Exley Family History

Victor Exley Letter Sept-Oct 1990

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Letter from Victor Exley to Angela, dated “prox Sept/Oct 1990”, from 7 Acre Crescent. Two pages. Victor makes three key points to help Angela understand how the different pedigrees connect.

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7, Acre Crescent Prox Sept/Oct 1990

Dear Angela,

Thanks for your letter. I’m very pleased to hear that Lionel & Brenda are still with us — they must be advanced in years by now — and that they are still interested in the pedigree & Exley Hall. I am sorry that you are having difficulty in understanding my explanations of the different pedigrees so I’ll just make three points to try to sort things out for you:

  1. So far I have two lines only which I’ve positively connected to the Exleys of Exley Hall. The first is the Rawdon line from which Lionel & I are both descended & the second is the Liversedge Hall line. The couple common to both is John Exley / Eliz. Tonge. Their son Robert married Mary Lister & their son Samuel started the Rawdon line. John & Eliz.’s other son Francis married Sybil Oates & they started the Liversedge line. Your Matthew is not yet linked to either.

  2. When Edith Ellen (or Brenda) drew up the N.Z. pedigrees she didn’t make the connection between the aforesaid Robert and his father John (m. Eliz. Tonge). So in the N.Z. pedigrees we have John d.1566 m. Eliz. Tonge and no children of their marriage shown. Then on the later sheet we have the Rawdon Exleys starting with Robert of Halifax, Burley & Askwith.

  3. On the first sheet of the N.Z.P., I have taken Richard son of Wm de Dewsbury & his descendants as the main line, while I took the other son William (m. Alice) for my main line.

[Page 2:] Both are equally valid because in the absence of church registers at that early period the only source of relationships is what we can deduce from deeds & wills, which were not always clear. Some deeds were not even dated. That is why from Richard (living 1277) down to James (living 1516) there are no birth dates, no death dates & no wives’ names. Also it is the reason for Edith Ellen to say Thomas & Felaqua were probably the parents of the following! I hope that together with the enclosed pedigree, will help to sort things out.

We’ve had a really good summer for weather and we’ve been out & about to our favourite places…

Love from Yorkshire Cheers Dorothy & Vic

Extracted Claims

  • Two lines positively connected to Exley Hall: the Rawdon line and the Liversedge Hall line
  • The common couple is John Exley (m. Eliz. Tonge, 1555) and Elizabeth Tonge
  • Their son Robert Exley (m. Mary Lister, 1588) married Mary Lister; son Samuel started Rawdon line
  • Their other son Francis married Sybil Oates; started the Liversedge line
  • Victor chose William (m. Alice) as his main line; NZ pedigree chose Richard son of Wm de Dewsbury
  • Edith Ellen’s NZ pedigree failed to connect Robert of Halifax to his father John (m. Eliz. Tonge)
  • Victor’s wife was Dorothy

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