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Revell Family Study

Dronfield

The Derbyshire founder of the Burtons was Richard of Chesterfield, who was steward to John, first Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1?32, which would be while the Earl was a prisoner of the French, he having been defeated and taken captive by Joan of Arc, at the battle of Patey. His wife (Anne Barnesley)

Richard Burton was father of John of Totley, living 1511 ; ??????, John, of Dronfield, by Elizabeth Shaw, espoused Elizabeth Revel, and died 1556. The two sons of John were Thomas, of Cartledge Hall, husband to Alice Wolstenholme, and John,, who married Joan Poynton, of Dronfield Woodhouse.

Thomas and Alice had two sons; another Thomas of Cartledge, sheriff in 1628, who died in 1645 without issue, and Michael, also sheriff in 1617- It was the issue of John and Joan who perpetuated the Holmesfield Burtons.

Their first-born was John, of Apperknoll, who by his spouse, Elizabeth Mower, of Greenhill, was father of Thomas of Fanshaw Gate, whose son, by Jane Seliokc, was Francis, the sheriff of ????, and husband of Helen, the heiress of the Lindley Burtons. The cousin of Francis had also kept his weather eye lifted for a heiress, and secured one in Winifred Wright, of Tissington. The children of this marriage were Joshua and Benjamin, both baptised at Bakewell Church, and founders of branches of their house in the Emerald Isle. One of the descendants of Joshua has held an Irish judgeship in our own time, and their ancestor, Sir Robert, as remotely as the days of the Black Prince, was Chief justice of that country. The two members of this family who stand out in English history are Sir James, the favourite squire to Richard I., who knighted him and gave him his armorial coat ; and the brave old Sir William, standard bearer to Henry VI., who buckled on his sword at the age of seventy to meet a soldier's death on the field of ?

Lysons has it that he was sheriff in 1644, but Glover points out that there was no sheriff in that year. We believe, however, that the Holmesfield Burtons were three times sheriff in fewer years than any other family.

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Elizabeth REVEL , baptised in Cold Aston on ?? married George Eyre - BAPTISM: 1632, Hathersage, Derbyshire DEATH: 1712 - in 1654 at Cold Aston, Dronfield, Yorkshire. Their children:

  1. Anne EYRE
  2. Thomas EYRE
  3. George EYRE
  4. Mary EYRE
  5. Jane EYRE
  6. Anne EYRE

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Abraham REVILL born abt. 1700 married Grace EVANS at Dronfield on 16 Nov 1727. Their son Abraham married Martha DOWNING. Third generation, Thomas REVILL married Rebekah FRANCE Fourth generation, another Thomas REVILL married Elizabeth SENYOR. Fifth generation, again, Thomas REVILL married Elizabeth from Lincolnshire or Lancashire Their daughter, Mary Ann REVILL married Henry STOKES on 01 Jul 1860 at Christchurch, Sheffield. Henry left her and went to Canada taking some of his adult children with him.