When Lancelot Ridley was born in 1578, in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, Nicholas Ridley, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Forster, was 29. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in his hometown.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Ridley (Cheshire, Kent, Northumberland) or Ridley Hall in Terling (Essex). The Cheshire, Kent, and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English (ge)ryd(d) ‘cleared’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Essex placename may derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + lēah. A Northumberland family of this name included Bishop Nicholas Ridley, who was burned at the stake in 1555 for refusing to recant his Protestant beliefs.
Possibly also an altered form of Swiss German Riedle or Riedler (see Ridler ).
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