Research Notes:
1562-1565 Thomas Leigh of Caldwell, Bedfordshire, married Amy, daughter of Richard Wodden of Wallingham, Bedfordshire, and widow of Richard Wheatley. They had children John, Thomas, and Elizabeth. [1] [2] [3]
1581 Scooley-Leigh, Ric. gen., & Amea, vid., gen., mar. at St Mary, Bedfordshire. Dated July 17. [4]
Amy Schooley was widow of Thomas Leigh. [5]
1582 Arms were granted to Richard Schooley "of Cadwell, Bedfordshire, confirmed 6 June 1582 by Flower, MS Ashm. 834, fo. 54b, copy of grant, Bodleian Lib.; Guil. 360." [6]
1591 Richardus Schooley, de Caldwell, gen., sep. was buried on October 11, at St Mary, Bedfordshire. [7]
1591-93 Richard Schooley (relationship not specified) contested the administration by widow Amie of the estate of Richard Schooley, deceased, of Bedford. The court stated "the allegations of the defendant, wife, Amy, at Second of all Souls, 4 Nov 1591, has been proved." "Now we pronounce that said Amy is relict of said deceased and is entitled to administer his goods." Sentence on 13 June 1592 (anno domino millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo secundo). [8] [9]
Plaintiff: Thomas Leigh, Defendant: Amy Scoley, widow. Claim by lease. Lands at Stratford Bow in the county of Essex, and in the parish of Wotton in the county of Bedford, held by Thomas Leigh, plaintiff's father, for several terms of years. [10]
1603 On 7 December, Anna Scoley, gen. [de Caldwell] was buried at St Mary, Bedfordshire, England. [11]
"A will of Amy Schooly of 1604 [ABP/R26 f.14] shows that she was living in the mansion on the site of Cauldwell Priory as she devised to her son John "all the wainscote, glasse windowes, portals, furnaces, brewing vessels, shelves, dressers and doores with the lockes, keyes, boltes and latches to them belonging nowe used in my mansion howse of Cawdwell and all the maungers, rackes and such lyke necessaries belonging to the barnes and stables in Cawdwell aforesaid". The fact that she merely lived there indicates that she was a daughter or other female relative of Thomas and Anne Leigh and that the house itself had been devised elsewhere, probably to her son John, either by Thomas and Anne, or their successors." [12][Bedford and Luton Archives and Records Service (BLARS) has the will of Amy Scholey of Bedford St. Mary, Caldwell, widow under ref 1603-4/104, not seen]
Some researchers have named this Richard Schooley, whose estate was contested in 1592 by Richard Schooley and widow Amy Wodden-Leigh-Schooley, as the father of Richard Scholey [13] father of Anthony Schooley and sister of Alice Hodgson.
1586-1590 Richard Scoley "to be liable for taxation in the Royal Household" [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
This Richard Scholey has been named by researchers as the father of Thomas Scholey born c 1590 in Methley, Yorkshire, England and married Jan 1607/08 to Mercy Flore and died Sep 1638 at Methley, Yorkshire, England.
1614-15 The will of John Flower the elder of Methley named widow Mercye Scoley and her sons John and Robert Scholey, Methley Register, Yorkshire. [19]
1620 Mercy Scholey, widow, (was buried) the xxviijth thereof (April), Methley Register, Yorkshire. [20]
Richard Schooley's birth has been reported in 1550 in Cadwell (Gadwell, Caldwell), Bedfordshire, England with son Richard born 1583 at Easton On Hill, Stamford Barren, Northamptonshire, England.
1595 A will for Richard Scoley, Aughton, was recorded in the York registry of wills. Dated October 2. [21]
[1] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), [History of Parliament Online].
[2] Frederick Augustus Blaydes. Genealogia Bedfordiensis (London:Chiswick Press, 1890), 25-26, reports baptisms of children, [InternetArchive].
[3] Frederick Augustus Blaydes, ed., William Harvey, Robert Cooke, George Owen, The Visitations of Bedfordshire, Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634 (London: The Publications of the Harleian Society, 2 copies labeled as Vol. 19, and Vol. 21, 1884), 179, Pedigree of Leigh of Cauldwell, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[4] Frederick Augustus Blaydes. Genealogia Bedfordiensis (London:Chiswick Press, 1890), 26, [InternetArchive].
[5] Frederick Augustus Blaydes. Genealogia Bedfordiensis (London:Chiswick Press, 1890), 345, [InternetArchive].
[6] William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume 2, 777, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Frederick Augustus Blaydes. Genealogia Bedfordiensis (London:Chiswick Press, 1890), 26, [InternetArchive].
[8] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, [AncestryImage].
[9] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 2.
[10] Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1830), 144, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Frederick Augustus Blaydes. Genealogia Bedfordiensis (London:Chiswick Press, 1890), 27, [InternetArchive].
[12] History of Caldwell Priory, [URL].
[13] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Richard Scholey, [JRWolfeGenealogy].
[14] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, 1586, E 115/344/46, [UKNationalArchives].
[15] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, 1587, E 115/358/136, [UKNationalArchives].
[16] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, 1588, E 115/350/28, [UKNationalArchives].
[17] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, 1589, E 115/336/92, [UKNationalArchives].
[18] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, 1590, E 115/336/93, [UKNationalArchives].
[19] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 74, footnote, [HathiTrust].
[20] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 76, [HathiTrust].
[21] "Index of Wills in the York Registry, 1594-1602, Vol. 6" The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association Record Series 24 (1898), 91, Vol. 26, page 169, [HathiTrust].