John Revell, son of Thomas Revell and Alice Dowman, married Margaret, daughter of ? North of Bucknell. [1] [2] [3]
John Revel of Ogston married Margaret, daughter and sole heiress of "Roger North of Bobenhill". [4] [5] Or of Roger North of Bolehill [sic]. [6] (Bubnell Hill is across the river from Baslow. Bolehill is a town further south in Derby.)
Thomas of Higham's eldest son, John, is said to have been born in the 1450s and is recorded in several pedigrees as marrying Margaret, daughter of Roger North of Bubnell. "The North family held land at Bobenhull / Bubnell from at least the early 14th century and a Roger North is mentioned there in the Baslow Court Rolls from at least 1441. His heirs (Thomas Wylde and Richard Leche) are mentioned in 1473." [7]
Between 27 May 1474 - 7 July 1480, a case was addressed to the Bishop of London Chancellor of England involving a contract, dated August 28 in the 11th year of the reign of the current king, between John Revell of Shirland and the purchaser in London, who paid him in advance, for delivery of lead by the feast of St. Katherine (11 November). The plaintiff stated that the lead was not delivered on time and John Revell made his wife Margaret executrix and died after the promised delivery date. The plaintiffs sought compensation from Margaret and her current husband, Richard Page. Henry IV, whose reign began on 3 March 1461, was the only king reigning for more than 11 years during this time period, so the contract was made on 27 August 1471 with delivery promised by 11 November 1471, after which John died and Margaret remarried. The case was brought before 7 July 1480, by which time John was dead and Margaret was remarried. [8]
1485 Octave of St. John Baptist [1 July] 3 Richard III. Final concord between John Babyngton knight and Richard Page and Margaret his wife deforciants, of 4 messuages, 4 oxgangs of land, and 20 acres of meadow in Drakenowe and Selston. Consideration £40. [9]
Research Notes:
Several of the notes refer to this John Revell as John Revell of Ogston, based on sources that were written several generations later. We know of no concurrent evidence that this John Revell was of Ogston.
[1] "The Visitations of Derbyshire, 1569 and 1611," The Genealogist a Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Heraldic Research, New Series, 8 (1892), 17-24, 65-80 at 71, [Archive].
[2] Sir William Dugdale, Derbyshire visitation pedigrees, 1569 and 1611 (London: 1895), 71, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Joseph Tilley, The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. 3, The Scarsdale Hundred (1899), 173, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[4] Joseph Hunter, ed. and John W Clay, Familiae Minorum Gentium, Vol. 1, Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. 37 (London: 1894), 399, [InternetArchive].
[5] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 1, "the Hundred of Scarsdale" (1875), 339, [InternetArchive].
[6] Henry Revell, Lord of Swinford, Leicestershire (living A.D.1183), family pedigree chart to 1871, [FHLFilmCatalog].
[7] Mike Clifford, Part 4. The Revells of Derbyshire to ca 1650 (2014), [2014 Version 3 pdf].
[8] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Chancery pleadings addressed to the Bishop of Lincoln as Lord Chancellor, item C 1/54/319, [UKNationalArchives].
[9] Derbyshire Record Office, Ref. No.: D37/MR/T/4, [Derbyshire_Record_Office].