[3]
Sir Roger Cholmley,
First to settle in Yorkshire; m.  Catherine, dau.
of Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough. 
Sir Roger knighted 5th of Henry VIII., when
English had a great victory over the Scots;
died April 28th, 1538; bought Roxby.

[4]
Sir Richard,
Called “The Great Black Knight of the
North”; inherited property; knighted at
battle of Musslebury Hill, 5th of Edw.  VI.;
m. 1st Margaret, d. of Wm. Lord Conyers.

[5]
John,
Slain in
his youth.

[6] Anne, m. to the Earl of Westmoreland.

[7]
Margaret,
m.  Henry
Gascoigne of
Ledbury, near
Richmond.

[8]
Francis,
m.  Mrs. June
Boulmer; died
without issue.

[9] and [10] Richard and Roger, m. 2 bastard daus. of Dallrivers. [Both set on one side.]

[11] Margaret.

[12] Jane.

[13] Elizabeth.

[14] Marmaduke.

[15] Purchased many lands in Yorks, Manors of Whitby, Whitby lithe, and Stakesby purchased in 1555; lived at Roxby; m. 2nd Katherine (d. 1598), dau. of Henry, 1st Earl of Cumberland, widow of Lord John Scrope of Bolton.

[16] Katherine.

[17] Sir Henry, m.  Margaret, dau. of Sir Wm. Babthorpe; succeeded Francis.

[18] Sir Richard Cholmley, Born 1580, succeeded 1617, died 1632.

[19] Sir Hugh Cholmley, the defender of Scarborough Castle.  Born 1600, succeeded 1632.

GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE CHOLMLEYS OF ROXBY, NEAR PICKERING.

(Taken from the details given in the memoirs of Sir Hugh Cholmley.)

“I was,” he says, “the first child of my dear mother, born upon the 22nd of July, being a Tuesday, and on the feast day commonly called Mary Magdalen’s day, in the year of our Lord God 1600, at a place called Roxby, in the country of York, within the Hundred of Pickering lythe near to Thornton, now much demolished, but heretofore the chief seat of my great-grandfather, and where my grandfather, Sir Henry Cholmley, then lived, which place (since I was married was sold by my father and self, towards the payment of his debts).”

Sir Hugh then describes his weakness as a child due to the fault of his nurse.  This gave him such “a cast back” that he was a weak and sickly child for many years.

“At three years old, the maid which attended me let me tumble out of the great chamber window at Roxby, which (by God’s providence) a servant waiting upon my grandfather at dinner espying, leaped to the window, and caught hold of my coat, after I was out of the casement.  Soon after I was carried to my father and mother, who then lived with her brother Mr John Legard, at his house at Ganton nine miles from Roxby, where I continued for the most part until I was seven years old; then my father and mother going to keep house at Whitby, went with them, and beginning to ride a little way by myself, as we passed over a common, called Paston moor [?  Paxton, above Ellerburne] one of my father’s servants riding beside me, I had a desire to put my horse into a gallop; but he running away, I cried out, and the servant taking hold of my arm, with an intention to lift me from my horse, let me fall between both, so that one of them, in his gallop, trod on my hat; yet, by God’s protection, I caught no harm.”