Goodricke baronets

The family was originally of the county of Somerset, and from there moved into Lincolnshire, upon the marriage of Henry Goodricke, third son of Robert Goodricke, of Nortingley, with a Lincolnshire heiress, Miss Strickford.

[1][2] Henry Goodricke married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Christopher Lawson, knt.

of London, and dying in 1556, was succeeded by his eldest son:[1] John Goodricke of Ribstone Hall (1617–1670), son of Sir John (or Henry) Goodricke and Jane, was created a baronet on 14 August 1641.

The seventh Baronet bequeathed in 1833 the Ribston estate to his business partner Francis Lyttelton Holyoake, who sold it in 1836.

His arms, impaling those of his wife, with the supporters, two naked boys and the motto "Reien sen Deiu" (with out God nothing) are still on the south wall of the chapel at Ribston.