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Notes for Henry Ragsdale

Source: The Ragsdale Family In England and America by Mrs. Blake Ragsdale Van Leer, p 11
The Ragsdales, we find, belong to the adjoining counties of Nottinhamshire ("Notts"), Northamptonshire ("Northants") or ("Northon") and leicestershire ("Lister"). E. Bridgefore, a small place seven miles from Nottingham was their headquarters. Except for temporary residence in London, etc., they were nowhere else in England. This has been verified.
In Nichol's History of Leicestershire, "There is a mention of a small village called, "Rakedale", anciently Regendale, Rakdale, Ragdale, Radgdale, Rekesdale, on the NE border of the county, five miles from Melton Mowbray. IT is supposed that the name of the place is derived from a very remarkable break or Rake, which forms a very deep Dale beginning about 1/4 mile above the village, through which it extends itself a considerable distance., "til it gradually dimishes to so small a breath as only to allow the passage of a little brook, which runs to Hoby and there falls into the River Wreke" it seems possible the Ragsdales may have derived their name from this place.

Mr. Arthur Du Boulay Hill in his "East Bridgeford, Notts", London, 1932, pp 47-48, states " the names first appears on a Lay Susidy Roll, 1525: Henry Ragsdale."
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