Richard Girdlestone

Variously spelt Girdleston, Girleston, Gierleston.

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http://home.scarlet.be/sharmadillo/fam-shar/fam01892.htm - now moved or deleted;
- archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20070221185952/http://home.scarlet.be:8...
"Copyright Martin John Sharman, Brussels, 07-12-1997 Family of Thomas GIRDLESTONE & Elizabeth PYLE"

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http://www.salthousehistory.co.uk/girdlestones.html#
" The Girdlestone family of Kelling - An abbreviated tree to show the Kelling Girdlestones and how the Rectors of Salthouse and Kelling are related."
"His g-g-g-g-great grandson Robert Baker Girdlestone, in his Genealogical Notes published in 1904, described the will of 'this ancient Richard' (as he describes him),
"In his will after providing for his wife Elizabeth, he left his houses, lands etc in Thornage and Hunworth to his son Thomas, who was to pay certain sums to the other three children, Edmund, Elizabeth and Ann. He seems to have been a thriving man, and was apparently churchwarden; but what was his occupation? A gentleman? No. What then? A linen weaver! This was an occupation of much importance in those days (as can be seen from Parliamentary papers — linen cloth being largely exported, while linen-yarn was imported from Ireland and the Low Countries in the age of Elizabeth), and one of his sons (also named Richard) afterwards carried it on at the neighbouring village of Sharrington."

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See notes about Girdlestone name at the top of the tree (although the source mentions Richard as the first one recorded).

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Copied from Ancestry search page (unable to access actual documents):
Richard Girdlestone. Born 1571. Burial: 30 Aug 1628 Location: Thornage, Norfolk.

Burial record confirmed here:
Name Richard Girleston
Gender Male
Burial Date 30 Aug 1628
Burial Place Thornage, Norfolk, England
"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDCQ-4JZ : 12 February 2018), Richard Girleston, burial 30 Aug 1628; citing Thornage, Norfolk, England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,657,227.

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Sighted in the Norfolk Hearth Tax Assessment Michaelmas 1664 (see in Worldcat and National Archives description):
Richard Girdlestone, Bale (i,j). - Indicating that he owned property in Bale at this time.... His father, Thomas is listed in Thornage in this source. (And there is a Margaret Girdlestone in Sharrington.?)

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