ROBERT PALEY was born in 1774 at High Foss in Walden. Before his death in 1831 he first married Sarah in 1798
Their five children were
JAMES PALEY born about 1791 in Aysgarth. He grew up to marry a Dales lass called Mary Elizabeth.

JOHN PALEY, who was born in 1800, again in Aysgarth. He married MARGARET WEATHERALD in 1826 and had a son Robert that same year in Askrigg.. Iin due course Robert,married JANE JOPLIN and they lived at Low Abbotside, a district of Pateley Bridge where they raised their six children -
Firstly Robert b. 1855,
Margaret Ann, known as Cissie, was born in 1852 and she had a child, apparently illegitimate called Henry Ernest Powell Paley b 1879 . He in turn married Jane Dolphin and produced five Paley children.
Henrietta b. 1859 and
John Paley who was born in 1854 and had three children Constance, Shamrock & Winifred.
Winifred and William John Paley. William John( b1865.) married ALICE SWEETING and had a son Bernie who died in WWI and a daughter.. Then finally there was Charles Henry Paley b. 1861 who married and moved with his family to Harrogate.

ROBERT and SARAH had three children of whom no more is known (ANNIS PALEY, b. 1799, Stalling Busk.,MARY PALEY, b. 1802 & THOMAS PALEY, b. 1806).

Sarah must have died in childbirth and the following year (1807) he married again to HANNAH ROBINSON in Aysgarth Hannah provided George with four more children
ROBERT PALEY, b. 1811, Aysgarth. MARGARET PALEY, b. 1813. DOROTHY PALEY, b. 1816; who married Roger Spence
and
GEORGE PALEY, b. 1809, Aysgarth, West Burton; d. 1887. George was a farmer of about 300 acres at High Fors on Semerwater. Most of the land he farmed was rented but was quite a sizeable holding for those times. He married ANN SMITH on November 1, 1832 in Stalling Busk and they produces an enormous thirteen children over the next 20 years.

Of all of George and Ann’s children, the eldest child was Hannah who married a Peter Beresford in 1854
ANN PALEY came next and she married ROBERT HEBDEN and they produced a long line of Hebdens.
ROBERT PALEY was born in 1836 in Stalling Busk, and died August 11, 1890 in Lancashire. His marriage to Nanney produced three children ( George, William and Elizabeth ). The famly lived in Musbury Lancs where Robert became a licensed victualler and a farmer of 12 acres. DOROTHY PALEY born 1838 in Bainbridge, married a farmer George Preston. They had at least 8 children and in 1881 at least two of them worked as farm servants on their grandfather George’s farm.
JAMES SMITH PALEY was born 1840 in Stalling Busk/Aysgarth and married (1) Ellen Taylor. and (2) Mary Elizabeth He was a stone quarrier and had moved to Skipton around 1878. James had six children with his first wife and three with the second. Of those children, Henry became an engine and machine mechanic in Skipton and Francis became a factory operative.
JOSEPH PALEY – Joseph (b1849) by 1881 became a farmer and butter merchant in the same area till his death in 1890.
WILLIAM PALEY, b. 1842, Aysgarth Yorkshire. He married Mary became a milk dealer, living at Nicholls St, Burnley.Lancs. They had four children, Elijah,Winifred Ann, Francis and George. Elijah went on to marry a Marie Jackson whilst Winifred married either a Willie Leaver or a Howarth Sagar in 1898.
GEORGE PALEY, b. 1843, Countersett/Stalling Busk. George first moved to Leeds where he had two children in the 1870s and then by 1881 he had become an insurance canvasser and living in Burnley with his family.
JOHN PALEY, b. 1845, Bainbridge ran a pub in Bainbridge and farmed 45 acres. He married Mary and had seven children.
THOMAS PALEY, b. 1848, High Foss, Semerwater. He married (1) MARTHA and then in 1876 married (2) Elizabeth Riley in Burnley. Thomas was a cart driver living at Earl St in Burnley. It was with this uncle that ARTHUR HEBDEN first stayed, before the rest of his family moved to Burnley.
Thomas had six children, three with each wife.
FRANCIS PALEY (1850-1928).Francis also married twice, firstly to Hannah White in 1882 and then Mary Cockburn, of Countersett, ten years later. In 1881 Francis is simply noted as a farmers son though in later years documents have him down as a farmer and butter merchant. Francis and Hannah had four children whilst he and Mary only had the one son. In the 1901 census, Francis and Mary Cockburn are shown living in Countersett and Francis is still farming. There are only three children living with them at that time. Elizabeth is 18, Thomas is 15 and Francis jnr is 14. The two boys are working on their fathers farm, as you might expect. Francis, in later years, went on to marry Ellen Heseltine.
The youngest two children of George and Ann Smith were LODGE ROBINSON PALEY and CHRISTOPHER PALEY both of whom died as infants.

A great many of George and Ann’s children moved out of the Dales into Lancashire in the 1800s though what specifically triggered the move is unknown, though undoubtedly it had a great deal to do with the hard financial life in the Dales and the promise of a better life in the industrial north.