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Children:
The family lived at 48 Crossley Terrace, Halifax [1891].
He was dead by 1891.
In 1891 the widowed Jane was a washerwoman.
Living with her and daughter Ellen was nephew [?] Herbert Lister
See Women's names
This daughter married Ralph Snaith.
Children:
Ralph Snaith was bailiff of Pontefract.
In his will, dated 11 March 1472, Ralph Snaith refers often
to my wife but does not name her.
However, she can be identified from the part in his will where he
gives instructions for the care of his three young sons, in which he
states ...
Item I will that my wife gife to youg John Savell a gra horse trotyng
whiche gois in the parke; that Thamas Savell have a dublett of grene
chamlett and William Savell a dublett of blake damaske; and that my
sister Waterton have a doblett of cremysyn velwett for hir son; and
that my wife take a gowne furyd wt buge and a dublett of blake
velwett for hir rememerance of me.
Ralph asks to be buried in the church of the colege of the Holy
Trynite in Pomfrete.
[Testamenta Eboracensia pt 3, p.203]
Recorded in 1547.
He married Margaret Hardy
She married John Kaye of Woodsome and Oakenshaw.
They had 7 illegitimate children
He lived at Ainley House, Elland
He married Alice Oates.
Children:
Son of Sir Henry Savile.
He married (1) Mary Leigh.
They divorced on grounds of causa frigidatis.
He married (2) Elizabeth Barnby.
After Edward's death, Elizabeth married James
Birkby who was Lord Mayor of York [1558, 1596]
She married (1) Robert Pilkington.
She married (2) John Rayner.
She married (3) Mr Rokeby
She married (1) Sir Robert Waterton of Walton.
Children:
She married (2) Thomas Savile of Hullenedge.
They appear to have had no male issue.
See
Greenwood Stone and
Savile's Law
Of Lupset and Thornhill in Yorkshire.
A member of the Savile family of Thornhill, and the Savile family of Lupset
He was created 2nd Baronet Savile of Thornhill in 1611.
He married Unknown.
Children:
He married Unknown.
Children:
Born 11th November 1633.
He became a statesman, politician and essayist.
He was a wealthy baronet, 4th Baronet Savile of Thornhill.
He entered politics in the 1660s and supported the Royalist cause
in the Civil War.
He was a protestant, but a loyal supporter of the Stuart cause.
On the death of Cromwell, he declared himself in favour of
the absent king.
At the Restoration, he was created
Baron Savile of Eland and Viscount Halifax [1667],
the 1st Earl of Halifax (First Creation) [1679],
Keeper of the Privy Seal,
and
the first Marquis of Halifax [1682]
He wrote several works, including a book entitled The
Miscellanies about the social life and customs of Britain
which was published by Robert Urie of Glasgow [1751].
In 1656, he married (1) Lady Dorothy Spencer [16??-1670].
Children:
In 1672, he married (2) Gertrude Pierrepont.
Children:
He was
[5th April 1695].
He was buried at Westminster Abbey
See
The Life & Letters of Sir George Savile
Born in Savile House, London [18th July 1726].
Independent Whig MP for Yorkshire.
He was one of the largest landowners in the district.
He was president of the Halifax Union Club.
He took a prominent part in the formation of the Calder & Hebble Navigation Company.
He was a subscriber to the publication of Watson's History.
He visited Royds' House, Halifax on many occasions, and may have
given his name to George Square.
In 1756, he and Charles Watson-Wentworth established the Regiment
which became the
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
He never married.
The male line of the Savile family ended when he died [10th January
1784].
His sister, Barbara, married Richard Lumley-Saunderson.
See
Rev George Braithwaite,
Elections and
Union Journal
He married Unknown.
Children:
Son of Thomas Savile.
He married Sibill Copley.
Children:
Son of Nicholas Savile.
He married Elizabeth Hall.
Children:
Recorded in 1222 and 1225.
He married Agnes Golcar.
Children:
Rishworth Lodge was built for him.
He was owner and breeder of thoroughbred race horses.
His horse, Ripponden, won several races.
In 1870, he gave a new bell to Ripponden Parish Church.
In 1866, he sold land to Halifax Corporation to create Savile Park.
See
Highroad Well Independent School
Esquire, of the Parish of Halifax.
Second son of Henry Savile, Esquire, of Elland and Thornhill.
He married Helen (Ellen) Copley.
From this line, came the Savile families
of Copley,
of Hullenedge,
of Newhall,
of Methley
etc.
Children:
He was buried at Halifax Parish Church
He held land and property in Hipperholme, Horbury, Sandal, and
elsewhere.
He was buried at the church of White Friars, Fleet Street, London.
Son of Sir John Savile.
He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire [1541-1542].
He was Lord of the Manor of Heptonstall.
He stood by Henry VIII during the Pilgrimage of Grace.
He was a supporter of Robert Holdsworth and an enemy of Sir Richard Tempest.
He married Elizabeth Soothill.
Children:
In 154?, he married Elizabeth Ramsden at Elland.
Children:
He was involved in the Wakefield-Pontefract feud.
He was buried at Elland Parish Church
Son of Thomas Savile.
Like his father and his son, he collected manuscripts.
He married Frances Moyser.
Children:
Son of Henry Savile.
Born at Bradley Hall, Stainland.
He was known Long Harry Savile – a nickname given to
distinguish him from other Saviles at Oxford.
Son of Thomas Savile.
Born at Blaithroyd and is also known as Henry of
Banke.
The family moved to Shaw Hill when he was a boy.
Like his distinguished relative – Sir Henry Savile – he went
to Merton College Oxford, and he became a scholar of mathematics,
medicine, chemistry, painting, heraldry, and antiquities.
He did not marry and had no children.
He travelled widely, and he was a collector of books and manuscripts.
He lived in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and was
buried at the church there
Second son of Sir John Savile.
He married Unknown.
Children:
The first member of the Savile family of Thornhill.
Son of Sir John Savile.
He married Elizabeth.
Children:
Henry took over the Thornhill family lands in Sowerbyshire
and Thornhill.
He probably died in 1412
See
The Savile family of Thornhill
He married Grace Whitley
He married Unknown.
Children:
He married Unknown.
Children:
He married Unknown.
Children:
Son of John Savile.
He married Anne Hopton.
Children:
Son of John Savile.
He married Jane Wood.
Children:
See
Savile Family Pedigrees and
Margaret de Savile
Of Copley.
Son of Henry Savile, Esquire.
He married Matilda.
Children:
He was buried at Halifax Parish Church
Son and heir of Sir Thomas Savile.
He was
High Sheriff of Yorkshire [1455, 1461] /
MP for Yorkshire [1450, 1467].
Antiquarian
Joseph Hunter
says
The castle thus became his occasional residence, where he died on the
morrow of the feast of St. Basil, 1482.
His body was carried through Wakefield and sumptuously buried at
Thornhill
Sir John was one of the protagonists in the Savile-Pilkington feud.
He married Alice Gascoigne.
Children:
He (probably) died at Sandal Castle.
He was buried at Thornhill
He married Agnes Aldwark.
Children:
Son of Thomas Savile.
He married Agnes from Rochdale.
Children:
Son of Sir John Savile.
He married Isabel Latham.
Children:
Father unknown.
Documents do exist naming men of the Savile family prior to this, but
insufficient to establish lineage.
There is mention of a
Henry de Seyvill in 1225,
Sir John de Seyvill in 1251,
Baldwin de Seyville and his sons,
William, John and Hugh, in the Wakefield Court
Rolls [1274-1307] and the Lunacy Inquisition of Peter de
Seyvell in 1286.
He married Margaret (Margery).
We do not have the date of the marriage but it took place before
1306, and probably in 1300
Children:
Sir John was probably dead in 1337
Of Golcar and Rishworth.
Son and heir of Sir John Savile.
He did homage 1337.
He married Margaret.
Children:
He was dead in 1353
Of Golcar, and of Elland and Tankersley, by his marriage.
Son and heir of Sir John Savile.
He was
High Sheriff of Yorkshire [1380, 1382-1383, 1387-1388]
and
Knight of the Shire [1375, 1382, 1384, 1389].
Before 1353, he married Isabel, daughter of Thomas de Eland, Esquire of Elland and Tankersley, which manors she
brought to the marriage.
Children:
Son of Sir John Savile, knt., of Golcar and of Elland and
Tankersley.
He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire [1402-1403].
He married Unknown.
This may be so, but no evidence has been found to support it
Children:
Isabel died before 1449, her cousin, Sir Thomas Savile, being her heir to Elland and Tankersley etc
He married Unknown.
This may be so, but no evidence has been found to support it
They had no children
He married Unknown.
Children:
He married Jane Harrington.
Children:
Son of Sir John Savile.
He succeeded his grandfather as Steward of Wakefield.
In 1481, he was knighted by Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
He married (1) Alice Vernon.
He married (2) Elizabeth Paston.
Children:
Third son of Thomas Savile, esquire, of Hullenedge
John is mentioned in the 1488 will of his
brother Thomas.
John appears to have acquired the family lands after his
brothers Thomas and Henry died without male issue.
He married Unknown.
Children:
[Nott Arch DD/SR/207/634]
John is named in two documents of November 1474 with his
cousins, Nicholas Stansfeld, James Stansfeld, and
Geoffrey Stansfeld.
Son of Thomas Savile.
He married Anne Cawthorne.
Children:
He married Frances Boswell [1549-1609].
Children:
Frances and the 4 daughters were buried at Elland Parish Church
Born at Bradley Hall, Stainland.
Around 1561, he attended Brasenose College Oxford.
He was a Barrister and a Judge.
He became the Steward of Wakefield.
He was one of the original members of the Society of
Antiquaries.
In 1598, he was appointed
one of the Barons of the Exchequer under James I.
In 1603, he was knighted.
On 11th May 1574, he married (1) Jane Garth [1544-1586/7].
Children:
On 23rd December 1587, he married (2) Elizabeth Wentworth.
Children:
On 15th January 1593/4, he married (3) Dorothy Wentworth.
There is also a record of a 4th wife, Margery Peake.
He is described as
He was buried at St Dunstan's Church in the West, Fleet Street,
London.
His heart was buried in the south aisle of Methley Church, Leeds.
See
Annesley House, Elland,
William Camden,
Nicholas Hanson and
Roman Altar at Thick Hollins
A politician who became the MP for Lincolnshire in 1586, the Sheriff
of Lincolnshire in 1600.
He was made a knight of the shire for York in the years 1597, 1614,
1624, and 1626.
He was Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
He was ejected from office in 1615, but reappointed in 1626.
He became a privy councillor, and the comptroller of the household,
1627-30.
In 1627, he was created Baron Savile
He was living in York in 1617, when he married Isabel Lawe.
Children:
Of Rufford Abbey.
Second Baron Savile of Rufford.
He married Unknown.
Children:
Probate records show that he left an estate valued at £163,644.
His widow, Lady Savile of Walshaw, and Claud E. Levita,
had a son, Wilfred Harry who married Mrs Helen Sholta
Mann [1950?]
See
Brown Cow, Rishworth,
Elland Town Hall,
Lower Cockcroft Hall, Rishworth and
Walshaw Dean Footpath Dispute
Son & heir of Sir John Savile of Hullenedge.
He married Joan (also called Jennet).
Children:
When Leonard knew that he was dying he took the following
action:
[Nott Arch DD/SR/207/626]
Leonard last appears in documents in mid 1525.
In November that year, his younger brother John, now
esquire, was in possession of Hullenedge Hall:
[Nott Arch DD/SR/207/640]
His widow, Joan, remarried, as can be seen from this document:
Question:
Does anyone know the precise identity of this man?
He lived at Rishworth Lodge, and had a hunting ground there.
See
Derby Bar, Rishworth,
Benjamin Sykes,
Edward Kenworthy Sykes and
Wright Sykes
She was Prioress of Kirklees Priory, though the exact dates are
lost.
Watson in his History of Halifax [p 210] said:
John married Margery, daughter and coheiress
of Henry Rishworth, of Rishworth, in Halifax Parish, esquire
Watson copied the above from a pedigree written by
Ralph Thoresby
in his Ducatus Leodiensis [1715].
It may be so, though no original evidence has been found to support
it.
It seems more likely, if she was Prioress in 1358, that she was the
next generation = the daughter, not the sister, of Sir John Savile of Golcar and Rishworth
She married John Clay from Clay House, Greetland
He married Agnes Haigh.
Children:
Son of Thomas Savile.
He married Margaret Wilkinson.
Children:
Son of Henry Savile of Copley.
He married Janet de Lacy.
Children:
He married Unknown.
Children:
He married Ellen Fulnetby.
Children:
He married Jane Chaworth from Warton.
Children:
He married (1) Unknown.
Children:
In 1491, he married (2) Joan Otes.
Children:
He married (3) Agnes Otes
She married Robert Waterhouse.
After a dispute with her half-brother, Gilbert Otes, she and her
husband inherited Shibden Hall in 1522
She married Robert Waterhouse
Son of Nicholas Savile.
He married Jennett or Euphemia.
Children:
He married Unknown.
Children:
He married Alice Beaumont
He had lands at Mirfield.
He married Elizabeth Shaw.
Children:
Her name is unknown.
It is given as Anne in a pedigree.
be the avice of my wife and of her brodir William Savell, beryng
witnes Thomas Watkynson, John Dykonson and Thomas Moulton.
Margaret was the daughter of John Hardy of Halifax
Alice was the daughter of John Oates of Halifax
Mary was the daughter of Sir Richard Leigh of St Albans
Elizabeth was the daughter of Geoffrey Barnby
Thomas was her second cousin
Administration Jan 14, 1493-4 to John Waterton, Knt [Rotherham, i, 61]
Dorothy was the daughter of the 1st Earl of Sunderland
and Dorothy Sidney
Gertrude was the daughter of William Pierrepont of
Thoresby
carried off by a mortification of the bowels
Sibill was the daughter of Lyon Copley of Batley
Elizabeth was the daughter of Thurstan Hall of Wath
Agnes was the daughter of John Golcar
Written: Savell
Helen was the daughter & heiress of Thomas Copley
By his marriage, Henry became of Copley.
In his will Henry mentions
his mother – myn olde Lady Sayvell;
his older brother Thomas and
his wife Elizabeth – Elizabeth Waterton, widow;
his sister Agnes and her husband Thomas Blakker;
his young brother William;
and Jane and Elizabeth Eland.
He also made other bequests including to the churches of White
Friars, London; and in Sandal; Thornhill and Elland
Written: Sayuill & Sayvill
Elizabeth was the daughter and heiress of Simon de Thornhill
and brought to the marriage the vast lands of Thornhill family
His wife was a daughter of Sir Simon de Rockley
Anne was the daughter of J. Hopton of Armley
Jane was the daughter of Matthew de Bosco
[alias Wood]
Written: Sayvell & Sayvyl
While there is no evidence to support it, some pedigrees state
that John married Maud (which was a version
of Matilda), the daughter of Thomas Trafford of
Trafford, Lancashire
he was chief steward of the manor of Wakefield Honour of Wakefield
connected with which office was the custody of the castle of Sandal.
Alice was the daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of
Gawthorpe
Agnes was the daughter of Sir Roger Aldwark
Isabel was the daughter of Sir Robert Latham
He is the first member of the family from whom we can, using
documentary evidence, establish lineage. – see Savile Family Pedigrees.
Margaret was the daughter and coheir of Henry de Rishworth of Rishworth
Written: Saivyll & Sayvill
Written: Saville, Sayvill & Sayville
It is said in a secondary source that he married Isabel,
daughter of Sir Robert de Radclyffe, of Radclyffe Tower.
Some pedigrees have that he married Isabel daughter of Sir
William Fitzwilliam.
Jane was the daughter of Sir Thomas Harrington of
Brearley
Alice was the daughter of Henry Vernon
In his History of Halifax [p. 182], Rev Watson
states that John married Alice, daughter of Ralph
Lister of Halifax, but evidence to support this has not been found
1522, 26 June. Indenture lease: Leonard Savile, son and heir of Sir
John Savile to Henry Clay messuage in Eland.
Sept 30, 1510. The will of Sir John Savile, Knight, was proved and
adm. of his goods was committed to Sir Thomas Pek, one of the exors,
power being reserved
Anne was the daughter of George Cawthorne of Carleton
in Skipton
Frances was the daughter of Godfrey Boswell
Jane was the daughter of Richard Garth of Morden, Surrey
of Bradley Hall, Stainland and Methley Hall, near Leeds
1 Sept. 1523. Indenture. Guardianship deed Leonard Savile of Eland
son and heir of John of Hollyngage to Thomas Savile of Bothomehall,
gent., Thomas son and heir of Leonard Savile.
1525, 24 Nov. Indenture lease: John Savile of Holingedge esq and son
Leonard to Thomas Savile of Denton, Hullyngage Hall and lands. Eland
1555/6 Mar 7. Indenture lease John [Joan] Hyde, widow of Christopher
Hyde of Stainforth, a late widow of Leonard Savile, to her son Thomas
Savile, all her lands and messuages in Elland, Stainland and Greetland
Written: de Seyvill
Sir John [de Savile] married Jane, daughter
of Matthew de Bosco (alias Wood) by whom, John,
and Margaret, Prioress of Kirklees, 32 Edw III [1358-9].
Agnes was the daughter of John Haigh
Margaret was the daughter of William Wilkinson
Ellen was the daughter of Thomas Fulnetby of Fulnetby,
Lincolnshire
His wife was the daughter of Thomas Soothill
Alice was the daughter of Thomas Beaumont of Whitley
Elizabeth was the daughter of James Shaw