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Ridgway is a minor line in my family and enters into the tree in 1860 when Elizabeth Ridgway of Whaddon, married Jabez Matthew in Nash, Bucks. Their daughter Jane Elizabeth Matthews married Reuben William Colton which is a major family line.

THe furthest back I have got with the Ridgways is to the early 1700's to Anthony Ridgway who married Elizabeth Mitchell. They had two sons:
John (1720)
Benjamin(1722)
Benjamin's son, John Ridgway was born in around 1751 and he married Sarah Colton in Whaddon, Bucks in 1796. Their son, Matthew Ridgway, was born in Thornborough in around 1805 and he married Mary May.

Matthew and Mary had the following children:

Elizabeth (1837)
Edwin (1842)
Rebecca Rachel (1849)
Elizabeth Ridgway is the lady mentioned above who married Jabez Matthews in Nash in 1860. Their daughter Jane Elizabeth Matthews married Reuben William Colton.

 
Nash is a small Bucks hamlet, formerly part of the parish of Whaddon. For this reason, residents of Nash were married in Whaddon church. In 1854 it was separated from Whaddon parish and united to the parish of Thornton, under the name Thornton-cum-Nash.

The church at Whaddon is Whaddon St. Mary

Both Whaddon and Nash derive from Old English with Nash meaning 'place at the Ash tree' and Whaddon meaning 'hill where wheat is grown'.