RIDGWAY, Mary [217] ^{1 3}

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This pedigree of the Ridgway family is given by the Rev Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland, in his book published in 1958: "Twigs from Family Trees, Notes on the Ridgway Families of Bradford County, PA, Descendants of David, Richard, Robert and Burr Ridgway Pioneers"

He states about the ancestors of the American Ridgway family: 'Ridgway and Ridgeway are of local origin, from the residence at "the ridge-way" or the road over the back of the hill. In the earliest records this name was written "Rydeware". The accounts of this ancient family have been written by various historians, but in the "Ridgway Family Manuscript" by James Ridgeway, to be found in the Long Island, NY Historical Society is the following: the pedigree of the family is best given by Sir Thomas de Rydeware in the "Chartulary" prepared by him at great length in 1308, and which was published in the "History and Antiquity of Leicester" by John Nicholas, vol. III, part 2, pp. 983,984,999-1007,979, 994, and which we have followed as the basis of this history down to the children of Sir Thomas de Rydeware.

A less extensive but similar pedigree appears in Glover's "History of Derby". Sir Thomas de Rydeware carried his pedigree back to Asser, in the time of the Conquest. The earliest account of the family extant is that which is given by the great antiquarian authority Sir William Dugdale, in his "Baronage of England" under the title of Earls of Chester; and also in his famous work the "Honastician Angelicantum". There he gives a record of Leofric I who signs himself Earl of Leicester in the year 716 (the first who bore that title) and who was also Earl of Chester; and a record also of Leofric's descendants and successors to those earldoms continuously down to Eadwyne, at the time of the Conquest, and who was grandson of the renowned Leofric III and Godiva his wife, Countess of Coventry, which Leofric was son of Leofwine; who, from Leofwine to Eadwyne, were, for four generations, Dukes of Mercia, in addition to their earlier titles of Earls of Leicester, Chester, etc.

Those who wish for further information on many of the intermarrying lines down through the generations should be pleased to refer to the compiler's companion volume, "162 Allied Families" pp. 5-34, 82, 83 etc.'
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Source Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy : "1826, 8,4. Mary con mcd (dis by Mt. Holly MM)"

  Noted events in her life were:

• Religion. Quaker

Mary married Daniel KNIGHT Sr [93] [MRIN: 97], son of Henry KNIGHT Sr [158] and Elizabeth HARDING [124], on 3 Jan 1796 in Mount Holly, Burlington, NJ.^{1 2 3} (Daniel KNIGHT Sr [93] was born on 12 Sep 1759 in Philadelphia, PA ^{1 3} and died on 29 Jun 1833 in Valley Forge, PA ^{1 2 4}.)