Thomas Stockdale

Thomas Stockdale of Bilton Park (died 25 December 1653), supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, and sat as a member for Knaresborough in the Long Parliament from 1645.^[1][2] He was also a Yorkshire magistrate, who was closely allied to the Fairfaxs and was a bailiff or agent for Lord Fairfax.^[3][4]

Stockdale married Margaret second daughter of Sir William Parsons an Elizabethan commissioner of plantations in Ireland.^[5] they had issue that included Elizabeth (d. 25 October 1694).^[1]

Notes

1. Gent p. 45
2. sabbottstarbeckATaol.com (2008), The fascinating history of a former hunting lodge, Harrogate Advertiser, 28 March 2008
3. James, p. 54
4. Urban, Sylvanus (1848). The Gentleman's magazine,Volume 184, p. 594
5. Burke, p. 418

References

• Burke, Bernard (1866). A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire, Harrison.
• Gent, Thomas (1733). The antient and modern history of the loyal town of Rippon: ... Besides are added, travels into other parts of Yorkshire ... Faithfully and painfully collected by Tho. Gent, ..., A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, London.
• James, John (1866). Continuation and additions to the History of Bradford, and its parish,Longmans.