Richard SCOLFELDE

1549 - 1630  (81 years)

• Name	Richard SCOLFELDE
  Born	1549	County Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1630	Lancashire, England
  Person ID	I38830	Main
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	Sir Cuthbert SCOLFELDE,   b. 1528, County Kent, England ,   d. 1615, Rochdale, Lancashire, England  (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F13599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine DE MORS,   b. Rouen, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France ,   d. ?
  Married	Abt 1570
  Children	+ 1. Thomas SCOLFELDE,   b. 1571, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. 1650, Lancashire, England  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2016
  Family ID	F13598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Second s/o Sir Cuthbert Scofield, of Scofield Manor, 'the family being of ancient and honorable lineage'. He is believed to have married Catherine de Mors of Rouen, Normandy in 1570. He soon relocated to Lancashire where he received a commission in the Army [Courtesy of the Prejebscot Historical Museum, Maine.] Scofield Manor - Kent. The name had its origin in Normandy in the tenth and eleventh centuries - as: de Cillesfelle - their forbears having been the Norse settlers, who inter married with the native "Frankish" or French, and became known as the "Normans" Sir Esbern de Cillesfelle was a Norman Knight who came to England with the invasion armies of Duke William of Normandy in 1066. Sir Esbern's name appears in the "Domesday " Book of Kent- second page and reads. In the List of Sudtone and in the List of Ailsford - " Esbern de Cillesfelle" - end quote. By 1150 A.D. the name had become: de Skolefeld - ( the English equiv.) then on to Skolfield, Skolefeild. By 1290 the decsendants of the first de Cillesfelle had shortened their name to de Scofield- Scofield. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, arms were granted to Sir Cuthbert Scofield, as a younger s/o the "Scofields of Kent" for his services against the Spanish Armada, and was knighted. A.D. 1588, Family Arms were granted in 1582. de Cillesfelle - de Skolefeld -Skolfield - Scofield.