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Sir Robert DE RIDGEWAY Earl Of Londonderry [75] ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

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GenCircles : Ladd and Hamilton Families :
"Sir Robert Ridgway, Second Earl of Londonderry was the godson of Robert Cecil, who became Earl of Salisbury and Prime Minister. Sir Robert Ridgway was knighted very young, and made the tour of Europe in 1611-13. Reference: "Twigs from Family Trees" Notes on the Ridgway Families of Bradford County, PA, Descendants of David, Richard, Robert and Burr Ridgway Pioneers by the Rev Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland, published in 1958"
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Source <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bakerroots/england.html> :
"... Robert married, probably about 1652 and Richard was born about 1653, in which year, 1653 Robert's brother Weston, then thirty-three years old, and three years married, sold the famous family home of Torr Abbey--for reasons which historians regard as most unaccountable--and died in the year 1670, when his son Robert became the fourth Earl of Londonderry. The period in question was one of great commotion and trouble in England. This Robert was thirteen years of age when the people had been preparing for the great uprising, and the storm broke out into Revolution and open war and the battle of Marston was fought. He was aged fourteen at Maseby, and was married when Cromwell had been in full control of the government for three years after the death of King. Roberts son Richard, the emigrant, was only about five years old when Cromwell died; and was married when Charles II had been on the throne about fifteen years.

The feeling of forthcoming trouble and insecurity was coincident, in its inception, with the birth of Robert Ridgway, in 1631. Already had the tide of emigration to the New World set in. Cromwell, then thirty-two years of age, with John Hampden, Pym and others had comtemplated going thither, but were prevented by the government. Sir Henry Lawrence, Lord Robert Brooke and Lord Say and Seal, with their associates, who had obtained a tract of land on the Connecticut River, sent out, in 1638, John Winthrop, Jnr., who had been commissioned by them to be their Governor for the Colony of Conecticut.

The same causes which led to that movement, continued to pervail, and increased in energy as the years rolled on, until Robert Ridgway's son Richard, in 1679, joined in the Quaker exodus from England. At that time, Richard's father, if living was forty-eight years old. Born at Torquay, in Devonshire, the family home having been sold in 1653, he may have lost his life during the struggle. Alexander Ridgway (in 1884) accounted for Richard Ridgway coming from Berks County, on the theory that his father may have been in the Parliamentary Army and the army having been disbanded in the west of England in 1660, when Robert Ridgway was twenty-nine, and his son Richard about seven years old, would probably account for that branch of the family being settled in that part of the country possibly instead of returning to Devonshire. Richard, having married Elizabeth Chamerlyn, about 1675, at Marlborough in Wiltshire, he with her and their only child Thomas, left Welford, in Berkshire, and took passage on board the ship "Jacob and Mary" of London, in the summer of the year 1679."
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Source <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sharp&id=I04522> :
"Robert RIDGWAY
Sex: M
ALIA: 2nd Earl of Londonderry
Death: 1649
Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
1. Has Children Weston RIDGWAY b: ABT 1620
2. Has Children Robert RIDGWAY b: 1631"
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Source <http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/RIDGWAY/2004-07/1090177644> :
"... Sr. Robert Bridgewaye 2 Erle of Londonderry. He was "of Tore." He married
Elizabeth Weston, d/o Sr. Simond Weston.
Children:
i. Weston, (see following)
ii. Leicester, nothing further.
iii. Robert, nothing further.
iv. Lettice, ye only living da. of Sr. Robert Ridgeway. She married Sr. R.
Oatley, of Shropshire.
Note: LDS (AFN: LVLX-MD) says, Robert Ridgway, d. 18 Mar 1640 Rosconvell,
Ireland. "

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. 2ND Earl Of Londonderry, Ireland

Robert married Elisabeth WESTON [76] [MRIN: 32], daughter of Sir Simon WESTON , Knight [370] and Unknown, about 1610.^{1 2} (Elisabeth WESTON [76] was born in 1575 in Staffordshire, England.)