The church seems to have been a popular profession and clergymen appear in different parts of the country outside Yorkshire but usually no male descendants seem to have remained. The exception is a Cheshire branch descended from John, son of Lawrence of Horton in Ribblesdale (1735 -€ 1783), where nearly all the later men became upper or middle class clergy.
The descendants of Reverend John of Easingwold (1734 - 1812) were involved in the flax trade and eventually settled in Riga, Latvia (then part of Russia). George Armitstead (1847 - 1912) became Mayor of Riga and a statue of him and his wife can be seen in the park (see above). His brother James founded a hospital there which still bears his name.
The only Armitstead peer - Baron George of Castlehill (1824 - 1915) - was also born in Riga but settled in Dundee running the shipping business. He became an MP and friend of Gladstone but was involved in scandal when his wife left him over an affair with the daughter of a Scottish laird.
Another line of Armisteads were prosperous Quaker business men in Leeds including Wilson Armistead (1819 - 1868) who was heavily involved in the anti slavery movement.
In 1635 William Armistead of Kirk Deighton emigrated to Virginia and established his family in the top ranks of plantation owners. His many descendants appear to have gradually spread over the southern states and several distinguished themselves in the Civil War (almost all for the confederates).
The mistress and eventual wife of Charles James Fox (18th Century) called herself Mrs Armistead ( real name apparently Bridget Cane but nothing is known of her origins) .