Person:Richard Foley (4)

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Richard Foley
b.1580
d.6 Jul 1657
Parents and Siblings
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m. 24 Jan 1574
  1. Katherine Foley1577 -
  2. Richard Foley1580 - 1657
  3. Edward Foley1584 -
  4. John Foley
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Richard Foley1580 - 1657
  • W.  Margery Willetts (add)
m. 9 Feb 1602
  1. Margery Foley1604 -
  2. Catherine Foley1605 -
  3. Richard Foley1608 -
Spouse and Children
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m.
  1. Anne Foley1611 -
  2. Edward Foley1613 - Abt 1622
  3. Priscilla Foley1615 - 1687
  4. Thomas Foley1617 - 1677
  5. Honor Foley1619 -
  6. Margaret Foley1622 -
  7. Robert Foley1624 - 1676
  8. Samuel Foley1626 - Abt 1678
  9. Sarah Foley1629 -
  10. John Foley1631 -
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Facts and Events
Name Richard Foley
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1580
Christening[2] 28 Mar 1580 Dudley, Worcestershire, EnglandSaint Thomas
Marriage 9 Feb 1602 Rowley-Regis, Staffordshire, Englandto Margery Willetts (add)
Marriage to Alice Brindley
Death[4] 6 Jul 1657
Probate[3] 7 Dec 1657
Reference Number[1] Q7325721?


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Richard Foley (1580–1657) was a prominent English ironmaster. He is best known from the folktale of "Fiddler Foley", which is either not correct or does not apply to him.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richard Foley (ironmaster), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast)
    (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NRSL-YJH : accessed 16 Dec 2013), Richard Foly, 28 Mar 1580.
  3. ↑ Will of Richard Foley, Gentleman of Stourbridge, Worcestershire, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Probate Records, 1384-1858
    PROB 11/270/504.

    His will mentions, among others:

    -his wife Alice
    -his sons Robert, Richard, Thomas, Samuel, John;
    -his daughters Margery, Katherine Comberledge, Anne Normansell, Priscilla Glover, Honor Prittie, Margaret Tyson, Sarah Baker;
    -his son Richard’s children: Richard, Josias, Thomas;
    -daughters of his son Richard by his first wife Margaret Brinley: Lydia Foley, Hanna Foley;
    -his sons-in-law John Baker, Edward Tyson, Henry Glover;
    -his daughter-in-law Anne, wife of his son Thomas Foley;
    -his brother John Foley’s children;
    -his godson Richard Foley, son of his brother Edward Foley;
    -the sisters of Thomas Robinson alias Mason deceased

  4. ↑ Foley, Richard, in Matthew H.C.G. (ed.), and Brian (ed.) Harrison. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: in association with The British Academy. (Oxford University Press).
  5.   Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles). The visitation of the county of Worcester, begun by Thomas May, Chester and Gregory King in Trinity Vacacon, 1682, and finished...1683... (Exeter: W. Pollard, 1883)
    pp. 46-47.
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