Richard Girdlestone

Salthouse The Girdlestone Family of Kelling, or the archived version - but no DOB given, and note that this chart appears to have the generations muddled. Based on the records found and others calculated likely DOBs, the Thomas and John shown as sons of this Richard are more likely his brothers.

Richard or archived version
Richard Girdlestone "The Elder, of Letheringsett, Yeoman"
The father of John of Kelling, and of Richard, Thomas and Mary Proudfoot. He died in 1710 and left to his daughter Mary all his freehold and copyhold property in Thornage (inherited from his own father Thomas of Thornage). To his son Richard, he left certain other property and to his son John, his Edgefield property.
Note - not complete.

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Name Richard Gyrlestone;
Spouse's Name Palgrane Fish;
Event Date 08 Apr 1656;
Event Place Thornage, Norfolk, England
"England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NN3G-KQT : 10 December 2014), Richard Gyrlestone and Palgrane Fish, 08 Apr 1656; citing Thornage, Norfolk, England, reference item 3 p27; FHL microfilm 1,657,227.
(See record attached under Sources.)

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http://www.freereg.org.uk Search
County Norfolk
Place Letheringsett
Church name St Andrew
Register type Parish Register
Burial date 17 Jul 1710
Burial person forename Richard
Burial person surname GIRDLESTON
Register note Senr

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Some notes about the name Girdlestone, from this website http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Girdlestone:
This is a locational name of East Anglian origins which derives from a now apparently "lost" hamlet near Holt in North Norfolk. The original spelling would seem to have been "Gridel's Tun", an Old English compound which translates as "The Farm of one called Gridel". The name generally retains the spelling as Girdle-stone, but there are occasional variant spellings shown such as Edmund Gurd-Leston, recorded at Field Dalling church, Norfolk 1690 - 1694, and Elizabeth Girdleston who appears in the records of Sharrington in 1721. The name is early into London, Henry Gurdelston marrying Joannah Bushey at St. Dionis Backchurch in 1698, whilst Thomas Girdlestone (1758 - 1822) was a practising doctor in Great Yarmouth for 37 years, and also an Author and Publisher of note. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Girdlestone, which was dated September 1st 1571, married at Kelling Church, Norfolk, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, "Good Queen Bess" 1558 - 1603. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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