n.1. Effame WORTLEY, geb. 1432

n.1.  Effame, geb. 1432 in Wortley, Yorks, Engeland x 1453, Doncaster, Yorkshire, Engeland met Thomas COPLEY. geb. c. 1428, Doncaster, Yorkshire, Engeland, testament 12 Okt. 1482, pr. 26 Oct. — to be bur. in Birstal church, s.v. Sir Richard de Copley of Batley en Elizabeth Harington xx 1486 met Walter DE HAWKSWORTH, geb. 1423, oorl. 1514, s.v. Thomas de Hawksworth en Elizabeth Pasliew.  Walter was voorheen getroud met Alice Radcliffe.

Effame was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

THOMAS COPLEY, of Hundsworth, mar. Elizabeth, d. of Nicholas Wortley, of Wortley. Will 12 Oct. 1482, pr. 26 Oct. 1483 — to be bur. in Birstal church. They had issue — Edward (III).

Visitations of Yorkshire

(Best, Charles ed.:  The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William flower esquire, Norcliffe, Langton, London, 1881.)

(Wainwright, John: Yorkshire: An Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of ...)

The will of Thomas Copley was dated October 12, 1482, and proved October 26, 1483; the executors were his wife Elizabeth (the above-named plaintiff) and his brother William, whose uncompromising attitude towards his sister-in-law appears above.
(William Paley Baildon. Baildon and the Baildons; a history of a Yorkshire manor and family. Volume 1)

Effame hertrou c. 1486 met Walter De Hawksworth, geb. 1423, oorl. 1514, s.v. Thomas de Hawksworth en Elizabeth Pasliew.  Walter was voorheen getroud met Alice Radcliffe.

1465, September 5. — Jointure deed on the marriage of Walter Hawksworth and Alice.daughter of Miles Radcliffe of Rillston. She appear to have died before 1486. Walter had married, as his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Copley of Hunsworth in the parish of Birstall, and daughter of Nicholas Wortley of Wortley. The plaintiffs in this cast were Thomas Copley's children.

1496, Michaelmas Term. — Walter Haukesworth and Elizabeth his wife, executrix of the wi'l of Thomas Copley of Hundesworth, esq., sued William Watson of Wakefield, yeoman, for a debt of £2.0*
(William Paley Baildon. Baildon and the Baildons; a history of a Yorkshire manor and family. Volume 1)

Kinders:

o.1. Edward COPLEY, Esq x Mary Malyverey, d.v. Sir Thomas Malyverey of Allerton.

o.2. William COPLEY

o.3. Effame COPLEY

o.4. Isabel COPLEY

n.3. John WORTLEY, geb. 1435

n.3.  John, geb. 1435, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland.

John was die seun van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

n.4. Robert WORTLEY, geb. 1437

n.4.  Robert, geb. 1437,  Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland.

Robert was die seun van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Die sheriff of Staffordshire was Nicholas Montgomery van Cubley, Derbyshire, wat aangestel was op 5 November 1482.  He was opgevolg deur Sir Thomas Wortley van Sheffield.  Na afloop van die ontering en onthoofding van Henry Duke of Buckingham op 2 November 1483, het die Crown die stewardship van sy Staffordshire lordships en gronde aan Thomas Wortley, een van die knights of the body,  verleen. (Midgley, L. Margaret, ed.:  'Castle Church', in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5, East Cuttlestone Hundred, (London, 1959), pp. 82-100.   http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol5/pp82-100)  After Henry Stafford the second Duke of Buckingham had been seised and put to death, (1483) the office of " bailiff of Stafford Grene" was granted to Robert Wortley for life; that of the office of keeper of the park of Stafford to Thomas Belle for life; whilst grant was made to Thomas Wortley, Knight of the Royal body, of the important office of Steward of the lands of the late Duke in Staffordshire generally, as also of Master of the Hunt there for life.  (Collections for a history of Staffordshire) 

n.5. Nicholas WORTLEY, geb. 1439

n.5.  Nicholas, Esq. geb. c. 1439,  Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 25/12/1492,  begr. Parish church South Kirkby x 10/01/1485/6 (by dispensation) met Isabel OSBALDESTON, geb. 1464, d.v. John Osbaldeston (1427-1475) en Elizabeth Balderstone 1431 -)

Nicholas was die seun van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

(http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Testamenta-Eboracensia-or-Wills-Registered-at-York-Volume-3/565491/362)

(The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1613 by Sir  Richard St. George. Esq, M.DCCC.LXXI)

After the conquest the name of yeomen as to their original office in war, was changed to that of archers. Yeomen of the crown had formerly considerable grants bestowed on them. In the fifth century "   Nicholas Wortley, yeoman of the chambre, was made baillieffe of the lordships of Scaresdale and Chesterfelde, within the county of Derby all which prove, that the title of yeoman was accounted honourable not only in remote antiquity, but in later ages.. Henry VII. (regeer 1485-1509)  whereby he did more dishonour than honour to the title of yeoman, because he did not allow them a salary suitable to their office and title.  (A Selection of curious articles from the gentleman’s magazine 1759, Sept,)

"Nicholas Wortley received payment for those who went to France with the King, pro uno homine ad anna et pro it sagittariis. This Nicholas the brother, not the father of Sir Thomas Wortley." (Wortley & the Wortleys: a lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society also the Rotherham literary and scientific society by the rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of York, 1877, Sheffield)

Uit sy testament blyk dit asof Nicholas eiendom by die volgende plekke besit het:

Brighouse in die Metropolitan Borough van Calderdale in Wes Yorkshire, gelë op die Calder rivier 4 myl oos van Halifax.
Gladhill village in die West Riding van Yorkshire
Bolton upon Dearne, 'n klein gemeenskappie in die Metropolitan Borough van Barnsley, Suid Yorkshire in die gedeelte van die Dearne Valley waardeur die River Dearne vloei. In die West Riding van Yorkshire, ongeveer 7 myl van Barnsley, so myl wes van Doncaster en 8 myl noord van Rotherham.
Bentley is geleë in die noorde van die County Borough van Doncaster, from which it is separated by the River Don. (http://bentvillhistory.blogspot.com.au/)
Carcroft is 'n plattelandse dorpie in die civil parish in die metropolitan Borough van Doncaster, South Yorkshire, ongeveer 6 myl noord, noord-we van Doncaster.
Morton, 'n dorpie in die gemeente van Bingley, union van Keighley Upper division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding, 2 my vanaf Bingley, in die County van West Yorkshire.
Sheffield is in die metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire en in die West Riding van Yorkshire geleë.
Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, 30 myl suid van Sheffield en 30 myl noord van Leicester.

The church of England parish church of All Saints; South Kirkby

The structure of the building has some interesting features: the South Porch has intriguing, if badly eroded, stone shields placed above the entrance which represent the coat of arms of the Wentworth, Wortley and Flinthill families. Wilkinson in his book “A History of South Kirkby” believes that these families may have given money to help pay for the restoration of the rewarded fortheir generosity by having their coat of arms ostentatiously displayed over the South Porch.  (http://allsaintschurch-kirkby.co.uk/general-information/)

1488. "Re-grant from Sir Thos. Wortteley, knt., Nicholas Gausell, John Sanford, esqs., Nicholas Worrteley, brother of Sir Thomas, Nicholas Serleby, jun., Roger Eyre, jun., and John Skyres, gentilmen, and Richard Witehed, chaplain, to Nicholas Fretchevyle [Frecheville], son of Peter Fretchvyle [Frecheville], of Staveley, of houses and lands in Staveley and Chestrefeld, Hannesworth Wodhouse, and Hertell [co. York.], (held by them as feoffees of said Peter), with remainder (i) to Ralph Fretchevyle [Frecheville], brother of the said Nicholas; (2) to Anker his brother; (3) to John, elder brother of the said Nicholas, Ralph, and Anker; and (4) to be sold and disposed of for the souls of the said Peter and his family. With power of attorney to John Bothe of Staveley, sen., and Richard Whitehede of the same, to give seisin. Witn. Thomas Hellgate of Chestrefeld, John Rodes of Nederthorp, Thomas Robyn of the same, etc. Dat. 19 May, 3 Hen. VII. [1488]. (Add. 40151.)" (Isaac Herbert Jeaves for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906)

XXXV.. THE WILL OF NICHOLAS WORTLEY, ESQ.

[Reg. Rotherham, 354a.]

Dec. 25, 1492. Nicholaus Worteley de South-Kirkby, armiger.  Sep. in eccl. par. de Suth-Kirkby, lapide cooperiendum.  Domino Johanni Holgate, pro j trentali celebrando pro anima mea, x s. Ecclesiae par. de Suth-Kirkby j togam de chamlet, vj s. viij d. Eccl. par. de Hymmesworth xiij s. iiij d. Eccl. De Derfeld, vj s. viij d. Ad fabricationem campanarum eccl. par de Hoton Panell xx s. Volo quod Isabella, uxor mea, habeat tutelam filiorum et filiarum meorum, quousque pervenerint ad aetatem xx annorum; et deliberet cuilibet, cum ad aetatein xx annorum pervenerit, excepto Nicholao filio meo, x li, Volo quod uxor mea habeat omnes terras meas, etc., in Bargh, Shefeld, j mess, cum j prato in Bridghouse, j ten. in Gledehilles, ac terras, etc., in Bolton-super-Deyrne, Benteley, Anston, Carcroft, et Morton in com. Ebor. et Notingham ; cum j clausura vocata Tumholme; ad sustentationem filiorum et filiarum meorum, quousque Nicholaus filius meus pervenerit ad aetatem xx annorum: deinde dividantur; et uxor mea habeat dimidiam partem, ad terminum vitae suae. Volo quod cathena mea aurea reddatur praefato Nicholao et suis haeredibus in vicesimo aetatis suae anno.  Volo quod uxor mea habeat pro termino vitae suae j peciam arg. stantem, ij celaria argenti, j coopertum et aliud discoopertum, cum omnibus aliis jocalibus auri et argenti: remansura Nicholao filio meo. Et si contingat quod uxor mea non impleat voluntatem ineam, tune bene licebit Thomae Worteley militi et Henrico Everingham armigero intrare in omnibus bonis meis mobilibus, et dare cuilibet de pueris meis xx li., excepto Nicholao, filio et haeredi meo. Residuum Isabellas uxori meae, quam facio executricem; et facio Thomam Worteley et Henricum Everingham supervisores. His testibus : Thoma Wentworth, Johanne Anne, Radulpho Barneby armigeris, ac domino Johanne Brewster vicario de Suth Kirkeby.  (Testamenta Ebokacensia, selections of wills from the registry at York.  Vol. IV. by Andrews & Co., Durham;  Whittaker & Co. 13, Ave maria lane;  T. & W. Boone, 29, New Bond Street;  Barnard Quaritch, 15, Picadilly;  Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1869)

n .6. Jane WORTLEY, c. 1441

n.6.  Jane, geb. c. 1441, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 1478, Woolley, Yorkshire, Engeland x Woolley, Yorkshire, Engeland, met  Sir Richard WOODRUFF, geb. c. 1436, Woolley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 15/01/1522, Sheriff of York,  s.v. John Woodruffe en Elizabeth Neville. RW xx Beatrix Fitz Williams.

Jane was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Jane=Poss. U.S. President's 16-Great Grandmother.       Lady Diana's 15-Great Grandmother.       Poss. Jamie's 14-Great Grandmother.  (Jamie Allen's Family Tree & Ancient Genealogical Allegations Version 55)

(Visitation of Yorkshire. P. 350)

Richard Woodrove, Esq., purchased Woolley Hall from Robert Rilston, 5 Henry VH (1489), and the Woodroves appear to have been Lords of the Manor at this time. In the reign of Henry VIII.  Sir Richard Woodrove enclosed Woolley Park. He was the son of John Woodrove, of Woolley, and married (i) Jane, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wortley, and (2) Beatrix, daughter of Thomas Fitzwilliam, of Mablethorpe.  (Hunter ii, 387 ; Yorkshire Archaological Journal. xii, 3.)

Woolley Hall original belonged to the Woodrove (or Woodroffe) family who sold it to the Wentworth family in 1559. Sir Richard Woodroffe (c.1440 - d.1522) was the High Sherif of York between 1510 and 1518, and one of the last members of the Woodroffe Woodruff family to reside in the Hall.  In 1559, Francis Woodroffe, was forced to sell the house to his cousin Michael Wentworth the great-great-grandson of Sir Richard Woodroffe and descendent of Sir Thomas Wentworth the great grandfather of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford.  (https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Wakefield/Woolley-Hall/)

Woolley-Hall

The County of Yorkshire, being not far from the Scottish border, was the scene of constant warfare between England and the Scots for almost 700 years. Richard grew up in a soldierly environment and was well-connected with soldier knights of Yorkshire. Being on the border lands of Scotland offered a double-edged opportunity. A man could become a soldier, fight against the Scots, win recognition - perhaps even knighthood, or be killed or maimed. Richard’s mother was Elizabeth Neville and among his ancestors was Sir Thomas Neville, most likely knighted for victories in battles against the Scots. It appears that Richard had a sister named Elizabeth. Richard’s first wife was Jane Wortley, daughter of Sir Thomas Wortley who was knighted in 1497 (Knights Bachelors,). Richard was also knighted around that time, as a Knight Banneret, in Scotland by Thomas, Earl of Surrey (above reference and Knights of England by W.A. Shaw). Richard most likely received training in medieval warfare from the time he was a child. (http://www.jrily.com/genealogy/aqwn132.htm)

Kinders:

o.1.  Elizabeth WOODRUFF, geb.  c. 1477, West Bretton, Yorkshire, Engeland x 1493 in Wolley, Yorkshire, Engeland met Matthew Wentworth of West Bretton, York, geb. voor 1466 in Bretton,Yorkshire, Engeland, will dated 10^th Nov., oorl. 12/11/1505, ancestor of Sir Thomas Wentworth (created Baronet 1664)

n.7. Muriel WORTLEY, geb. 1443

n.7.  Muriel,  geb. 1443, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x Peter FRECHEVILLE of Staveley, Derbyshire, Engeland.

Muriel was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

The Musards held Staveley from 1066 until 1300 when Nicholas Musard died. He had to leave the manor to his three sisters. His own children could not inherit because although he was Baron Musard of Staveley he was also in holy orders as Rector of Staveley. His eldest sister, Amicia ,married Anker de Frecheville, Baron of Crich, but both had died before Nicholas so it was their son, Ralph ,who inherited his mother’s one third share and he came to live at Staveley.

(http://www.staveleyhall.co.uk/more/history)

1475 Petrus de Freschevile [Peter Frecheville], Dominus [Lord] of Staveley, devised part of his lands to Raphe and Nicolas, two of his sons, for their lives, by his last will and testament, dated 16 Edw IV, 1475.

1479 "Grant from John Wodde of Staveley to Peter Frecchevile [Frecheville], lord of Staveley, esq., of a tenement in Staveley, near Lanewell, between Potterlane and the lands of the said Peter, which tenement he had acquired from Johanna Innocent, widow. Witn. John Both of Staveley, Richard Whitehed of the same, John Aleyn of the same, etc. Dat. at Staveley, i May, 19 Edw. IV. [1479].

1481 "Grant from Thomas Pereson, son and heir of John Pereson, late of Hanley, to Peter Fretchevyle [Frecheville], esq., of a toft and croft named Bramley, in Ekyngton. Witn. Joh. Both of Staveley, Rog. Tumour of the same, Rob. Rogger of Hanley. Dat. at Handley, 16 Feb., 20 Edw. IV. [1481]. (Add. 40, 156.)

1488 "Re-grant from Sir Thos. Wortteley, knt., Nicholas Gausell, John Sanford, esqs., Nicholas Worrteley, brother of Sir Thomas, Nicholas Serleby, jun., Roger Eyre, jun., and John Skyres, gentilmen, and Richard Witehed, chaplain, to Nicholas Fretchevyle [Frecheville], son of Peter Fretchvyle [Frecheville], of Staveley, of houses and lands in Staveley and Chestrefeld, Hannesworth Wodhouse, and Hertell [co. York.], (held by them as feoffees of said Peter), with remainder (i) to Ralph Fretchevyle [Frecheville], brother of the said Nicholas; (2) to Anker his brother; (3) to John, elder brother of the said Nicholas, Ralph, and Anker; and (4) to be sold and disposed of for the souls of the said Peter and his family. With power of attorney to John Bothe of Staveley, sen., and Richard Whitehede of the same, to give seisin. Witn. Thomas Hellgate of Chestrefeld, John Rodes of Nederthorp, Thomas Robyn of the same, etc. Dat. 19 May, 3 Hen. VII. [1488]. 

1489 "Re-grant from the same to Ralph Fretchevyle [Frecheville], son of Peter Fretchvyle [Frecheville] of Staveley, arm., of houses and lands in Staveley, Hyncersell, and West Handeley, and " molendinum falcatum vocatum a sythe mylne," near Holbroke (held by them as feoffees of the said Peter), with remainder (i) to Nicholas his brother; (2) to Anker his brother; (3) to John, elder brother of said Ralph, Nicholas, and Anker; (4) to be sold and disposed of for the souls of said Peter and his family. With power of attorney as above. Witn. Thomas Hellgate of Chestrefeld, Thomas Robyn of Nederthorp, Rogerus Tumour of Staveley, Richard Wryght, rector of Staveley, etc. Dat. 2 Jan., 4 Hen. VII, [1489].

n.8. Elizabeth WORTLEY, geb. 1445

n.8.  Elizabeth,  geb. 1445, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x John BOSVILE of Newhall, Yorkshire, s.v. Thomas Bosvile en Isabel Hastinges of Fenwyke.

Elizabeth was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Foster's pedigree of Bosvile has John marrying Isabel Wortley, whereas his pedigree of Wortley has John marrying Elizabeth Wortley, Isabel's sister. In both cases, John's parents-in-law would have been Nicholas Wortley and Isabel Tustall.

Bosvile/ Bosville/Boswell of New Hall, Ardsley also known as New Hall, Darfield and New Hall, Wombwell, also of Gunthwaite. 

Arms: Argent, five fusils in fesse gules, in chief three bears' heads, sable. 
Crest: An ox issuing from a bolt of trees, proper.  
Motto: "Intento in Deum animo"  
The following epigram was written on the family's name and crest in the time of Elizabeth I - “Dii tibi dent Bosvile, boves villasque Radulphi, nec villa careat bosve vel illa bove."

At Gunthwaite, the ancient seat of the Bosvilles, is a noted Mineral Spring. The surrounding country is lovely, and lying as it does, midway between the populous city of Sheffield, and towns of Barnsley, Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, and with other cities and towns not far away, a more convenient, attractive, and healthy situation for a hydropathic establishment, or consumptive sanatorium, it would be difficult to find. It is a district typical of rural England. Woodsome Hall, Bretton Hall, Cannon Hall, Wentworth Castle, and Wortley Hall and Wharncliffe, are all within a few miles drive. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)

Near the house at Gunthwaite is a venerable oak which it is no unwarrantable conjecture to suppose may have been planted by one of the early Gunnoldthwaites. The barn said to have been built by the first Godfrey, is of the extraordinary dimensions of fifty-five yards by fifteen. In different parts of the mansion are arms of Bosvile impaling Hardwicke, and Bosvile impaling Hotham, the first and the third Godfrey, who were the great advancers of Gunthwaite. The three bends on an ermine field, the arms of Gunthwaite, appear upon the house, and also over one of the doors, what is supposed to have been a crest of Gunthwaite, a falcon or other bird, with their motto, a good old Engish sentiment inscribed in the old English character:Try and Eryvst. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)

n.9. Joan WORTLEY, geb. 1447

n.9.  Joan,  geb. 1447, Wortley, Yorkshire x 1456 met Alexander DRAX, geb. 1427, Drax, Yorks, oorl. 1501, s.v. Robert Drakes en Elnor Rockley of Rockley. AD xx c. 1472 met Pn Fitzwilliam.

Joan was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Alexander Drakes (Drax) was born/christened about 1427 at Drax, Yorks.  In about 1456, he first married Jone Wortley at Wortley, Yorks., which is near Pudsey, west of Leeds. She was born/christened about 1431 at Wortley Yorks., and was the daughter of Nicolas Wortley & Isabel Tunstall; granddaughter of Sir Nicholas Wortley, who was born/christened about 1404, and her great uncle was Sir Thomas Wortley, born/christened about 1400, of Wortley Hall.  In about 1472, Alexander second married Miss Fitzwilliam, who was born/christened about 1435 in Lincs.; she died without issue.  (The English “Drax, Dracas (s), Drakes; family trees)

(Visitation of Yorkshire. P. 102 - 104)

(Norcliffe, Charles Best ed.:  The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William flower esquire Langton London, 1881)

(Walker, John William (Ed.):  Abstracts of the Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton)

Kinders:

o.1.  John DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1457, Yorks  x Margaret Percyval.

o.2.  Nicolas DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1459, Yorks x c. 1488, Yorks met Katharine Lovell, ged. c. 1463, Yorks, d.v. Roger (Wombell) Lovell of Wombell. He died without issue.

o.3.  Thomas DRAKES (Drax), ged. c.  1461, Yorks. He was a priest, Doctor of Divinity & Parson of Dirfield.

o.4.  Robert DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1463, Yorks x Jone Wyat.

o. 5.  Isabell DRAKES (Drax), ged. c.  1465, Yorks. 

o.6.  Isabell DRAKES (Drax), ged. c.  1467, Yorks x Thomas Methley of Newsted.

(The English “Drax, Dracas (s), Drakes; family trees http://www.drakesfamily2.webspace.virginmedia.com/id19.htm)

n.10. Isabel WORTLEY, geb. 1449

n.10.  Isabel, geb. 1449,  Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x met John BOSVYLE, geb. Ardsley & Newhall, Yorkshire, s.v. Thomas Bosvile & Isabel Hastinges of Fenwyke xx 1499 met Robert MOUNTENEY of Cowley and Shiercliffe, esq, eldest son and heir of Nicholas Mounteney of Shiercliffe, esq. en Elizabeth Drax.  

Isabel was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

(Visitations of Yorkshire.)

(Best, Charles ed.:  The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower esquire Norcliffe, m.a. of Langton London 1881)

The points in the Mountney pedigree on which genealogists seem most to differ are : — 1. Who was Bobert Mountney, of Gowley, liying ano. 1499, the son of ? 2. Was John Mountney, who succeeded him, his son, or a relatiye not so closely allied ?— In Brooks' MSS. The Gollege of Arms [i. I.G.B., fol. 246] Robert is made to be the son of Nicholas Mountney [second son of Sir John Mountney, Knt.], by Isabel, his wife, daughter of Robert Draz, of Woodhall, and that he had a brother Nicholas and a sister Isabel, who married Mr. John Denman. — Robert Mountney is made to marry Isabel, daughter of Nicholas Wortley, of Wortley, and relict of John Bosvile, of Ardsley, by whom he had issue a daughter Beatrix, wife of Robert Thwaites, of Marston. Again [93, 1.G.B., fol. 80], Bobert is made to be the son of Thomas Monnteney [eldest son of Sir John Mountney, Ent.], by Maud, his wife, daughter of John Fitzwilliam, of Woodhall.— Robert Mountney is here made to marry Ann, daughter of Nicholas Wortley, of Wortley, and to have issue a son John Mountney, who, by his wife Joan, was father of Barbara Mountney, wife of Robert Thwaites, of Marston. — ^In Dugdale's visitation, ano, 1665, Robert Mountney is made to be son of Sir John Mountney, Ent., and to have issue a daughter Barbara, wife of Robert Thwaites, of Marston. — Mr. Hunter, in the pedigree of this family in his " History of Hallamshire," makes Robert Mountney to be son of Nicholas, and to haye issue John, who was father of Barbara, wife of Robert Thwaites, of Marston.— Perhaps the reader, by using the evidences contained in this note, may be able to dear up these two much disputed points.(https://archive.org/stream/firstbookmarria00scotgoog/firstbookmarria00scotgoog_djvu.txt)

(http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/mountney.htm)

Robert MOUNTENEY of Cowley and Shiercliffe, esq, eldest son and heir.  Will dated 3 August 1519, on which day also he died, and was buried in the church of Ecclesfield.

The portrait of Robert Mounteney, who married a sister of Sir Thomas Wortley of Wharncliffe celebrity, and the portrait of his lady, with the arms and effigies of his ancestors, once appeared in the east window of the south aisle of the church at Ecclesfield. That window was placed there by him in 1505. His will bears date the 3rd of August, 1519, and he was buried, according to his directions it contained, in the church of Ecclesfield. As before mentioned, fragments remain of the sepulchal stone of this Robert Mounteney and that of his son and heir John Mounteney, who was interred in the same church in 1536.  (Chapeltown researches, archaeological and historical; including old-time memories of Thorncliff, its ironworks and collieries and their antecedents Matthew Henry Habershon Sheffield 1893)

Describing St. Mary's Church, Ecclesfield '... has the most superb display of the effigies and arms of the Mounteneys, in the east window of the south aisle, where was a complete series of the chiefs of this house commencing with Arnold Mounteney who married the daughter of De Furnival, and extending to Robert who married the sister of Sir Thomas Wortley. Their effigies were all represented in a kneeling posture, as were also the wives, on whose mantles the arms of their respective families were depicted. ROBERT MOUNTENEY. The impalement WORTLEY, argent, on a bend between six martlets gules three bezants.'  (http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/mountney.htm)

Kinders:

o.1.  John BOSVYLE van Ardsley, Yorkshire.

o.2.  William BOSVYLE van Ardsley, Yorkshire.

o.3.  Myles BOSVYLE van Ardsley, Yorkshire

o..  John MOUNTENEY of Cowley and Shiercliffe x Joan NN living 24 May 1536.  Founder of the oratory in the church of Ecclesfield 1536.  In the same year he died and was buried in that church.  His inquisition p.m. 28 Hen VIII. 1537

n.11. Cecily WORTLEY, geb. 1451

n.11. Cecily, geb. 1451, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x Mr. Robert EYRE of Padley.

Cecily was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

The Eyres appear as witnesses to charters in the Peak of Derbyshire in the remotest period to which private charters ascend. The first of the name known is William le Eyre, of Hope, in the reign of Henry III. In the reign of Henry V. the family divided into three great branches: the present house descends from Eyre of Laughton in South Yorkshire, who spring from Eyre of Home Hall near Chesterfield. One moiety of Rampton was purchased by Anthony Eyre in the reign of Elizabeth; the other came from the coheiress of Babington, in 1624. (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58212/58212-h/58212-h.htm#page229)

(Foster, Joseph:  Some feudal coats of arms. Hon. M.A. Oxon. London, 1902)

The wife of Roger Eyre and mother of Arthur Eyre is identified as Cecily Wortley of Derby. But how and why did an Elizabeth Huddleston of Sawston replace Cecily Wortley in the Eyre of Padley pedigree? How did the descendants get so confused, as there doesn't seem to be any other connection between the two families? There is no easy answer, but a few scenarios come to mind: 1) After Cecily Wortley's death, Roger Eyre married Elizabeth Huddleston as his second wife. (Rootsweb)

Padley Hall (of Padley Manor) was 'n Elizabethaanse huis wat uitkyk oor die Derwent rivier naby Grindleford, Derbyshire, Engeland. Padley Hall was 'n groot dubbele binnehofhuis wat dateer uit die 14de eeu, hoewel dit gebou is op die terrein van 'n vroeëre Normandiese herehuis. Willem die Veroweraar het die Padley-landgoed aan sy ondersteuner die hoof van die De Bernac-familie gegee. Die Bernac-familie het hul naam na Padley verander na aanleiding van die landgoed. Die Hall is vir die Padley-gesin gebou en is daarna aan die plaaslike aristokratiese Eyre-familie oorgedra.

Padley Chapel and ruins of Padley Hall

Inside Padley Chapel, Nether Padley (1)

The following reproduces the content of a plaque within the Chapel Padley Manor

Through the Ages - Owners and Tenants of the Manor.

Robert Eyre of Highlow, died 20 March 1459, Buried at Hathersage, married Joan Padley (heiress of Padley Manor) died 9 March 1468 Buried at Hathersage

Robert Eyre,  married Elizabeth Fitzwilliam (of Mabelthorpe)

Robert Eyre, married Cecily Wortley (of Derby)

Arthur Eyre, married  Margaret Plompton (of Plompton)

Anne Eyre, married  Sir Thomas Fitzherbert (of Norbury and Hampstall Ridware)

(The Feudal History of the County of Derby, Volume 1, Chapter 20 - A Muster Roll of 21 Edward III. (1347/8) by John Pym Yeatman (This transcription by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2002 STAVELEY)