'Rockley1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Rockley of Faithwayte, Rockley of Rockley (Rokeley of Rokeley)

                               
Henry Rockley of Rockley & Salthewayte
1. Robert Rockley
  m. Cicely
  A. Robert Rockley
  m. Elizabeth
  i. Sir Robert Rockley of Rockley (Rokeley of Rokeley)
  m. Elizabeth Fitzwilliam (dau of Sir William Fitzilliam of Sprotborough by Elizabeth, dau of Ralph, Lord Cromwell)
  a. Robert Rockley or Rokeley
  (1) Sir Robert Rockley or Rokeley of (Rockley and) Falthwayte (sb Faithwayte?)
  m. (Elizabeth) Warren (dau (sb sister) of Laurence Warren of Poynton)
(A) John Rockley or Rokeley
  m. Isabell Meverell (dau of John Meverell of Throwley)
  (i) Sir Thomas Rockley or Rokeley (d 1517)
  m. Alice Hopton (dau of Sir Roger Hopton)
(a) Roger Rockley of Rockley (and Faithwayte)
  m. Elizabeth Nevile (dau of Sir John Nevile of Chevet)
  ((1)) Robert Rockley of Rockley
  m. Mary Fairfax (dau of Sir William Fairfax)
  ((A)) William Rockley of Rockley (a 1585)
  m. Jane Wentworth (dau of Matthew Wentworth of West Bretton)
  ((i)) Mary Rockley (b c1575) who apparently married ...
  m. William Wombwell of Wombwell (b c1565)
  ((ii))+ other issue (d young) - John, Frances
((B)) Thomas Rockley
  m. Maudlyn Smyth (dau of Anthony Smyth)
  ((i))+ issue - Richard (preacher in Southwark), Edward
  The following connections are wholly presumptuous. However, possibly son of either Richard or Edward was ...
  ((a)) Robert Rockley of Rockley
  (((1))) Grace Rockley
  m1/2. (1634) William Armytage of Netherton (d 1652)
  m2/1. Thomas Metcalfe
  (((2))) Marguerite Rockley
  m. Joseph Scott of Woodsome, Yorkshire
  (((A))) Susanna Scott
  m. John Allen of Sheffield
((C)) Elizabeth Rockley
  m. Francis Burdett of Burthwaite
  ((D))+ other issue - Francis (dsp), Gervase, Francis (dsp), Margaret
  ((2)) Francis Rockley
  (b) James Rockley
  (c) Anne Rockley
  m. Alexander Castleford
  (d) Isabel Rockley
  m. Wilfrid Pigbourne
  (e) Katherine Rockley
  m. Roger Amyas
  (2) Ellinor Rockley shown by various web sites as of this family, of this generation
  m. Robert Drax, later of Woodhall
  (3) Alice Rockley possibly of this generation
  m. Robert Barnby of Barnby

Main source(s): Visitation (Yorkshire, 1563-4, Rockley), Visitation (Foster 1875, Yorkshire, 1584/5, Rockley of Rockley)
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