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Dear Margaret,
Nothing specific, except that, from memory, the book "The Family of Ravenscroft" (1917) starts the family line with the rumour that Warin Ravenscroft lived in Com, Chester in 806. Yup, not 1806, but 806. Only one genealogy gave that date, said the author, so he considered it suspect, though not the name. I think that means you have a long way to track back.
The family has been in Cheshire a a very long time. The village of Ravenscoft was on the River Dane, next to Byley which eventually absorbed it legally, I think. Byley or de Byvel or Byville (several spellings) is what our name should be, as someone of that name married a Ravenscroft girl, heir to the estates and the name, and changed his to get the land. So, we are perhaps really a lost version of the Bailey's. Hawarden Castle was defended, badly they said, by Colonel Thomas R, in the civil war. He was jailed in the tower, which still stood in Dec 1970. I know that because I visited and found it locked, but managed to climb the wall and hop in. Thomas seduced his jailer's wife and she let him out. tahat according to "Some Ravenscrofts" same author, name forgotten, about 1924. On the restoration of the king, he was pardoned, so he was on the royalist side, a cavalier.
Some of the family left Cheshire for London, don't recall the date, to set up as gentlemen mercers (distressed country gentry, more like) but from your family being there, it seems some did not leave, or certainly returned to the ancestral campsite. What a delight!
Regards,
Peter.
Closeburn, Queensland, Australia.
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