about 38, and brother-in-law to a Henry Bate whose sister Thomas had married,
is recorded as a witness in a court case of 1637 / 8 to 1638 / 9 between Gervase Eyre of Chesterfield and Thomas Keresforth of
Dodworth,440 who in 1665 endowed a school in Barnsley. Thomas Revel of Brampton’s age, while approximate is that he
himself gave and suggests that he was born ca 1599 / 1600. This is appreciably later than the unreferenced entries on the IGI.
According to Pedigree 172 Thomas Revell of Brampton is said to have married about 1630 but the marriage record has not
been located.
This Henry Bate named in the Court documents is presumably the son of Henry Bate the Rector of Aston and Ellen Hardstaff
who married at Aston in 1607.441 He cannot be the Rector, who was introduced to the parish on October 17 th 1605, because he
died September 7th 1627.
The will of Thomas Revell, yeoman, of Brampton dated March 1st 1640 / 1 and proved May 1641 is lodged in the York
registry,442 and has been examined. His will lodged at York Registry does not name any children, but clearly refers to his wife
Margaret, his married sisters Ann Burrows and Sara Dickinson, his brother-(in-law) John Burrows, his nephews Nathaniel
Revell and John Revell (sons of brother John Revell), nieces Mary and Sarah Garland (daughters of his married sister Maria,
deceased), several cousins: ‘Cosens Thomas Revell, ffrancis Revell, William Revell, Thomas the sonne of Rycharde Revell,
Anne Revell and Elizabeth Revell’, and William Fletcher parson of Aston. Thomas names his wife Margaret as sole executrix
and his brother John Revel as supervisor. Thomas Revell of Brampton also refers to his ‘Aunt Denton, Lewis Denton and
Thomas Denton’ (whose relationship to Aunt Denton is not defined). There are bequests to the poor of Brampton, Treeton and
Whiston. Note that this account contradicts some features of pedigree 172 but agres perfectly with the will of Sarah Dickinson
his married sister discussed below.
Although Thomas of Brampton has used thterms ‘sister’ and ‘brother’ quite precisely, the term ‘cousin’ is often a much more
general term and his cousins are difficult to define. Cousin Thomas Revell is probably the son of Thomas Revell of Whiston
and there are comparatively few known candidates for ‘Thomas the sonne of Rycharde Revel’. He cannot be Thomas baptised
Sheffield on January 24th 1594 / 5 because he was buried on August 16th 1595., but Thomas son of Richard Revell baptised
Bradfield on September 26th 1582, who married Anne Wilson and moved to Shifnall, was extant in 1644 and is a possibility
although rather distant — see Table 5d — and an otherwise unknown son of the Richard Revell baptised Handsworth January
21st 1606 / 7, and hence grandson of John Revell and Isabel Newbold, is also worth considering — see Table 5i and Table 55.
The identity of the other cousins is even less clear, but Francis is a relatively uncommon name amongst the Revells and also
might point to the Revells of Handsworth, but this is not proven.
The identity of the Dentons is similarly uncertain. However, ‘Aunt Denton’ is plausibly the Anne Reniell (i.e. Anne Revell)
who married Thomas Denton at Rotherham on May 15th 1598. Pedigree 172 states that Thomas and Lewis are her children but
the will does not state that explicitly. There are no other Denton marriage records at Rotherham but the baptism and burial
records are not easily available, and it has not been possible to trace these baptism records. There are numerous records of
Denton in the Sheffield parish registers. Of particular interest are records of a Lodovicus (Lewis) Denton who married Anna
Hancock at Sheffield on November 1st 1627,443 and the baptism of their children.444 He is probably the Lewis (Lewes) Denton of
Norton named in the will of Robert Rollinson dated June 14th 1648.445
It has been suggested that Thomas of Brampton is the Thomas Revell baptised Sheffield on July 19th 1601, the son of Thomas
of Heeley, but this Thomas of Heley’s 1627 will does not refer to a daughter Sarah and this possibility can be eliminated.
438 Hallamshire
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QCE2AAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:ecclesfield&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_min
y_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=1&ei=tbRUS_uAKYLmzAS7ns3dAw&cd=1#v=onepage&q=revel&f=false
439 http://www.archive.org/stream/oldhallsmanorsa00tillgoog#page/n143/mode/1up/search/revel
440 ‘Court of Chivalry’ http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/AnaServer?chivalry+0+start.anv+case=199
441 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/YKS/Pavers1607.html
442 York Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries04yorkuoft#page/88/mode/2up/search/revel
443 Sheffield Parish Registers Part 1 http://www.archive.org/stream/parishregisterof58shef#page/266/mode/2up
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The unreliable Pedigree 172 shows Thomas of Brampton as a son of Thomas Revell of Whiston, but as discussed below this
is not correct.
Sarah Dickinson (Dickenson) née Revell
Sarah Dickenson is described as a married sister by Thomas Revell of Brampton in his will dated 1640. Sarah Revell
married Thomas Dickinson in 1635 (Boyd’s Marriage Register). Thomas Dickinson inherited from his father land at
Kimberwoth and Masborough and died in 1640.446 Sarah died a widow in 1679 (buried Whiston April 6 th 1679), and refers in
her will to a nephew Nathaniel Revell of Brampton (and his children) and a niece Rebecca Hurst (née Revell) (and her
children). Nathaniel and Rebecca are siblings, the children of Sarah’s brother John Revell of Whiston and his wife Elizabeth.
This brother John, clearly identified in the 1640 will of Thomas of Brampton, is not mentioned in Sarah’s will because he died
before her. John was buried at Whiston on July 24th 1665 and described in the register as ‘John Revell son of John’, thus
identifying the father of these siblings. There is in Sarah’s will reference also to cousins named Borough (Burrows), discussed
below.
Sarah’s date of birth is not known and while an unreferenced entry on the IGI states 1600, living to 1679 makes it is quite
possible that she was born somewhat later, as thought also for her brother Thomas of Brampton.
John Revell buried Whiston July 24th 1665, son of John, who married Elizabeth
The NBI has a burial at Whiston for a ‘John Revell, son of John’ dated July 24th 1665. John the son’s wife Elizabeth is
identified only from her burial record at Whiston dated April 15th 1653. John the son is identified as a brother in Thomas of
Brampton’s will and John and Elizabeth’s surviving children are identified in the will of their sister Sarah Dickenson in
1679. The date of birth for John who married Elizabeth is not known, but not later than ca 1604 because their daughter
Rebecca married Hurst in 1644. The only plausible marriage record that has been located is that of a John Revell and Elizabeth
Hall at Arksey in 1619, but this might relate to a different person because Arksey is some 15 miles north-east of Whiston. If this
is correct, and there is some evidence presented below to connect their son Nathaniel to the Hall family of Stockbrigg near
Arksey, then this John Revell was probably born in the final decade of the 16th century.
If that is indeed correct, then this John who married Elizabeth cannot be the John Revell baptised at Handsworth on May 14th
1609, son of either John Revell and Margaret Adamson or John Revell and Isabell Newbould as previously suggested.
John and Elizabeth’s son Nathaniel Revell married Alice Eyre,447 (apparently at Braithwell on October 5th 1652) and their
children were John, Nathaniel (apparently baptised Brampton on March 19 th 1657 / 8), Thomas and Henry — see also Part 4.
John and Elizabeth’s daughter Rebecca married Nathaniel Hurst (Hirst / Hurd / Hunt / Huron) of Dalton on December 17th
1644, and their children were Rebecca, Nathaniel and Thomas.
John and Elizabeth’s son John died before his parents and is identified only from his uncle Thomas of Brampton’s will. John
married Alice Stacey at Sheffield on September 7th 1657. John died April 15th 1662 according to Cregar quoting Whiston
parish records, and his will is dated April 9th 1662 and was probated on July 24th 1662.
John and Elizabeth’s daughter Elizabeth presumably died before 1662 because she is not mentioned in her brother John’s
will.
Maria Garland née Revell
Maria Revell married John Garland and was buried Todwick on April 15th 1630 and therefore was probably born not later than
ca 1608. Her children Mary and Sara Garland are named as nieces in the 1640 will of her brother Thomas Revell of
Brampton.
Anne Burrowes (Burough) née Revell
Anne Revell married John Borough (Burrowes) at Rotherham on July 12th 1615 and therefore was born not later than ca 1595.
Anne is identified as a married sister with four children in the 1640 will of Thomas Revell of Brampton.
John Revell, senior ?–1584–1604–?
John Revell, the father of these five children (Anne, Maria, Sarah, John and Thomas of Brampton) is very poorly
documented, but his existence is clearly established from the April 15th 1662 burial record for hs son of the same name. Because
446 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/h/dickenson.htm
447 Visitation of Yorkshire http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationyorke00dugdrich#page/12/mode/2up/search/revel
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his son John was born not later than ca 1604, John the father was born not later than ca 1584. If his son John married
Elizabeth Hall in 1619, as hypothesised above, then John the father was probably born no later than ca 1575.
Some say that John the son was nephew to Thomas of Whiston — if correct, then John the father must have been a brother to
Thomas of Whiston, but while they are contemporaries there is no hard egvidence to support this.
Anne Reniell of Rotherham
The marriage at Rotherham of an Anne Reniell and a Thomas Denton on May 15th 1598 is of considerable interest. This is the
only record of the surname ‘Reniell’ in the Rotherham registers and it is plausibly a mistranscription of Revell. If so, then Ann
Denton née Revell could be the ‘Aunt Denton’ named in the 1640 will of Thomas of Brampton and this would make her a
sister to John Revell senior discussed above.
Pedigree 172 states that Thomas and Lewis are ‘Aunt Denton’s’ children but Thomas of Brampton’s will does not state that
explicitly. There are no other Denton marriage records at Rotherham but the baptism and burial records are not easily available,
and it has not been possible to trace these baptism records. There are numerous records of Denton in the Sheffield parish
registers. Of particular interest are records of a Lodovicus (Lewis) Denton who married Anna Hancock at Sheffield on
November 1st 1627,448 and the baptism of their children. 449 He is probably the Lewis (Lewes) Denton of Norton named in the
will of Robert Rollinson dated June 14th 1648.450
Nathaniell Revell, son of John and Elizabeth, and connections to the Halls of Stockbrigg near Arksey
A Nathaniel (Nathan) Revell, probably the son of John and Elizabeth (see above), was described as of Brampton (Bromton)
in 1663,451 and 1669 / 70,452, 453 and as associated with Ulley, Aston and Treeton in 1677.454 He is probably the Nathaniell
Revell recorded in the West Riding Hearth tax dated 1672.455
The settlement dated September 21st 1663 records:
‘John Hall, yeoman, of Stockbridge, Arkesay, to Samuel Burdett, clerk, of Arkesay, Godfrey Wilbore, clerk of Bentley, Nathaniel
Revell of Brampton, Richard Nicholson of Fenwicke, Daniel Ellis, yeoman, of Helston, Worsbrough Dale and Thomas
Margrave, yeoman, of Thorne. All his lands, etc. in Bentley, Arkesay, Stockbridge, Thorpe in Balne and Cusworth, to stated
uses’.456
This Nathaniel Revell is probably the same person who is described as a cousin in the 1679 will of Samuel Hall of Langford,
Essex, who at one time resided in Massachusetts, and who had land at Bentley and Doncaster. 457, 458 Samuel Hall the son of
Thomas Hall of Stockbrigg was baptised at Arksey May 2nd 1611 and married Sarah Cocking,459 baptised on December 27th
1607 at Arksey, a daughter of Richard Cocking.
Samuel Hall had an older sister, Elizabeth Hall, who was baptised at Arksey on June 4 th 1598, and it seems likely that she is the
person of that name who married John Revell at Arksey in 1619, but the precise identity of this John Revell is not certainly
known. A John Revell of Whiston who married an Elizabeth had several children, including a Nathaniel Revell, is a
promising candidate, and if correct, this Nathaniel would in fact be nephew to Samuel Hall.
452 DDPR/34/59 http://slbarchives.hull.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=14&dsqSearch=%
28%28text%29=%27revell%27%29
453 DDPR/34/60 http://slbarchives.hull.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=15&dsqSearch=%
28%28text%29=%27revell%27%29
454 C 10/481/81 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=7172602&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5
457
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:iQfTNYLEcq8J:www.designscience.com/Genealogy/richardhall/Wills%2520of%2520Samuel%2
520and%2520Sarah%2520Hall%2520with%2520comments.pdf+%22nathaniel+revell%22&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg8cSLeW1L
zYfM2ak7Bd7JOaTPqAoWTgSZfUoVVjuBW1_WZRyJAjioqv_46sqFaxt26Ar68amttxi6NsQEakIrnc9PopOUEMDhECsfC7bgiBFT6bF6PhDuFUXtpGMyEshceZ4&sig=AHIEtbTAPnQPvaTx2nr5N1Soy_IyUExg4Q
458
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/GreatMigrations/?f=research\database\GreatMigrations\content\0421.htm&page=&a
nchor=
459 http://www.designscience.com/Genealogy/richardhall/Co-citer%20FischerHall%20genealogy.htm#href95
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Thomas Revell of Whiston ?–1570–1590–1623–?
Thomas Revell of Whiston’s date of birth is uncertain, but not later than ca 1570. It must be clearly stated that at the present
time there is no independent evidence that Thomas Revell of Stannington who married Anne West née More had a son
Thomas Revell of Whiston by either of his marriages. Some records of Thomas of Stannington’s known children do not
include him, and some claim that Thomas of Whiston is descended from the Revells of Ogston.460 Neither account is supported
by the available evidence.
Thomas of Whiston is not well documented but might be the Thomas Revell who witnessed a bargain and sale dated April 23rd
1596 that included land associated with the rectory of Aughton.461 Aughton is some two miles south of Whiston.
Cregar states that Thomas Revell of Whiston was resident at Whiston when he married Elizabeth Crawshaw in 1590.462 This
has not been confirmed, but seems likely. At Bambrough Robert Crawshaw married Isabel Hoppkinson on April 4 th 1570 and
although the parents are not named explicitly an Elizabeth Crawshaw baptised there on July 15 th 1571 is presumably their
daughter. In view of the Revell and More connections involving Bambrough this Elizabeth is plausibly the person who married
Thomas Revell of Whiston.
Others suggest that Thomas Revell of Whiston married a Miss Denton. The logic behind this claim is not explained but
probably stems from the will of Thomas Revell of Brampton (dated 1640 and possibly nephew to Thomas of Whiston) in
which he refers to an ‘Aunt Denton’ (transcribed by some as ‘Saml Denton’) plus Thomas Denton and Lewis Denton. While
there is no reason to doubt that Thomas of Brampton had an Aunt Denton, there is no reason to conclude that she is Thomas of
Whiston’s wife. Indeed, she is much more likely to be the Anne Reniell who married Thomas Denton at Rotherham on May
15th 1598, with Lewis Denton being their son. It is the only occurrence of ‘Reniell’ in the Rotherham registers whereas Revell
occurs extensively and a mistranscription is eminently plausible.
There is a record at Barnbrough of the baptism of a Lewys Denton, father Thomas, on March 16 th 1627 / 8 who might relate, but
a birth at this date seems rather late for a marriage in 1598.
The apprenticeship of a Thomas Revell, son of Robert Revell of Adwick-upon-Dearne (yeoman or husbandman) to Thomas
Denton, Cutler of Wincobank, in the period 1626–38 might also be connected.463 This Thomas Revell had a brother Robert
Revell who was apprenticed to William Clarborough, Cutler, in the period 1636–46. Adwick-upon-Dearne is less than two
miles from Barnburgh, some six miles from Rotherham and some eight miles from Whiston.
460 ‘Ancestry of William Stockton White DDS Compiled by William Francis Cregar, Philadelphia 1888
http://international.loc.gov/master/gdc/scdser01/200401/books_on_film_project/locbf005/20060731017an/00000081.pdf.
461
U DDEV/x1/21/30
http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=
Catalog&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27revell%27%29
463 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/apprentices.htm
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The descendants of Thomas Revell of Whiston
Thomas Revell of Whiston is not well documented and while many published statements are demonstrably incorrect, the true
relationships remain uncertain.
Unreferenced records submitted to the IGI suggest that a Thomas Revell, variously said to be of Brampton or Whiston, married
a Miss Denton. Another entry on the IGI states that in the period 1591 to 1612 Thomas of Whiston and Miss Denton had five
sons and three daughters, Thomas Revell (of Brampton) 1591, Ann Revell 1592, Maria Revell 1593, Sarah Revell 1600,
William Revell 1601 buried 1602, Richard Revell 1604 buried 1608, Richard Revell 1609 buried 1609, and John Revell
1612. Only a few of these records can be confirmed and it is possible that some children attributed to Thomas of Whiston are
actually grandchildren.
Cregar quoting the Whiston parish registers states that Thomas Revell of Whiston had at least four children baptised at
Whiston, Elizabeth Revell, Mary Revell, Sarah Revell and William Revell.464 Susie Odell advises that she has a baptism
record at Whiston dated 1592 for Elizabeth Revell daughter of Thomas Revell.
Whiston burial records from the National Burial Index (NBI) record the burials of William Revell son of Thomas on August
15th 1602 and Richard Revell son of Thomas on July 23rd 1608, and Richard Revell son of Thomas on February 23rd 1622 / 3.
The will of Rowland Revell of High Green, dated 1623, refers to his ‘cossen Thomas Revell of Whiston and his son Thomas’
thus establishing the existence of another son who does not obviously feature in the various unreferenced pedigrees. It is
probably Thomas Revell the son, who is described as a cousin in the 1640 will of Thomas Revell of Brampton, but because of
this duplication of the forename it is not possible to judge whether the burials shown above, and recorded in the NBI, relate to
children of Thomas Revell, senior, or his son of the same name, potentially making (some of) them grandchildren of Thomas
of Whiston. The precise connection between Rowland Revell of High Green and Thomas Revell of Whiston is uncertain,
and muight be through the Revells of Smallfieeld or the Revells of Rickettfield.
In contrast to the foregoing Pedigree 172 shows Thomas of Whiston’s children as Thomas Revell, John Revell, Sara Revell,
Anne Revell and Rowland Revell, the Curate at Handsworth. Handsworth parish register records the baptism of this Rowland
Revell’s daughter Mary Revell on January 15th 1634 / 5 and Rowland’s burial on October 14th 1636. Rowland Revell was a
student at St John’s College, Cambridge, and was ordained ‘Deacon of Eccleshall’ on May 22nd 1630.465 It has not been possible
to locate any record of his baptism or marriage and it is not possible to confirm the connection shown in Pedigree 172, but it is
plausible.
Thomas Revell formerly of Whiston who died 1665
Further clarification requires access to the elusive Whiston registers, but on the present evidence one must conclude tentatively
that Thomas Revell of Whiston was survived by only one son, also Thomas Revell. It seems likely that it is this Thomas
Revell who is described as ‘formerly of Whiston’ in his administration dated October 6th 1665. He died intestate and his
administration identifies his wife as Alice, but does not refer to any children or other relatives. However, it is possible that the
John Revell son of Thomas Revell of Rotherham who in 1658 was admitted to the College of St John in Cambridge is their
son. Rotherham is only two milies north-west of Whiston. The IGI contains an unconfirmed baptism at Rotherham on March
20th 1640 / 1 that might relate to this son.
John Revell of Catcliffe buried 1667
According to the NBI, John Revell of Catcliffe was buried at Whiston on March 4th 1667. In his will, dated 1666, he refers to
his married sister Mary Beete, his sisters Sarah Revell, Rebecca Revell and Alys Revell, his brothers Nathaniel Revell and
Thomas Revell. Alys, Rebecca and Thomas are described as the ‘younger children’. His sibling’s forenames suggest a
connection to the Revells of Brampton and Whiston but a definite link cannot be identified.
Because John Revell of Catcliffe refers explicitly to his sister Mary as being married, one can conclude that the description of
his other sisters explicitly as Revells indicates that they are not married. Therefore John of Catcliffe’s sister Sarah Revell
cannot be the Sarah Revell, sister of Thomas Revell of Brampton, who married Dickinson because that Sarah was already
married when referred to explicitly in Thomas’s will dated 1640.
Anthony Beete married Mary Revell at Sheffield on November 2nd 1665,466 and there is an NBI burial record for a Mary Beete
née Revell at Sheffield on April 5th 1669. This Mary Revell, one of the older children, must have been born no later than ca
1645. A slightly earlier date of birth is plausible for John of Catcliffe.
465 CCED http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/cce/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=28765
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John of Catcliffe does not mention a wife or children of his own, but he does mention an Aunt and Uncle Thomas Adamson of
Treeton and their children, and this might link him to the John Revell who married Margaret Adamson at Handsworth on
August 17th 1606 but the precise relationship is uncertain. If the terms ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ have been used precisely it suggests
that his father’s sister married Thomas Adamson. John of Catcliffe’s date of birth is uncertain but a possible candidate is the
John Revell baptised Sheffield on September 12th 1641, whose father Francis Revell (baptised Handsworth on July 31st 1611, is
a son of John Revell of Handsworth and either Margaret Adamson or Isabell Newbold, but presumably the former. If so, then
perhaps they should be ‘great aunt’ and ‘great uncle’, i.e. Thomas Adamson is a brother of Margaret Revell née Adamson.
The Chancery Records of Charles I (1625–1649) contain a record involving Adamson and Revell but the details have not been
located.467 The Revells of Handsworth are dealt with in a separate section below, and in Tables 5i and 55.
It is possible that John and Margaret Revell had children baptised at Handsworth because in the period 1606 / 7 to 1624 there
are records of seven children with the father shown as John Revell. However, some of these belong to the John Revell who
married Isabell Newbold at Handsworth on October 26 th 1605, and with the exception of Richard baptised January 21st 1606 / 7
it is not possible to identify the mother. Nor is it possible to identify the parents of these two Johns, but the likely candidates are
John Revell baptised at Handsworth on July 27th 1571 (father Francis Revell) and John Revell baptised at Handsworth on
August 10th 1578 (parents Robert Revell and Anne Bynney).
John of Catcliffe is not the John Revell, son of Thomas Revell of Rotherham, who was admitted in 1658 to the College of St
John, Cambridge,468 because he was awarded his BA in 1661 / 2, appointed priest at York ca 1666 and the incumbent at
Bradfield in 1701 / 2.469
Thomas Revell of Catcliffe extant 1649
In 1649 the records of the estates of the Earls of Pembroke (then lords of Hallamshire) show that the most important tenants at
Catcliffe were George Oake, Margaret Jarvis and Thomas Revell.470 According to the will of John Revell of Catcliffe, his
sister Mary was one of the older children, and if she married in 1665, then she was probably born not later than ca 1644. It is
clear, therefore, that his younger son Thomas could not have been one of the most important tenants in 1649, but beyond that,
his identity is uncertain.
The later Revells of Handsworth
The origin of the Handsworth Revells is not known. Cause papers dated 1574 record a Thomas Revell of Handsworth as a
witness aged 56 in a case of defamation pertaining to the then Vicar of Handsworth. 471 If the age quoted is correct, this Thomas
Revell was born 1518. A document dated September 6th 1584 and referring to property at Southwell in Nottinghamshire
associated with the Barons Wenlock of Escrick, is witnessed by a Thomas Revyll of Hansworthe and a Henry Revell but their
identity is uncertain,472 — see also Part 6 — but could be the Thomas Revell of Stannington who married Ann More née West,
and the Henry Revell recorded as the father of children baptised Rotherham in the 1550s.
The Handsworth parish registers have survived from 1558 and have been partially transcribed by Sandra Gillott of the
Handsworth Historical Society. Table 5i sets out the relationships in so far as they can be deduced.
There are some early burials recorded either in the parish registers or in the NBI but these Revells cannot at present be connected
to those who follow. These burials are:
Joan Revell on September 26th 1573, a Margery Revell on April 23rd 1580, a Katherine Revell on April 27th 1580 and an Ann
Revell on December 6th 1582. It is plausible that Katherine Revell is the first wife of Thomas Revell of Stannington.
The earliest male Revells identified are a Robert Revell who married Anne Bynney there on September 28 th 1567 and a Francis
Revell (wife unknown) who is recorded as the father of children baptised there from 1563 / 4 to 1576. Robert Revell and an
Anne Revell, probably his wife, were buried there in 1614.
From an examination of the Handsworth parish registers it is clear that the Revells were well established there by the middle of
the 16th century — see Table 5i. While it is almost certain that the two branches recorded are connected to the earlier Revells
associated with the parish, the exact connection is unknown.
467 Chancery Records of Charles I (1625–1649) R13/17
468 http://www.archive.org/stream/admissionstocol00goog#page/n178/mode/1up/search/revel
470 http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/info/200136/local_towns_and_villages/320/catcliffe/1
471 CP.G.1681 http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/causepapers/causepaper.jsp?id=107414
472 DDFA2/14/1 http://slbarchives.hull.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%2
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These two branches are headed by a Francis Revell who is the father of six children baptised in the period 1563 to 1573, and a
Robert Revell who married Anne Bynney on September 28th 1567. Robert and Anne are the parents of four children baptised
in the period 1568 / 9 to 1582.
Both branches have a son John Revell — Francis’ son baptised July 27th 1571 and Robert’s son baptised August 10th 1578. It
is likely that these are the John Revells who married Isabell Newbold on October 26th 1605 and Margaret Adamson on August
17th 1606. While John Revell who married Isabell Newbold is certainly the father of Richard Revell baptised on January 21st
1606 / 7 it is impossible to allocate seven other children, although John Revell baptised May 14th 1609 and Francis Revell
baptised July 31st 1611 are brothers whose father is described as John of Handsworth and who was buried at Handsworth on
April 7th 1624.
One of these two John Revells is plausibly the ‘John Revell of Whiston, yeoman’, who on June 6th 1637 leased for 21 years, his
messuage in Hansworth Woodhouse, including houses, edifices, meadows etc, to Thomas Newbould, husbandman, 473 and this
rather suggests a connection to the John Revell of Handsworth who married Isabell Newbold on October 26th 1605.
Francis is not a common forename among the Revells and it is tempting to suggest that Francis baptised 1611 is a grandson of
Francis.
This Francis baptised 1611 is said to have been apprenticed to William Lee from September 1624 (by which date his father was
dead) and declared a Freeman in 1653.474 This latter date is probably a mis-transcription of 1633, which would be consistent
with marriage after completion of the apprenticeship of Francis Revell and Joanna Taylor at Sheffield St Peter on January 20th
1634 / 5. This Francis had children baptised at Sheffield St Peter, as follows: Sara on March 5th 1635 / 6; John on September
12th 1641; Francis on December 17th 1643 (buried August 23rd 1645); and Marie on May 6th 1648.
It is thought that Francis’ son John baptised in 1641 is John of Catcliffe, and as presented above he referred in his will dated
1667 to his married sister Mary Beete, his sisters Sarah Revell, Rebecca Revell and Alys Revell, and his brothers Nathaniel
Revell and Thomas Revell. Alys, Rebecca and Thomas are described as the ‘younger children’. Although the baptisms of
Francis’s children at Sheffield St Peter are not a perfect match for the siblings shown in John of Catcliffe’s will, note that
baptisms and marriages at Sheffield St Peter are available electronically only up to 1653 and the younger children might have
been born later, perhaps following a second marriage for Francis.
It is possible, but not proven, that this Francis Revell is the cousin referred to by Thomas of Brampton in his will dated 1640.
However, his brother John baptised 1609, cannot be the individual who married Elizabeth Hall of Stockbrigg in 1619 as once
suggested.
The arguments supporting these relationships are illustrated in Table 55.
Revells of Adwick-upon-Dearne
Pavers Marriage Licences records the marriage of John Smith, shearman of Sheffield and Ann Revell, spinster, of Adwick upon
Dearne in 1635.475 Her parents are not known, but there are clear records of a Robert Revell, yeoman or husbandman, who
must have been born no later than than ca the last decade of the 16th century, the father of two sons at Adwick-upon-Dearne.
The apprenticeship of a ‘Thomas Revell, son of Robert of Adwick-upon-Dearne (yeoman or husbandman)’ to Thomas Denton,
Cutler of Wincobank, in the period 1626–38, is of interest,476 suggesting a connection to Thomas Denton who married Anne
Reniell. This Thomas Revell had a brother Robert who was apprenticed to William Clarborough, Cutler, in the period 1636–
46, and he might be the Robert Revell of Adwick-on-Dearne whose will dated January 13th 1662 / 3 is in the York Registry,477
refers only to a ‘Margreta Revell¸ widow’.
The will of John Howell of Adwicke upon Dearne, husbandman, dated May 2 nd 1657 lists a Robert Revell as one of the
supervisors.478
The will of another Robert Revell of Adwick, written December 20th 1677, refers to his sisters Ann Revill, Margaret Revill,
Mary Revill, Elizabeth Revill and Alys Revill, but no sons or wife who presumably predeceased him.
473 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=jVPnTPuAM860hAeXh4yBDQ&ct=result&id=zyAAe5QXtCYC&dq=Yorkshire+Archaeological+Journal+V
olume+20+Revel&q=Revell
475 Pavers Marriage Licences http://www.archive.org/stream/paversmarriageli00chur#page/76/mode/2up
477 York Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/indexofwillsinyo11yorkiala#page/134/mode/2up
478 Genealogical abstracts of wills, proved in the Prerogative court of Canterbury page 40
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Adwick-upon-Dearne is about 12 miles from Handsworth, about ten miles from Wincobank, nine miles from Catcliffe, about
seven miles from Whiston, about three miles from Brampton, and less than two miles from Barnburgh.
Discredited published histories of the Revells of Whiston
An early book by Cregar, ‘Ancestry of William Stockton White DDS’.479 quoting the Whiston parish registers, has John,
Nathanial and Rebecca as children of a John Revell (buried Whiston March 4th 1667) and Elizabeth (buried Whiston April
12th 1657). However, the national Burial Index (NBI) makes it clear that the John Revell buried in 1667 is ‘of Catcliffe’
and his will makes it clear that he is not the John Revell inferred by Cregar. Moreover, the NBI gives a burial date of
April 15th 1653 for ‘Elizabeth Revell, wife of John’.
Cregar goes on to say that John Revell senior is thought probably to have been the nephew of Thomas Revell of Whiston
who married Elizabeth Crawshaw, and while unproven, the evidence so far assembled is consistent with this statement. If this is
the case, then it implies that Thomas Revell who married Ann West née More might have had two sons, Thomas of Whiston
and an otherwise unknown brother, possibly John of Handsworth.
Cregar’s next statement, to the effect that Elizabeth Revell (born August 1st 1658 at Whiston and baptised August 24th) and her
brother Thomas (born April 20th and baptised May 6th 1660), children of John Revell and Alice Stacye, emigrated to
Burlington,480 is challenged as unproven in ‘An Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’,481 and it is more
likely that these emigrants were Derbyshire Revells, see Part 4. Indeed, the NBI records that Thomas Revell son of John and
Alice, was buried Whiston on August 2 nd 1670.
While seemingly correct on the foregoing point, ‘An Historical Narrative of the Elys, Revell and Stacye Families’ has the
Thomas Revell who married Henry Bate’s sister as the father of John Revell, gent. of Whiston who married Alice Stacye of
Ollerton (Owlerton) September 7th 1657,482 and Nathaniel Revell who married Alice Eyre October 5th 1652 at Braithwell, and a
daughter Rebecca Revell who married Hirst of Dalton ,483 and, ironically, quotes ‘Ancestry of William Stockton White DDS’
by Cregar as the source, which it patently is not.
Other references to Revells of Whiston and Brampton-en-le-Morthern
A John Revell of Whiston is recorded as a member of Sir John Reresby’s Militia in 1633.484 A John Revell and a Thomas
Revell were listed as tenants of Whiston in Harrison’s 1637 survey, 485 probably John of Whiston who married Elizabeth and
Thomas of Whiston (his putative father or uncle), but their precise identities are uncertain.
A Captain Adam Eyre refers in his diary to a meeting dated 1647 / 8 with a Captain Revell of either Brampton or Whiston.486
This is almost certainly Captain Edward Revell, the black sheep son of Robert Revell and Anne Knowles of the Derbyshire
Revells,487 — see Part 4. It is recorded that in August 1644 ‘Colonel Frecheville, a most active royalist, garrisoned his house at
Staveley in the civil wars, and distinguished himself on various occasions. In a skirmish with Captain Revel’s and two other
troops, he drove them for shelter into Mr. Eyre’s house at Hassop, where he took them all prisoners’.488 It is this Edward
Revell who married Frances Hooker née Webster at Dronfield on July 2nd 1635,489 and whose son Thomas is said to have
married Mary Potts and emigrated to the New World
On August 5th 1657 a John Revell witnessed the nuncupative will of a Richard Marsh, yeoman of Moore Yate in the parish of
Whiston.490 This was probably John who married Elizabeth, his son John who married Alice Stacye, or John of Catcliffe.
http://international.loc.gov/master/gdc/scdser01/200401/books_on_film_project/locbf005/20060731017an/00000082.pdf
481 ‘An Historical Narrative of the Elys, Revell and Stacye Families’ http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalnarrat00elyr#page/110/mode/2up
482 http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/ParishMarriageIndex.html
483 ‘An Historical Narrative of the Elys, Revell and Stacye Families’ http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalnarrat00elyr#page/110/mode/2up
484 Sir John Reresby’s militia http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Military/YKSJohnReresbysMilitiaTroop1623.html
485
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sgEWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:ecclesfield&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny
_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&ei=Nq5US7-WM46szAT4spXACQ&cd=2#v=snippet&q=revell&f=false
486 ‘Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies’
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x1OAQAjbgLYC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=%22revel+of+Brampton%22&source=bl&ots=cYXCvy4hY7&
sig=nkyu4ud04gTpmr2cTKR_ajD4nu4&hl=en&ei=rPt3S8ytJ5mI0wTW7bGoCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBIQ6AE
wBQ#v=onepage&q=%22revel%20of%20Brampton%22&f=false
487 ‘Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ page 104.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalnarrat00elyr#page/104/mode/1up
489 ‘Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ page 109.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalnarrat00elyr#page/109/mode/1up
490 ’Genealogical Abstracts of Wills’ http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalabst02chur#page/38/mode/2up/search/revel
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On June 15th 1657 a Henry Revell witnessed the will of George Snydall of Wickersley, yeoman.491 The Revell and Snidal
families are both later associated with Slacks farm at Wickersley. 492 Henry son of Nathaniel of Brampton would have been
too young so this might be Henry of Rotherham, Clerk, whose will was dated 1668.
491 ’Genealogical Abstracts of Wills’ http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalabst02chur#page/40/mode/2up/search/revel
492 http://www.wickersleyweb.co.uk/hist/slacks.htm
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Revells of Smallfield
Revell of Smallfield ?–1519–?, father of Margaret ?–1539–1595
It is unclear as to when the Revell family were first associated with Smallfield. The Stead of Onesacre pedigree indicates that an
unspecified Revell of Smallfield was the father of Margaret Revell who married Nicholas Steyd,493 although Burke’s Landed
Gentry says he married Mary Revell.494 Never-the-less, Bradfield parish register esrtablishes that Margret Steade née Revell,
widow of Nicholas Stead (Yeoman of Onesacre) married second at Bradfield Roland Tomson (Yeoman of Brightholmlee,
Bradfield) on November 18th 1571.495 The record of Margaret Revell’s first marriage has not been located and presumably
predates the Bradfield registers that commence in 1559. Nor has it been possible to locate the baptism of Margaret’s children
(at least one of whom had married by 1578) or the burial of her husband. Property at Onesacre was surrendered to Nicholas
Steyd the younger, her husband, by his father Nicholas Steyd in 1546,496 and it is possible that the marriage was at about that
date. ‘Margret, wyfe, of Roland Tomson’ was buried April 6th 1595.
Accordingly this Margaret Revell must have been baptised no later than ca 1539 and possibly as early as the first quarter of the
16th century, and her father was presumably established at Smallfield at that date. She is presumably a relative, possibly the
person referred to in William of Brinsworth’s difficult to read will as what appears to be a sister named Margret or Margery.
If correct, she would be aunt to the only well-documented member of this family, John Revell of Smallfield, discussed below,
who had at least two siblings.
John Revell of Smallfield ?–1539–1556–1591–1620 , sister of Jane ?–1539–1595
The Ibbotson pedigree states that ‘Jane Revell sister of John Revell of Smallfield’ married William Ibbotson of Nether Combes,
Bradfield, on April 30th 1559.497 Jane Revell was probably born not later than ca 1539. Note that this marriage is shown
incorrectly as occurring in 1722 in the transcription of the Bradfield parish registers.
John Revell of Smallfield is described as a brother in the 1595 will of Agnes Revell of Bradfield (dated January 15th 1595 / 6,
buried Bradfield February 2nd 1595 / 6 and will probated June 9th 1596).498 Agnes also refers to her ‘son John Gregory’, but it
has not been possible to find either Agnes’s marriage or baptism, nor even her son’s baptism, so probably all predate 1559. This
suggests also that either Agnes was a Revell by marriage to John’s brother and that John Gregory was actually son-in-law, or he
was illegitimate and Agnes was in fact John’s sister.
John Revell of Smallfield’s parents are not certainly known, but there is reasonable evidence to suggest that his father is
William Revell of Brinsworth who died 1560. His date and place of birth is uncertain, but if at Bradfield must predate 1559 by
some margin. If at Rotherham, it must predate 1542. If this is correct it is not clear when the family moved from Smallfield to
Brinsworth, or in which direction they moved, but it is probably significant that there are no Revell family records in the
surviving Rotherham registers in the period 1540 to 1559.
John Revell of Smalfield is named in the will (very difficult to read) of Rowland Revell of Brinsworth dated October 1599 but
their relationship cannot be made out. The will of Rowland’s father, William Revell of Brinsworth, dated 1560, refers also to a
son John and it is quite possible that this is John of Smalfield.
Plausible circumstantial support for such a descent is given in the will of Rowland Revell of High Green, who is the son of
Rowland Revell of Brinsworth and the grandson of William Revell of Brinsworth, by his description of William Revell of
Ricketts Field as a cousin. In fact, this William Revell is a cousin by marriage and the blood relationship is to his wife Joan
Revell daughter of John Revell of Smallfield. Although the term ‘cousin’ can be used very loosely, if this suggested descent is
correct Rowland Revell of High Green and Joan Revell would in fact be second cousins.
In an unreferenced tree on the web it is suggested that John of Smallfield’s father was Richard but no evidence has been found
to support this claim.
John Reyvell of Smallfield benefitted from the will of William Greyve of Fayrhirst, Bradfield, written September 2nd 1556 and
proved on May 4th 1557,499 but the connection to William Greyve is not known. On April 3rd 1566 ‘George Byngley and Joan
his wife and also John Hobson surrendered etc a parcel of land called Lee Roides lying in a certain place called Smallfield,
containing by estimation three and a half roods within the Soke of Bradfield; to the use of John Revell of Smallfield’.500 In
1581 he witnessed a document relating to the settlement of a debt by Gregory Revell of Stannington and John Beighton and
Lawrence Beighton of Haldworth. According to Pedigree 266 in Hunter’s ‘Familiae Minorum Gentium’ Lawrence Beighton is
the son of John Beighton of Hill Top at Bradfield who married Elizabeth, daughter of the Thomas Revell who died 1556.
494 Burke landed gentry http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera01inburk/genealogicalhera01inburk_djvu.txt
495 Publications of the Harleian Society Vol 38 http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsofha38harluoft#page/648/mode/2up
496 http://history.youle.info/fh_material/Wheat_collection.txt
497 Publications of the Harleian Society http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsofha38harluoft#page/654/mode/2up
499 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smithysgenealogy/pdf_files/E_H_YORKSHIRE.pdf
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On September 24th 1582 ‘John Revell of Smallfelde, yeoman’ is party to a settlement with ‘Edmund Wodrof of Hope, gent’.501
In 1586 a John Reyvell, Yeoman, of Smallfield is described as ‘…" governners and Tuityoners "of Richard Wainwright…’, but
again the connection is unclear. In 1587 John Revell witnessed a document relating to the Bromehead family.
In 1591 a Nicholas Steyde surrendered two messuages with lands in Smallfield and Bradfield to a John Revell,502 and
presumably this is Nicholas Steyde the son of Nicolas and Margret and John Revell of Smallfield, but there are other
interactions between the Steyd and Revell families discussed below.
It is clear that John Revell of Smallfield married Elizabeth Eyre of Grainfoot, Hathersage (a second cousin twice removed of
Margaret Eyre who married John Revell of Ogston — see Part 4),503 probably no later than ca 1556 because at least one child,
Denyse Revell, was born before the start of the Bradfield parish registers in 1559. Note that a John Revell married Jenet
Hawksworthe at Bradfield on June 8th 1562, and another John Revell married another Genet Hauksworthe on June 11th 1564
and the baptisms of children associated with these three John Revells cannot easily be discriminated.
The burial at Bradfield on July 27th 1607 of an Elizabeth, wife of John Revell, probably refers to John Revell of Smallfield.
John Revell of Smallfield is recorded in 1610 as a witness recording on oath events relating to the Hall family that had occurred
in 1593.504 A William Revell also was a witness. In 1614 a John Revell of Smallfield ‘took over a piece of land called
Carrholme and another called Baylie loundes and a wood called Cogman hoile’.505
John Revell of Smallfield was buried Bradfield on August 4th 1620 and his will is available,506 but is very difficult to read, with
certain sections completely missing. It refers to sons-in-law Hurt, Rodgers, Green and William Revell. There is mention of a
Thomas Revell the son of Richard Revell, and another Thomas Revell who was son of daughter Joan Revell, deceased, who
must have been the wife of son-in-law William Revell of Ricketts Field.
This information regarding sons-in-law plus other records allows the following conclusions to be drawn with regard to John
Revell of Smallfield’s children:
1. daughter Denyse Revell, presumably baptised before 1559, who married Henry Shawe on January 31st 1591 / 2.
‘Dinis, wife of Henry Shawe’, was buried Bradfield August 10th 1630.
2. daughter Ann Revell baptised October 22nd 1560 who married William Green at Bradfield on September 19th 1587.
3. daughter Helen (Ellen) Revell baptised September 26th 1563 who married Richard Rodgers at Sheffield on June 22nd
1589.
4. John's will refers to son-in-law Walter Hurst. There is a burial record for an ‘Elizabeth wife of Walter Hurst’ at
Bradfield dated August 12th 1637, and this is presumably John’s daughter. She must be the Elyzabeth Revell, father
John, baptised December 22nd 1566 possibly a twin of
5. Johan (Joan, Jane) Revell baptised Bradfield December 22nd 1566 who married William Revell at Edynsor or
Bradfield on July 12th 1592. ‘Johan, wyfe of William Revell, buryed 11 Oct 1606’. See also Tables 5c, 5g and 55.
Jane / Joan Revell 1566–1606, daughter of John of Smallfield, who who married William Revell of
Rickettsfield, and their children
Bradfield parish registers contain a record ‘Willm Revell and Jane Revell, maryed (at) Edynsore, 12 Jul 1592’, but the exact
significance of this is not known. Edynsore = Edensor and is near Chatsworth (Derbyshire) but there is no record in the
Edensore parish register for this marriage, nor indeed for any Revells. Edensor is about 15 miles south-west of Bradfield.
After much searching it seems very likely that the bride is Johan, daughter of John Revell of Smalfeild, baptised December 22nd
1566, because his will (dated 1620, but impossible to read in its entirety) refers to ‘son-in-law William Revell’, and ‘Thomas
Revell son of daughter Joan, deceased’. Joan’s mother Elizabeth Eyre belonged to the Grainfoot Eyres. Grainfoot Farm and
Grainfoot Cottage were abandoned during the flooding of Ladybower Reservoir, 507 and their precise location is uncertain, but
they were probably midway between Bradfield and Hathersage, some six miles from each, and about 13 miles north of Edensor.
In the period 1593 to 1616 Bradfield parish registers record the baptism of four daughters and four sons of a William Revell, as
follows — see Table 5c: Frances (December 16th 1593), Thomas (October 15th 1595), William (September 18th 1597),
501 DD/WBS/45 http://catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=LC00950%2f4%2fDZ%2f33&pos=2
502 Feet of Fines http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49705&strquery=revell
503 http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsofha38harluoft#page/544/mode/2up/search/revel
506 From Index of Wills at York Registry 1389-1514 (FHL film 1786295). The date shown first is the date of probate, the second date is when the
will was written, then volume number.
507
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D_Chap8_Dam_Building.pdf+%22grainfoot+farm%22+hathersage&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgZomWuY5FiltupNAlBLiezN1AwzO
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Elyzabeth (October 19th 1600), Roland (September 8th 1602), Ann (November 15th 1609), Edwarde (January 2nd 1612. / 3) and
Marye (January 22nd 1616 / 7). The span of dates raises the possibility that the later baptisms might relate to another family, or
at least to William’s second wife if he did in fact marry twice.
In the 1623 will of Rowland Revell of High Green , William’s son, Roland, is described as ‘Roland Revell of Rickettfield now
servant to Mr Lister of York, attorney’, but it has not been possible to find any further references to him or his employer. There
are no Listers, attorneys, among the Freemen of York, 508 and it is possible that the will should be read as ‘Yorkshire’ and not
‘York’. There are no entries on the Inner Temple database that might relate. 509
Confusingly there are two wills at York Registry for Edward Revells apparently dated in 1631. Both have been examined. One
of these is clearly the will of Edward Revell, son of William Revell, of Bradfield, dated November 29th 1631 that refers to his
married sister Frances Greaves and Robert Greaves.
The other is described as the will of Edward Revell of Ewes (which lies within the Soke of Bradfield) dated February 3 rd 1631 /
2 and this refers to his mother Margaret Revell,510 making it clear that his father William did marry twice, and the burial record
at Bradfield ‘Johan, wyfe of William Revell, buryed 11 Oct 1606’ probably refers to the burial of William’s first wife. William
of Ricardfeild was buried July 5th 1630 and several Sheffield Manor records dated October 19th 1630 refer to a search for a
surrender made by Thomas Revell (William’s son) to the use Margaret Revell, widow, but comment that the fine was unpaid
(SMR page 203).
The reference in Edward’s will to Frances Greaves almost certainly confirms that William’s eldest daughter Frances married
Robert Greaves at Bradfield on November 22 nd 1622.511 The youngest daughter Marye probably married Francis Morton of
Spouthouse on February 1st 1637 / 8.512 Marye’s father is, however described in the Moreton pedigree as William Revell of
Dongworth suggesting that it might be a different person, but there is a Sheffield Manor court record that a half messuage in
Dongworth was surrendered by Nicholas Whiteley and his wife Margaret (formerly Eyre née Slatter) to William Revell and
Joan on April 28th 1603.
Sheffield Manor records indicate that William senior’s first son Thomas Revell of Ricardfeild (baptised Bradfield October
15th 1595) took seisin of Ricardfeild on April 14 th 1631. In 1652 Thomas Revell of Ricardfeild surrendered land to the
Chapelry of Bradfield. The following document refers either to that surrender, or a subsequent similar surrender, ‘Copy
surrender, ‘Manor of Sheffield, Court Baron. Thomas Revell of Rickardfeild, John Marryott of Ughill, John Hey of Holdworth
and John Ward of Woodsetts, surrender of messuage in the soake of Bradfeild near Bradfeild Mill, with the property constituting
Mill Farme, and a messuage called Thorne House (Thomas Whiteley tenant) and a messuage in Stannington (Richard Ibottson
and Richard Greaves tenants), property near Sick House (John Shaw and John Harrocke) all having been given to the Chapelrie
of Bradfeild for pious and charitable uses; to the uses of their special trusts under a decree of King James (20 July 1603), 15
November 1659’.513 According to the Marriot pedigree a Thomas Revell married Gertrude Marriot in 1622, 514 but neither
Gertrude’s baptism nor this marriage can be found in the Bradfield registers, but the burial on February 3rd 1660 / 1 of
Gartrude, wife of Thomas Revell, probably relates
It has been recorded that ‘A William Revell of Ricketfield and his son Rowland are spoken of’ by the Rowland Revell who
married Agnes Vesey at Rotherham in 1590.515 This must be William Revell baptised February 27th 1563 / 4 and his son
Rowland Revell baptised September 8th 1602 / 3. This Rowland Revell who married Agnes is a cousin to William Revell’s
first wife Joan Revell daughter of John Revell of Smallfield — see Table 55.
This Rowland of High Green also referred to Thomas Revell of Whiston and Elizabeth Hanson (formerly Castleford née
Booth) as cousins. This Elizabeth was the daughter of Anne Revell who married John Booth (Steward of the Earl of
Shrewsbury), who was a daughter of Thomas of Whiston. Because these individuals belong to different generations it is clear
that the term ‘cousin’ is not used here to mean ‘first cousin’, and might in fact be used in a very general fashion meaning nothing
more than ‘relative’.
The will of John Revell of Dongworth, Notarie, dated 1671, refers to an ‘Edwarde Revell of Rickardsfeild’ but his identity is
uncertain. It cannot be the Edward baptised in 1612 / 3 because he died 1631. He is presumably Edward son of Thomas
Revell baptised at Bradfield on December 27th 1628. John the Notary is probably the John referred to in 1666 in connection
with land ‘of Francis Burdett in Penistone, Silkstone and Darfield to stated uses in consideration of a marriage arranged
508 Register of the Freemen of the City of York http://ia700100.us.archive.org/12/items/registeroffreem02surtuoft/registeroffreem02surtuoft.pdf
509 Inner Temple Admission http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/itad/index.asp
512 Dugdale ‘Visitation of Yorkshire 1665’ http://www.archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati03dugd#page/514/mode/2up
513 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=2776192&cid=0&kw=revel%20smalfeld%20smalfield%20smalfield%20smallfield#0
514 Publications of the Harleian Society http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsofha38harluoft#page/n405/mode/2up/search/revel
515 ‘Publications of the Harleian Society Volume 40’
http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsofha40harluoft#page/1208/mode/2up/search/revel
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between Francis Burdett and Rachel, daughter of John Shawe of Rotherham’.516 This same property is associated with a John
Revell of Sheffield in 1708.517
Thomas Revell, Constable of Bradfield in 1639
The West Riding session rolls record a Thomas Revell as Constable of Bradfield in 1639, as follows: 518
‘That whereas Thomas Revell, Constable of Bradfield, the 16th july, 1639, arrested there and had in his custody Richard Hall by
virtue of the warrant of Robert Rockley esq., one of the Justices, and whereas the sadi Thomas Revell on the samwe day
committed the said Richard Hall to one Richard Worrall of Bradfeild, husbandman, to be kept safe and secure, the latter kept
him so negligently that that he permitted him to go at large, etc. In contempt, etc. Witn. Thomas Revell. (Puts himself, guilty,
fine £5.)’
It is probably the same Thomas Revell who is witness to the following:519, 520
‘That the common bridges within the parish of bradfeild, commonly called Nether Bradford (sic) Milne bridge and Robucke
bridge, are now in great decay for lack of repair, and that the inhabitants of Bradfeild byerley and the over end of Dungworth
byerley ought to repair the bridge called Nether Bradford (sic) Milne bridge; and the inhabitants of Dungworth byerley and
Morewood ought to repair Robucke bridge. Therefore a penalty of £30 is laid upon the inhabitants there that they sufficiently
repair the same bridges before Martinmas next. Witn. Tho. Revell (Put themselves).’
‘Robert ward, senr, od Bradfeild, yeoman, for on the 20 th Sept., 1639, having there contemptuously refused to permit one
Thomas Revell, then constable of Bradfeild to search in his house by virtue of a warrant from Robert Rockley, esq., one of the
Justices, for one Richard Hall, indicted for unlawfully hunting in the park of Francis Wortley k t and bart., and for arresting
Elizabeth wife of said Robert Ward. Witn. Tho. Revell. (Puts himself guilty.)’
Plausibly this Thomas Revell is the son of William Revell who married Jane Revell, but it could be Thomas Revell whose
family moved to Shifnall because the date of the move is not known.
The Revell–Stead interactions
The Will of ‘Nicholas Stead the yonger of Onesacker’, dated April 15th 1639, refers to his ‘sonne Nicholas S (under 24)’ and
‘now wife’ Anne, and his natural daughters ‘Emott S., Anne S. and Mary S.’. Thomas Wilson of Ughtibridge Hall, Nicholas’
brother John Stead and kinsman John Maryot are named as supervisors. Nicholas also refers to ‘Thomas Revell of Ricottfeild’
as his brother-in-law, his father-in-law William Ibbotson, his mother-in-law Emott Adamson and father-in-law George
Adamson,521 initially suggesting at least two marriages but after considerable investigation it seems likely that the term ‘in-law’
is not used in the strict modern sense.522
Nicholas Stead married Anne Marriot (b 1595, father John?) by licence at Bradfield on November 11th 1630, and they are named
as deforcients with regard to property at Ughill, Woodside, Bradfield and Thurgoland on January 30 th 1637 / 8.523 John Mariot
(b1598, father John?), presumably Anne Stead née Mariot’s brother, married Ann Revell, sister of Thomas Revell of Ricketts
Field, at Bradfield on March 5th 1632 / 3, thus plausibly explaining the link between Nicholas Stead and Thomas of Ricketts
Field.
George Adamson married Emot Mariot at Bradfield on June 9 th 1624 and the simplest interpretation would be that Emot is
Anne’s mother or aunt, but no suitable parish records have been found to support this hypothesis. Alternatively, this might be a
second marriage for Emote Bromehead who married John Maryot on September 20 th 1607, conceivably a second marriage also
for John Maryot who presumably was the father of John and Ann referred to above. It has not been possible to find any other
records that support this hypothesis but it is interesting to note that Dugdale in Familiae Minorum Gentiium comments in the
Stead of Onseacre pedigree ‘Who was Nicholas Stead of Onesacre and An his wife 11 Car. I ,[1636 / 7] also in 1638 nehpew to
Nicholas Bromhead of Thornsett’.524 George Adamson was buried at Bradfield on November 29 th 1644 and Emott Adamson
was buried there on March 18th 1653 / 4.
As discussed above, on April 30th 1559 William Ibbotson married Jane Revell, sister of John Revell of Smallfield, implying
that William Ibbotson was born no later than ca 1539 and while obviously connected to the Revells of Smallfield he must be too
516 CM/819-820 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-cm&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
517 CM/522-523 and CM/524 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-cm&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
518 West Riding sessions rolls v. 2 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=205
519 West Riding sessions rolls v. 2 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=205
520
West Riding sessions rolls v. 2 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=223
521 ‘Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies’ http://archive.org/stream/yorkshirediarie01marggoog#page/n436/mode/2up
522 ‘Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies’ http://archive.org/stream/yorkshirediarie01marggoog#page/n436/mode/2up
523 SpSt/59/7 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-spst_1&cid=1-30-7&kw=ibotson%20stead%20stede%20steyd#130-7
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old to be the person referred to as ‘father-in-law’ in 1639 and it seems more likely that Nicholas Stead’s will refers to the
William Ibbotson, nephew to William and Jane Ibbotson (father not stated), who at Bradfield married Elizabeth Stead née Senior
on January 26th 1617 / 8 widow of Thomas Stead of Middle Combes and daughter of Richard Senior of Middle Combes. 525
525 Familiae Minorum gentium http://ia700804.us.archive.org/33/items/FamiliaeMinorumGentiumV38/Familiae_Minorum_Gentium_v38.pdf
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The Revells of Nether Bradfield and Thornsetts
John Revell, churchwarden of Bradfield in 1575
Bishop Grindal’s Visitation refers to a John Revell, churchwarden at Bradfield in 1575, who presented himself for ‘getting Ellen
Treton with childe’ and stated that he would have married her had she not died. 526 Clearly this John was either unmarried or a
widow, and while it is clear that he could not have been John Revell of Smallfield, his identity is not known. Possibly he is the
John Revell who married Jenet Hawksworthe on June 8th 1562. Genet wife of John Revell was buried April 15th 1563
The only Ellen Treton found in the Bradfield parish registers is described as the wife of John Treton, and she was buried at
Bradfield on March 8th 1574 / 5, and possibly she was a widow despite the record as wife in the register.
William Revell of Nether Bradfield. ?–1600
The will of a William Revell living Nether Bradfield is dated October 2nd 1600,527 and refers to his wife Alice, son Ralph
Revel, and ‘son Richard of Walkley, deceased’ and mentions Richard’s sister Dyanis Revel who married Edward Swallowe. A
Rowland Revell is mentioned but his relationship is not stated. Note that in this period there is another William Revell and
both had a daughter Margaret Revell baptised at Bradfield in 1560. It is thought that the other William Revell had a daughter
Gennet Revell who on June 21st 1580 at Bradfield married John Marshall. Genett Marshall née Revell died October 1st, 1607,
seized of half a messuage and 40 acres in Ughill and was described as one of this William Revell’s three daughters and
coheirs.528
Raphe (Ralph) Revell associated with Nether Bradfield, son of William. ?–1571–1625
Radolph Revell is almost certainly the Raphe / Ralph who on May 20th 1591 married ffrances Swynden at Bradfield. In the
period 1591 to 1600 a Raphe Revell had four children baptised at Bradfield, Joan (Johan) Revell, February 27th 1591, Alyce
Revell March 8th 1593; Anne Revell July 20th 1595 (buried September 15th 1603) and William Revell February 13th 1600 / 01.
Raphe Revell was presumably baptized before 1559 when the Bradfield registers commence.
In 1596 Ralph Revell (plaintiff) and Francis Braye, gent., and Johanna his wife (deforciants) are referred to in connection with a
messuage and a cottage with lands in Darnall and Atterclyff. 529 In 1599 Ralph Revell, Johanna Revell, and Henry Ibbottson
(plaintiffs) and Henry Worrall, senr., and Anthony Worrall and Margaret his wife (deforciants) are referred to in connection with
a messuage with lands in Ughill and Bradfeld.530 Henry Worrall is probably Anthony’s father (baptised Bradfield February 26 th
1564 / 5). The identity of Johanna Revell is not known. She might be a sister, and might possibly be the Johann, daughter of
John, baptised at Bradfield on May 20th 1565. At this era there appear to have been two John Revells fathering children at
Bradfield. (eight baptisms in the period 1560 to 1567).
In the List of Chancery Proceedings for the period 1621–5, a Henry Hawksworth is listed as plaintiff against Ralph Revell the
defendant, with the subject recorded as ‘Bradfield and Dwarden’. 531 An Inquisition dated 22 James I (1625)532 corresponds
with Raphe’s will dated July 22nd 1624,533 that describes him as Milner (=Miller) of Bradfield and names his wife Frances (who
is to occupy Lincroft), son William Revell and grandchildren Richard Broomhead and Ann Hawksworth. A Robarte
Hauckesworthe married a Joane Revell at Bradfield on February 7th 1612 / 3 and a daughter Ann Hauckesworthe was baptised
December 4th 1614. Alyce Revell may have married Gilbert Lee at Bradfield on July 5 th 1618. The implied Revell ×
Broomhead marriage has not been located but it seems likely that Ann Hauckesworthe was widowed and married second
Richard Broomhead on May 9 th 1618 and their son Richard Broomhead was baptised on February 6 th 1619 / 20.
Rowland Revell associated with Nether Bradfield
The identity of this Rowland Revell is far from clear, but he is not explicitly described as a son of William Revell.
526
Bishop Grindal’s Visitation page 35
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qSmGNNSG92EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Archbishop+Grindal%27s+Visitation&h
l=en&sa=X&ei=2ivUoWJO6qS7AaGhIG4Dw&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Archbishop%20Grindal%27s%20Visitation&f=false
527 From Index of Wills at York Registry 1389-1514 (FHL film 1786295). The date shown first is the date of probate, the second date is when the
will was written, then volume number.
528 Miscellanea Marescalliana
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M1kBAAAAQAAJ&q=Edward+Revell+of+Stannington&dq=Edward+Revell+of+Stannington&hl=en&ei=mZTX
TqzDG5Ku8QPvgoT7DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCDgU
531 List of Chancery Proceedings http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924084263023#page/n65/mode/2up/search/revel
532 Calendar of IPM http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries01yorkuoft#page/32/mode/2up/search/revel
533 York Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries10assogoog#page/n84/mode/1up/search/revel
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William Revell associated with Thornsetts, 1601–1668, son of Ralph of Nether Bradfield, and William’s
descendents
William Revell of Thornsetts was buried at Bradfield on March 31st 1668. The will of William Revell of Thornsetts in
Bradfield Chapelry is dated January 15th 1667 / 8 but was not probated until January 12th 1685 / 6,534 shortly before the death of
his wife Emmot Revell who was buried at Bradfield on July 15th 1686. Her ‘original will’ is dated October 8th 1685.535
The marriage record has not been located and William Revell of Thornsetts’ ancestry is not known for certain, but it seems
likely that he is the son baptised at Bradfield on February 13th 1600 / 01 of Ralphe Revell, miller at Bradfield. A prenuptial
settlement (lease and release) refers to William as follows:
‘[John Sennior] The elder of Thurleston, to William Revill of Thornsetts in Bradfield chapelry (in consideration of a marriage
between John's son and heir John Sennior the younger and Anne Revill daughter of William). John Sennior the father to convey
to trustees (named). Messuage in Thurleston and the appurtenances in the occupation of grantor; to stated uses’.
This Ann Revell was baptised at Bradfield on December 4th 1631 and married John Sennior at Bradfield on November 15 th
1658. It is clear also that William Revell of Thornsetts had a son Thomas Revell, probably the individual baptised at Bradfield
on February 28th 1647 / 8. He is described as ‘Thomas Revell of Thonreseate’ in the transcription of the Bradfield parish
registers where he is recorded as marrying ‘— Hauge’ in either February or March 1672 / 3.
His wife was Ruth as indicated in her burial record on June 18 th 1684. Thomas Revell of Thornsetts married second Sarah
Williamson at Bradfield on November 4th 1684 and his death was recorded in 1728, as follows:
‘A Coppy of the Verdict Delivered in at Waldershelfe Court held 1728.
Mannor de Waldershelfe.
We present and find that Tho: Revell of Thornseats who held Certain Lands of ye Lord of this Mannor by fealty and Sute. of
Court is dead And we do find that Abraham Revell is Next Heir to ye said Tho: Revell deceased, &c’.
Thomas’ burial record has not been located and does not seem to have been at Bradfield, unless he died some years prior to
1728, but his son Abraham Revell was baptised st Bradfield on February 27th 1687 / 8.
534 BHD/163 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-bhd&cid=2-1-9-2&kw=rev*%20thornsett#2-1-9-2
535 BHD/164 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-bhd&cid=2-1-9-2&kw=rev*%20thornsett#2-1-9-2
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The Revells of Dungworth
Early records mentioning Revells at Dongworth
On the basis of such records that have so far been located it seems as though the Revells of South Yorkshire were established
first at Dungworth, some two miles down the valley of the river *** from Low Bradfield and about the same distance from
Stannington, some five to six miles from Walkley and Sheffield, some seven miles from Ecclesfield and Heeley, some 10 or 11
miles from Handsworth and Rotherham, and 13 miles from Whiston, locations at which they are later to be found.
These early records are presented in the first section of this document and the focus in this section is on the 16 th century.
John Revell of Dongworth ?–1587–1607–1633
A John Revell of Dungworth was a juror named on the court rolls of the manor of Sheffield dated September 5th 1601 and July
28th 1603,536 and a witness to a deed of covenant dated March 20th 1607 / 8.537 It is probably his will that is dated 1633 and this
identifies his wife as Alice. A John Revell married an Alice Revell at Bradfield on July 1st 1590, and the baptisms in the
Bradfield registers that can logically be associated with that marriage correspond to the children named in the will, i.e. Jenet
Revell on March 25th 1593, Richard Revell on May 23rd 1596, Elizabeth Revell on September 13th 1600, John Revell on
January 1st 1602 / 3, Ann Revell on November 21st 1604 and Robert Revell on April 22nd 1615. Daughter Elizabeth Revell is
described as the widow of William Chalner (Chalnor, Chaloner, Chalmer) but it has not been possible to trace the marriage.
His wife Alice’s baptism cannot be located. It is possible that she was a widow (but no matching marriage can be identified at
Bradfield in the period 1559 to 1590) suggesting that she may have been baptised in a different parish. John Revell the father
might be the individual baptised at Bradfield on July 21st 1566 son of another John Revell whose ancestry cannot be traced any
further.
John Revell, Schoolmaster, son of John Revell of Dongworth. 1602–1671
It appears that John Revell, baptised January 1st 1602 / 3, the son of John Revell of Dongworth, is a schoolmaster associated
with Whitely Wood in Sheffield as well as Dongworth, and that by 1648 he had married Ann Longsdon of Little Longdon [Little
Longstone], Derbyshire, the widow of Robert Longsdon and mother of William Longsdon, as recorded in the following
documents:
‘Counterpart lease for 80 years or life of Anne Revell [widow of Robert Longsdon] wife of John Revell by Anthony Longsdon of
Little Longsdon [Little Longstone], gent., to John Revell of Whiteley Wood, parish Sheffield, schoolmaster, of 1 bay of barn or
lathe in Little Longsdon called Beech Barn in south end of barn already in tenure of John Revell. Consideration divers reasons,
and 5s yearly rent payable at Michaelmas’.538
‘Bond of £24 by John Revell of Dongworth [Dungworth, W Riding] school master and William Longson of Little Longson
[Little Longstone] to Edward Walkden of Holdworth in chapelry of Bradfield [W Riding], tailor, to pay Walkden £12 14s 2d on
18 Nov 1657 17 Nov 1656’.539
‘Agreement between John Revell of Dongworth in chapelry of Bradfield, Yorkshire, schoolmaster and William Longsdon of
Little Longsdon [Little Longstone], gent., that William shall enjoy all housing and grounds at or near Little Longsdon now in
occupation of Edward Eyley as John Revell and Anne, his now wife [mother of William Longsdon], hold of Anthony Longsdon
by lease from 2 Mar next for 30 years, if John and Anne live so long together, at yearly rent of £12 payable by equal portions on
25 Mar and 29 Sep, meeting all taxes. John's goods shall stand where they now stand on the premises, and he shall remove them
at his will and leisure; he shall also have and use at his pleasure the lodging chamber where his former estate on 6 months
written notice to William.’540
‘Appointment by John Levet, Commissary of Richard, Archbishop of York, of John Revell of Dangworth, [? Dungworth,
Yorkshire] uncle on mother's side as tutor and governor of Thomas Longson, son of William Longson, during his minority, 16
Dec 1666’.541
536 http://history.youle.info/fh_material/Wheat_collection.txt
538 D3580/T/40 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27REVELL%27%29&dsqDb=Catalog&d
sqPos=10
539 D3580/T/49 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27REVELL%27%29&dsqDb=Catalog&d
sqPos=10
540 D3580/T/50 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27REVELL%27%29&d
541 D3580/EF/6 http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/applications/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=VAP02&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27REVELL%27%29&dsqDb=Catalog&d
sqPos=10
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‘Thomas Longsdon's notes on debts owing to John Revell, deceased, father in law to Mr Wood, including notes on Birley
legacies 1667’.542 Note: William Longsdon married Elizabeth daughter of John Birley. William died early 1658.
It is probably this John Revell who is a trustee of and witness to the will of Richard Spoone of Stannington dated May 20th
1652,543 in which Richard established the Chapel at Stannington.
In 1666 a prenuptial settlement (lease and release) records:
‘Francis Burdet of Wolley, parish of Silkstone to Jonathan Staniforth of Rotherham and John Revell of Dongworth, chapelry of
Bradfield. All those freehold messuages and lands etc. of Francis Burdett in Penistone, Silkstone and Darfield to stated uses in
consideration of a marriage arranged between Francis Burdett and Rachel, daughter of John Shawe of Rotherham’.544
The will of a John Revell of Dongworth dated 1671 must be the schoolmaster’s. The will refers to his brother Henry Revell
(baptised Bradfield August 26th 1608) and Henry’s children including a John Revell and Robert Revell, a sister Ann Revell
(baptised November 21st 1604), a sister Joanne Revell (baptised January 1st 1611 / 2) and her daughter.
An equity pleading dated to the period 1681 to 1684, in which an Edward Revell and William Greaves, executors, are the
defendants and Hugh Davis, cordwainer of Rotherham, and his wife, Elizabeth, are the plaintiffs, 545 describes John Revell of
Dongworth, deceased, as Elizabeth’s uncle. Elizabeth is desribed as ‘Elizabeth Davis alias Revell’. Elizabeth who married at
Rotherham on November 17th 1673 complains that she has not received her legacy.
‘The executors had been charged with selling a messuage etc and dividing the proceeds between certain relatives of the
deceased. She had not been paid her share: property in Bradfield, Yorkshire; Holdsworth, Yorkshire; Richfield [unidentified],
Yorkshire and Beathon alias Black Knowle [unidentified], Yorkshire’.
1672 John Revell's notes on bonds received from Mr Barrow and daughters, with later draft bond in £158 of Thomas Longsdon
to Edward Revell, executor of John Revell, to make releases to Edward Revell and William Greaves as the 3 daughters of
Richard Barrow late of Silkstone, Yorkshire attain their majorities, discharging Revell and Greaves of legacies left them by John
Birley, deceased, their grandfather, 24 Sep 1672.546
A third John Revell of Dongworth
A John Revell of Dongworth, neither plaintiff nor defendant, is named in an equity pleading dated to the period 1681 to 1684,
in which an Edward Revell and William Greaves, executors, are the defendants and Hugh Davis, cordwainer of Rotherham, and
his wife, Elizabeth, are the plaintiffs. 547
sqPos=10
543 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smithysgenealogy/P_S_YORKSHIRE.html
544 CM/819-820 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-cm&cid=1-9-193#1-9-193
545 C 6/405/5 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5281153
sqPos=10
547 C 6/405/5 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5281153
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Revells recorded in the Registers at Ecclesfield, Rotherham and Sheffield
Ecclesfield
Ecclsfield is the parish that includes Stannington and therefore one would expect many records for Revells in the registers.
Althouh the parish registers seem to have survived intact there are comparatively few Revell records prior to the mid-17th
century and there must be a strong possibility that some have been lost, or at least not transcribed. However, some Revell of
Stannington records are in the Bradfield registers and perhaps the early revells returned there to worship. It is not possible at
present to link these Ecclesfield records into family groups, and even less so to find any links to the Bradfield Revells.
There is a note added to the transcript of the Ecclesfield registers that records the marriage of Richard Barber of Ughill to Jane
Revell at Bradfield on June 17th 1571. Jane’s parents are not known as she would have been born before the Bradfield parish
register commenced in 1559.
Archbishop Grindal’s visitation of 1575 identifies a Janet Revell of Ecclesfield ‘as a fornicatrixe with Richarde Shawe of
bradfelde’.548
Many of the Ecclesfield records appear as Relfe, but this has been annotated as equivalent to Revell. The earliest is the burial of
a Catherine Relfe on September 20th 1582. On June 20th 1594 a Richard Relfe married Alice Bromehead. Alice was buried on
February 7th 1602 / 3.
On September 19th 1597 the Ecclesfield parish register records that Thomas Creswycke married Dorothie Revell relict of a
Richard Revell. 549 Some sources say the marriage was at Rotherham but it is not in those Phillimore records. The identity of
this Richard who was buried at Sheffield on July 22 nd 1596, is further discussed below.
A William Revel married a Miss Bower on December 11th 1603. On May 28th 1605 Renoldus Marshall married Margarete
Revell. In 1617 Charles Howlden / Holden married Anne Revell (July 13th) and Richard Revell married Dorithie Gouldinge
(August 9th).
In 1627 a George Revell a Catholic recusant, is recorded as residing in Ecclesfield and it may be the same person and his wife
(unnamed) recorded similalrly in 1642.550 A document of court proceedings at Rotherham dated July 19th 1641 refers to George
Revell and his wife Alice Revell of Ecclesfeilde,551 presumably the same family.
FindMyPast lists the following baptisms at Ecclesfield but the details are available only bys subscription:552
Robert Revell
Thomas Revell
Elizabeth Revell
Thomas Revell
Antho Revill
Mary Revill
Hanna Revill
Tho Revill
Ann Revill
Sarah Revill
Eliz Revill
Ann Revill
Martha Revill
Andrew Revill
Elizabeth Revell
1642
1642
1644
1645
1656
1657
1659
1662
1664
1664
1666
1682
1688
1690
1694
548
Archbishop Grindal’s Visitation
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qSmGNNSG92EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Archbishop+Grindal%27s+Visitation&h
l=en&sa=X&ei=2ivUoWJO6qS7AaGhIG4Dw&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Archbishop%20Grindal%27s%20Visitation&f=false
550
Catholic recusants in Yorkshire
552
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/parish-records/results?sn=REVELL&sF=YR&rC=929&nOffset=50
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Revells associated with Rotherham, Brinsworth (Brimsworth), Greasborough (Gresbrooke)
Kimberworth and Marsburgh (Masbrough)
Rotherham, Brampton-en-le-Morthern, Brimsworth, Gresbrooke, Kimberwoth, Laughton-en-le-Morthern, Masbrough, Treeton
and Whiston fall within a circle of approximately 2 miles radius. Whiston and Laughton-en-le-Morthern have their own
registers but the others are part of Rotherham parish. They are about 11 miles from Stannington and about 7 miles from
Sheffield. Masbrough should not be confused with Mosborough, Sheffield. Similarly Brampton-en-le-Morthen should not be
confused with Bramley (Moor) near Chesterfield where the Derbyshire Revells had property. Revells were established at
Rotherham not later than the mid 16th century. There are Revell records also at Bramley and Braithwell about 6 miles east of
Rotherham and 8 miles west of Doncaster from the mid 17 th century, and at Bentley and Arksey about 3 miles north of
Doncaster from the early 17th century.
The Rotherham parish registers have survived from the early 1540s, albeit with a gap in on-line transcriptions of baptisms in the
period 1546 to 1548, in marriages in the period 1550 to 1556, and in burials in the periods 1542 to 1544 and 1550, and 1552 to
1556.553 Unfortunately the transcribed baptisms and burials run only to 1563. The earliest surviving Revell marriage record is
dated February 4th 1559 / 60, Alice Revell and Robert Hunter.554
In the mid 16th century baptisms at Rotherham (IGI) identify a Henry Revell as father of Anne Revell (May 6th 1552) and John
Revell (May 9th 1559) and a John Revell as father of son William Revell (November 17th 1558) and daughter Johan Revell
(October 29th 1559). There are later baptisms of two William Revells on March 28th 1562 and January 30th 1563, Elizabeth
Revell on June 13th 1563 and Margarete Revell on April 11th 1563 for whom the father(s) are not named.
Twenty-nine marriages are listed in Phillimore’s marriage records between 1559 and 1636. 555 For example, they show that a
Robert Hunter married Alice Revell on February 2nd 1559, a Rowland Revell married Margaret Sykes August 4th 1560, a Roger
Revell married Anne Wightman on June 22nd 1561 and a Henry Revell married Joan (surname omitted) on July 9th 1566, and
this might be a second marriage with the burial of the first wife falling in the 1563 to 1566 gap in transcribed records. This
Henry Revell might also be the individual who with ‘Thomas Revyll of Hansworthe’ witnessed a document dated 1584. 556
Other Rotherham marriages are referred to below, and a full list is on Rotherham Web. A Roger Revell was recorded as a
godparent to Godfrey Chadburne (baptised Rotherham on October 6 th 1556) and likewise a William Revell to a Rose
Stanyforthe (baptised December 4th 1556), and a Henry Revell to a Henry Robynett (baptised January 24th 1557 / 8).557 These
records imply a connection with the Revells, but not necessarily a marriage. However, it is not unreasonable to assume that the
godparents were born no later than the early 16 th century. Along with the fathers associated with the early baptisms this
establishes that there were at least four Revell families established in Rotherham before 1550.
At Rotherham, a William Revell (Ravell) married Anne Parkyn (Parkinge) on June 13 th 1585, on February 7th 1586 a William
Revell married Margaret Boswell, and on December 1st 1594 a William Revell married Dynis Ellice. At Rotherham a Richard
Revell married Isabel Davies on April 16th 1567 and on December 7th 1595 a Richard Revell married Joan Clerke.
The NBI contains some early burials, John Revell on April 4th 1559 and Joan Revell on July 27th 1560, both children of a John
Revell. A Thomas Revell son of a William Revell was buried on May 23rd 1560 and a William Revell on May 19th 1560 who
might perhaps be the father and / or the William Revell of Brinsworth discussed below. This William Revell of Brinsworth
does refer to a Thomas Revell in his will but conspicuously fails to desribe him as a son and it is possible that the legatee is a
cousin or brother. As for Ecclesfield it has not been possible to associate these records into family groups.
That the Revells of Rotherham are connected to those at Bradfield is generally assumed but not known for certain. Whether one
individual moved (or several) and when is far from clear. It might have been during the first half of the 16 th century, but it could
have been earlier. It is, however, worth mentioning that the names Henry and Roger are not associated with the Bradfield
Revells at this period.
The Revells of Brinsworth
In this regard, the wills of William Revell of Brinsworth dated May 29th 1560 and his son Rowland Revell of Brinsworth,
dated October 21st 1599 (probated December 5th 1599) are of particular interest.558 Rowland Revell was buried at Rotherham on
November 16th 1599. William refers to sons Rolande and John, and to a Thomas Revell whose relationship is not defined, and
Rowland refers to his wife Margaret, daughter Elizabeth Revell, Richard Revell of Stannington (presumably son of
553 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Rotherham/index.html
554 http://archive.org/stream/yorkshiremarriag01blag#page/8/mode/2up/search/revell
555 http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshiremarriag01blag#page/n0/mode/2up
556 DDFA2/14/1 http://slbarchives.hull.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%2
8%28text%29=%27revyll%27%29
557 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/RotherhamBaptisms1542-1563.html
558 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries05assogoog#page/n92/mode/1up
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Gregory), and a John Revell of Smalfield and this suggests a link with Bradfield, but the exact relationship is unclear. By a
process of elimination it seems likely that this is the Rowland who married Margaret Sykes in 1560, suggesting that he was born
not later than ca 1540. Neither his baptism nor those for his brothers can be found in the Rotherham parish register for the
period 1542 to 1563 (the only Rotherham baptisms available electronically). It is possible that they were baptised at Bradfield,
but those records commence 1559.
In 1565 a Robert Hole (plaintiff) and John Revell and Margery his wife and William Westall (deforciants) are named in
connection with two cottages with lands in Gresbroke and Rotherham. 559 It has not been possible to trace a marriage for John
and Margery, but if at Rotherham it must have predated 1544 and it is likely that they were born not later than ca 1524 (The
earliest marriage records at other likely locations are Bradfield 1559, Ecclesfield 1558, Sheffield 1563). Perhaps the most likely
candidate is the John who had children baptised at Rotherham in 1558 and 1559, above. A Margery Revell was buried at
Rotherham on February 5th 1594 / 5 and someone of the same name on February 28th 1596 / 7.
In 1592 ‘Roland and Agnes his wife’ are plaintiffs and ‘Richard Beamount and Elizabeth his wife and Laurence Wilkynson and
Elizabeth his wife’ the deforciants in connection with a messuage at Rotherham.560
In 1599 what might be the property referred to in 1565, this time described as ‘two acres of meadow in Gresbrooke and
Rotherham’, is listed in ‘Yorkshire Fines’ with William Staynroope (plaintiff) and Thomas Revell and Lucy his wife
(deforciants).561 This transaction and the protagonists would seem to be connected to another dated 1599, in which Robert
Revell (plaintiff) and William Stayndrop and Dorothy his wife (deforciants) are mentioned in connection with a messuage and
lands in Rotherham.562 As discussed in the section on the Revells of Dronfield, above, it is thought that this is Thomas Revell
of Derbyshire, subsequently schoolmaster at Dronfield, who married Lucy Leete. Note, Dronfield is in Derbyshire and the
explicit statement ‘Thomas Revell of Derbyshire’ might reflect this residence rather than necessarily implying a connection to
those Revells normally associated with Derbyshire.
Elizabeth Revell, daughter of Rowland Revell who died 1599, seems in 1602 to have been informally betrothed to an Adam
Goodyear but subsequently to have changed her mind precipitating legal action on his part. The matter went to the ecclesiastical
court at York and Goodyear produced a ‘bought’ witness to support his case but this witness eventually confessed to perjury and
it seems that Elizabeth Revell married Michael Vesey.563
Robert Revell of Rotherham
The will of Robert Revell of Rotherham, dated 1608, identifies brothers Christopher Revell, Jeffery Revell and Henry
Revell, and refers to a William Revell of Westgate, Rotherham, but does not define the relationship. Robert Revell’s children
can be identified from the grandchildren, for example Alice and Margaret Banes, daughters of Alice Revell and Thomas Banes
(married at Rotherham on June 18th 1580) and Alice Clayton, daughter of Frances Revell and Henry Clayton (married
December 10th 1605). A reference to a Henry Cutforthe suggests that Margaret Revell who married Thomas Cutforthe on June
18th 1581 may also be a daughter.
The forenames Christopher and Jeffery (Geoffrey, Godfrey) are not commonly associated with the Revells of Yorkshire, but
crop up regularly at Rotherham where a Christopher Revell was buried on February 5th 1583, and a Jeffery Revell on May 5th
1585. A Geoffrey Revell married Jane Rockley at Rotherham on November 16 th 1617 and possibly remarried to Elizabeth
Hollinworth at Rotherham on July 28th 1619. It might well be Robert Revell’s brothers Henry Revell, Christopher Revell and
Jeffrey Revell who are recorded in the Rotherham Church Rate Roll as living High Street and Market Street in 1627.564
It seems likely that Christopher Revell married Ann Huchenson at Rotherham on June 20 th 1613, and it is probable that the
Christopher Revell who married Dorothy Midlam at Rotherham on May 26 th 1657 is a descendant of one of these Revells.
Dorothy, wife of Christopher was buried Braithwell on May 13th 1683. Christopher and Dorothy had children baptised at
Braithwell (Dorothy Revell on April 7th 1662 and John Revell on February 25th 1663 / 4). It is probably this Christopher
Revell who is recorded in the West Riding Hearth Tax dated 1672.565 John Revell, son of Christopher, corveiser, of Bramley
was apprenticed to John Stevenson 1680–88.566 Note that it is not this Dorothy Revell who married Obadiah Brown, Rector of
Whiston, in 1691,567 — see Part 4.
According to the West Riding Session Rolls an Elizabeth Revell who lacked chattels was to be whipped for stealing on
November 16th 1637.568
563 'Those Was Good Lads' - A History of Rotherham in Tudor Times (1991, 2012) by Stephen Cooper.
http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/index.asp?i=3
564 Rotherham Church Rate Roll http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/RotherhamChurchRateRoll1627.html
567 http://www.whistonweb.co.uk/churches/parish.htm
568
West Riding Session Rolls v. 2. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=118
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Henry Revell, Shoemaker of Rotherham
In 1638, A Henry Revell, Shoemaker of Rotherham aged about 60 years, gave evidence in a libel case at the White Hart,
Doncaster. His parents are not known. 569 A Thomas Revell, also a Shoemaker of Rotherham aged 26, was another witness,
presumably Henry’s son. It might be this Henry Revell who was one of the feoffees elected in connection with a grant made by
Queen Elizabeth I dated 1584, as follows:
‘Declaration by which certain properties in Rotherham, Deneby, lYlarsburgh (Masbrough), Brinsforth and Kymberworthe are
ceded by Party (l) to twelve Feoffees in Trust for the Common Lands of Rotherham. An account is given of the purchase of the
new lands from Lawrence Woodnett and Antony Collyns in 1584 and of the "fyne levyed by the speciall meanes & procurement
of the said Willm West", in 1585. Liability for the payment of annual dues to the Crown is acknowledged’.570
The first election was made on August 3rd 1589 and the second on May 20th 1608. At the third election on June 1st 1631 Henry
Revell was described as a ‘new feoffee’ and as a ‘surviving feoffee’ at the fourth election dated August 7th 1657, when new
feoffees were appointed.
On April 10th 1648 a bargain and sale records that ‘Henry Revell, yeoman, and Christopher Cutler, husbandman’ sold a
messuage in Rotherham to ‘John Crawshawe of Worsburgh, Rocper?’ as required under the terms of the will of John
Cutforshawe of Rotherham. In 1650 Henry Revell was one of the feoffees who took action in the Court of King's Bench against
‘Richard Broadbent, innholder, for arrears of rent for the Talbot Inn (£5.0.0. p.a.).
It is possible that it was this Henry Revell who married Ellen Brigg at Rotherham on September 17 th 1609, and who was living
High Street, Rotherham, in 1627.571
Henry Revell, Clerk, of Rotherham
In 1647 Henry Revell, Clerk, along with two others (William Crofts and Robert Browne) was charged with ‘publishing a
blasphemous and seditious libel called the‘Parliament’s Ten Commandments’. The libel consisted of a most profane and wicked
parody of the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed and the Ten Commandments. He was fined £50.572 Others attribute this to John
Spencer,573 or date its investigation by the House of Lords as 1648 / 9.574 He appears to be an Alumnus of Cambridge, and that
record describes him as ‘of Derbyshire’.575
His will, dated 1668, refers to daughters Elizabeth and Margaret, and sons John and Thomas. It has not been possible to
locate a marriage record or any related baptisms.
Revells of Kimberworth and Masbrough
In 1602 ‘Roland Revell, gent., and Thomas Woodhouse, gent.’ are the plaintiffs and ‘Thomas Hurst and Mabell his wife,
William Steynedropp and Dorothy his wife, and Thomas Senyor and Grace his wife’ the deforciants in connection with two
messuages and a cottage with lands at Rotherham,576 and at the same date Robert Tagg (plaintiff) and ‘Rowland Revell and
Agnes his wife’ deforciants with regard to ‘two messuages and a cottage with lands in Rotherham’.577
In 1590 a John Revell is named as plaintiff and Thomas Reresby as deforciant in connection with cottages and lands in
Marsburgh.578
In 1599 what might be the property referred to in 1590 (a messuage and a cottage with lands in Marsburghe) is listed with
Roland Revell (plaintiff) and William Harrison, gent., and Richard King and Margery his wife (deforciants). 579
In 1603 a Roland Revell, Richard Rawson and Thomas Armfield (plaintiffs) are named with Christopher and Elena Needham
(deforciants) in connection with ‘lands in Kimberworth and Marsbroughe’.580
569 ‘The Court of Chivalry’ http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/AnaServer?chivalry+0+start.anv+case=128
570 http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:RhUOh9uLpYsJ:193.132.104.74/nra/onlinelists/GB0740%252091T.pdf+Marsburghe+revell&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
571 Rotherham Church Rate Roll http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/RotherhamChurchRateRoll1627.html
572 http://www.archive.org/stream/publications40surtuoft#page/52/mode/2up
573 http://www.archive.org/stream/annalsayorkshir00unkngoog#page/n59/mode/1up/search/commandments
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Revells of Sheffield
Revells of Heeley
Heeley (Heley) falls within the parish of Sheffield. It is about two miles from Sheffield, about five miles from Stannington,
about three miles from Walkley and about four miles from Wadsley. It is about nine miles from the Rotherham grouping
discussed above.
There is an unreferenced, and unconfirmed, statement on the web that the Revells moved to Sheffield late in the 16 th century
with the first record dated 1584, when a branch of the family moved to Heeley, 581 bur where they moved from is not clearly
stated. The earliest record I have located is dated 1585 in the Sheffield parish registers, and the earliest referring specifically to
Heley is dated 1589. However, the Sheffield Manor records refer in 1494 to a ‘Thomas Revell lately of Sheffield’ in connection
with a land transfer as discussed above in the Ricardfeild section. 582
It must be noted that the Derbyshire John Revell (see Part 4) who married Margaret Harris née Beighton at some date after 1577
was admitted to land at Hallam on April 11th 1581,583 see Table 4f. Upper and Nether Heeley were part of the township of
Nether Hallam.584
Three contemporary Richard Revells of Stannington, Walkley and Heley
From 1588 onwards there are references to a Richard Revell connected with Walkley, Heeley or Stannington. Walkley (Nether
Hallam) is about 1½ miles from Stannington, bout 2½ miles from Sheffield and about five miles from Nether Bradfield.
In 1590 a Richard Revell (plaintiff) and Anthony Blyth Esq., and George Scargell and Johanna his wife (deforciants) are
mentioned in connection with a messuage with lands at Walkley, Sheffield.585 On November 10th 1591 this Richard is described
as a ‘Rychard Reyvell of Walkeley in the county of York glover’ in a deed of partition with ‘Laurence Beyghton of Haldworthe
and John Beyghton of Smalfeld in the same county glovers of the other part’.586
It is probably either Richard of Walkley or his brother-in-law Richard Revell of Stannington who on December 10th 1588
witnessed a bond that states ‘from Gregory Reyvell late of Stanyngton within the parish of Bradfeld in the county of York yoman
and Rowland Reyvell of the same place, son of the same Gregory, yoman to John Beyghton of Smalfeld in the same county
glover and Laurence Beyghton of Haldeworthe in the same county glover’ which makes reference to an indenture made by
Gregory Reyvell in 1581. It is probably Richard Revell of Stannington who in 1589 is the plaintiff and ‘Rouland and Grace’
the deforciants with reference to ’Lands and an eighth part of a messuage in Stanyngton’.587 Roland and Grace are further
discussed below.
Richard Revell of Walkley was buried at Sheffield on July 22nd 1596 and his will refers to his daughters Ann Revell, Dionys
Revell and Dorithie Revell, and his wife Dorothy. The baptism of Richard’s daughter Dorithie Revell can be found at
Sheffield on March 20th 1591, but Ann Revell and Dionys Revell appear to have been baptised at Bradfield on April 27 th 1585
and August 9th 1587, respectively. A son Thomas Revell, baptised Sheffield January 24th 1594 / 5, was buried August 16th
1595.
Overall, this suggests that at some time between late 1587 and early 1591 Richard of Walkley moved from Bradfield to the
Sheffield area and this is confirmed in the will of William Revell, yeoman, of Nether Bradfield, dated April 20th 1600
(probated October 2nd 1600),588 that refers to ‘son Richard of Walkley, deceased’ and which mentions Richard’s sister Dyanis
who married Edward Swallowe. The ancestry of William is uncertain.
This is generally consistent with an unreferenced statement on the web that the Revells moved to Sheffield late in the 16 th
century with the first record dated 1584, when a branch of the family moved to Heeley, 589 but where they moved from is not
clearly stated. The earliest record I have located is dated 1585 in the Sheffield parish registers, and the earliest referring
specifically to Heley is dated 1589.
These baptisms at Bradfield suggest that Richard’s wife was Dorithy Worrall, daughter of Henry, baptised at Bradfield on
November 15th 1562, and who married a Richard Revell at Bradfield on September 30th 1583. On September 19th 1597 the
Ecclesfield parish register records that Thomas Creswycke married Dorothie Revell relict of a Richard Revell.590 Some
sources say the marriage was at Rotherham but it is not in those Phillimore records.
583 SpSt/17/2 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-spst_1&cid=1-3-5&kw=sheffield%20revell#1-3-5
584 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield/more.html
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A Dorothy, wife of Thomas Creswick, was buried at Sheffield on June 13 th 1602 and it is possible that this Thomas married
again, possibly to Elizabeth Parkin at Sheffield on June 23 rd 1605 or to Elizabeth Scofield at Penistone on October 20 th 1607.
A deed of covenant dated March 20th 1607 / 8 made between ‘Thomas Creswicke of Burrow Lee within the parish of Ecclesfield
in the county of York yoman and Elizabeth his wife of the one part and Richard Revel of Stannington in the said cy of York
yonmn and Henrye Worrall thelder of Ughill in the said county of York yoman of thother part…’ refers to land in Wadsley and
Owlerton, and is witnessed by a John Revell of Dongworth.591 The Feet of Fines for 1608 has an entry that obviously relates to
the same event, ‘Rich. Revell and Henry Worrall, quer : Thos. Creswicke and Eliz.his wife, def. Two messuages, 2 cottages and
lands in Waddesley and Ollerton’592 that presumably is connected to the foregoing. While clearly connected to the foregoing it
is difficult to integrate and the identity of Richard Revell of Stannington while uncertain, is probably Richard son of
Gregory.
Rowland Revell who married Grace
A Roland Revell married Gracia Roose at the Cathedral of St Peter, Sheffield, on June 27 th 1585. Roland must have been born
no later than ca 1564. This Rowland is probably the comparatively well-documented Rowland of Dronfield / Cold Aston, son
of Gregory (see Table 5d) whose children John Revell and Elyzabeth Revell were baptized at Bradfield on July 10th 1586 and
April 25th 1589, respectively and whose children William Revell and Dorithie Revell were baptised at Dronfield on July 7th
1594 and June 25th 1598, respectively. Dronfield is some six miles south of Sheffield and five miles south of Heeley.
Roland and Grace are clearly connected to a Thomas Revell and Alice Royse who in 1589 are named as plaintiffs in
connection with a ‘Messuage in Heley als. Heyleys and Sheffeld and the moiety of 2 messuages and 2 cottages with lands there,
in which John and Alice Royse have a life interest’ to ‘Rouland and Grace his wife’ deforciants.593, 594 Also in 1589 a Richard
Revell is the plaintiff and ‘Rouland and Grace’ the deforciants with reference to ’Lands and an eighth part of a messuage in
Stanyngton’ .595 There are two candidates for this Richard Revell, Richard of Walkley and Richard the Miller at Heley Mill
who died shortly after taking over the mill that some describe as being in ‘Norton across the brook from Heley’.596 This
Richard had family in Heley and was buried at Sheffield September 25th 1610. It is recorded that ‘Hiley Milne on the Broad
Water called Sheve" is mentioned in many old deeds and charters. It was in being before 1600, and an indenture of 1608
specifies that John Parker of Lees Hall was the owner by inheritence of the "Watercorn Mill at Heeley’597. This river is the
boundary between Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
It seems reasonable to assume that Rowland Revell who married Grace is connected to the Thomas Revell and the Richard
Revell who are associated with the property. Richard might be his elder brother, and Thomas possibly Thomas of Heeley.
A Roland Revell is a witness to an Indenture of Settlement dated April 1 st 1593 that refers to William Blythe of Norton Lees’s
land at Cold Aston and Dronfield seems likely to refer to Rowland who married Grace.598
A John Roose was buried at Sheffield on May 22 nd 1591 and an Alicia Roose, widow, was buried at Sheffield on March 20 th
1591 / 2, and it might be they who had the life interest in the property at Heeley.
Thomas Revell of Heley ?–1570–1627
Thomas Revell of Heley’s will is dated 1627 and judged from the baptism of his children he was born not later than ca 1570,
and predated his arrival in Sheffield. A possible candidate is Thomas Revell baptised at Bradfield on April 22nd 1565, son of
Robart Revell. This Thomas Revell had a daughter Ann Revell baptised May 19th 1559, which is not inconsistent with a
marriage in 1584 to Hugh Roberts as referred to above, but Thomas’s marriage must predate the Bradfield registers.
Thomas Revell of Heley’s will refers to his wife Alice, son and heir Thomas Revell, younger son John Revell, daughter
Elizabeth Revell and married daughter Margaret, wife of John Levick (Lethwicke), and a brother-in-law Hugh Roberts (who
married Ann Revell at Sheffield on May 15th 1584. Ann was buried at Sheffield November 13th 1622). Their children can be
associated with baptisms at Sheffield St Peter (Cathedral) as follows: Wills (December 25th 1590), Margaret (March 4th 1593),
Gratia (November 7th 1596 and buried July 22nd 1598), Rolland (September 21st 1599 and buried August 22nd 1600), Thomas
July 19th 1601 and Elizabeth December 3rd 1604. In addition on February 22nd 1599 there is a baptism of an illegitimate son
Nichus Shawe or Revell, father Thomas Revell and mother Anne Shawe. This might well be the Thomas who was plaintiff in
1589, above. Thomas’s marriage has not been located but it appears that his wife was Alice Royce (Royse, Rose, Roose, etc)
possibly a relation of Grace who married Rowland Revell. An Alicia Rose was baptised Sheffield St Peter on December 25 th
1564, but her father’s name is not given.
596 http://www.joskingston.org/LDEN/CHAP5.html
597 http://www.oldheeley.org/oldheeley19.htm
598 http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028219636#page/n169/mode/2up
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Marriages for two of the daughters can be traced. A prenuptial settlement dated April 28th 1632 made by Richard Crawshaw the
elder (of Uslethwayt in the parish of Worsbrough) documents the impending marriage of Richard Crawshaw, the younger, and
Elizabeth Revell, daughter of Thomas Revell, yeoman, of Heeley, deceased.599 A Margreta Revell married Johannis Levick
on January 18th 1614 / 5 at Sheffield St Pater
It has not been possible to locate a record of Thomas Revell senior’s marriage, or his birth, but it must have been no later than
ca 1570 and presumably predated his arrival in Sheffield. A possible candidate is Thomas Revell baptised at Bradfield on April
22nd 1565, son of Robart Revell. This Thomas Revell had a daughter Ann Revell baptised May 19th 1559 which is not
inconsistent with a marriage in 1584 to Hugh Roberts as referred to above.
The will of Alice Revell, widow of Heley, is dated 1639 and refers to two married daughters, Margaret Lethwicke and Elizabeth
Crawshawe. An Alice Revell, widow of Heeley, was buried at Sheffield on
Thomas son of Thomas Revell of Heley
Thomas and Alice’s son Thomas Revell, yeoman of Sheffield, died before his mother and his will dated 1638 refers to his wife
Mary, son Thomas and three daughters, Mary, Hannah and Sarah. Thomas was buried at Sheffield on July 11th 1638.
A marriage between Thomas Revell and Maria Holdworth at Sheffield on July 11 th 1627 and baptisms at Sheffield of Maria
Revell (May 1st 1628), Sarah Revell (March 1st 1632 / 3), Thomas Revell (February 27th 1634 / 5), and Hannah Revell
(February 1st 1638) correspond with the will apart from the minor discrepancy of Mary and Maria. A Johannes Revell, baptised
February 15th 1635 / 6 was buried January 13th 1636 / 7. The will also refers to Thomas’s brother-in-law John Lethwick, and
to John Bright. A John Bright of Brincliffe Edge married Elizabeth Revell, daughter of Rowland of Cold Aston, at
Dronfield (Derbyshire) on January 17th 1612 / 3 and is mentioned in the Crawshaw–Revell prenuptial settlement — see above,
and might be the John Bright referred to in Thomas of Heley’s will.
Thomas Revell son of Thomas of Heley completed an apprenticeship with George Rose in 1626,600, 601 and he is presumably
the Master Cutler of that name who took as apprentices Henry Gillot son of Robert Gillot of Norton Lees and John Rose son of
Jerom Rose of Heley both in 1630, and Francis Hough son of Robert Hough of Hathersage in 1633. The next record of an
apprentice to a Master Cutler named Thomas Revell does not occur until 1650 which is consistent with the death record of
1638. The identity of this later Thomas Revell, Master Cutler, is uncertain but he appears to have had apprentices in the
period 1650 to at least 1675. In 1684 there is a somewhat confusing but undoubtedly associated record of a Thomas Revell
whose deceased father Thomas Revell was a cutler, being granted his freedom having been apprenticed to a Thomas Revell,
Master Cutler.602 This Thomas Revell would have commenced his apprenticeship no later than ca 1677 and was probably born
in the period ca 1660 to 1665.
Note that the Sheffield parish registers contain baptisms of a James Revell (July 25th 1639), a Thomas Revell (April 22nd 1644),
a Lydia Revell (November 22nd 1646) and an Ann Revell (July 15th 1648) for whom the father is shown as Thomas Revell, but
this must be a different family. The father is possibly the Thomas Revell who married Anne Taylor at Sheffield on June 23rd
1636. This Thomas Revell’s parents are not known.
Revells of Wadsley
In 1608 Richard Revell of Stannington and John Revell of Dongworth are mentioned along with the Creswicke and Worrall
families and property in Owlerton and Waddesley. John Revell is mentioned also in 1611 ‘John Revell and Matthew Webster,
quer: Peter Mathyman, def. Messuage and lands in Waddesley and Ollerton’.603
A Gregory Revell, yeoman, of Waddesley is referred to in a mortgage deated June 21st 1648 and a Gregory Revell and a
Thomas Revell are the plaintiffs in an equity pleading at Wadsley in 1651, defendants Elizabeth Grey and Durant Alsop. 604 .
On May 19th 1654 a Thomas Revell, yeoman, of Waddsley agrees to abide with an arbitration erlating to the same property
referred to in the earlier mortgage, as follows: ‘Thomas Revell, yeoman, of Waddsley, to Thomas Bradwell the elder, yeoman, of
Bradwell, in £100, to abide by the decision of Rowland Eyre of Hassoppe and Robert Eyre of Highlowe, arbitrators appointed to
decide a dispute concerning the possession of lands in Bradwell and to deliver up the deeds of title, etc.’.605
599 Bar D/407 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-bard&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
600 Cutlers’ Apprentices http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/
602 Cutlers’ Apprentices http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/
604 C 6/112/86
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/equity/details.asp?PL=18831&PN=112%2F86&LC=C&class=6&CASEid=19510&SP=Revell&SD=Kent&tx
t_title=&txt_sub1=&txt_place=&txt_location=&targetpage=data.asp&txt_surname=revell&txt_occupation=&txt_role=&txt_forename=&txt_dt_1
=&txt_court=&drp_sex=&txt_status=&drp_county=&drp_country=&drp_per_type=&y=0&txt_plaintiff=&txt_office=&x=0&txt_sub2=&txt_sub3=
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Although Pedigree 171 suggests that Thomas Revell of Wadsley is a son of Thomas Revell of Stannington (associated with
Shifnal) it is much more likely that he is Thomas Revell of Ricketfield, the son of William Revell of Ricketfield.
The will of ‘Thomas Revell of Wadsley, yeo.’ dated July 20th 1666 states that he is to be buried at Ecclesfield, near his wife, and
refers to his son and heir Gregory Revell, his daughters Elizabeth Revell, Mary Revell and Ann Revell, and a sister Ann
Balguy. An Ann Revell, daughter of Thomas Revell was buried at Wadsley in 1673. Ann Balguy’s identity is uncertain, but it
A Gregory Revell listed in the 1672 West Riding Hearth Tax, 606 is possibly the heir of Thomas of Wadsley
Wadsley is very close to Walkley, 1½ miles east of Stannington, four miles north-west of Heeley, four miles south-west of
Ecclesfield.
Rowland Revell who married Agnes Vesey (Varye)
According to a transcription of the Rotherham Marriage Registers a Rowland Revell married Agnes Varye at Rotherham on
June 3rd 1590, but elsewhere, Varye is recorded as Vesey, a family of Brampton-en-le-Morthen.607 It has not been possible,
unequivocally, to identify the parents of Rowland who married Agnes Vesey (Varye). However, the Vesey family were
associated with Brinsworth, and there is ample evidence of interactions between this Rowland and the West and Taylor family
who were also associated with Brinsworth. For example, the Visitation of Yorkshire records that Rowland’s daughter
Elizabeth Revell married ‘Hugh Taylor of Coates neer Carleton’,608 and this is confirmed in the parish records for
Hemingbrough where their daughter Catherine Taylor married Edward Kirlew.609
Accordingly, it is suggested that this Rowland is the son referred to in the 1599 will of Rowland Revell of Brinsworth.
Rowland senior married Margaret Sykes at Rotherham on August 4 th 1560 and is referred to in the will of his father, William
Revell of Brinsworth. William’s will, dated 1560, also refers to a son John Revell and a Thomas Revell whose relationship is
not defined, and which remains obscure.
At some uncertain date within the period 1576 to 1587 a Roland Revell is mentioned in bonds, mortgages and quitclains in
association with Geoffrey Weste and the Earl of Shrewsbury,610 and in 1586 / 7 a Rouland Revell (plaintiff) and Godfrey West,
gent. (deforcient) are named in connection with ‘two messuages and two cottages with lands at Aston’,611 thought to be Aston
being Aston-cum-Aughton rather than Cold Aston (Coal Aston) near Dronfield. On August 24th 1587 Roland Reavell
witnessed a quitclaim by Godfrey West to his right in Fawkener Wood.612 The connection to Godfrey West (son of John West
and Anne More) who is said to have married Catherine Revell (see Table 5e) suggests that these records refer to Rowland who
married Agnes and / or his father of the same name
Old records indicate that in 1590 a Rolland Reavell was involved in some way with the forges at Attercliffe, Kimberworth,
Tankersley and Waddisley.613 These locations are all well north of Dronfield, but Attercliffe and Waddisley (Wadsley?) are only
a few miles north of Sheffield, and indicate that this Rolland had business in both the Sheffield and Rotherham areas. This
Rolland might well be connected to the Ann Revell who at Sheffield on May 15th 1584 married Thomas Swallowe of the
Attercliffe Forge. An Anne wife of Thomas Swallow was buried at Sheffield The identity of this Ann Revell is uncertain but
she must have been born no later than ca 1564. This observation, plus a consideration of the geography, possibly suggests that
this is Rolland Revell of Brinsworth whose will is dated 1599, or their son Rowland Revell of High Green.
In 1592 ‘Roland and Agnes his wife’ are plaintiffs and ‘Richard Beamount and Elizabeth his wife and Laurence Wilkynson and
Elizabeth his wife’ the deforciants in connection with a messuage at Rotherham. 614 In 1602 ‘Roland Revell, gent., and Thomas
Woodhouse, gent.’ are the plaintiffs and ‘Thomas Hurst and Mabell his wife, William Steynedropp and Dorothy his wife, and
Thomas Senyor and Grace his wife’ the deforciants in connection with two messuages and a cottage with lands at Rotherham, 615
and at the same date Robert Tagg (plaintiff) and ‘Rowland Revell and Agnes his wife’ deforciants with regard to ‘ two
messuages and a cottage with lands in Rotherham’.616
607 http://www.ulleyweb.co.uk/genea/vescy.htm
608 The Visitation of Yorkshire http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationyorke00dugdrich#page/314/mode/2up/search/revil
609 http://ia600305.us.archive.org/28/items/heminbrough00burt/heminbrough00burt_bw.pdf
610 ACM/SD/135, 136, 166, 172, 276, 298-306 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-acm1_2&cid=1-2-32&kw=aston%20revell#1-2-3-2
612 http://archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae11socigoog/yorkshirearchae11socigoog_djvu.txt
613 ‘The Story of Old Attercliffe’ by G.R. Vine. http://youle.info/history/fh_material/attercliffe_p3.html
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In 1603 a Roland Revell, Richard Rawson and Thomas Armfield (plaintiffs) are named with Christopher and Elena Needham
(deforciants) in connection with ‘lands in Kimberworth and Marsbroughe’,617 from geographic considerations presumably
Rolland who married Agnes.
An obscure reference on the web refers to a Rolland Revell, as follows:
‘21 March 1606/7, The intent ... of this Surrender ys that the above named Robert Rockley, son of Gervase Rockley, Richard
Rockley, William Castleforth, Henri Walker, Richard Elmhurst, Rolland Revell, John Cawood, Richard Micklethwaite, Jervase
Micklethwaite, Francis Cooke, John Swinden, Robert Ealand, Roger Genn, Robert Allott, William Oxley and William Cudworth
... shall stand and be seized of & in the said parcell of Land ... to the use & behoof of the said schoolmaister of the said schoole
..’.618
Unfortunately the web document does not give a source and is is not possible to identify this Rolland Revell. However, a search
for the other family names using the IGI, and assuming that they were all of age in 1606, establishes that ten (underlined) out of
13 of these names can be associated with the Barnsley area whereas only one can be associated with Dronfield. In addition a
Gervase Rockley (Rokeby) and Richard Micklethwaite were associated with Barnsley in 1593 and 1601, 619, 620 and William
Castleforth is possibly the William Castleford who married Elizabeth Booth, the daughter of Ann Booth née Revell, daughter of
Thomas Revell who married Anne West née More.
Accordingly, it is concluded that this is the Rowland Revell who married Agnes Vesey in 1590 and whose will dated April 5th
1623 clearly indicates that he held land at Worsborough and Wombwell, and one can deduce that he is probably the individual
who on August 29th 1620 purchased land at Brierley near Barnsley from ‘Richard Wasse the elder and Richard Wasse the
younger, his son’.621
The Vesey pedigree and his will both describe Roland as ‘of High Green, Gent.’. High Green is situated some seven miles
from both Rotherham to the south and Barnsley to the north.
Rowland Revell of ‘Haigh Green’ in his will,622 dated April 9th 1623 (High Green and erroneously 1632 in some accounts), is
in parts difficult to read, but it refers inter alia to ‘cossen Thomas Revel of Whiston’ and ‘cossen William Revel of Cudworth’,
William’s son Roland Revell of Rickettfeild (servant to Mr Lister, attorney of York), a Margaret Revell of Cudworth, and
Elizabeth Revell of Cudworth, Rowland of Haigh Green’s sister Elizabeth (who married Michael Vesey of Brinsworth at
Laughton on October 26th 1602), and his daughter Elizabeth who married Hugh Taylor of Neway, who is elsewhere described
as Hugh Taylor of Coates near Carleton,623 and her children. The will also records that Rowland’s daughter Elizabeth was left
Rowland’s property in Worsborough Dale, near Barnsley. Land at Wombwell is also mentioned. An Inquisition dated 21
James I (1624) relates to this Rowland and confirms that he died 1623 rather than 1632. 624
It is probably significant that this Rowland Revell referred to Thomas Revell of Whiston and Elizabeth Hanson formerly
Castleford née Booth as cousins. This Elizabeth was the daughter of Anne Revell who married John Booth (Steward to the Earl
of Shrewsbury), Anne being a daughter of Thomas Revell who married Ann West née More, and supposedly a sister of
Thomas Revell of Whiston.
Because these individuals belong to different generations it is clear that the term ‘cousin’ is not used here to mean ‘first cousin’,
and might in fact be used in a very general fashion meaning nothing more than ‘relative’. However, Rowland Revell and
Thomas Revell of Whiston might be related, with Rowland being the son of William Revell of Brinsworth named in his
1560 will, and Thomas the Thomas Revell mentioned there but whose relationship was not stated (and therefore presumably
not a son). If in fact Thomas of Whiston and Rowland are first cousins, then Thomas of Stannington who married Ann West
née More and William of Brinsworth would be brothers, but this seems unlikely in so far as their dates of birth can be
estimated.
Other records of unidentified Rowland Revells
As discussed above there are good records of Rowland Revell, associated with Sheffield, Heeley and Dronfield / Cold Aston,
who in 1585 married Grace Royce and Rowland Revell of High Green associated with Rotherham and Barnsley, who in 1590
married Agnes Vesey. Other candidates are the Rowland Revell who married first Katheren and second Elizabeth Percy,
possibly a son of Richard but whose baptism has not been located, and Rowland Revell, son of William, baptised at Bradfield
618 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/genn/3-yorkshire.html
621 Ga 9403
http://longford.nottingham.ac.uk/Dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=R
efNo&dsqItem=Ga1/9201-11846/9390-9414
622 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries10assogoog#page/n84/mode/1up/search/revel
623 ‘Visitation of Yorkshire’ http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationofcoun00dugd#page/314/mode/2up/search/revil
624 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries01yorkuoft#page/32/mode/2up/search/revel
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in 1602, probably ‘servant to Mr Lister’ identified in the will of his cousin Rowland of High Green in 1623. In some records
from the same era Roland’s wife is not mentioned and it is not certain to which marriage the records refer. It is also clear that
there may be other individuals of the same name about whom very little is known.
For example, in 1627 a Rowland Revell is recorded as having a role in Ireland. 625 ‘Rowland Revell, and their assigns the office
of our Clerk of the Market, in and throughout oir kingdom of Ireland’, and this is confirmed in 1633.626
There is also a Rowland Revell, student at St John’s Cambridge in 1630 and deacon at Eccleshall,627 and a Rowland Revell
recorded as a Freeholder at Couldaston in 1633, and someone of the same name buried at Rotherham on February 19 th 1633 / 4.
There is a record in Hunter’s ‘Hallamshire’ (page 103) that in 1637 a pair of knives was bought for 15s from a Mr Rowland
Revel for ‘my ladie’ of Sheffield Castle. Conceivable he could be associated with William Revell of Heley who in 1624 / 5 was
recorded in the list of cutlers, shearsmiths and scissorsmiths. 628
625 Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nWBAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203&dq=Rowland+Revel&hl=en&ei=d3wTNiQKZXG4gauna3fBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%20Revel&f=false
626
Calendar of State Papers http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000054438688;view=1up;seq=77
627 CCED http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/DisplaySubscription.jsp?CDBSubscrID=52126
628 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~exy1/text/cutlers_1624-1630.txt
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Isolated Cameos
A mysterious Francis Revell associated with Selby
There is a Revell connection with Selby and Pontefract. York Registry contains the will, dated April 13th 1592, of a Thomas
Revel of Womersley,629 located 8 miles from Pontefract and some three miles from Walden Stubbs.
In 1591 Paver’s Marriage Licences records that ‘Francis Revell, Gent., was to marry Alice Unyon of Selby, Wid. at Selby’. This
Francis was probably born not later than ca 1571. In 1596 Francis Revell of Selby gave power of attorney to, ‘Edward Revell
of Brockehill gent. to recover sums of money due to Francis from Thomas Leake of Leake Hall county Nottingham’,630
presumably arising from a ‘Grant by Thomas Leke of Burton Joyce (Nottinghamshire) to Francis Revell gent, of an annuity of
£3 6s 8d issuing from a messuage and tenement in West Leek called Barns Farm, in consideration of Francis maintaining a
kennel of hounds’.631
The Edward Revell is almost certainly the Lawyer of Grays Inn (1563–1639) a great great great grandson of Thomas Revell
yeoman of Higham, Derbyshire, (see Part 4 and Table 4a). It might just be a coincidence but it seems strange that a Francis
Revell of Selby would grant power of attorney to ‘Edward Revell of Brockehill’ if there were not some family connection, and
it is suggested that he is probably a poorly documented son of Thomas Revell and Anne Eyre, making Edward and Francis
uncle and nephew — see Part 4.
A William Revell married a Frances Leake at Rotherham on November 17th 1611, but is not necessarily connected.
Other Revells associated with the Selby area
There are some later references to Revells within about ten miles of Selby, but it has not been possible to establish a connection.
On May 5th 1633 Edward Revell of Kilpin married Marie Turner at Howden, Yorkshire, 632, 633 and they had two children
baptised at Howden, George Revell (April 23rd 1635) and Richard Revell (December 9th 1633). Marie, the wife of Edward
Revell of Kilpin was buried at Howden on March 16th 1637 / 8.634 The Richard Revell, a youngman, of Kilpin buried at
Howden on October 22nd 1639,635 might be their son, but is perhaps an older relative. On July 19 th 1642 Thomas Revell of
Kilpin, a child, was buried at Howden. 636 An Alexander Revell, husbandman, who married Ann Riggs at Adlingfleet in 1623
might also be connected. He was buried at Adlingfleet on December 30 th 1630 and his will was proved on January 20th 1630 /
1.637 On July 6th 1669 a Thomas Revill of Duffield was recorded as a recusant.638
A Hugh Revell and his wife Isabel had two children baptised at Monks Fryston, some 7 miles from Selby (Elizabeth Revell
baptised November 14th 1665 buried August 5th 1666, and Mary Revell baptised May 1st 1667). Isabel Revell, wife of Hugh
was buried August 10th 1668 and Hugh Revell was buried February 1676 / 7.639 A Robert Jenkinson married a Joanne Rewell
at Monks Fryston on April 20th 1647.
In 1662 a Robert Revill of Pontefract was assessed for two hearths in the Lay Subsidy. 640
Revells of Thrybergh
In her will dated January 1664 / 5 Elizabeth Revell of Thrybergh and late of Rotherham refers to Ellene Bromley alias Revell,
presumably her married daughter. According to Pavers, York Marriage Bonds and Allegations, and the IGI an Ellen Revell,
spinster aged 20 of Rotherham married Thomas Broomley, agriculturer, at Worsborough on December 6th 1664,641 but
Phillimore describes the marriage as having been at Rotherham. The Inheritance Disputes Index contains a record of a dispute
between Bromley and Revell dated 1666 regarding the estate of Elizabeth Revell. (C10/472/24)
Pavers also records that an Alice Rewell, spinster aged 20 of Nether Whiston, married Samuel Sanderson, yeoman aged 30 of
Mexborough, at Thribergh in 1665, but this marriage has not been found in the IGI.
630 D37 M/RT80 [1596] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=026-d37&cid=-1#-1
631 D37 M/F8 [1584] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=026-d37&cid=5-1-8#5-1-8
632 ‘Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society Vol 21’
http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsyor06socigoog#page/n68/mode/1up/search/revel
http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofparis21howd#page/56/mode/2up/search/revel
635 ‘Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society Vol 24
637 Index of Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/indexofwillsinyo10yorkiala#page/68/mode/2up/search/revel
638 http://www.archive.org/stream/publications40surtuoft#page/166/mode/2up/search/revill
639 http://www.archive.org/stream/registersmonkfr00frysgoog#page/n146/mode/1up/search/Revel
640 ‘Chronicles of Old Pontefract’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028219164#page/n187/mode/2up/search/revil
641 http://www.mesarfhc.org/books/Paver%27s%20Marriage%20Licences/942.74%20B4a%20v.43.pdf
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According to Pavers Richard Revell, yeoman, aged 23, of Morewood in the Chapelry of Bradfield, married Eliza Ibbotson aged
20 at Thrybergh in 1668, but the marriage is recorded at Bradfield on June 20th 1668. This is possibly Richard Revell son of
Robert Revell, baptised at Bradfield on December 1st 1644. The same year Thomas Kaye, gent., aged 26 of Aston married
Hannah Revell, spinster aged 25 of Sheffield at Thrybergh.642
Revells of Anston
Anston parish registers are available on GENUKI.643 At the turn of the 16th century there are references to an Adam Revell and
Tristram Revell associated with Anston and neighbouring villages. For example, in 1621 Cause Papers list an Adam Revell,
gent., age 70, as a witness.644 645 646 These forenames are not often found among the Revells and their occurrence here suggests
that these are Derbyshire Revells who have migrated north. Thomas Revell who married Ann Eyre, daughter of Edward Eyre of
Holme Hall, had at least five children including a Roger Revell (born 1542), a Robert Revell (1544–1616) who might be
Robert of Shirland, and an Adam Revell. According to C.J. Williams, this Adam Revell married and had at least two
children,647 Ann Revell (baptised South Normanton, Derbyshire, on February 15 th 1576 /7),648 and Tristram Revell for whom
the baptism has not been traced but who according to C.J. Williams was born 1578. See Table 4c. Boyds Marriage Index has a
marriage in 1611 of a Tristram Revell and a Sara Swift at Todwick.
The parish registers for Wales, near Anston, have an entry for the marriage of a Richard Revell and an Elizabeth Kirk on
November 2nd 1572.649 Plausibly this Richard is a grandson of Thomas Revell and Ann Eyre of Derbyshire, but his father is
uncertain. On January 10th 1599 / 1600 Helen Revell married Brian Whittacker, and on August 27th 1631 Anthonie Revell
married Marie Webster
The following information is derived from the South Anston parish registers, but as explained on GENUKI, the information
available is actually a transcription of a transcription, with numerous typographical errors. Our interpretation, while plausible,
needs checking against the original registers.
Adam Revell is recorded as father of a Barbara Revell (baptised March 1st 1582 / 3, and of a son Adam Revell (baptised April
25th 1590. A daughter Margaret Revell was buried March 1592 / 3. A Tristram Revell was buried September 6th 1640 and,
might be, the son referred to by C.J. Williams.650 A submitted record on the IGI suggests that the younger Adam Revell married
a Dorothy Kay, but this has not been confirmed. Boyd’s Marriage Register has an entry for the marriage in 1630 of a Tristram
Ravell and an Isabel Dossy in York Diocese, but the parish is not defined.
On April 21st 1598 a William Revell was fined 2s for ‘thrashing Adam Revell’s boy’. In 1600 an Adam Revell presided over
an inquisition at Firbeck, and in 1620 ‘Adam Revell, gent., and wife Ann, and Tristram Revell’ had lands at Dinnington, Anston
and Woodsetts. It is impossible to be certain but these records are probably for Adam Revell senior and his son Tristram
Revell.
Robert Revell of Shirland, in his will dated 1613, refers to a ‘Roger Atkinson of Warsop’ as ‘brother-in-law’. Roger married
Robert’s daughter Elizabeth Revell at Carlton-in-Lindrick on September 22nd 1594. Robert Revell of Shirland’s date of death
is not known and he might well be the son of Thomas Revell who married Ann Eyre referred to by C.J. Williams as dying in
1616. A Margaret Revelle, alias Peigham, spinster of Dynnington was buried at Anston ca 1640 / 1.651 Some later records at
Firbeck are available on Rotherham Web.652
On November 14th 1622 Chritonna (Christopher?) Revell is recorded as the father of Ann Revell and on September 5th 1640
Richard Revell, son of Roger Revell was baptised. Grace Revell, daughter of Peter Revell, was buried on January 7th 1636 /
7.
An ‘Agnes Revell, widow’ of Woodsetts is recorded in the West Riding session rolls about 1642 inheriting two cottages held of
the manor of Tickhill.653
Carlton-in-Lindrick is only 5 miles from South Anston, and Woodesetts lies between them. South Anston is 5 miles from
Firbeck and Dinnington lies between them; Brampton-en-le- Morthern and Laughton-en-le-Morthern are 4 miles away.
642 Pavers Marriage Licences http://www.archive.org/stream/paversmarriageli00churv43#page/134/mode/2up
643 Anston parish registers http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Southanston/index.html
648 http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofderbysh17derb/journalofderbysh17derb_djvu.txt
649 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/WalesMarriages1569-1609.html
651 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries04yorkuoft#page/86/mode/2up/search/revel
652 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/throapham.htm
653
West Riding Session Rolls v. 2 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=424
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Revells of Laughton-en-le-Morthern
Baptisms are available on GENUKI from 1568, marriages from 1562 and burials from 1561. 654 The NBI records the burial of
Bridgett Revell the daughter of Hugh Revell on November 27th 1583, Anna Revell, daughter of Hyronis (Hugonis?) Revell, on
June 10th 1598, Elizabeth Revell on August 25th 1598, Thomas Revell on January 27th 1602 / 3, and William Revell on October
16th 1605. This Hugh Revell is possibly the individual later found at Carlton-in-Lindrick (Nottinghamshire) — see Part 6.
The earliest Revell marriage is Michael Boffie and Elizabeth Revil on October 28th 1601 and Thomas Revill and Lettice Mirfin
on June 23rd 1613. Thomas and Lettice are subsequently found at Blyth (Nottinghamshire) — see Part 6.
The earliest baptisms from the Laughton-en-le-Morthern parish registers have a Gerbace (Gervase) Revell as father of Gerbace
Revell on February 21st 1621 / 2, William Revell on March 28th 1624 / 5, a daughter on April 15 th 1627 and Berbard ? Revell on
May 26th 1633. In 1633 a Gervase Revell of Laughton-en-le-Morthen is recorded as a member of Sir John Reresby’s Militia
troop.655
Gervase Renell, senior, was buried on December 5th 1665, and the Ellen Revell, widow of Gervice, buried on September 20th
1668 is presumably connected. An Anthony Revell is the father of two daughters, one baptised September 29 th 1627 and
Susannah Revell baptised on May 3rd 1640, and this Anthony is possibly the person buried January 3 rd 1640 / 1.
It is probably the younger Gervase Revell, see above, who is recorded as father of Edward Revell baptised in May 1652,
Elizabeth Revell baptised on July 22nd 1657, Mary Revell baptised on April 11th 1660, Susan Revell baptised on March 6th
1662 / 3 and Ann Revell baptised on June 30th 1666. He is probably the Jervis Revell of Laughton, labourer, who confessed on
June 8th 1671 that he took unwinnowed corn from John Hatfield’s barn for the maintenance of his children.656
Revells of Gildingwells, Letwell and Throapham
Gildingwells is only 3 miles from South Anston and it is possible that these Revells are connected to the preceding groups, but
no definite link has been found. There is a link to the Revells of Carlton-in-Lindrick, and possibly Blyth, Nottinghamshire —
see Part 6. These transcriptions from the Throapham registers cover Gildingwells, Letwell and Throapham, and the same
caveats apply.657 The residence is not always stated.
The earliest record located is the burial of Brigetta Revell, daughter of Hugh, on November 22nd 1583. This Hugh Revell is
subsequently found at Carlton-in-Lindrick where he died 1640: his will written 1635 does not refer to any children, but does
identify brothers William Revell and John Revell, and a sister Jane Jepson.
A Robert Revell was buried on May 28th 1594, an Elizabeth Revell, daughter of ?, on April 20th 1598, Anna the wife of Henry
Revell on July 10th 1598, the wife of a Revell on October 16th 1605, Elizabeth Revell wife of Anthony in 1628 and a William
Revell on February 2nd 1633 / 4.
The only marriage is a Thomas Revell to Elizabeth Yonge on September 11th 1590. Thomas Revell of Gildingwells was buried
on March 26th 1602 / 3. Two William Revells, both of Gildingwells, were buried on March 7 th 1631 / 2 and February 2nd 1632 /
3, and a ‘widow Revell’ occupied a cottage at Gildingwells in 1634.658
Another William Revell, buried on June 19th 1654, was described as ‘son of William’ but not specifically as belonging to
Gildingwells. His brother Nicholas Revell was buried January 13th 1657 / 8 and followed on July 4th 1659 by an unnamed child
of William Revell of Gildingwells. This burial probably relates to a son of William, unnamed, born July 20 th 1659 with one of
the transcribed dates being incorrect. Grace Revell, daughter of William, was born February 20 th 1655 / 6 and baptised March
20th 1655 / 6. George Revell a son of William of Gildingwells was baptised Letwell on November 4 th 1660, and John Revell
son of William of Letwell was baptised Letwell on October 24th 1661, followed by an Edward Revell on March 17th 1666 / 7
when the place of residence was not stated..
On August 25th 1659 Elizabeth Revell the daughter of Robert Revell of Letwell was buried and her sister Alice Revell on
March 8th 1660 / 1. Francis Revell the son of Robert Revell was born March 20th 1655 / 6 and baptised April 17th 1656, and
Anthony Revell a son of Robert Revell was baptised Letwell on February 2nd 1668 / 9. Anne Revell, daughter of George
Revell, was born January 5th 1656 / 7 and baptised June 29th 1656. This is probably the George Revell who married Elizabeth
Read of Whitwell at some date during 1656, and possibly the individual listed in the West Riding Hearth Tax dated 1672. 659
The West Riding session rolls record an ‘Alice Revell … being a poore woman and ympotent’ appealing for parish relief which
was granted.660
654 Laughton-en-le-Morthern parish registers http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Laughtonenlemorthen/index.html
655 Sir John Reresby’s militia http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Military/YKSJohnReresbysMilitiaTroop1623.html
656 QS1/10/4/2/1http://catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=A000006%2f2%2f1%2f31%2f2%2f1&pos=6
657 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Saintjohns/index.html
658 Sheffield Archives: Marrian Deeds Reference: Mar D/47
660 West Riding Session Rolls v. 2 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105115663;view=1up;seq=165
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Revells of Thorpe Salvin
Thorpe Salvin is some six miles from Letwell, Laughton-en-le-Morthern and Carlton-in-Lindrick. Katherine Revell, daughter
of Hugh Revell, married Edmund Sandforth of Thorpe Hall, Thorpe Salvin, before 1504 — see Table 4c. The Pardon Rolls for
the period 1509 to 1514 include an entry ‘Randolf Sampford, of Thorpyssalwen, Yorks, Whitewell, Derb., and Caster and
Castersoke, Linc., g., executor of Hugh Revell, 1 May’.661 In 1548, Nycholas Strelley and William Revell, the executors of
Roland Revell of Mansfield brought to the Court of Common Pleas to cases of alleged debt against Edmund Sandforth of
Thorpe Salvin,662 and it seems likely that he is Katherine Revell’s husband, or their son. Katherine Revell and Roland Revell
are siblings, and William Revell is Roland Revell’s son.
Thereafter, the earliest records at Thorpe Salvin are baptisms of Dorothye Revell (November 4th 1602), Thomas Revell
(February 20th 1607 / 8) and another daughter in 1611 (details illegible Catherine Revell in the IGI), all with father John
Revell. A John Revill was buried on April 2nd 1647. A Margaret Revill, possibly his wife was buried at some date in the
period 1622 to 1625 but the details are illegible.
Boyd’s Marriage Index has a Joan Revell marrying Henry Key on November 26th 1610 and the IGI records a Joyne Revell,
father not stated, baptised on November 26th 1610.
On August 6th 1642 a Thomas Revell son of Thomas Revell was baptised and in April 1647 a Mary Revell daughter of
Thomas Revell was buried. His wife Margaret Revell was buried on January 1st 1657 / 8. An illegible Revill baptism on June
20th 1641 might well belong to this family. 663
Revells of Stainton near Tickhill
In 1525 a Geoffrey Revell or Renell of Tykhyll, turner, is with the chaplain there a defendant in a case of trespass brought to
the Court of Common Pleas by William Wilkynson.664 The forename Jeffery (Geoffrey, Godfrey) is not commonly associated
with the Revells of Yorkshire, but crops up regularly at Rotherham where a Jeffery Revell was buried a on May 5th 1585.
According to Boyds’ marriage register an Agnes Renel married William Smeaton at Tickhill in 1549.
On November 27th 1612 a Rowland Shaw alias Revell married Ellen Anderton and on May 23rd 1614 and Ellen Shaw alias
Revell married Raphe Shertliffe at Stainton near Tickhill. This Rowland is possibly the individual against whom at Pontefract
Sessions in April 1598 it was ‘ordered that a warrant shalbe made agains Rowland Shawe alias Revill for begetting a base
child on the bodie of Elizabeth Mortonbie to appeare att the next Sessions and answeare, etc’ 665 and who was listed as a juror at
Wakefield Sessions in January 1601.666, 667 There might be a connection to the Nichus Shawe alias Revell the illegitimate son
of Thomas Revell of Heley and Anne Shawe, baptised at Sheffield Cathedral on February 22nd 1599.
On January 26th 1614 / 5 Rowland Revell alias Shaw, a shepherd, was buried at Stainton near Tickhill and his date of birth is
given as 1578.
Revells of Ledsham
There are a cluster of records at Ledsham, about five miles north of Castleford and five miles east of Methley. 668 A Jana Reuell
married Michael Lake on November 13th 1639. A Samuel Revell is recorded as the father of an unnamed daughter buried at
Ledsham on September 30th 1635, possibly Mary Revell baptised at Methley on June 9th 1633, and of an Elizabeth Revell
baptised at Ledsham on November 9th 1634 (buried September 23rd 1647), a Johannis Revell on February 12th 1635 / 6 (buried
on February 14th 1636 / 7), a Johannis Revell on February 26th 1636 / 7, and a Dinah Revell on August 11th 1639. This is
presumably Samuell Revell of Normanton, agriculturer, who by licence married Eliza Haigh of Sandal Magna in 1632.669
On February 27th 1649 Elizabeth Revell, wife of Samuel, was buried, and on April 16 th 1649 Samuel Revell married Alicia
Brasha. They had a daughter Maria Revell baptised on February 21st 1649 / 50 (buried July 27th 1651) a daughter Anna Revell
baptised November 2nd 1652, a daughter Susann Revell baptised December 29th 1653 (buried March 4th 1660 / 1), and a
daughter Prudence Revell baptised on November 31st ? 1655.
In 1649 this Samuel Revell was a Churchwarden at Ledsham. His second wife Alice was buried there on October 2 nd 1661 and
he was buried there on October 9th 1661.
661 Pardon Rolls http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102634#
662 Common Pleas http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no1135/CP40no1135Pl.pdf
663 The Registers of Thorpe Salvin http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Thorpesalvin/index.html
664 Common Pleas http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no1046Pl.htm
665 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries03york#page/76/mode/2up/search/revil
666 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries03york#page/172/mode/2up/search/revel
667 http://www.archive.org/stream/recordseries03york#page/xl/mode/2up
668 http://www.archive.org/stream/parishregisters00claygoog#page/n90/mode/1up/search/revel
669Paver’s Marriage Licences http://www.archive.org/stream/paversmarriageli00chur#page/24/mode/2up
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According to Paver’s marriage records, a John Revell, agriculturer of Ledsham, possibly the son of Samuel, married an Ann
Revell of Normanton at Ledsham in 1663,670 see below. From 1663 onwards a John Revill is recorded as the father of several
children baptised at Ledsham, at least two of whom died young (Mary, October 18 th 1667, John, May 7th 1678).
Dianay Revill, possibly Samuel’s daughter, married Georgius Johnson at Ledsham on February 11th 1664.
Revells of Normanton (Yorkshire)
Normanton is about six miles south-west of Ledsham, and Castleford is between them. According to Paver’s marriage records, a
Samuell Revell, agriculturer of Normanton, married an Eliza Haigh, spinster, of Sandall Magna in 1632,671 and a John Revell,
agriculturer of Ledsham, see above, married an Ann Revell of Normanton at Ledsham in 1663. 672 This Ann Revell is probably
the daughter, baptised April 30th 1637, of Thomas Revell and Ann Beets who married at Normanton on October 19 th 1629.
Their other children were Thomas Revell baptised on January 16th 1630 / 1; Robert Revell baptised on September 18th 1631;
George Reuell baptised on April 20th 1634, Elizabeth Revell baptised on April 23rd 1641 and William Revell baptised on
February 11th 1644 / 5.
They are presumably connected to William Revell whose children baptised at Normanton were Hellen Revell (May 4th 1628),
Thomas Revell (January 17th 1631 / 2), Anne Reuell (February 26th 1633 / 4), Jane Revell (November 22nd 1635), George
Revell (July 8th 1638), John Revell (November 30th 1640), William Revell (February 11th 1644 / 5) and Anthone Reuell (June
1st 1647). George Revell died December 29th 1639. A Henry Revell was recorded as the father of Grace Revell baptised there
on July 2nd 1655.
A Robert Revill of Pontefract, some four miles from both Castleford and Normanton, was assessed for two hearths in the 1662
Hearth tax.673
Revells of Cudworth
Rowland Revell of High Green in his will dated 1623 refers to an obscure cousin, William Revell of Cudworth and property at
Felkirk. It seems likely that this is the William Revell of Felkirk recorded in Pavers Marriage Index records as marrying Ann
Ramsden of St Sampson, York, in 1622. There are also references in Rowland Revell’s will to a Margaret Revell of
Cudworth and Elizabeth Revell of Cudworth. Cudworth is about nine miles south of Normanton.
It seems that this must be William Revell (baptised September 18th 1597), the son of William Revell of Ricketts Field by his
first marriage to Joan Revell daughter of John Revell of Smallfield. This Joan Revell and Rowland Revell are first cousins,
and thus William Revell is a cousin by marriage. Joan Revell died 1606 and William Revell married Margaret formerly Eyre
née Slatter.
Elizabeth Revell is plausibly the daughter (baptised October 19th 1600) brother to William Revell of Cudworth and Margaret
Revell is their widowed step-mother.
There are no relevant baptism or marriage records in the Royston parish records from the ca 1560 to 1800. Note: this Rowland
is not Rowland the father of John Revell of Castleford, Arksey and Bentley.
Revells of Birstall
There are records at Birstall for a John Ravell recorded as the father of Mary Ravell (baptised January 9th 1616 / 7), Jane
Ravell (baptised May 2nd 1619), William Ravell (baptised August 17th 1623), and Dorothie Ravell (baptised December 21st
1628). Two unbaptised infants belonging to John Ravell were buried on March 27th 1622 / 3 and October 24th 1627, and his
wife Ellen Ravell was buried on May 10th 1640. On July 20th 1642 Jane Ravell married a Joseph.
Revells of York
There are several isolated refrences to mediaeval Revells in York. In 1432 / 3 a Wilelmus Revell is recorded a freeman and
‘bucher’, 674 in 1504 a Hugh Revell is listed for York in the Fine Rolls and in 1567 John Revell, carpenter, age 30, is listed as a
witness in the Cause Papers relating to a defamation.675 Pavers Marriage Index records the marriage of a William Revell of
Felkirk and Ann Ramsden of St Sampson, York, in 1622.
670 Paver’s Marriage Licences http://www.mesarfhc.org/books/Paver%27s%20Marriage%20Licences/942.74%20B4a%20v.43.pdf
671Paver’s Marriage Licences http://www.archive.org/stream/paversmarriageli00chur#page/24/mode/2up
672 Paver’s Marriage Licences http://www.mesarfhc.org/books/Paver%27s%20Marriage%20Licences/942.74%20B4a%20v.43.pdf
673 Chronicles of Old Pontefract http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028219164#page/n187/mode/2up/search/revil
674 http://www.archive.org/stream/registerfreemen01collgoog#page/n172/mode/2up
675 http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/causepapers/causepaper.jsp?id=116008
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Revells of Raskelf
An isolated reference in the will dated April 30th 1570 of Robert Robotham of Raskelf to ‘Mres Tratte and her sonne William
Ryvell’ cannot at present be connected to any other refernce to the Revells. 676 Raskelf is 15 miles north of York, and three miles
east of Brafferton. Brafferton manor was forfeited for the recusancy of Thomas Cholmeley and was leased by the Crown in
1628 for twenty-one years to Thomas Revell.677
The Revells of Old Brampton and Wadshelf (Derbyshire)
There is no doubt that Revells originally associated with Bradfield in Yorkshire mingled with Revells originally associated with
Higham in Derbyshire in and around Chesterfield and Dronfield, including at Old Brampton and Wadshelf just west thereof. It
seems appropriate, therefore to include in Part 5 the following account.
Marcel Revell, son of Robert Revell and Eleanor Frecheville, is named in his father's will dated 1555 as having a house and
lands in Brampton, but nothing more is known of him.
In 1590 a John Revell is named in a feoffment, as follows, ‘John Revell of Mannsfeld (co. Notts.), gentleman, to Ralph
Heathcote of Chesterfeld, yeoman. A messuage in Brampton called The Howse where the chantree preest dwelled in with a small
close called A Crofte’.678 ‘’The Howse’ might be the Chantry Chapel built for use of monks from Beauchief. 679 This is probably
John Revell the illegitimate son of Robert Revell (of Mansfield) and Eleanor Frecheville, step-brother to Marcel. This John
Revell held the Saracen’s Head at Newark and is probably the individual who died at Winthorpe near Newark in 1597 / 8.680
However, the 1590 document was found at Broomhead Hall, Bradfield, and might relate to the Yorkshire Revells rather than the
Derbyshire Revells.
On July 24th 1627 a deed of Bargain and Sale concerning land at ‘Brampton Moore’ and other locations near Chesterfield
describes it as adjacent to ‘the lands of the heirs of George Revell, esquire, deceased’.681 This appears to be George Revell of
South Normanton (baptised November 17th 1561) the first son of Edward Revell of Brookhill who married Ann Cudworth. In
1588 a George Revill of Normanton provided funds to fight the Spanish Armada,682, 683 in 1599 provided land to the Crown in
lieu of money,684 and is recorded as a Popish recusant in 1601.685 George Revell died unmarried and his administration, lodged
at Lichfield, is dated 1626, and according to the NBI he was buried at Chesterfield July 24th 1627.
A Georgius Revell of Wadshelfe named in the 1633 list of Derbyshire Freeholders,686 is plausibly one of his heirs. The
ancestry of this younger George Revell is uncertain.
A document of court proceedings at Rotherham dated July 19th 1641 refers to George Revell and his wife Alice Revell of
Ecclesfeilde,687 but this is not necessarily the same person because Ecclesfield is some 16 miles from Wadshelf.
However, a George Revell and a John Revell recorded as taking a terrier of land at Wadshelf on May 23 rd 1649,688 and as
holding land at Wadshelf on June 16th 1676,689 are probably the heirs of George Revell buried 1627.
Wadshelfe is some 1½ miles south-west of Old Brampton where the Revells were well-established by the mid-17th century if not
before. Although the name Revell does not appear in the 1637 list of ‘Roll of seats in Brampton Church’,690 or in the list of
Constables from 1640 onwards,691 it is recorded quite often in the baptisms from 1666.
Among his contemporaries are a Peter Revell who married an Anne recorded as the parents of John Revell (May 27th 1669),
Phoebe Revell (May 22nd 1675), Hanna Revell (December 3rd 1676) and Josephus Revell (January 22nd 1681 / 2). A Peter
Revell who married an Alice are shown as the parents of David Revell (January 12th 1684 / 5) and probably of Jonathon
Revell (February 9th 1691 / 2).
A Jacobus (James) Revell is recorded as the father of a Maria Revell (March 29th 1668 / 9), Dorothea Revell (April 11th 1673)
676 North Country Wills http://www.uiowa.edu/~c030149a/northern/surtees_121text.pdf
677 BHOL http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64618&strquery=revell
678 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-bhd&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
679 Holymoorside http://www.holymoorsidehistorysociety.com/page19.html
680 Calendars of Lincoln Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarslincol00lincgoog#page/n288/mode/2up
681 ‘Descriptive Catalogue of Charters’ http://www.archive.org/stream/chartersrollsdee00shef#page/158/mode/2up
682 http://www.archive.org/stream/namesthoseperso00noblgoog#page/n53/mode/1up
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?seq=358&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015048993565&q1=Revell&u=1&num=103
684 JDANHS 1901, XXIII
685 JDANHS 1893, XV http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofderbysh15derb#page/152/mode/2up
686 Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 1884, VI, 55
http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofderbysh06derb#page/n115/mode/2up/search/revel
688 Bar D/758 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=199-bard&cid=6-4-3-2&kw=wadshelf%20revell#6-4-3-2
689 Bar D/759 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=199-bard&cid=6-4-3-4&kw=wadshelf%20revell#6-4-3-4
690 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/OldBrampton/Seats.html
691 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/OldBrampton/Constables.html
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A William Revell is recorded as the father of Jameus Revell (July 27th 1674)
A Godfridi Revell who married Maria are shown as the parents of Johannes Revell (November 16th 1676), Johtes ? Revell
(May 3rd 1677), Janielis ? Revell (April 9th 1682), Martha Revell (August 11th 1686)
George Revell, son of William Revell, baptised at Morton on November 11th 1627 married Elizabeth Tomson at North
Wingfield on December 22nd 1656 and they had three children baptised there (Mary Revell on December 8th 1658; William
Revell on January 24th 1659 / 60; and Mary Revell on October 2nd 1664). According to Amy Knox and Steve Archer they then
moved to Old Brampton where Elizabetha Revell was baptised on March 15th 1666 / 7, Maria Revell was baptised August 12th
1668 and Jona Revell was baptised on July 30th 1671.
This supposed move to Old Brampton has not been confirmed and it is possibly significant that William Revell baptised North
Wingfield in 1656 refers in his will to property at ‘Woolley in the parish of Morton’ but does not refer to any property at or near
Old Brampton. In addition, although not confirmed, other pedigrees suggest that George and Elizabeth’s daughter Elizabeth
Revell was baptised June 9th 1669 at North Wingfield and is not the person baptised at old Brampton in 1666 / 7.
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