Westby of Ravenfield
Source:Visitation of Yorkshire, Sir.William Dugdale, A.D. 1665 and 1666
Note: A Henry Westby was the father of John and Henry Gill and grandfather of Mrs. Elizabeth Bagshawe, née Gill.
Anna, daughter of George and Benedicta, married a Cotton , on 27 March 1683.
Elizabeth Parkin and the Ravenfield Estate
Elizabeth Parkin was the grandaughter of Thomas Parkin, a member of an old Hallamshire family based at Mortomley who had long been involved in the metal trades. He had built a cementation furnace at Balm Green, on the western edge of the town, by 1716. His descendant and heiress, Elizabeth Parkin, retired to Ravenfield Park. Thomas Parkin who died aged 85 in Sheffield. He had three sons: Thomas who died before his father, William a London Merchant and John, who lived in Bristol - the father of Elizabeth.
In 1749 she purchased the Westby estate at Ravenfield where she lived, until her death on the 9th May, 1766. The estate went to her cousin Walter Oborne, Esq., with the remainder to her cousin Matthew Worgan of Wolley in Somerset. On their decease, without issue, the estate went to William-Parkin Bosville, descended of a brother of her great-grandfather Jasper Bosville.
William-Parkin Bosville died without issue when the estate passed to his brother the Rev. Thomas Bosville.
Notes re John Hatfeild of Hatfeild, esquire, and Frances, his wife, daughter of Thomas Westby. Source: Sheffield Archives: Vernon-Wentworth MunimentsReference: VWM/369, 27 Oct 1690
John Hatfeild of Hatfeild, esquire, and Frances, his wife, administratrix of the goods and chattels of Thomas Westby late of Fursby, deceased, to Thomas Wainwright of Sandall Magna, yeoman. A judgment of £2,520 (and costs) which Thomas Westby obtained in 1656 against Francis Rockley together with half the capital messuage called Rockley Hall with appurtenances, occupied by George Auden, Edward Snowden and William Tingle in Worsbrough, named closes occupied by George Auden in Worsbrough and Stainbrough, Friertayle Wood occupied by Edward Snowden, Robert Froggett and William Tingle, Old Parke Wood occupied by William Ashmore, several closes (named) occupied by Thomas Wood and Thomas Saunderson, a close and Smithy Wood occupied by William Irish, an iron furnace called Rockley Furnace and a close occupied by Dennis Hayford, gentleman, a messuage with named closes occupied by William Irish, a messuage and named closes occupied by Joseph Shawe, a messuage and named closes occupied by James Burnley, named closes occupied by Thomas Heesome, a messuage and named closes occupied by Thomas Wood and Anne Wood, a messuage and named closes occupied by Thomas Wildsmith, a close occupied by Anthony Robinson, a cottage and close occupied by Elizabeth Hawksworth, a water corn mill called Lewden Mill and a close occupied by James Burnley, named closes occupied by Joseph Shaw and James Ownsworth, a messuage and close occupied by William Ashmore and William Guest, half a messuage and half a close occupied by Michael Crookes, two closes occupied by Robert Tottington and several named closes occupied by Toby Holland, all in Worsbrough. The deed recites that the above property of Francis Rockley was valued by a jury at £150 p.a. and delivered to John and Francis Hatfeild at that price until Francis Rockley had discharged his debt. For the consideration named in a mortgage deed of even date.
»See also Westby of Guilthwaite
»See also Hatfeild of Hatfield
»See also Hatfeild of Laughton
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