There are many records of this Barnby family in the Dodsworth MSS.
The Arms of the family (they are said in the Visitation of 1612 to be "in the Churche of Barnesley," and are also noticed there by Dodsworth about 1620):
Or, a lion rampant sable, charged with four escallops, argent.
BANKS HALL.
This house, which was formerly called Micklethwaite or The Bank, the residence since 1851 of the Misses Frances and Maria Spencer-Stanhope, was for many years the seat of one of the branches of the Greene family. It is pleasantly situate about a mile to the southwest from the village, the house facing south and east.
A Pedigree of the Greene family from the sixteenth century—36 Henry VIII.—is given in Hunter down to a Samuel Green, of the Bank, living there in 1733, whom we shall find erecting a monument in the Church in that year to his "ancestors and relations."
There is a "Thomas Greene of Cawthorne in com. Ebor. to whom Richard St. George, Esq., Norroy K. of Armes granted the coate and crest here exprest, 6 Oct, 1612," being the same as those allowed to William Greene of Micklethwaite in 1666.
"Greene of Bancke. Pomfret, 7 April, 1666." In the Pedigree at this Herald's Visitation held as above by the illustrious Sir William Dugdale, "Ralphe Greene of Micklethwayt in the Parish of Cawthorne in Com. Ebor. 36 Hen. 8." is given as having a son William, who married the daughter of George Cressy of Elmhirst in Cawthorne, and had an elder son John Greene of Elmhirst; a second son Richard, "of Micklethwayt, vulgo Bancke, in ye Pariah of Calthorne," and a daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Barnby, of Barnby, Esq. Richard's son William married at Silkstone, June 10, 1654, Mary daughter of Michael Portington and his wife, who was a daughter of Matthew Wentworth, of Bretton, Esq. He is given "ætat. 33 annor., 7 April, 1666," his "son and heire William, æat, 9."
