Ryves, Joseph
Summary
Father: possibly Joseph RyvesMother:
Birth:
Birth Source:
Death: cNov 1697
Death Source: Will Probate
Spouse1: Susanna
Narrative
Children of Joseph Reeves and Susanna:- Mary Ryves, b. c1 Feb 1676/7
Possible Children of Joseph Reeves and Susanna:
- Richard Ryves, b. 1663
Baptisms from St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex Parish Registers:
- (1676/7 Feb) 20 Mary Daughter of Joseph Ryves of Ratcliffe High way Gentlman and Susanna uxor (19 days old)
Joseph's burial was recorded in two different registers both for the parish of St Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex:
- (1697 Nov) 8 Joseph Ryves a man from Ratcliff high way in Stepney parish
- (1697 Nov) 8 Joseph Ryves a man from Ratcliff high way or Bricklayers Hall
Joseph Ryves of the Parish of Stebenheath, co. Middlesex, London, Gentleman, is accounted for by his will:
P. C. C. 252 Pyne.
Dated 30 October 1688.
Proved 1697.
Joseph Ryves of the parish of Stebenheath alias Stepney, co. Middlesex, Gentleman . . . my dear wife Susan. ... I give unto my loving kinsman Joseph Ryves son of my late brother Valentine Ryves so long as he shall live with my said loving wife and be assisting to her in her affairs, meat and drink, washing and apparell, and all other
necessaries or, if my wife shall marry, I give him £100, residue to my said loving wife. . . .
According to his will he married Susan and in 1688 was without living issue. Richard b. 1663 may have been his son:
He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 5 Dec. 1679, aged 16, as the son of "Joseph of London, gent.; B. A., 1683; student of Inner Temple, 1680" (Foster)
Sources
Burial: St Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex Parish Baptism & Burial Register 1695-1812, P93/MRY1/005St Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex Parish Burial Register 1658-1717, P93/MRY1/060
Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p60
1697 Will - Joseph Ryves - Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Piece 441 (Pyne), folio 268 reverse
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex Parish Baptism Register 1656-1710, P93/DUN/258