An early reference to Herringthorpe 23 September, 1584 when William Linley of Hearingthorpe in Whyston, yeoman, sold closes in Dalton and Thribergh to Sir Godfrey Foljambe. Source: Archives
George Linley of Sheffield, yeoman. Will dated 27 July 1671. Children:
Source: FMD in which Hunter comments:Who was Timothy Lindley of Dalton who married Margaret dau of John Bamford of Pule Hill about 1630; and George Lindley of Herringthorpe (parish of Whiston) who married daughter of Francis Cressy of Holme.
George Linley of Little Dalton m. Margery Harrison, daughter of Robert Harrison of Orgreave.
Rotherham Archives hold details of Feoffment by William Needham to George Linley (Dalton) dated 1601
John Lindley a schoolteacher, was born about 1710, and died after 1780. He married Ann Shirley in 1736 at Wickersley.
They had a son, Shirley Lindley c.1738 who married 29 NOV 1770 at Rotherham to Hannah Roose. Children born Masbrough, Rotherham:
Robert Lindley was probably the greatest violoncellist of his time. He was baptised 12 April, at Rotherham, Yorkshire. His father, a proficient performer on the cello, began to teach Robert the violin at the age of five, and his own instrument at nine years old. Robert studied with John Crosdill (1755-1825) and was a pupil of James Cervetto (son of Giacobbe Cervetto (1680/81–1783 cellist), who brought him to London in 1794, when he succeeded Sperati and became the principal violon - cellist at the Italian Opera House, an appointment he held until his retirement.
During his career, he stood unrivalled as an accompanyist of Handel's recitatives, and no public orchestral performance was considered complete without him.
The following year, he began a friendship with Dragonetti, the great double-bass player, which lasted for fifty-two years.
In 1822, on the formation of the Royal Academy of Music, he was appointed one of the first professors.
In 1826 he played a concert of his own with his son, William Lindley (1802–1869), a violoncellist of much promise, who was unable to take the position for which he was qualified, owing to bad health.
Robert retired in 1851, and died on 13 June 1855 aged 83. His daughter Eliza married the composer John Barnett.
an Ann Linley married 21 DEC 1783 at Wickersley to John Eyre