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Ratliff Family Genealogy
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The names Ratliff and Ratliffe are English. They are variants
of Ratcliff and Ratcliffe, which mean "one who came from Ratcliff, the name of
several places in England." Ratcliff means "red cliff." Other spellings of the
name include Ratclife, Ratcleff, Ratclieff, Ratclyffe, Rattcliffe, Radclive,
Radcliff, Radcliffe, Redclyffe, and Radclyffe.
The earliest Ratliff in America was Captain John Ratcliffe, who
commanded the ship "Discovery," which was one of the three ships that landed at
Cape Henry, Virginia on April 26, 1607. John Ratcliffe was part of the first
permanent English Colony settlement called Jamestown, Virginia, which was
founded on May 13, 1607.
John was captured and killed by Indians in 1610 because of a
fight that broke out between the Indians and John’s colonists while making
trades with the Indian Chief Powhatan.
The next Ratliff who came to America from England was Roger
Ratcliffe, who was born in 1575. Roger came to America in 1619 with his wife Ann
and son Isaac Ratcliffe. Robert Ratcliffe came to Virginia in 1621, Thomas
Ratcliffe to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1622, Elkington Ratcliffe, a servant of
Ralph Hamor, to James City, Virginia in 1623, Philip Ratcliffe to Salem,
Massachusetts in 1630, Michael Ratcliffe to Virginia in 1634, Edward Ratcliffe
to Virginia in 1641, Thomas Ratcliffe to New Castle County, Delaware in 1642,
Thomas Ratcliffe to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1648, Charles Ratcliffe to
Virginia in 1650, Thomas Ratcliffe to America in 1656, Elizabeth Ratcliffe to
Barbadoes or Jamaica in 1685, and Edward, Mary, James, Rachell, Rebecca, Richard
Ratcliffe to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1685. Other Ratliffs emigrated to
America into the 1860’s.
LUCIA Married IVA DE TAILBOIS (1-1). Lucia was the daughter of
Earl Aelfgar, who was the son of Godifu "Lady Godiva" and Leofric the Great, who
was the son of Leofwine.
2-1.Nicholas Fitz Gilbert (changed his name to Nicholas de
Redclyffe) (Count Roger de Poitou was given the entire lands between the Ribble
and the Mersey, these lands were given unto him by the Rising of Edgar the
Aetheling in 1069, Roger divided these lands among a select few of his barons,
who in turn partitioned their holdings to their own knights to be held for them
in vassalage by the military service) (among the knights of the Baron de Marsey
was Nicholas Fitz-Gilbert de Tailbois, a younger son of the Baron of Kendal to
whom his lord gave the manor of Redclyffe) (most Norman surnames derived from
their place of origin, however, this was not true of Nicholas de Tailbois, whose
lineage can trace both name and descent from the Norman Conquest) (the name of
Talbot was borne by many of Duke William’s followers who were not necessarily
connected by blood) (Nicholas de Tailbois wanted to shed his record of foreign
origin by assuming the style and title of an Englishman, he adopted for his
surname the name of his manor and hence was known as Sir Nicholas Redclyffe,
meaning Nicholas of the Red Cliff)
2-2.Aeltfred (had son Ketel who married Christina and they had
son Orme who married Gunilda, daughter of Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland)
(Orme and Gunilda had son Curwens, Lord of Workington)
LADY GODITHA OF THE BOOTHS Married NICHOLAS DE RADECLIVE
(2-1).
3-1.Matthew (he was heir of his father Nicholas)
3-2.Henry (he was one of the witnesses to the Deed of
Foundation of Burscough Priory in 1124) (he held lands in Martin and these he
exchanged with the Lord of Latham for other lands in Oswaldtwistle, that the
Priory lands might be compacted)
3-3.Simon (married and had a son Alexander de Radeclive)
MATTHEW DE RADECLIVE (3-1). Wife's name unknown.
4-1.Richard (died without issue) (he gave lands to Burscough
Priory in 1124) (his son William de Radeclive died without children thus his
portion of the patrimony went to heirs of Henry de Radeclive)
HENRY DE RADECLIVE (3-2). Wife's name unknown.
6-1.Richard (died unmarried)
6-2.William (died in 1220, five years after the Magna Carta)
(he succeeded his father) (he began his inheritance some time prior to 1190, by
that time the family had greatly extended their original manor) (he was
appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire) (Married Lady Cecilia de Montbegon of
Kirkland, daughter of one of the most powerful barons in the north) (after Lady
Cecilia died, William remarried to Eugenia, who was the daughter of Alexander,
who was the son of Uvieth) (had three sons Adam, Geoffrey, and Hugh de
Redclyffe)
6-3.John (died without issue) (Married Muriel Bamville,
daughter of Sir Thomas Bamville, Lord of Stourton)
6-4.daughter (Married Robert de Entwistle, from whom descended
the famous Sir Bertine Entwistle of the Red Rose who fell at the Battle of St.
Albans in 1455) (the Entwistles held land in Redclyffe in 1544, presumable part
of this lady's dowry)
SIMON DE RADECLIVE (3-3). Wife's name unknown.
8-1.Alexander (had sons Adam and Peter de Redclyffe)
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