Thomas Stockdale of Bilton Park (died 25 December 1653), supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War

English Civil War

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, and sat as a member for Knaresborough

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 in the Long Parliament

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 from 1645. He was also a Yorkshire magistrate, who was closely allied to the Fairfaxs

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 and was a bailiff or agent for Lord Fairfax

Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron

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Stockdale married Margaret second daughter of Sir William Parsons an Elizabethan commissioner of plantations in Ireland. they had issue that included Elizabeth (d. 25 October 1694).