Genealogy
Whiston Families
Revell Family of Whiston
The Revell family have been in Whiston since the early 1500's at least. Richard Revell was from about 1689, the Earl of Shrewsbury's Keeper of the Woods, a survey in 1719 tells us there was 240 acres of woodland in Whiston. Was Revel Wood named after him?
Thomas Revell, born about 1560 in Whiston,and Miss Denton, born about 1564 married in Whiston about 1590. They had eight children:
- Thomas Revell, born about 1591(of Brampton), Yorkshire. Married Rose Knepe 29 MAY 1606 ( Source , daughter Mabel born 11 OCT 1608 (Source IGI)
- Ann Revell, christened about 1592, Whiston
- Maria Revell, christened about 1593, Whiston
- Sarah Revell, christened about 1600 Whiston
- William Revell, christened about 1601 Whiston, Burial: 1602
- Richard Revell, christened about 1604 Whiston, Burial: 1608
- Richard Revell, christened about 1609 Whiston, Burial: 1609
- John Revell, christened about 1612 Whiston, Burial: 4th March,1667/8 Whiston
Was Rose Knepe daughter of John Knype who m. Ann Wainwright 14 July 1588 Rotherham?)
Source: Family Search
There is a possibility of a connection with the Cawthorne family of Whiston. Yorkshire Marriage Register has Robert Cawthorne m. Elizabeth Revel 12 July 1590 at Rotherham
The following chart was sourced from the book 'An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families, p.110
Thomas Revel of Whiston had 5 children: (Refer also to MS172
Henry Bate, MA., was instituted to the Rectory of Aston 17 October, 1605. He married in 1607, Ellen Hardstaff of Aston. He died on 7th September, 1627
- Thomas of Brampton m. Aston 1630 Margaret Bate dau of Henry Bate, Chaplain to King Charles I
- John Revel of Whiston Gent living 1662 had son John who m. Alice Stacye
- Sara m. Thomas Dickinson of Rotherham
- Anne c1592 Whiston m. John Borough(s)
- Rowland (d.1636) Curate at Handsworth. Daughter Mary c.1634
Sarah Dickenson of Rotherham, widow, in her will dated 6 April 1679, names Nathaniel Revel of Brampton and John, Nathaniel, Thomas and Henry his sons, and Rebecca Hurst of Dalton, brother and sister, as her nephew and niece; also nieces Mary Garland and Elizabeth Soresby, Sarah Fairburn, and her children Samuel and Jane, niece Sara Ward, deceased, and her children Catherine, Sarah, Thomas, Will, Mary, Henry, also several Burroughes as her cousins, niece, Mary Buroughs.
John Revell(b1612) married Elizabeth (B 1611.Burial 15 APR 1657 Whiston).
Children of John and Elizabeth Revell:
- Elizabeth born about 1626
- Nathaniel, born about 1630
- John born about 1632
- Rebecca born about 1634 married Nathaniel Hurst (d.1671) of Little Dalton.
Nathaniel Revel of Brampton, born about 1630 of Brampton-en-le-Morthern married 05 OCT 1652 at Braithwell to Alice, daughter of Nathaniel (1598-1659) and Alice Eyre of Bramley Hall Children (named in the Will of his sister Sarah Dickenson :
Children of Nathaniel and Alice Revell (Nee Eyre):
- John born 1653 at Brampton-en-le-Morthen
- Nathaniel born 1657 at Brampton-en-le-Morthen
- Thomas born 1663 at Brampton-en-le-Morthen
- Henry
Tristram Revel, parish of Rotherham, labourer, m. Mary Mercer, of Whiston 12 Nov 1713
Robert Stacye, the son and heir of Mahlon and Philippa, succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Owlerton. He married Margaret Rawson, sister of Thomas Rawson. The youngest daughter Alice born in 1639, at Handsworth, married John Revell, of Whiston, gent, on 7 Sep 1657, at Sheffield. Children:
- John Revell, , who married Julianna Clark of Chesterfield
Julianna was daughter of Richard Clarke of the Angel Inn in Chesterfield and Cutthorpe, and Ann Shaw, d.7 Jan.1690-1. She was sister of Sir Samuel Clarke of West Bromwich, County Stafford, Sheriff of London and Middlesexin 1712.
Children of John and Julianna Revell:
- Ann d.1747 aged 50 married Thomas Homfray of Wales
- Samuel Revell born 1693 at Treeton,Yorkshire, married Unknown. Samuel died 11th October, 1732
Children of Samuel:
- Samuel Revell born 1727, married in Ecclesfield,Yorkshire on 18/10/1751 to Hannah Loxley*, who was born in Ecclesfield Yorkshire
Children of Samuel and Hannah Revell:
- Mary, born 1752
- Hannah born, 1754
- Elizabeth Revell born 1759, Ecclesfield.Yorkshire married in 1779, in Rotherham Yorkshire to Ephraim Auckland
- George born in 1762
- Jane born 1767
- Sarah born 1771
- Alice born 1773
- Samuel born 1775
- James born 1777
- Andrew born 1779
Notes re Ephraim Auckland : he was son of Ephraim AUCKLAND, b. 1713 Gainsbro', Lincs. m. 1743 Hatfield, Yks. Dorothy REASBECK, 1724 from S. Kelsey, Lincs. Family came to Rotherham from Hatfield between 1754-1757.
Children of Ephraim and Elizabeth Auckland »
Some of above extracted from Stacyes of Ballifield Descendants Researched and Compiled by Glenda F. Dobbs
*Hannah Loxley - from the ancient Loxley family of Bradfield - is the grand aunt of Mary Loxley (1793-1876) who married Thomas Firth of Thomas Firth & Sons the Sheffield Steel Makers.
The following information is from the IGI Index and not verified.
Tristram Revell, husbandman, b.1687 Anston, son of Richard Revell of Whiston, married Mary Stacey at Anston 24 11 1720. Children:
- George. listed in Sheffield Apprentices
- Mary REVOL c.28/11/1722 Whiston
- Ann REVILc.17/01/23 Whiston
CHILDREN of William REVIL(b.1697 Anston son of Richard) and Hana
- Mary REVIL c.8/08/1725 at Whiston m.2/08/1750 Thomas Hurt at Whiston
- Elizabeth REVIL c.29/10/1727 at Whiston
- Hanna REVIL c.15/03/1729 at Whiston
- William REVAL c.6/08/1732 at Whiston
- Sarah REVIL c.4/10/1735 at Whiston
- Mabel REVIL c.26/03/1738 at Whiston
CHILDREN of William REVIL and Martha Roddis Married 11 APR 1757 Whiston
- Elizabeth REVIL c.13/03/1758 at Whiston
CHILDREN of George REVILL m. 1796 Sheffield Ann OLDHAM(b.1775 Sheffield)
- Sarah REVILL c.5/02/96 Whiston
- Catherine REVILL c.22/04/1798 Whiston m.William Wragg 1817
- William REVILL c.11/03/1805 Whiston
ALICE REVIL was mother of ANN REVIL c.11 SEP 1739 Whiston
William and Mary parents of ANN REVIL c.05 OCT 1740 Whiston
is this the same Ann?
ANN REVIL m. BENJAMIN BAGSHAW 16 AUG 1773 Whiston
Nathaniel Revel of Whiston or Rotherham, had a daughter Martha, who married Thomas Rasine (d.1656), Alderman of Doncaster, son of Lord Mayor of Pontefract.
George Revill, of Whiston, w., & Lucy Arundell, m. Rotherham 29 July 1827
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