Bridget Woodward

Bridget WOODWARD

• Bridget WOODWARD (George, John, George, John) was born Oct 1590 in Upton, Buckinghamshire, England and was christened 1 Nov 1590.

Bridgett Woodward In England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 - Bridgett Woodward, Gender: Female, Christening: Nov 1 1590, Upton Cum Chalvey, Buckingham, England, Father: George Woodward, Indexing Project, (Batch) Number: C07376-1, System Origin: England-ODM, GS Film number: 919251 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000002908595620?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082582296076&position=0

Spouses

• Married: (1) Sir Thomas LIDDELL (LYDDALL) of Ravensworth Castle, son of Sir Thomas LIDDELL (LYDDALL) (1st Baronet) and Isabel ANDERSON. Thomas was born 1583/1584 in Durham, England. He died in (died before his father).
• Married (2) Sir Thomas HENEAGE of Greys Inne & Battersea, Surrey on 17 May 1630 in All Hallows Wall, London, Middlesex, England. Thomas died 9 Aug 1641

Children with Thoms Liddell

• Sir Thomas LIDDELL (LYDDALL) (2nd Baronet) died Nov 1697.
• George LIDDELL (LYDDALL) -of New Kent Co., VA was born 1620 and died 19 Jan 1705.

Children with Sir Thomas HENEAGE

• Sir Michael HENEAGE was born about 1632 and died Dec 1711
• Elizabeth HENEAGE.

History

Bridget Woodward Liddell was a Maid of Honor to the Queen of Bohemia. She married Sir Thomas Lyddall (or Liddell) of Ravenholm Castle, , son: Thomas; she married 2nd Thomas Heneage of Greys Inne & Battersea, Surrey. Le Neve's Pedigrees states Bridget was the daughter of Edward Woodward of Lee near Windsor.

The Family of Bray - Page 106 - by Virginia Bray Stephenson: "Sir Thomas Lyddall was born 1583/4 in Durham, England, ... It is known that Sir Thomas Lyddall and Bridget Woodward had George who was born in 1620..."
Bridget married (1) Sir Thomas LIDDELL (LYDDALL) of Ravensworth Castle, son of Sir Thomas LIDDELL (LYDDALL) (1st Baronet) and Isabel ANDERSON. Thomas was born 1583/1584 in Durham, England. He died in (died before his father).

Burke's says: Sir Thomas Liddell, esq. of Ravensworth Castle, was the son of Sir Thomas Liddell, Esq., of Ravensworth Castle, who being a zealous supporter of King Charles I was created a Baronet 2 November 1642, in consideration of his gallant defense of Newcastle against the Scots during the civil War. Sir Thomas [the father] was married to Isabel, daughter of Henry Anderson, esq., by whom he had two daughters and six sons. The eldest was Sir Thomas who married Bridget, daughter of Edward Woodward [sic...should say George] of Lee, maid of honor to the Queen of Bohemia, and d.v.p., leaving an only son, Thomas.

It is easy to confuse all the Thomas Liddell's...but this one died before his father, and his son Thomas became the next Baronet. Burke's further states that Sir Thomas (the 1st baronet) died in 1650 [he actually died in the spring of 1652], and was succeeded by his grandson, another SIR THOMAS LIDDELL (the son of Thomas and Bridget). SIR THOMAS LIDDELL from Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed - By Richard Welford: THE GALLANT DEFENDER OF NEWCASTLE. THE old Newcastle family of Liddell, represented in these later days by the noble house of Ravensworth, fills a conspicuous place in local history. From the middle of the sixteenth century to our own time it has sent forth strong and capable men, who, generation after generation, have occupied honourable and distinguished positions in the public service. To Newcastle it has given aldermen, magistrates, governors of incorporated companies, sheriffs and mayors; to both town and county it has furnished a long succession of representatives in Parliament.

Among the more notable members of this historical family are : —

• Thomas Liddell, Sheriff of Newcastle in 1563-64; Mayor in I572-73-
• Thomas Liddell, Sheriff, 1592-93; Mayor and Governor of the Merchants' Company, 1597-98; Mayor and Governor of the Hostmen's Company, 1609-10.
• Sir Thomas Liddell, Sheriff, 1609-10; Mayor and Governor of the Merchants' Company, 1625-26; Mayor and *
• Governor of the Hostmen's Company, 1636-37; M.P. for Newcastle, 1640.
• Henry Liddell, Sheriff, 1621-22.
• Sir Francis Liddell, Sheriff, 1640-41; Mayor and Governor of the Hostmen's Company, 1664-65.
• Francis Liddell, Sheriff, 1664-65.
• Sir Henry Liddell, M.P. for Durham City, 1688-98; for Newcastle, 1701-5, 1706-10.
• Thomas Liddell, M.P. for Lostwithiel, 1715.
• George Liddell, M.P. for Berwick, 1727-40.
• Sir Henry Liddell, M.P. for Morpeth, 1734-47. Baron Ravensworth, 1747.
• Richard Liddell, M.P. for Bossiney, 1741-46.
• Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, M.P. for Durham County, 1806-7. Baron Ravensworth, 1821.
• Henry Thomas Liddell, M.P. for Northumberland, 1826-30; Durham, 1837-47; Liverpool, 1853-55. Baron Ravensworth, 1855; Earl of Ravensworth, 1874.

Henry George Liddell, M.P. for South Northumberland, 1852-78 — the present earl. About Thomas Liddell, the first on the roll, and practically the founder of the family, local history has little to relate. He was a merchant adventurer at a time when the whole mercantile fleet of the Tyne consisted of thirty-six ships, with an aggregate burthen of 1892 tons, and the population of Newcastle did not exceed 10,000 souls. Yet, being shrewd and enterprising, he was able to accumulate property, and to leave his family well provided for. On the day that he died, May the 8th, 1577, he made his will, and from that document, still preserved at Durham, we learn the amount and ascertain the extent of his worldly possessions. He had three places of business upon the Great Bridge of Tyne; a house in the Cloth Market, where his eldest son Thomas lived; another house at the Head of the Side, in which his second son Francis resided; a third, occupied by one John Fogghearde, cutler; his own mansion, with its hall and parlour, kitchen and brewhouse, great chamber and little chamber, men's room and women's room; the mill at the Barras; a "place called the Friars"; and, across the water, a meadow at Gateshead. Besides all this real property he had a valuable stock of goods in his warehouses. When he was buried his grateful family placed upon his tombstone, in St. Nicholas' Church, this pious aspiration : — "Thomas Liddell, Merchant Adventurer, died, 8 May, 1577; Whose soul in God we trust went straight to Heaven."

Thomas Liddell (2), eldest son of Thomas Liddell (1), inheriting his father's enterprising spirit, was even more successful in winning his way to wealth and influence. He belonged to the corn trade division of the Merchants' Company, but finding that fortunes were being made in the coal trade, he took up his freedom of the Hostmen's Company, erected staiths near the Close Gate, and carried on large speculations in coal and corn at the same time. While he was Mayor of Newcastle in 1597-98, the great dispute about the grand lease of Gateshead and Whickham culminated in appeals to the Privy Council, and before it ended he, being one of the grand lessees, was pretty roughly handled. But like other well- abused public men, he survived the ordeal of criticism, and when Queen Elizabeth settled the quarrel in 1600 by a grant of the "Great Charter," he was one of the aldermen, and one of the fraternity of Hostmen, whose position the charter denned and ratified. Not long afterwards he acquired the estate with whose name the family of Liddell has, ever since, been identified. He purchased, in 1607, from Sir William Gascoigne, the castle and manor of Ravenshelme, the manor of Lamesley, and lands at Eighton, Longacres, Northend, Ravensworth, and Pockerley. Two years later he was elected for the second time Mayor of Newcastle, and his eldest son being, at the same time, appointed Sheriff, the unusual spectacle was exhibited of father and son — both Thomas Liddells — filling the two highest offices in the municipality. He died in August, 1619, leaving by two marriages, first to Margaret, daughter of Alderman John Watson, and secondly to Jane, daughter of Alderman Henry Mitford, a numerous family.

Sir Thomas Liddell, whose name usually appears in local history with the adjunct — "one of the gallant defenders of Newcastle against the Scots," was the eldest son of Thomas Liddell (2) by his first wife, Margaret Watson. He was baptised at St. Nicholas' Church, Newcastle, April 14th, 1578, and married at St. John's on the 2 3rd February, 1595-96, to Isabel, daughter of Henry Anderson, of Haswell. Upon the death of his father he inherited the fine estate purchased from the Gascoignes, and in the old castle of Ravenshelme he went to reside. So, at least, is to be inferred from a Newcastle subsidy roll, dated 1621, in which his name, as owner of property or goods in the town, does not appear. He had been Sheriff during his father's Mayoralty as already mentioned, but for some reason or other he did not take the higher office for many years afterwards. It was not until Michaelmas, 1625, a few months after Charles I. had succeeded to the throne, that he became Mayor of Newcastle. The year which he had chosen for his Mayoralty proved to be in every way unfavourable. Plague came round again, suspending nearly every kind of business except that of religious persecution — for neither pestilence nor tempest interfered with the progress of bigotry and intolerance. The Mayor found that, even amidst the horrors of this deadly visitation, he was expected to keep a watchful eye upon recusants, seminary priests, and emissaries from France and Rome. And not upon them alone. He was to act the spy upon his Catholic friends and neighbours, and report their doings to the bishop, to the Privy Council, or to the king. This work was distasteful to him, and he refused to do it. He was willing to arrest, examine, and detain foreign smugglers of relics and papistical literature, and he did so; but to watch his neighbours he declined. When, soon after his election, a suggestion came from Bishop Neile that Sir Robert Hodgson, of Hebburn, and Mrs. Dorothy Lawson, of St. Anthony's, were dangerous persons and must be watched, he sent back to the bishop's seneschal this spirited reply : — "S1R, — I received your letter dated yesterday [Nov. 19, 1625], whereby I understand my Lord of Durham desires to be satisfied concerning the danger of Sir Robert Hogson's and Mrs. Lawson's houses, and of the intercourse with each other by boats over the river; these are to inform his Lo'pp that I, and the Aldermen my brethren, hearing of such reports, made enquiry, and could finde noe matter thereof but idle reports, other than their keeping of boats for crossing the river, etc. — Yor. loving brother. "THO. LYDDKLL." Mr. Liddell's second Mayoralty, in 1636-37, was equally unpropitious to his dignity and comfort. At the date of his election a visitation of the plague of unusual virulence was raging in Newcastle ; people were dying at the rate of from four hundred to five hundred a week; grass was growing in the deserted streets. Politically, the horizon was deeply overcast, for the king was governing without a Parliament, and while an unauthorised assessment of ship-money was creating an uproar in England, liturgical innovations across the Border were driving the Scots on the high road to rebellion. Within a year of Mr. Liddell's retirement from his second Mayoralty he and his brethren were called upon to discuss ways and means of fortifying and defending Newcastle against invasion. Ardently espousing the Royal cause, Thomas Liddell was sent to represent his fellow-citizens in the great assembly of the nation during that abortive session of 1640, which from its brevity gained the nickname of the Short Parliament. On the 2nd of November, 1642, King Charles rewarded his fidelity with a baronetcy. When, therefore, civil war broke out, and Newcastle was threatened with siege and bombardment, he was one of those who made up their minds to hold the town for the Crown to the last extremity. His name is appended to the letters of defiance which the loyal authorities sent to Sir William Armyn and the Earl of Levcn, before the storming began, and there can be little doubt that he was one of the five hundred defenders who, when the town was taken, fled to the Castle, and made terms for their lives. He was certainly among those who, a few days later, were ordered by the House of Commons to be sent for as delinquents, and who, being deprived of their seats and offices, were afterwards held captive in various parts of London. It may be, as Surtees remarks, that Sir Thomas Liddell did not owe his imprisonment solely to his loyalty, for " the Committee of both Kingdoms did conclude and agree amongst themselves that some of the most notorious delinquents and malignants, late coal-owners in the town of Newcastle, be wholly excluded from intermeddling with any shares or parts of collieries " of which they had already, in the opinion of the victorious party, made such ill use. But as Parliament might find a difficulty in driving on the trade, they did not consider it advantageous " to put out all the said malignants at once, but were rather constrained, for the present, to make use of those delinquents in working their own collieries, as tenants and servants"; so they selected a few only of the most stubborn and wealthy — viz., Sir Thomas Liddell, Sir John Marley, Sir Thomas Riddell, and three others, and kept them in durance for example's sake. In the House of Commons Journals, under date February I3th, 1645-46, is an entry to the effect that "Sir Thomas Lyddale, Baronet," being a prisoner in " London House," petitioned for his release, and was " referred to the Committee of Goldsmiths' Hall to compound for his delinquency." Three months later the terms of his acquittal were arranged. On the 3rd of May, 1646, the House of Commons passed the following resolution : — " That this House doth agree with the Committee of Goldsmiths' Hall; and doth accept of the Fine of Four Thousand Pounds for freeing Sir Thomas Liddall, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Baronet, from his Delinquency; and for the taking off the Sequestration of his Estate : He hath an Estate in Lands, for Life, Three hundred Seventy Pounds, Ten Shillings per Annum; in Fee a Hundred and Fifty Pounds per Annum ; and, for one Life, in a Colliery, Six Hundred Pounds per Annum : And that an Ordinance be passed for granting a Pardon to him for his Offence, and for Discharge of his Estate, accordingly." Sir Thomas Liddell did not live to see the crowning triumph of his opponents — the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He died in the spring of 1652, aged 74, the father of fourteen children. Most of these, including his son and heir, Sir Thomas Liddell, Knight, predeceased deceased him, and the titles and estate descended to his grandson, Thomas Liddell, who, marrying a daughter of Sir Henry Vane of Raby Castle, carried the family name and influence into an utterly different political groove — that of the Puritan and the Presbyter.

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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain states that Bridget was the daughter of George Woodward of Bucks: THOMAS HENEAGE, esq. was of Battersea, in the county of Surrey, where he died 9th August, 1641, leaving issue by Bridget his wife, daughter of George Woodward, esq. of Upton, in the county of Bucks, and relict of Sir Thomas Liddell, knt. of Ravensworth Castle, in the county of Durham, a son, Sir Michael Heneage, knt. of Gray's Inn, who died in December, 1711, leaving by Phebe, daughter of Samuel Foote, esq. four daughters and one son, CHARLES HENEAGE. [The interesting reference here is that Heneage was "of Battersea, in County Surry," where we know some of our Woodward's were.] The eldest son, THOMAS HENEAGE, esq. was of Battersea, in the county of Surrey, where he died 9th August, 1641, leaving issue by Bridget his wife, daughter of George Woodward, esq. of Upton, in the county of Bucks, and relict of Sir Thomas Liddell, knl. of Ravensworth Castle, in the county of Durham, a son, Sir Michael Heneage, knt. of Gray's Inn, who died in December, 1711, leaving by Phebe, daughter of Samuel Foote, esq. four daughters and one son, CHARLES HENEAGE, esq. of London, who d. in 1738, leaving two daughters, Elizabeth and Cecil, his co-heirs ; both dying unmarried, the latter in 1765, and the former in 1779, the inheritance of this branch of the Heneage family devolved to the issue of their aunt.

Thomas HENEAGE (Esq.)

Born: 21 Jan 1581, St. Catherine, London, Middlesex, England Died: 9 Aug 1641 Father: Michael HENEAGE (Esq.) Mother: Grace HONYWOOD Married 1: ¿? Married 2: ¿?

Married 3: Bridget WOODWARD (dau. of George Woodward and Elizabeth Honywood) 17 May 1630, All Hallows Wall, London, Middlesex, England

Children:

• 1. Michael HENEAGE (Sir)
• 2. Elizabeth HENEAGE

Sources

Our Southern Cousins - http://oursoutherncousins.com/Woodward's%20of%20Buckinghamshire.pdf