Robert Rishworth (abt. 1542 - 1602)

Born about 1542 in Yorkshire, England

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Died 1602 at about age 60 in England

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Biography

Robert Rishworth of East Riddlesden, b. about 1542, d. 1602. m. 1st Ann, dau. of Laurence Townley of Burnside. No issue. m. 2nd Ellen, dau. of Walter Paslew of East Riddlesden. Bought reversion of lands in Shelfe and Great Horton from her brother Alexander 1560. In 1571 he took two leases of East Riddlesden from Walter Paslew, each of 80 years to run consecutively, and soon afterward acquired the reversion in fee simple from John Paslew of Wiswall, near Colne, who had bought it from Walter Paslew. By his Will (Aug. 1602) he left about half the lands of Riddlesden and half the Manor House to his wife Ellen for 40 years, if she lived so long, with reversion to son John. To John, he left the rest of the Riddlesden Estate, together with lands in Marley, Thwaitesbank, Morton, Bingley, and Keighley, charged with £250 to be paid to John's sister, Jane Rishworth. By his second wife Ellen, who was buried at Bingley 1605, he had issue:^[1]

• Ellen, m. Nicholas Grimshaw, d. 1661. .
• Elizabeth, b. 1578, buried at Bingley, 1600.
• Jane, m. as 3rd wife William Baildon of Baildon, d. 1638 or 1639.
• John

East Riddlesden Hall is now the property or the National Trust, and besides the Hall, the Tithe Barn, built by Robert Rishworth, is worth inspection. This timbered Barn is one of the finest in Yorkshire. Riddlesden was owned by Simon de Monthalt in 1166. The family name became "Monhaut" and then "Mawde" or "Maude". Another Simon Montalte, who survived several sons, bequeathed part of the Montalte lands including East Riddlesden to his dau. Elizabeth in 1402, m. to Robert Paslew. For almost two hundred years the Paslews remained in possession. They were staunch Catholics. A cousin, Sir John Paslew, Abbot of Whalley, was hanged in front of his Abbey for joining the Pilgrimage of Grace, and the Paslews suffered under the penal laws of Elizabeth. Walter Paslew, for his alleged connection with the rising in the North, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. A couple of inscriptions are to be seen in the Beauchamp Tower "Walter Paslew 1569" and close beside it "Extrema Anchora Christus 1570." It is interesting to note that in one of the rooms to-day the ceiling is covered with the arms of the Maude family, who live at Rylstone and are connected with a branch of the Rishworths. Also that Mr. James Murgatroyd, who succeeded a Rishworth and renewed the main block, did not obliterate the "Arms" of an earlier owner.

Robert's daughter Jane was said to be of Normanton at her 1st marriage, but Robert was dead by then.

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.rushworth.com/club/rish.htm

• Baildon, W. Paley: Baildon and the Baildons, Vol. 2 of 3 (Book 3 pt 1) (1924), page 266, 272.
• Pedigree of Towneley of Barnside.