!Source: The Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury 1637.
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!Source: The Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury 1637. "This is one of the oldest English families. Traces are found in Staffordshire as far back as the twelfth century, for during the reign of Henry II, Henry and Geoffrey de Ruggele madde a grant of lands to Robert de Wolsey. In the next centuryappeared the names of Robert, Richard and Philip de Ruggele in the time of Henry III, and in the twenty-sixth year of EdwardI. William de Ruggele received formal commendation for valient services to the King in his army in flanders. Hawkesbeard (often written Hawkesgeard and Hawkesyard), in Staffordshire, now known as Armitage Park, was the home of the senior branch of the family for three hundred years, and from thence a son, in 1423, settled in Warwickshire, purchasingan estate in Downton. Sir William Dugdale says of the Staffordshire ancestors of this Warwickshire family ("Antiquities of Warwickshire),"they were gentleman of very good note," and Shaw( in Antiquities of Staffordshire"), "a very ancient andrespectable family." From Warwickshire one branch removed to Lincolnshire and another into Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire. Of the Lincolnshire family, who had located at Holton-Holgate, Thomas and William Ruggles, two brothers, removed to Suffolk, though there is evidence of some connection of the family with Suffilk at a much earlier period, and from Thomas whosewill was made June 21,1547, the descent is shown here. " (From "The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles") |
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