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Families covered: Gledhill (Gleidhill) of Barkisland

                               
Walker spells the family name as "Gleidhill" throughout but we mainly use "Gledhill" which appears to be the more commonly used version.
Richard Gleidhill of Barkisland
1. Thomas Gleidhill of Barkisland (b c1270)
  A. Peter Gleidhill of Barkisland (b c1295)
  i. Mary Gleidhill (b c1320, coheir)
  m. Henry Gledhill (cousin) @@ just below
  B. ?? Gledhill presumed of this generation
i. Henry Gledhill (b c1325??)
  m. Mary Gleidhill (b c1320, dau/coheir of Peter Gleidhill of Barkisland) @@ just above
  a. William Gledhill of Barkisland (b 1327!)
  (1) Adam Gledhill of Barkisland (b 1356)
(A) John Gledhill of Barkisland (a 1448)
  (i) Thomas Gledhill of Barkisland (a 1476)
  (a) John Gledhill of Barkisland (a 1502)
  ((1)) Thomas Gledhill of Barkisland (d before 04.1565) - continued below
  ((2)) John Gledhill of (Little Evan in) Barkisland
  ((A)) Jennet Gledhill (bur 22.10.1597)
  m. (08.09.1573) Thomas Hanson of Rastrick (bur 22.10.1592, son of John by Agnes Savile)
  ((3)) Margery (Margaret) Gledhill
  m. John Savile of New Hall (son of Nicholas by Margery Wilkinson)

 

 

Thomas Gledhill of Barkisland (d before 04.1565) - continued above
1. John Gledhill (d before 18.06.1589)
  m. Cecily Thornhill (dau of John Thornhill of Fixby by Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Grice of Wakefield)
  A. Thomas Gledhill of Barkisland
  The following is supported by 'Ducatus Leodiensis' (Ralph Thoresby, 1715, p12).
m. Edith Harrison (d by 06.1636, dau of John Harrison of Leeds)
  i. John Gledhill of Barkisland (bpt 15.09.1605, bur 28.05.1656)
  m. (11.10.1636) Sarah Horton (bpt 29.01.1609, bur 16.01.1639, dau of William Horton son of William of Barkisland by Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Hanson of Toothill)
  a.+ issue - Thomas (bpt 05.09.1637, bur 30.03.1657), Sarah (d before 30.04.1658)
  ii. Elizabeth Gledhill (bur 06.02.1672)
m. (11.10.1636) William Horton of Barkisland (bpt 02.08.1607, bur 02.01.1656)
  iii.+ other issue (dsp) - Thomas, Sir Richard (d 1643)
  B. Michael Gledhill of Barkisland
  m1. Dorothy Tempest (dau of Richard Tempest of Tong by Elizabeth, dau/coheir of Thomas Savile of Overthorpe)
  m2. (1617) Ann Waddington of Gindleton
  C. Dorothea Gledhill
  m. (01.06.1602) Edward Hanson of Woodhouse (bpt 22.01.1582, bur 23.07.1652)
  D. Grace Gledhill
  m. (1601) Thomas Wilkinson
  E. Elizabeth Gledhill
  m. (1595) Francis Reynard
  F.+ other issue - Ralph of Bankeroide in Barkisland (d before 28.01.1613), Joseph of Barkisland (d by 10.1637, clothier)
2. Hugh Gledhill (a 12.1580, vicar of Huddersfield)

Main source(s): Walker's Yorkshire Pedigrees (1942, Gledhill of Barkisland near Elland)
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