Paternal Family Tree: Lister
On 22nd March 1752 Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale was born to Thomas Lister of Gisburne Park.
In 1773 Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 20] was elected MP Clitheroe.
On 7th November 1789 Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 37] and Rebecca Fielding Baroness Ribblesdale [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Baroness Ribblesdale of Gisburne Park in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
On 23rd January 1790 [his son] Thomas Lister 2nd Baron Ribblesdale was born to Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 37] and [his wife] Rebecca Fielding Baroness Ribblesdale [aged 18]. He married 9th February 1826 Adelaide Lister and had issue.
In 1793 [his daughter] Catherine Lister was born to Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 40] and [his wife] Rebecca Fielding Baroness Ribblesdale [aged 21].
In 1794 Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 41] was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire.
On 26th October 1797 Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 45] was created 1st Baron Ribblesdale of Gisburne Park in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
On 31st May 1816 [his wife] Rebecca Fielding Baroness Ribblesdale [aged 44] died.
On 9th February 1826 [his son] Thomas Lister 2nd Baron Ribblesdale [aged 36] and [his daughter-in-law] Adelaide Lister [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Baroness Ribblesdale of Gisburne Park in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 22nd September 1826 Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale [aged 74] died. His son Thomas [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Baron Ribblesdale of Gisburne Park in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
[his daughter] Rebecca Adelaide Lister was born to Thomas Lister 1st Baron Ribblesdale and Rebecca Fielding Baroness Ribblesdale.