There must have been, of course, a number of Woodhall males who didn't inherit freeholds and so didn't get a mention in court rolls or IPMs. Some of these will have established local families.
The Dean parish register goes from the 1540s to the 1620s, with then a long gap before it restarts. Regrettably the very early years have minimal detail, with almost no place names, so are difficult to construct into family trees. There is Woodall probate. An added complication is that is rarely clear whether the term 'of Dean' means the parish or the village.
Thomas Woodall (-1573) of Dean
Thomas Woodall made his will 03-07-1573 and was buried 13-07-1573 in Dean [I have in my notes a burial date of 1575, but I expect that this a mistake at some point in the recording].
He may well have been in the Woodall branch that included William Woodhall als Uvedale (who sold Woodhall in 1571) as that would make sense within the narrative below, but only as part of a younger line.
He appointed his wife Janet as executor, and mentioned his children John, Isabel and Elsabeth; and a 'son' [son-in-law or stepson] John Fox. The witnesses to the will were: John Fox, John Woddaill [sic] and Thomas Feron [sic]. It is possible that this John is the goldsmith John Fox who endowed Dean school in the 1590s (the argument against being that he would have spent most of his time in London, so unlikely to have been a witness).
John Woodall (-1582) of Dean
This John could easily be the son of Thomas above. He wrote his will in 1582, and was buried 02-12-1582 in Dean. The name of his wife has been half-lost in his probate but looks like ...laye. He had an only daughter, Elsabeth, then unmarried. He appointed overseers: William Patrickson, [Fryer?] Patrickson, John Walker and Thomas Fearon.
Elizabeth/Elsabeth was baptised 13-03-1555 in Dean, and appears to have married 28-06-1584 in Dean to William Bowman. It is quite possible that they were the parents of William Bowman of Woodhall, with probate in 1633. The 1582 and 1623 probates both involve Patrickson.
Whatever, this looks to be a continuation of the Woodhall inheritance - the actual freehold being bought by George Porter, but at least part of the land being occupied by a junior line of the Woodhalls, possibly as customary tenants, before passing to the Bowmans. Still substantial enough a holding to warrant interest from the Patricksons.
This may become clearer when I look more closely at some other Dean families like the Fearons. At the moment I have too little evidence to come to any firm conclusions.
A possible interpration in the tree on the right.
Other Woodalls in the early Dean register, not placed elsewhere in this or the Reedy account
[this list may be revised]
William Woodall, buried 15 Nov 1553, Dean
Richard Wooddall, buried 4 Mar 1563 Dean
William Wooddall, buried 20 May 1565, Dean
Thomas Wooddall, buried 10 Feb 1567, Dean
Jane Woodall, baptised 11 Sep 1573, Dean
John Wooddall, buried 9 Apr 1578, Dean
Anthony Wooddall, buried 2 Feb 1580/1, Dean
Mary Wooddall, buried 14 Jan 1582, Dean
Robert Wooddall = 30 Jul 1577 Dean = Jane GAYTSCARTH
Robert Woodall, buried 4 Feb 1586, Dean
John Woodhall. buried 10 Nov 1588, Dean
Given the fact that most of these are burials, and that the register continues for another generation. I doubt that we are (for practical ancestor-finding genealogy) missing lines that develop into anything within Dean. In any case, the only 18+ male in the 1640s Protestation is an Oswald from the Ullock family.
This does not mean that the above couldn't have been ancestors of families that moved outside the parish of Dean. There are a large number of Woodalls in the Protestation in St Bees - two of these are named Robert (as above), two Christopher (as in the early Woodhalls), even a Dorothy. So it is tempting to think that the St Bees clan came from Dean originally.
There is also a Thomas Woodall who married 24-08-1605 in Lamplugh to a widow Janet Fletcher [nee Wood] of the Lund, with a possible daughter but no sons. It is quite conceivable that he was a son of Robert and Jane Woodall above.
A press cupboard exists at Whitekeld in Dean inscribed "John Woodall 1667".