Ryall - my branch of a family tree

Some limited ancestral information

It seems that some folk delve the Web hoping to find their roots. I get sporadic Emails mainly from the previous British colonies asking if I am perhaps a relative. So far all have drawn a blank and I am not really seeking distant 5th cousins myself.

I hope that rather than join in with another Email, the following might satisfy any the curiousity of any intrepid Ryalls who have got thus far.

Herman Temple Ryall (1900(?)-1951) is only vaguely remembered. He was a council official of some sort (perhaps town clerk) at Cleethorpes Lincs, and a Freemason. He died from a heart condition. Herman was an only son (his own father remembered as "a bit of a rogue"). He and Christabel lost two children in infancy, only John surviving ..	Christabel Cooke (1905-1967) was a clever go-getting lady. In the 30s she took flying lessons and joined the Air Corps. She played bridge for Lincolnshire. Christabel's father was the stationmaster at Lincoln - a prestigious post in those days.
John Temple Ryall (1929-1987) was another only son. He became a a Coal Board scholar, turning down a Cambridge science place to read mining at Birmingham. In '56 he was the youngest mine manager ever in UK. He was once nominated for a George medal after dealing with a workplace accident. He worked in mine machinery manufacture in Darlington, at Newcasle University and as a consultant with the World bank. Smoking led to another tragically early death. John had four children	John's widow prefers not to be listed here
Christopher Ryall (1953-) is a consultant at Royal Liverpool University teaching hospital He likes bridge, folk music and dancing, and big motor bikes Chris has 3 children	Chris's brother has 3 children	.. as does his sister	and his other sister

Chris Ryall was brought up in Yorkshire (God's County) Darlington and Newcastle. The siblings now diaspora across northern England and he now lives in Birkenhead, Wirral near Liverpool. Ryall is still a rare surname in UK - 0.036% (360 per million). Although there are a group of Ryalls there none of these is a relative. and according to the recent online census data the name was rare here too.

Nevertheless my ex-wife bought an old piano from a junk shop when we came here. It was her style to buy it for it's 'looks' (the tone was pretty awful). Opening the lid we saw the maker's plate. "Ryall of Hoylake" (on North Wirral coast). What a small world! But it wouldn't stay in tune and had to be sold. Kids now boogie tunefully on Grandad's old piano.

There are villages called "Ryall" in the Welsh borders (just south of Upton upon Severn) and in Dorset near English south coast. You can see the affects of these as name frequnecies on the 1881 map. Herman's father will have lived in the Lincolnshire/East Yorkshire pool, on the NW coast just below the Humber estuary.

I don't know why there were a lot of us in East Cornwall, on England's SW peninsula. There is also a village "Ryal" in Northumberland. And Welsh town of Rhyll. Probably neither is a relation.

Mouse over the map to see the name spread 110 years later.

The name Ryall is thought to have come across with the Normans in 1066. That Welsh borders village on the Severn should certainly be visited if you can .. there's a Ryall Hall .. a Ryall Lane .. Nice feeling!

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