Descendants of Thomas Riley

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Descendants of Thomas Riley



This is the family tree of the Rileys, owners of Trinity Manor for most of the 20th century. It traces this initially non-conformist Baptist family from its early days in Yorkshire to its Anglo-Catholic days as Jersey landowners, having married into the peerage not long beforehand. It was added to the site in 2013 and reviewed in 2020 and 2023


John Cockcroft Riley


John Riley


Lucy Martin Arrow


Christopher Riley and his wife with T B Davis at Government House in 1939

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  • 1 Thomas Riley (1710- )
    • 2 Henry Riley (1734- )
      • 3 John Riley (1759-1802) [1] m (1781, Heptonstall) Sally Riley (W. Yks.)
        • 4 Henry Riley (1782-1854) (W. Yks. > NSW) [2] m 1 (1801, Halifax) Grace Ashworth; 2 (1809, Halifax) Mary Balm (1783-1844), daughter of John [3]
          • 5 James Riley (1811-1887) [4] m 1 (1831, Halifax) Mary Mitchell (1812-1862) [5]; 2 (1867, Halifax) Mary Morley, daughter of David (Warley) [6]
          • 5 John Riley (1816- ) [7] m (1841, Halifax) Susey Hitchen, daughter of Eli (Sowerby)
          • 5 Grace Riley (1820- ) [8] m (10/1839, Halifax) William Stansfield [9] son of Joseph
        • 4 Anna Riley (1784- )
        • 4 John Riley (1786-1856) JP [10] m (1805, W. Yks.) Betty Hargreaves (1785-1860), [11] daughter of George [12]
          • 5 James Riley (1811-1862) (Yks.) m (1845, Yks.) [13] Sarah Crossley (1820-1895), daughter of John [14]
            • 6 Charles Crossley Riley (1847-1867)
            • 6 John Riley (1848-1929) JP [15] m (1872, W. Derby) Lucy Martin Arrow (1852-1925), daughter of John Arrow (1821-1855) [16] and Lucy Martin (1827-1914)
              • 7 Lucy Quion Riley (1873-1906)
              • 7 Hilda Mary Riley (1874-1963)
              • 7 Lancelot John Cockcroft Riley (1875-1949) m 1 Mildred Elizabeth Rostron (1877-1932); 2 Agatha Caroline Lloyd (1890-1972)
              • 7 Edith Elaine Riley (1877-1969)
              • 7 Oswald Charles Hamlet Riley (1878-1966) m Christobel Mary Stuart Horton (1887-1960)
                • 8 Elizabeth Mary Stuart Riley (1910- )
                • 8 Estella Anne Riley (1926- )
              • 7 Agnes Dorothy Riley (1880-1931)
              • 7 Aldwith Muriel Cockcroft Riley (1881-1976)
              • 7 Ealilgyth Riley (1882- )
              • 7 Margery Joan Riley (1882-1977)
              • 7 Margaret Riley (1883- )
              • 7 Aelfric James Athelstan Riley (1885-1979) m Cynthia Rowena Starey ( -1970)
              • 7 Elfrida Gwendoline Riley (1887-1971)
              • 7 Ursula Veronica Hopton Riley (1894-1984) m (1918, Birmingham) Albert Hart
            • 6 Hamlet Riley (1851-1922) [17] m (1878, Yks.) Anne Lewthwaite (1853- )
              • 7 Ethel Mary Riley (1880- )
              • 7 Hamlet Lewthwaite Riley (1883-1932) [18] m (1925, Cumb.) Joyce Nancy Fetherstonhaugh
          • 5 Thomas Riley (1813-1887) (Yks.) [19] m (1860, Yks.) Esther Fawcett (1823-1916), daughter of James [20]
            • 6 Thomas Fawcett Riley (1861-1928) [21]
            • 6 John Herbert Riley (1862-1947) [22] m (1896) Edith Lawson, daughter of Sir John Lawson, 2nd Bart [23]
              • 7 Two children
              • 7 Rowena Riley (1906- )
            • 6 James Julian Allan Riley (1864-1906) [24]
          • 5 John Riley (1819-1862) (Yks.) [25] m (1857, Marylebone) Mary Margaret Elizabeth Laurie (1832-1905), daughter of John, M.P.
            • 6 John Athelstan Laurie Riley (1858-1945) (Mx.) [26] m (1887, Ldn.) Hon. Andalusia Louisa Charlotte Georgina Molesworth (1863-1912), daughter of the Revd. Viscount Molesworth and Georgina Charlotte Cecil Gosset
              • 7 Laurence Athelstan Molesworth Riley (1888-1928) (Ldn.) [27]
              • 7 Morwenna Mary Andalusia Riley (1892-1970) (Eng.) m (1920, Ldn.) Harold Arthur Brocklebank (1889-1944) [28] son of Harold [29]
              • 7 Christopher John Molesworth Riley (1894-1958) (Ldn.) Jurat [30] m 2 (1931, Tr) Yvonne Lempriere [31] daughter of Reginald Raoul; [32] 1 (1922) Bridget Maisie Hanbury (1894-1928), daughter of Lionel Henry [33]
                • 8 John Roland Christopher Riley (1925-1998) [34] m (1956) Penelope Anne Harrison ( -1978), daughter of John Fenwick Harrison [35]
                  • 9 Bridget Mary Riley
                  • 9 Anna Louise Riley
              • 7 Hubert Cecil Charles Riley (1896-1970) (Ldn.) [36]
              • 7 John Harold Douglas Riley (1897-1968) (Ldn.) m (1952, Essex) Grace Isabel Saltwell (1903- )
              • 7 Quintin Theodore Petroc Molesworth Riley (1905-1981) (Eng.) [37] m (1942, Essex) Dorothy Margaret Croft (1901- )
          • 5 Hannah Riley (1824- ) m (1858, Yks.) Daniel Jones Crossley, [38] son of Henry (Wadsworth)
          • 5 Mary Riley (1822-1903)
        • 4 Mary Riley (1788- )
        • 4 Sarah Riley (1790- )
        • 4 Betty Riley (1793- )
        • 4 William Riley (1798- )


Notes and references

  1. ↑ Weaver (1781)
  2. ↑ Of Sowerby, in the parish of St John the Baptist, Halifax, Weaver (1809). He was described on marriage in 1801 as being of Wadsworth, and a Cotton Manufacturer indicating, no doubt, that he was so employed. He went alone in 1834 to New South Wales, where he died
  3. ↑ Of Midgley, West Yorkshire, Weaver
  4. ↑ Stuff Weaver in 1861, at Mill Hill, Sowerby: UK Census, Halifax, West Yorkshire. He was, as a widower for the second time in 1881, a Tapestry Carpet Weaver, living with his unmarried daughters, Jane and Sarah, aged respectively 36 and 32, the former being a Cotton Winder and the latter a Weaver
  5. ↑ There was, of this marriage, a numerous issue
  6. ↑ Farmer
  7. ↑ Weaver, living in Sowerby
  8. ↑ Grace should not be confused with another Grace Riley, who was born 27th March 1818, daughter of a different Henry Riley and of his wife Grace. William Stansfield`s wife, Grace, was described, on her marriage, as being a minor
  9. ↑ Of Sowerby, Weaver, which was also the description of Grace`s father
  10. ↑ John Riley was described on marriage in 1805, aged nineteen, as being, as was his brother Henry, a Cotton Manufacturer, of Wadsworth, in Heptonstall, West Riding of Yorkshire. It is unlikely that either brother had, at that age, their own business; the description probably referred to their employment. In 1851, he was a Merchant and Manufacturer of [Worsted] Stuffs, living at Brearley House, Midgley: 1851 UK Census, Midgley, Yorkshire
  11. ↑ The Gentleman`s Magazine (1860), Volume 200, 105, has: "At Brearley House, near Halifax, aged 75, Mrs Riley, relict of John Riley Esq., J.P."
  12. ↑ Of Heptonstall, Yeoman
  13. ↑ Merchant and Manufacturer, as was his father and father-in-law: Marriage Register, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. In the 1851 Census of Halifax, James, Sarah and their family were living at 2, Harrison Road. He was described as a Stuff Merchant, stuff being the raw material, in this case, of woollen cloth or fabric
  14. ↑ Merchant and Manufacturer, of Hebden Bridge, West Riding
  15. ↑ Landowner and Farmer of 300 acres at Putley Court, Herefordshire. Jean Ila Currie, Three Centuries of a Herefordshire Village; Putley, 1685 until now, (Cambridge: Owlstone Press, 2009), 116-134, much of which is available online, provides much detail regarding this branch of the family. Of interest is that whilst John Riley was a Herefordshire squire, his business interests remained in the Halifax area
  16. ↑ Jeweller, of 21, Bloomfield Terrace, Belgravia: UK Census, St George, Hanover Square
  17. ↑ Living on his own means; Independent
  18. ↑ Educated at Eton
  19. ↑ Of Midgley, West Riding, Worsted Stuff Manufacturer (1851) and in 1861 of Ewood Hall, Midgley, Landed Proprietor. He was in 1881 Lord of the Manor of Midgley and a Justice of the Peace: UK Censuses, Midgley, West Riding
  20. ↑ Of Greenfield, Mytholmroyd, West Riding, Gentleman
  21. ↑ Undergraduate, Cambridge University (1881); BA (1884); Lieutenant, West Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers; Lord of the manors of Midgley and Bracewell: 1881 UK Census, Midgley, West Riding; Alumni Cantabrigiensis
  22. ↑ BA (Cantab). He was living in 1911 at Frenchgate, Richmond, Yorkshire, on his own "private means". He and his wife had been married for 14 years, having had three children, all living: UK Census, Richmond, Yorkshire
  23. ↑ Of Brough Hall, Yorkshire
  24. ↑ BA (Cantab.). Educated Giggleswick School. He was for many years a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding
  25. ↑ Barrister-at-Law (Inner Temple). He was born in Heptonstall, Yorkshire
  26. ↑ Educated at Eton and Oxford, he became Seigneur of Trinity on the 2nd March 1909, having moved his family to Jersey in the previous year
  27. ↑ 2nd Lieutenant, Militia. He was unmarried
  28. ↑ Company Director
  29. ↑ Of Liverpool, Shipowner
  30. ↑ Lieutenant-Colonel, Coldstream Guards; Jurat of the Royal Court, 1949
  31. ↑ Widow of Charles Harold Robin (1886-1917), Captain, York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly of the Militia
  32. ↑ Seigneur of Rozel
  33. ↑ Of Portland Place, London, Hop Merchant. Mr Hanbury was the grandson of Robert Hanbury, J.P., Brewer, of London and Thundridge, Hertfordshire, of whom it was written that "he may fairly be regarded as not merely the head of the great Spitalfields house [Truman`s Brewery] but as the father of London brewing". With "his beautiful estate of Poles, near Ware, Hertfordshire" he was "a grand specimen of the English merchant and, at the same time, a thorough country gentleman": The Journal, (2017), The Brewery History Society. The Hanburys had been involved in Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Company since 1788
  34. ↑ Major, Coldstream Guards; Seigneur of Trinity. He was a Deputy in the States of Jersey, -1969-1972, later becoming a Senator
  35. ↑ Major, HM Army
  36. ↑ Schoolmaster in Somerset (1939). He was unmarried: 1939 England and Wales Register
  37. ↑ Educated at Lancing, recipient of the Polar Medal. Polar Explorer and Meteorologist, after whom the Riley Glacier, in Palmer Land, Antarctica, is named; Lieutenant-Commander, RNVR and Commanding Officer, No. 30 Commando
  38. ↑ Manufacturer, as was his father
Riley-Horton wedding
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