Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about Timothy Ryves
Timothy Ryves (b. 1588, d. 1643)
Notes for Timothy Ryves:
Timothy Ryves, of Oxford, died in 1643, a year which saw the breaking into full flames of the fire of revolt of the Parliamentary forces against Charles I.The city of Oxford constituted for a time a storm center of the conflict, and it is hardly to be supposed that the family of Timothy Ryves deviated from the unfailing loyalty displayed generally by the family in England to the cause of Charles, and for which more than one member suffered grievously. Reliques of the Rives, p. 75.
The first mention of Timothy in the records occurs on 11 March 1611 when "Timothy Rives" was admitted by the Univeristy of Oxford to brew. The University at this time exercised extensive rights over brewers. Register of the Univ. of Oxford, ii, Part I, page 329.
Entries of taxes paid show a person of substantial means.He died in 1643 and was buried in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen at Oxford, according to an entry in the parish register.
As an orphan and an younger son, it was not unnatural that Virginia should have held out to William . . . the opportunity of escape from disturbed conditions and the improvement of his prospects in life.The flood tide of emigration to Virginia during the Commonwealth probably took place about 1653. . . . It appears probable that William Rives went out from England at the age of seventeen or eighteen, that is to say, about 1653 or 1654. . . . Id., p. 76.
More About Timothy Ryves and Elizabeth:
Marriage: Aft. 1629
Children of Timothy Ryves and Mary are:
- Richard Ryves, b. 1623, d. date unknown.
- Timothy Ryves, b. 1625, d. date unknown.
Children of Timothy Ryves and Elizabeth are:
- George Ryves, b. 1632, d. date unknown.
- +William Rives, b. 1636, Oxfordshire, England, d. Aft. 1695, Surry County, Virginia.