The Dod Family of Edge

Coat of Arms of the Dods of Edge

The family tree of the Dods of Edge (later the Wolley Dods)

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The Bakers of Highfields The family tree of the Bakers of Highfields

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The Bakers of Fenton House and Hasfield Court The Family Tree of the pottery Bakers of Stoke on Trent

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The Hall Family The genealogy of the family of James Hall, linked to the Baker family through marriage to Arthur Baker

The genealogy of the Dod family of Edge.

There have been Dods living [in the vicinity of Edge] since records began: this was border country, and by turns, no doubt, they needed the protection of a moat round their home, and then the consolidation of friendships by a Welsh marriage. The Dod family history must be traced since the story of smaller country houses is as much that of a family as of a building. (Haslam, Richard (1985), Edge Hall, Cheshire, The Home of Mr and Mrs Anthony Wolley Dod, in Country Life, 21 November 1985, pages 1612 to 1615).

One Dod was a Bishop, one was the wife of a Bishop, one was the mother of a Bishop; one was an Admiral, three were knights, three were Prebendaries, two were Archdeacons, six were Members of Parliament, one was Chief Baron of the Exchequer, one was Chief Baron of the Chester Exchequer, one a Baron of the Cinque Ports; five were in the military service of the Black Prince, two served at Agincourt; one was killed in Minden, two were at the battle of the Boyne; two lived to the age of 104, and two were hung. (Dod, Captain Robert Phipps, Series of Rough Collections intended to serve as a Pedigree of the Family of Dod, see also Dod, Robert Phipps (1849), Birth and Worth, An Inquiry into the Practical Uses of a Pedigree, London and The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland).

Dates in brown are not known but estimated as part of a model to make sense of the timelines.

Follow the reference links for more information about each person.

The Hundred of Dudderstone The region which dominated the history of the Dods of Huyton and the Lords of Edge

Dot of Huyton c 1030 to c 1100 Associated with 20 places in Cheshire before the Conquest in the Domesday Book, particularly within the Hundred of Duddeston. His lands were redistributed after the Conquest, but the family reacquired many of the Duddeston lands when his grandson married the daughter of the Lord of Edge DOD00010

Sources Bibliography of sources used in research

Malpas The important settlement of Malpas

Cadwgan Dot of Malpas c 1068 to 1128 An early medieval figure in Cheshire who bridges the late Saxon era and early Norman administrative records in Cheshire It is possible that he was the same person as Dot of Huyton, in which case his dates need to be reconsidered DOD00011

Edwin of Poulton Lord of Edge c 1045 to c 1120 Edwin, Lord of Edge, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon thane or landowner in Cheshire recorded in the Domesday Book around 1066. He unusually retained many of his lands after the Conquest and was particularly associated with the Hundred of Duddeston. EDW00001

Hova Dod (or Dot) c 1090 to c 1150 Married the daughter and heiress of Edwin, Lord of Edge Hova, son of Cadwgan Dod (or Dot), married the daughter and heiress of the Saxon Lord of Edge during the reign of Henry II, acquiring a portion of the manor of Edge in Malpas The Edge Hall Estates near Malpas was owned by the Wolley Dod family until the 21^st century DOD00012

Daughter of Edwin of Edge c 1080 to c 1150 Married Hova Dod, bringing her father’s Duddeston lands back into the Dod family EDW00002

Kenric or Kendricke Dod of Edge c 1110 to c 1190 DOD00013

Reginald Dod Referred to in Burke’s

Cadwgan Dod of Edge c 1150 to c 1220 DOD00015

Stephen Dod of Broxton c 1155 to c 1230 Ancestor of the Dods of Broxton DOD00016

John Dod of Edge Time of Henry III (reigned 1207 to 1272) c 1190 to c 1260 DOD00020

Edge Hall The history of Edge in the Middle Ages

Stephen Dod of Edge c 1220 to c 1300 DOD00025

Thomas Dod of Edge c 1260 to c 1330 Seems to have died issueless before 29 Edward III DOD00030

William Dod of Edge c 1265 to c 1360 Living 29 Edward III (ie 1355) DOD00031

Hova or Howsa Dod of Edge c 1270 to c 1380 Entry in the Visitations of 1613 DOD00032

The Welsh Marches The relationship between Cheshire and the Welsh Marches

Roger Dod of Edge Time of Edward III (reigned 1327 to 1377) c 1300 to c 1370 Married Mabel Mere, daughter of David Mere of Edge Living in 1350. DOD00035

John Dod of Smith's Pentrey in Broxton c 1305 to c 1360 Married Margery, daughter of Hugh le Byrd of Broxton DOD00036

Kendrick Dod of Edge c 1307 to c 1360

Hugo c 1308 to c 1365

Rafe de Woley of Woley in Hollingworth, Cheshire

Thomas Dod of Edge c 1325 to c 1400 Son and heir Married Maud, Matilda or Mary Bird, daughter of David Bird of Broxton DOD00040

Darid Dod of Edge Of Prees Pares, Shropshire Married Had issue

John Dod of Farndon c 1330 to c 1410 Married Johanna, daughter and co-heiress of Ightfield in the reign of Richard II Ancestor of the Dods of Cloverly DOD00043

The Cheshire Men of Richard II The close association between Richard II and Cheshire

Cheshire Archers The history of the archers of Cheshire

William de Woley of Woley Living in 1309 (2 Edward II) Married Sebilla, mentioned in 6 Edward III (1333) who died his widow

The Dods of Cloverley and Highfields

David Dod of Edge c 1370 to c 1459 Son and heir Married Cecilia de Bickerton, daughter and co-heiress of William de Bickerton DOD00041

Rafe de Woley of Woley in Hollingworth and of Broadbotham, Moterham, Cheshire Living in the 13^th and 43^rd reign of Edward III

Sir Anthony Dod of Edge c 1390 to c 1470 There is a tradition that he was Knighted by Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, though this is not evidenced The name of his wife is not known Said to be buried in Canterbury DOD00042

Thomas de Woley

Robert de Woley of Broadbotham, Cheshire Married Agnes

Roger de Woley

William de Woley

Two daughters

David Dod of Edge Died 1438 Married daughter of Downes de Shringley Married daughter of Piers Stanley of Ewlowe

John Woley of Broadbotham, Cheshire Living 1404 or 1405 Married Joan

With de nee Downes

Stephen Dod of Edge 1398 to 1466 Living in 1446 Married Beatrix Willaston (born 1397), daughter and heir of Thomas Willaston of Willaston, Shropshire

William Woley of Riber Time of Edward IV Married Margery, daughtert of John Robotham

David Dod of Edge 1444 to 1488 Living in 1464 and 1475 Married Anne Massey (born 1418), daughter of Hugh Massey of Codington

John Woley of Riber

John Dod of Edge 1470 to 1506 Married Emma, daughter and co-heir to Humphrey Brereton of Grafton

David Dod of Shocklach Had 3 sons

Anthony Wolley of Riber Died 4 September 1576 Purchased the estate of Allen Hill, Matlock, Derbyshire from Richard Wendesley

The Dods of Shocklach

Adam Wolley of Riber 25 May 1619 (will proved)

Thomas Wolley Received a grant of a messuage of Bonsall from his brother in 1579 Settled lands on his sons Edward and George in 1612

John Wolley of Allen Hill Died 8 June 1585 Son to the Allen Hill estate under a settlement of his father dated 21 July 1573 Married Mary, daughter of Thomas Revell

Edward Wolley

David Dod of Edge 1 November 1506 to 10 January 1545 (Malpas) Married Lady Katherine Manley (1508 to 1586), daughter of Nicholas Manley of Poulton

Ellen Dod Married Henry Typper of Gloucester in about 1502

Richard Dod

Magdalen Dod Married Richard Ball of Chester

Edward Wolley of Bonsall, Derbyshire Died 7 October 1668

George Wolley of Bonsall Died 11 April 1678 Succeeded to his brother’s lands on 7 October 1668

Adam Wolley of Allen Hill 15 August 1657 (buried) Married Grace (buried 22 July 1669), daughter of Henry Haywood of Darley, Derbyshire in 1581

John Wolley Ancestor of the Wolleys of Darley Abbey

Agnes Wolley Married Henry Mather Married Edward Deane Married Edward Mellor

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Henry Dod 1550 to 1630 A poet who put nine psalms into verse, with publication sanctioned by James I. He also undertook a reconstruction of the full psalter. (Latham F A, Editor (1997), Audlem, The History of a Cheshire Parish and its five townships, Local History Group, page 28).

Lady Elizabeth Dod 1524 to 1570 Married George Bird of Broxton, Cheshire

Randle Dod of Edge Hall 1530 to 1576 Married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Horton, of Totenhoe, Bedfordshire Was he Ranulph Dod, one of the queen’s trainbearers in the reign of Mary, gentleman, alias Ranulph Dodd of Egy, County Chester (Patent Rolls of the reign of Philip and Mary, Volume 2, 1554 to 1555, page 357) or was this another brother?

Francis Dod 1530 to 19 March 1589 (Malpas) Married Mary Dalton (born 1530), daughter and co-heiress of George Dalton, of London

Elizabeth Dod Born 1530

Philip Dod of London Born 1534 Married Elizabeth, daughter of John van Hole of Antwerp

Bartholemew Dod of London Haberdasher Married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of George Dalton of London

Anne Dod Married William Streley, of Streley, Cheshire

Jane Dod Married Thomas Caldecote of Caldecote

Catherine Dod Married Goode

Mary Dod Married John Grosvenor

Grace Dod Married John Moyle of Chester

From George Wolley

Urien Dod of Edge Hall Died unmarried 18 July and succeeded by his cousin

Anne Dod Married Hugh Massey, of Broxton, Cheshire

Jane Dod Married Wren of Kent

Margaret Dod Married Randle Dod

Elizabeth Dod Married Ralph Yeardley in 1584

Katherine Dod Married John Goldborne

Alice Dod

Sir John (according to Burke’s) or Edward Dod of Edge Hall 1578 to 25 November 1649 Baron of the Exchequer of Chester Married Margaret, daughter and eventual heiress of Roger Mainwaring, Auditor General of Ireland, of Nantwich, Cheshire by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Maisterson, of Nantwich

Peter Dod Born 1560 George Dod Born 1561 Francis Dod Born 1563 Anne Dod Born 1565 Katherine Dod Born 1567 Nathaniel Dod Born 1570

Thomas Wolley of Bonsall Married Frances

Anthony Wolley of Allen Hill Died 5 May 1655 Married Dorothy, daughter of Henry Taylor of Darley on 21 November 1615

John Wolley of Greenhills, Matlock, Derbyshire Died December 1670

Rev Edward Wolley 25 June 1628 (buried) Vicar of Crich, Derbyshire

Thomas Dod of Edge Hall 7 September 1604 (baptised) to 1 January 1653 or 1654 Married Anne Holland (1608 to 1680), daughter of Edward Holland of Denton, Lancashire

Margaret Dod Born 1603

Edward Dod 1604 to 1643

Mary Dod 1608 to 1608

Elizabeth Dod Born 1616 Married Hugh Maurice of Farme, Shropshire

John Dod 1617 to 1618 Howen Dod 1620 to 1680

George Wolley of Bonsall 16 June 1672 (baptised) to 1709 Married Elizabeth

John Wolley of Allen Hill Died April 1669 Married Katherine, (died 1 July 1710) daughter of Robert Baynes of Hensley Hall

From George Wolley

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Thomas Wolley of Bonsall Married Margaret, daughter of Marmaduke Abell of Bonsall

Jane Dod 1633 to 1678 Married Rev Henry Crewe of Magdalen Cole, Oxford

Thomas Dod of Ormskirk, Lancashire 1633 to 1703

Randle Dod of Edge 29 July 1633 to 19 June 1679 (buried, Malpas) Married firstly Barbara Morgell or Margell, daughter of William Morgell BA, of Gray’s Inn and Chester Married secondly Esther, daughter of William Essington of London

Anne Dod 1635 to 1673 Married William Gamul of Crabwell

Dorothy Dod 1639 to 1677 Married William Doley of London

Mary Dod Born 1641 Married Brown

William Dod 1654 to 1694

Adam Wolley of Allen Hill 14 December 1648 to 15 March 1710 Married Millicent (died 22 February 1673), daughter of Henry Wigley on 6 May 1672 Married Matry (died 29 September 1689), daughter of John Cokayne of Matlock on 26 June 1679

With Barbara

Anthony Wolley of Bonsall Married Martha, daughter of John Ford or Kirketon, Derbyshire on 18 May 1767

Elizabeth Dod Born 1637 Married in 1685 John Leigh of Eden Hall, Cumberland

Barbara Dod 1654 to c 1703 (will) Unmarried Devised her estates of Childer Thornton and Boughton to the minor canons of Chester

Randle Dod of Edge Hall 16 November 1656 to 1686 Educated Oriel College, Oxford Died unmarried and succeeded by his brother

The Rev William Dod of Edge Hall c 1658 to 1 August 1716 Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford 1678 Rector of Lower Medeity of Malpas 1680 Married Elizabeth Entwhistle (1663 to 1700)

John Wolley of Allen Hill 4 January 1681 or 1682 to February 1763 Married Ann (buried on 23 January 1758), daughter of Anthony Souter of Matlock Bridge

Thomas Wolley 24 October 1762 (baptised) to 1810

John Wolley Baptised 2 September 1764

Anthony Wolley 24 July 1774 (baptised) Married Hannah Johnson on 11 April 1799

John Dod Born 1682

William of Edge Hall April 1686 to 1739 High Sheriff of Cheshire 1735 Unmarried Succeeded by his brother

Francis Dod of Edge Hall 1687 to 20 April 1752 Unmarried Succeeded by his brother

Thomas Dod of Edge Hall 5 July 1688 (baptised) to 30 December 1759 Married at Chester Cathedral on 28 June 1748 to Rebecca Crewe (1720 to June 1788), daughter of Crewe of Crewe and of Holt of Denbighshire

Elizabeth Dod 1689 to 1748Married Rev John Taylor, Rector of Malpas

Randolph Dod 1690 to 1772

Ann Dod Born 1691 Married William Dimmick Richard Dod Born 1693 Dorothy Dod 1695 to 1695 Mary Dod Born 1696 Edward Dod 1697 to 1697 Benjamin Dod 1698 to 1706 Robert Dod 1699 to 1705

Adam Wolley 8 October 1728 to 28 July 1801 Married Elizabeth (died 3 May 1758), only daughter of Joseph Hodgkinson

John Wolley 4 January 1719 to 4 April 1794 Died unmarried

George Wolley 14 June 1726 to 14 April 1807 Unmarried

Anthony Wolley 15 October 1731 to 31 March 1789

Ann Wolley 13 January 1800 to 22 July 1872 Married James Laurence of Stone, Staffordshire on 7 July 1836

Rebecca Dod 1749 to 1814 Married William Mostyn-Owen MP of Woodhouse, Shropshire High Sheriff 1767

Francis Dod Born 1752

Anne Sobieski Dod 1754 to 1818 Married William Watkin Wynbne of Plas Newydd, Denbisghshire

Colonel Thomas Crewe Dod of Edge 9 July 1754 (baptised, Malpas 11 July) to 25 May 1827 (buried, Malpas) Married on 20 February 1786 to Anne, 4^th daughter of Ralph Sneyd, of Keele, Staffordshire

William Dod Born 1757

Adam Wolley of Matlock 18 January 1758 to 21 July 1827 An eminent genealogist and topographer Married Anne Eaton, daughter of Anthony Eaton of Bonsall on 10 January 1793

John Wolley of the City of London 23 November 1752 to 12 January 1821 Unmarried

Joseph Wolley 16 March 1754 to 300 May 1785 Unmarried

Louisa Dod Born 1788

Anne Dod Born 1789

Frances Rosamund Dod of Edge 25 August 1792 (baptised) to 20 January 1877 (buried) Married Rev Pelly Parker (1790 to 1865), Rector of Hawton, Nottinghamshire Resigned her rights in favour of her daughter Due to the untimely deaths of the older heirs, Edge Hall passed through Frances Rosamund and her husband Reverend Pelly Parker to their youngest daughter Frances Lucy Parker and her husband Charles Wolley who took the name Wolley-Dod by Royal license in 1868

Thomas William Dod Born 1794

Soby Rebecca Dod 1796 to 1875 Married Henry Sneyd of Eaton Lodge, Staffordshire

Mary Dod Born 1799

John Anthony Dod 1798 to 1821 Unmarried

Charlotte Dod of Edge Hall 1801 to 1867 Married Rev Joseph Yates Cookson on 20 February 1834, who assumed the surname Dod on his marriage, son of Leiutenant General Norris Cookson, Royal Artillery, of Kenton House, Devon Succeeded by her sister

Louisa Dod Born 1803

Anne Dod 1805 to 1845 Married, as his second wife, Richard Malone Sneyd, youngest son of Henry Sneyd Harriot Dod Born 1807

Mary Wolley Died 3 May 1844 Married Rev John Francis Thomas Hurt MSA, Vicar of Beeston, Nottinghamshire (who assumed the surname Wolley) Francis Hurt

Anne Wolley Died 17 October 1885 Married Charles Clarke JP

Cadowgan Francis Parker Born 1824

Harriet Anne Louisa Parker 1831 to 1852

Frances Lucy Parker 20 December 1827 to 7 June 1909 Married Rev Charles Wolley on 21 March 1850 at St George, Hanover Street, London Edge

Rev Charles Wolley Dod of Edge Hall 21 March 1826 to 14 June 1904 Assumed the surname Dod in addition to his patronymic by Royal Licence on 8 April 1868 Married Frances Lucy Parker Assistant Master in Windsor in 1877

10 siblings

William Dod 18 July 1867 to 8 October 1954 An Olympic archer who was born in Bebington, Cheshire, a descendant of Sir Anthony Dod of Edge Won Gold Medal for GB in the 1908 Olympic Archery Men's double York Round on his 41st birthday

Mary Wolley Dod 1851 to 24 December 1907

Cadogan Edward Wolley Dod 1853 to 1855

Francis (“Frank”) Wolley Dod of Edge Hall 3 May 1855 to 24 November 1919 Seved in the Indian Public Works Department Married Annette Mary Clarke (died 27 August 1937), second daughter of Frederic F Clarke of Aldridge Lodge, Staffordshire

Charles Edward Wolley Dod 19 February 1857 to 5 January 1885 Lucy Rosamund Wolley Dod 1859 to 1946

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur George Wolley Dod of Alberta, Canada 4 May 1860 to 17 November 1936 Married Annie Frances Brown (died 11 November 1945), daughter of Colonel W Brown in 1887

Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod Royal Artillery 17 November 1861 to June 1948 Married Agnes Gardyne Mackintosh (1864 to 1917) Married Eileen Griffin (1891 to 1980) in 1922 in Kensington

Brigadier Owen Cadogan Wolley Dod CB 2 May 1863 to 1 February 1942 Brigadier General, Sherwood Foresters Served in the Nile Expedition 1898, the South African War 1899 to 1900 and the First World War

Robert John Wolley Dod 1864 to 4 June 1881

Emma Frances Wolley Dod 1867 to 1944

Thomas Crewe Wolley Dod 14 November 1868 to 1953 Married Isabel Mary, daughter of Major J Hawkins

Lieutenant Frederic Hova Wolley Dod KOYLI 20 February 1871 to 24 July 1919 at Salonika

Lieutenant John Cadogan Wolley Dod of Edge Hall 19 December 1890 to 28 June 1973 JP Cheshire 1948 Married Hilda Gertrude Elliott (died 2 June 1938), daughter of Edmund Frederick Elliott on 3 October 1914 Married Winifred Mary Adelaide Gorst, only daughter of Canon Ernest Lake Le Fleming Freeland Gorst on 18 April 1939

Captain Charles Francis Wolley Dod OBE 25 August 1892 (Bengal, India) to 16 March 1937 Lieutenant in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiments (Reserve of Officers) Lieutenant RAF 1916 to 1918 Married Janet Evelyn Gripper (1894 to 13 March 1963), second daughter of Dr Walter Gripper of Wallington, Surrey in 1925 Killed in a flying accident

Francis Hardcastle Wolley Dod 1895 to 1973 Married George Cunynghame Tylor OBE, BA, late Captain RFA on 14 May 1917

Lieutenant Douglas Kirk Wolley Dod 18 November 1896 to 25 September 1915 Lieutenant King’s Liverpool Regiment Served in First World War Killed in action

Frances Ethel Wolley Dod 26 April 1888 to 1981

Marjorie Wolley Dod Born 1892

William Randle Wolley Dod 30 March 1893 to 3 January 1973

Edith Rosamund Wolley Dod 1894 to 1971

Annie McKerrell Wolley Dod 1896 to 1961 Nancy Wolley Dod Born 1897

Mabel Florence Wolley Dod 1889 to 1971

Anthony Kirk Wolley Dod JP 21 December 1918 Solicitor Flying Officer RAF in World War 2 Married Ann Keightley, only daughter if Lieutenant Colonel John Robertson MC of Liverpool on 29 August 1960

Cicely Annette Wolley Dod 4 January 1916 Married Group Caotain Victor Henry Paul Lynham DSO, OBE, RAF, son of Barrington Lynham of the Chase, Ringwood, Hampshire on 24 September 1938 Edge Hall

Margaret Frances Wolley Dod 27 June 1920 Married Robin Patrick Bickham Sweet-Escott on 28 September 1949 (marriage dissolved 1956) Edge Hall

Hova Charles Kirk Wolley Dod 27 June 1931 to 8 August 2019 Solicitor Married Ann Elizabeth Julian, only daughter of Charles Robert Julian of Rio Tinto, Spain on 9 July 1960 Married Barbara Jane Rolan or Nolan

William Arthur Wolley Dod 14 July 1928 to 29 August 2002

Baby Wolley Dod 1935 to 1935

Lucy Wolley Dod 7 February 1965

Susannah Wolley Dod 8 December 1966

Charlotte Wolley Dod 1972

Sarah Wolley Dod 1978

Susan Margaret Wolley Dod 25 May 1957 to 2007

Patricia Ann Wolley Dod 21 April 1959

Heraldic Lines of Lineage

The Armorial Bearings of the Cheshire Visitations or Heralds’ Vision of Cheshire (1613), an official genealogical and heraldic survey of county families:

Malpas Old Hall, the residence of the Breretons, was accidentally destroyed by fire in 1768. It appears to have been occupied by the Dods in Gastrell’s time, who have a good seat at Edge in this parish, originally moated (Bishop Gastrell (1845), Historical Notices on the Diocese of Chester, Notitia Cestriensis page 191).

Calverhall churchyard, the coachman to W Dod

Thomas Dodd and Mary (different spelling?) at Malpas Church