Pedigree of Revel

Added November, 2008

¹MS. 170 - from in which Hunter says:

Copy of a Pedigree in possession of Mr Richard Broomhead of Revel Grange in Stannington, co. York, which appears to have been compiled about the year 1720. Of the earlier parts I say nothing, but the later generations of the Revels of Stannington are correctly stated, as appears by com- parison with a few wills and deeds of the family in the Museum of John Wilson of Broomhead. It serves to show what in the opinion of the family is the alliance among the several branches of this family. I now find (Sep. 1823) that it was compiled by Thomas Statham, and that no dependance is to be placed on it for anything above Gregory. I do not recollect the authority on which I ascribe it to Statham. It looks very like one of Randal Holme's efforts. But I must have had some ground for ascribing it to Statham.

ADDITIONAL NOTICES OF REVEL OF STANNINGTON. made by Hunter:

They are not found in any Visitation, nor in any Collections of Yorkshire Genealogy which I have seen.

They were probably Officers under the Earl of Shrewsbury. Shiffnal, to which one of the family removed, was a seat of those Earls.

They were Roman Catholics, as their descendants and heirs the Broomheads still are, who live at a mean house called Revel Grange, which is supposed to be on the site of the old residence of the family. There is nothing of the least curiosity about the house. They lost a good deal of property during the Civil Wars.

John Burton of Dronfield mar. Eliz., dau. of Richard R. of Stannington. This was about 1532. See Burton Pedigree

Francis Pole of Spink Hill mar. Dorothy, dau. of Gregory R. of Stannington, about 1585.

Thomas Revel of Stannington, & afterwards of Shiffnal, mar. (16 Nov. 1613) Anne, dau. of Christopher Wilson of Broomhead.

Rowland Revel of Stannington mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Percy of Scotton, co. York, Esq.

John Beighton of Hilltop near Bradfield mar. a dau. of Gregory Revel of Stannington about 1557.

Will of Rowland Revel of Stannington, dated 12 April 1644, proved at York 3 Sep. 1646. Mentions Elizabeth his wife, Gregory his son & heir, then under age, younger son Richard, dau" Bridget, Anne, & Gertrude, young brother Thomas Revel, and Edward his eldest son, Cousin Eliza Woodruffe, and brother in law John Percy, Esq.

Will of Lucy Percy of Stubs-Walden, psh. of Smeaton, co. York, Spinster, dated 8 April 1669. Mentions her nephew Richard Revel & nieces Ann & Gertrude Revel, nephew Ralph Oglethorpe, sister Shirtcliffe, niece Brittou and Dorothy her daughter, sister Revel, niece Elizabeth Ingleby, nephews Charles and William Percy, and nieces Ursula and Cicily Percy. She left 60 and a gilt Chalice to the nuns of Cambray.

Will of Ursula Revel, dated 5 Nov. 1694, her mother then living. Mentions her brothers Rowland, Thomas, & John, && sister Anne. Her father Balguy. Aunts Ann && Gertrude Revel. Cousins Ann Buske, Honor Moor, Mary Monke, Sarah Morphie, Edmund Morphie, John Greaves.

MS. 171

From the leaf of an old book

Notes:Will of Thomas Revel of Wadsley, yeo., 20 July 1666. To be bur. at Ecclesfield near his wife. Gregory his son & heir, dau Eliz., Mary, and Ann. Sister Ann Balguy.

In the Churchyard of Bradfield Mr. Richard Revel of Stannington bur

Rowland Revel d. 21st of April 1744, aged 65.

A receipt dated in 1648, given to Mrs Eliz. Revel, widow of Rowland Revel, deceased, from Edmund Morphie and Bridget his wife, dau. of the said Rowland Revel.

John Wainwright of ? Jowet House, co. York, Yeo., George W., son & heir- apparent, and Alice, mother of the said John, surrender Walter's House, etc., to the use of Edward Revel, son of Thomas R. of Shiffnal, co. Salop, Gent., which Edward was nephew to Rowland R. of Stannington 1638.

Notes:Mr Revel Reynolds, Chief Commissioner of the Court for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, told me that all he knew of Revel was that there were two brothers Henry & Nathaniel living at Gainsborough. One of them was murdered. A dau. of one mar Reynolds, & had his father, the Doctor.

Henry Revel of Gainsborough, wholesale mercer, living there 1704.

These pieces of Evidence it will be perceived agree perfectly with the old pedigree as far as they go, showing that it has been compiled by a careful hand. The pedigree appears to stand thus : adding the Broomheads, several of whom I have personally known.

In 1 Edw. VI. Thomas Revel surrendered a Messuage, etc., in Stannington to the use of Gregory his son & heir, then about to marry Elizabeth, dau. of Tho. Barber. Robert R. his younger son. This from the Court Rolls at Sheffield, & is decisive as to the descent of Gregory & the falsity of the old pedigree. May 5, 1826.

Observe the marriage of a Thomas Revel with the widow of West of Aughton.

Notes:¹ It appears by a Composition on account of Recusancy that in 1632 the wife of this Rowland Revell was named Faith, a former marriage I presume, & that Bridget was the issue of that marriage. This I conclude because she was older than the rest. Has a distinct mention in her father's will, and is not mentioned with her sisters in Lucy Percy's will.

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MS. 174

Hunter suggests comparing the following pedigree with Woolley's, M.P.B. xii., 80. ...
It is not my intention to fill this volume with genealogical matter that is to be found in the public depositories of such information, but I thought it worth while to preserve this as exhibiting what in the Herald's opinion is the true descent of Revel, it having been compiled from the different Visitations by the Rouge Croix for Mr Homfray of Yarmouth, from whom I had it ; and as affording a convenient opportunity to introduce other information from other quarters, which the diligent student will easily distinguish.

See many notices of Revel among the Talbot papers at the Heralds' College, & in the account of Law Expenses of the Countess of Shrewsbury, MS. in the Wilson Museum.

Webmasters Notes: Edward Revell¹, Rector of Heath, alias Lound, married Alice Yates of Attercliffe at St. Marys Nottingham on 10th September, 1709.Source Marriages at Heath from Phillimore Parish Registers

¹1 Ann, b. 1662 ; mar. John Jackson, Clerk of Doncaster, and had John, William, and Nathaniel.

Elizabeth, b. 1664; mar. Samuel Gardiner, D.D., of Eckington, and had Samuel, aged 20, 1709, Wil., John, Gervas, Ann, Mary Charlotte, and Elizabeth. (See PED., p. 348.)

Notes:In the Roll of Parl. ii., 408, are two petitions from two merchants of Germany named Ludebritte de Revel and Godfrid de Revel, who traded to the ports of Hull and Boston temp. Edw. III.

Bassano gives a different account of the generation after John and Margaret Beighton, making George the husband of Anne Knowles, and father of the next generation, and placing Robert seated at Lenton in Nottinghamshire, where he mar. & had issue.

Bassano makes Edw. and Wm Revel sons not of Robert but of George by his wife Anne Knowles of Brackenfield ; says John in that generation was the Raiser of the family, & that Wm had Ogston by gift from him. Robert is then said to have lived at Lenton, where he mar. and had issue.

A letter from Robert Revel of Carlingthwaite the elder is in Dr Pegge's Collections, containing a full account of the descendants of Edward 1634, but he says nothing of the Illegitimacy which some other genealogist has alleged. (See M.P.B., xi., 81.)

There was a Edward Revel, Rector of Heath, father of Edward, an Att?, who was of Carlingthwaite. and d. in 1770.

Richard Turbott above was a son of Wm Turbott of Mount St. John in Thirsk, who was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1710, by Mary, dau. and heir of Frs Driffield of Easingwold by Ann, dau. of Geo. Middleton of Shipton. He was son of Wm. Turbott of Mount St. John who d. in 1673. (BURKE'S PEDIGREES.) W m T. of Arnold Grove had issue Gladwin, Helen, Anne, Maria, Lucy.

The children of Wm Turbott of Mount St. John and Mary Driffield were Richard, Frances, Ursula, Ann, Dorothy, Margaret, Hester. (Warburton in Lane., MS. 911.)

Source: Familiae Minorum Gentium, Joseph Hunter¹. The Publications of the Harleian Society (1869)