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This Spon Street silkdyer owned Crow Moat, 1807 (PA56/91/19-21; PA56/92/38) and the nearby Butlers Meadow, 1811 (PA56/92/30-31,35,36,38.XXIV) and Highfield, 1816 (PA56/93/21-22; PA56/96/1). Thomas Street is eponymous - named after him soon after his c.1826 death (for which see PA101/11/621 (misdating the death long after the event) and the probate of his will (itself dated 1822 - see PA56/85/2; proved in 1828 according to Lichfield Probate records)). See PA242/4/33. By himself he received Richard Hall as an apprentice from Baker, Billing and Crow's School in 1804 (see PA26/8 folio 5) and with his son had Matthew Yates in 1825 (see PA26/8 folio 61). See PA436/5/51. See PA466/8/1 folio 442. PA500/126/1 shows that he had Butts land. See PA1681/32/5. Occupied Allesley land - see PA56/76/10. Ryley had Little Park Street property, 1815 (PA56/90/13-15). He held a messuage with cowhouses on the southern side of Spon Street and 3a. of leys in 1792 (PA56/135/1(v)). Ryley's land adjoined Lesser Butler Meadow (1820 - PA491/78/16.III) and Barbars Close (1824 - PA491/84/1). For his Spon Street land and that to the rear from 1792, see PA849/8/2-3; PA849/9/6; PA849/11/4.XVII,XIX,XXI,XXII; PA849/13/4. Cf. CCA/2/3/446/22. CCA/2/3/314/29,30,32 show that Ryley was mortgagee for the ribbon-manufacturer William Harris' Much Park Street and Lockhurst Lane property from 1823 until he died. As Francis Ryley's executor, Thomas was the plaintiff in a Town Court debt-case in 1821 - see BA/E/K/110/512. Ryley bought Cross Cheaping property in 1814 (see CCA/2/3/448/14-15).