Other Events:

• Residence: Bramhope, Yorkshire, England
• Will: 30 Oct. 1606
• Probate: 23 April 1607, York, Yorkshire, England

Family/Spouse: Ellen Hopton. Ellen (daughter of Christopher Hopton and Margaret Danby) was buried on 28 Nov. 1588 in Otley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Bramhope, Yorkshire, England
• Decoration: 23 July 1603, Whitehall, Westminster, Middlesex, England; Knighthood

Notes:

Decoration:
He was knighted at Whitehall upon King James I coming to London after his accession, 23 July, 1603.

Buried:
A monument was (in 1874) extant to his memory.

Robert married Olive Stapylton on 25 June 1605 in St. Luke's, Chelsea, Middlesex, England. Olive (daughter of Sir Robert Stapylton and Olive Sherrington) was christened on 18 May 1586 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England; was buried on 5 June 1656 in Otley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hugh Sherburn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Bramhope, Yorkshire, England
• Will: 19 Jan. 1627/28
• Probate: 21 Oct. 1631

Family/Spouse: Faythe Akeroyd. Faythe (daughter of Henry Aykeroide and Ellen Staveley) was born circa 1607; died in btw 23 June 1627 and 4 April 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Bramhope, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

He built, in conjunction with other freeholders, the chapel at Bramhope, under a deed dated 1649.

"Robert Dyneley, Esquire, lord of the manor of Bramhope," was noted as "a zealous Puritan," and was responsible for the erection of the Puritan chapel there. (Bryan Dale, M.A., "Bramhope Chapel," in "The Bradford Antiquary, The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society," New Series, Vol. I. (1900), p. 326.)

From Bryan Dale, loc. cit.:

"The old chapel, which stands near Bramhope Hall, three miles from Otley, was built about 250 years ago. It is noteworthy, not for its antiquity or beauty, but on account of its being one of the few religious edifices erected in England during the Puritan Revolution of the middle of the seventeenth century. There was at that time no lack of religious edifices; but there was a serious difference among Englishmen concerning their proper use, and still more concerning the proper limits of Royal and Episcopal authority, which plunged the nation into disastrous civil war. From the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640 to the Restoration in 1660, men had other matters to think about more important than even the building of churches.
"The year 1649, when the chapel was founded, was a notable one. The Parliamentary army had triumphed; on the 30th of January in that year the King was executed; and on the 19th of May England was proclaimed a Commonwealth. Already Episcopacy had been abolished, the Book of Common Prayer removed from the parish churches, and service conducted therein according to the Presbyterian manner. But the government of the National Church remained in an unsettled condition. It was at such a time that Robert Dyneley, Esquire, lord of the manor of Bramhope, being a zealous Puritan, and desirous of promoting the spiritual welfare of his neighbours, erected this chapel on his own ground, and with the co-operation of others endowed it was lands for the maintenance of its minister.
"He was "a branch of a considerable and worthy family," whose pedigree is given by Thoresby, and at greater length by Whitaker. The first of the name was Adam de Dyneley, of Clitheroe, living in the time of Edward II., and holding lands in Dyneley, Lancashire. After several generations William Dyneley, of Bramhope, purchased the manor from Henry, Earl of Cumberland, 38 Henry VIII. His grandson, Robert, was knighted by James I. on his coming from Scotland in 1603; and he married Olave, daughter of Sir Robert Stapleton, of Wighill, who was said to be in Queen Elizabeth's days "the finest gentleman in England next to Sir Philip Sydney." Three or four years after he received the honour of knighthood, his son, Robert Dyneley, with whom we are here more especially concerned, was born at Bramhope; and soon after attaining his majority he married Margaret, the eldest daughter of Sir John Stanhope, of Melford, Kent. Thoresby says: "She was one of the twenty-two children of Sir John and his lady had before either of them was forty years of age." She was herself the mother of three sons and eight daughters, and "lived about sixty years in the happy state of matrimony." Her husband seems to have been a man who loved peace and quietness, and took no active part in the civil strife of the time. He lived on good terms with his neighbours, and was well esteemed for his piety and sound judgment in practical matters. When Parliament granted Lord Fairfax the seigniory of the Isle of Man in 1651 he appointed Robert Dyneley as a commissioner, along with James Chaloner, M.P., and Joshua Witton, M.A. (the learned Puritan Rector of Thornhill) to settle the affairs of the island. His eldest daughter, Margaret, was married to Robert Leaver, of Bolham, in Northumberland, a minister of great sincerity and ability, and like Witton, a Non-conformist. One of Mr. Dyneley's sons died in infancy (1642). Another, William, died of consumption at Bramhope, in 1666. He himself attained a good old age; saw four generations of the neighbouring gentry; outlived the Stuart dynasty; and died the year in which William of Orange was proclaimed.
"Bramhope Hall occupies an elevated position, commanding extensive prospects of the surrounding country, and affording on a clear day a distant view of York Minster. But only the western portion of the old Hall in which Robert Dyneley resided now remains. Having made up his mind to build a chapel near the Hall he was desirous of providing an endowment for it by enclosing a part of the common or waste land of the manor, and sought the assistance of the freeholders for this purpose. Some of these were at first much opposed to the project, but "with pains and patience all consented at last." . . ." [There follow some details of Robert Dyneley's affairs in relation to the chapel and non-conformist preaching.]

College of Arms MS. Norfolk 4 and Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire (1874), both state that Robert Dyneley and Margaret Stanhope had a daughter named Elizabeth, baptized 1669, and that she married William Pearson. William Pearson was in fact the husband of Margaret Dyneley (another daughter of Robert Dyneley and Margaret Stanhope). Elizabeth's putative baptism had been conflated with that of her niece, Elizabeth, the daughter of Robert Dyneley and Dorcas Mauleverer. There is no record of an Elizabeth having been baptized at Otley in the 1630s and 1640s. There is no primary evidence that Robert Dyneley and Margaret Stanhope had a daughter named Elizabeth, and she has accordingly been omitted from this genealogy.

Robert married Margaret Stanhope on 24 Jan. 1628/29 in Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire, England. Margaret (daughter of Sir John Stanhope) was christened on 25 March 1607. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1666, Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Briggs, p. 282, transcribes the following entry from the parish register of Otley:

"Mrs. Olive Oldfeild of Leedes dau of Sr. Robert Dyneley of Bramhop bur the xxjth of Februa."

College of Arms MS. Norfolk 4, pp. 140-41, states that Olive married Edward Hoppey, and that her sister, Ellen (or Helen, according to her baptismal record), was the wife (as her second husband) of ". . . Oldfield." The foregoing record of burial suggests that Coll. Arms MS. Norfolk 4 has the spouses of Olive and Ellen confused.

The error in MS. Norfolk 4 is confirmed by the records of the Court of Chancery. There were several legal suits between Richard Oldfield and his wife Olive, on the one hand, and their niece, Olive Croft, née Dyneley, on the other hand. Olive Croft was the sole heiress of Mrs. Oldfield's brother, John Dyneley of Bramhope. Richard Oldfield and his wife claimed five hundred pounds under the terms of John's will. John Dyneley had died in 1627, seized of estates worth approximately six hundred pounds per annum. He devised his lands to his daughter, Olive, who was then an infant. A pecuniary legacy allegedly to be paid from the income of the estates was disputed.

It is not certain whether Edward Hoppey was therefore a second husband of Helen (or Ellen), or whether he had no connection to the Dyneley family.

Family/Spouse: Richard Oldfield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Christening: 18 Sept. 1610

Notes:

College of Arms MS. Norfolk 4, page 141, afford Helen's date of baptism to "Sherrington Dyneley," a supposed second son of that name. Assuming that the name is erroneous, on account of Briggs's transcription of the parish register of Otley, a second Sharington or Sherrington Dyneley has not been included in this genealogy.

Family/Spouse: John Carlisle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Thomas Croft on 26 May 1640 in Weston, Yorkshire, England. Thomas (son of Sir Christopher Croft and Elizabeth Harrison) was christened on 22 Dec. 1619 in St. Michael's, Ousebridge End, York, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 7 Sept. 1654 in St. Michael's, Ousebridge End, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Bramhope, Yorkshire, England

Family/Spouse: Dorcas Mauleverer. Dorcas (daughter of John Mauleverer) died on 15 May 1709; was buried on 17 May 1709 in Bramhope, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William Pearson on 21 Oct. 1662 in Otley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Bramhope, Yorkshire, England
• Will: 7 Feb. 1666
• Probate: After 7 Feb. 1666, York, Yorkshire, England

Family/Spouse: Muriel unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Pagett. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died young.