Richard Baildon, Esq.

Not to be confused with Richard Belden, of Wethersfield.

"oldest surviving male & his father's heir"

“Richard Beldon” in The American Genealogist (2001) page 27. (document attached)

• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ba... "b. c.1560, ?2nd s. of George Baildon (d.1588) of Methley, Yorks. and Anne, da. of Thomas Falkingham of Barton-le-Willows, Lincs., wid. of James Standish of Killingholme, Lincs. m. (1) by 1582, Frances (bur. 21 May 1587), da. and coh. of Henry Johnson of Walton Head, Kirkby Overblow, Yorks., 1s. 3da. d.v.p.; (2) by 1589, Margaret (bur. 22 Sept. 1598), da. of Richard Gooderick† of Ribston, Yorks. 6s. (3 d.v.p.) 2da.; (3) Isabel (bur. 9 Mar. 1601), da. of Sir Philip Tyrwhitt, 1st bt., of Stainfield, Lincs., wid. of Robert Haldenby of Haldenby, Yorks., s.p.; (4) 2 May 1604 Anne (d.1630/1), da. of John Jennyngs of Dennington, Suff., wid. of Francis Colby alias Wentworth of Leiston, Suff. s.p. kntd. 23 July 1603. d. 24 June 1622.1 sig. Fra[ncis] Bayldon. "
• " He died at Monk Fryston in the West Riding on 24 June 1622, leaving as his heir his grandson by his first marriage, who alienated the Kippax property to Sir William Slingsby*. The children of his second marriage were puritans; one (indicted for highway robbery in his youth) emigrated to Connecticut in 1635 [SIC: disproven] and two others became officers in the parliamentary army in 1642.11 "