1586 "October ... Mercie, the doughter of John Flower, the xxvth daie thereof", Methley Baptisms Register, Yorkshire. [1]
1608/09 "Thomas Scoley and Mercy Flore. the vij day of Januarie", Methley marriage Register, Yorkshire. [2]
1609 "Aprill. John, sonne of Thomas Scoley, the sixt of Aprill", Methley Baptisms Register, Yorkshire. [3]
1610/11 "February... Robert Scholey, sonne of Thomas, the 7 day", Methley Baptisms Register, Yorkshire. [4]
1610/11 Thomas Scholey died the 24 day thereof (March), Methley Burials Register, Yorkshire. [5]
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. [6]
1620 "May ... Mercy Scholey, widdow, the xxviijth thereof", Methley Burials Register, Yorkshire. [7]
Research Notes:
1591 "Januarie. Jayne, doughter of Edward Scoley, xxvjth day thereof", Methley Baptisms Register, Yorkshire. [8]
1597 "June. Willm Scoley, sonne of Edward, the vth daie thereof", Methley Baptisms Register, Yorkshire. [9]
1605 "November. Edwarde, sonne of Edwarde Scoley, the xth daye", Methley Baptisms Register, Yorkshire. [10]
1640 William, son of William Scholey, baptiz. 18vo Junij, Methley baptism Register, Yorkshire. [11] He died 1714 and was a member of the Friends meetings at Balby [12] William Schooley resided at Aughton, and he was a member of the Friends Meetings of Balby. [English Friends Records]
1644 Ann, the wife of William Skales, the 6 day of February, Methley burial Register, Yorkshire. [13]
1645 Aprill, Jane, daughter of William Scholey, the 22th day thereof, Methley baptism Register, Yorkshire. [14]
1647 June. Edward Scholey seni'r, the 18th day, Methley burial Register, Yorkshire. [15]
1650 The will of Stephen Scholey, yeoman, parish South Kirkeby, Register Grey, was dated 25 February, 1650 and named relict Elizabeth Scholey as administrator. [16]
1654 Ellen Scholey, spinster, and Henrye Barton, of Rossington were married at Rotherham [17]. Ellen Scholey married Henrye Barton of Par-Aughton and she died the same year. [18]
1655 Henrye Barton of the parish of Rossington, husband man, & Ellen Scholey of the parish of Rotherham, spinster, were published 28 January 4 & 11 Feb 1654/55 & married 19 Feb 1654/55. [19]
1657 The will of William Scholey, yeoman, parish Methley, Register Ruthen, was dated 20 August, 1657 and was administered by relict Anne Scholey. Brother Edward and others were named. [20] [21]
1657 The will of John Scholey, parish Havercrofte, was administered by relict Anne Scholey. [22]
1659 The will of Anne Major, widow of Thomas Major, parish Fenwick, Register Pell, was dated 3 May, 1659 and named Elizabeth Scholey, grandmother of children, as administrator. [23]
1659 2nd May, M'd that Edward Sholey off Methley, Shoomaker, accknowledges himselfe to owe to his Highnew ye L'd Protector 40h, Edward Scholey of ye same, yeoman & John Cockhill off ye same, yeoman, bound each 20h. Condition that whereas Edward Scholey is a pson off very lewd & evill behaviour, a common alehouse haunter & disobedient & rebellious sonne, & upon the 28th Ap'll last most unnaturally assaulted & made an affray upon his own mother, aged about sixty years & threw her downe to ye ground & bruised her in diuerse p'tes of her body ..." [24]
1671 William, son of William Scholey, bap: 19 February, Methley baptism Register, Yorkshire. [25]
1675 Edward Scholey was buried 28 of August. [26]
1677 John, son of William Scholey, bap: the 20 of October, Methley baptism Register, Yorkshire. [27]
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[2] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 45, [HathiTrust].
[3] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 19, [HathiTrust].
[4] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 20, [HathiTrust].
[5] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 72, [HathiTrust].
[6] 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].
[7] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 76, [HathiTrust].
[8] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 13, [HathiTrust].
[9] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 15, [HathiTrust].
[10] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 18, [HathiTrust].
[11] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 31, [HathiTrust].
[12] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 2.
[13] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 86, [HathiTrust].
[14] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 34, [HathiTrust].
[15] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 87, [HathiTrust].
[16] John Sykes, "A catalogue of the inquisitions post mortem for the county of York, for the reigns of James I. and Charles I., in the Courts of Chancery and of Wards and Liveries," Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, Record Series 1 (1885), 67, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[17] Thomas M Blagg and C S James, ed, Yorkshire Marriage Registers, West Riding, Vol. 1, [Phillimore Vol. CCI] (1914), 86, [InternetArchive].
[18] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 2.
[19] Thomas M Blagg and C S James, ed, Yorkshire Marriage Registers, West Riding, Vol. 1, [Phillimore Vol. CCI] (1914), 86, [InternetArchive].
[20] John Sykes, "A catalogue of the inquisitions post mortem for the county of York, for the reigns of James I. and Charles I., in the Courts of Chancery and of Wards and Liveries," Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, Record Series 1 (1885), 174, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[21] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, [AncestryImage].
[22] John Sykes, "A catalogue of the inquisitions post mortem for the county of York, for the reigns of James I. and Charles I., in the Courts of Chancery and of Wards and Liveries," Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, Record Series 1 (1885), 183, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[23] John Sykes, "A catalogue of the inquisitions post mortem for the county of York, for the reigns of James I. and Charles I., in the Courts of Chancery and of Wards and Liveries," Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, Record Series 1 (1885), 235, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[24] "Miscellanea," The Publications of the Thoresby Society, 15 (Leeds: 1909), 285, of 284-285, [HathiTrust].
[25] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 104, [HathiTrust].
[26] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 123, [HathiTrust].
[27] George Denison Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley in the County of York from 1560 to 1812 (Leeds: 1903), 107, [HathiTrust].