Thomas de Ashton

• Preferred Name: Thomas de Ashton^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}
  
• Alternate Name: Thomas Ashton
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 1403 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4877 LONG: E2.0969
  
• Death: 3 SEP 1468 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4877 LONG: E2.0969
  
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• Occupation: English Alchemist7 APR 1446 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Ashton_(alchemist)
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• FSID: LH6Y-B21
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Sir Thomas Ashton (c.1403-60), kt.; knighted by 1434 but was exempted from appointment to Crown offices, 1442; had a licence to practice alchemy, 1446; married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Byron and had issue ten children;
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  Thomas Ashton was born about 1395, the son and heir of Sir John de Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne, who died in 1428. His half-brother, Ralph de Ashton, seems to have inherited the main family home, Ashton Hall. From roughly this date, differences appear in the coat of arms, motto and spelling of the two families, indicating that Sir Thomas may have distanced himself from his unpopular half-brother.
  Permission was granted by Henry VI to Sir Thomas to transmute the precious metals, and on 7 April 1446 a special order was issued, encouraging two Lancashire knights, Ashton and Sir Edmund de Trafford, to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them.
  Sir Thomas, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Byron, by whom he had eleven children. The eldest son, John, was knighted before the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460, was MP for Lancashire in 1472 and died in 1508.
  Douce Ashton, birth date 1435; married Thomas (Sir) Gerard Knight, born 15 Jul. 1431 in Kingsley, Lancs, England, died 27 Mar. 1490 in Kingsley, Lancs., England
  Note
  Thomas de Ashton (alchemist) is not, Sir Thomas de Ashton Lord of Croston d. 17 Oct 1407 and, is not the medieval Thomas de Aston, a 13th-century monk d. 7 June 1401: these two men are in Lincoln Cathedral.
  Source information:
  Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
  
  === L.D.S. Pedigree Resource Disc 6 ===
  L.D.S. Pedigree Resource Disc 6
  
  === Sir Anketil Mallory (Malory) was a knigh ===
  Sir Anketil Mallory (Malory) was a knight and was of Kirkby Mallory, co. Leicester. There were four children by this marriage. In 232-33 Katherine Malory, widow of Ralph Greene of Drayton, was said to be the daugther of Anketil Malory "of Winwick". Weis says "Perh. she was dau. of Sir Anketil Malory of Kirkby (16A-32)." 16A-32. Weis.
  
  === EDMONDSON'S BARONAGIUM GENEALOGICIUM (GS ===
  EDMONDSON'S BARONAGIUM GENEALOGICIUM (GS NUMBER ES FOLIO 942 D2SW) VOL 4 P.390; HARLEIAN SOCIETY VOL 4, VISITATIONS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (GS NUMBER 942 B4H) P.9;
  
  === 1. CD V707, Vol. 07, World Family Tree, ===
  1. CD V707, Vol. 07, World Family Tree, @1996, Broderbund Software,Inc., Pedigree File #0422. 2. CD V731, Vol. 31, World Family Tree, b1999, The Learning Company,Inc., Pedigree File #0637.
  
  === !Name,Bd,pla,parents,Bap,End-TIB FHL 884 ===
  !Name,Bd,pla,parents,Bap,End-TIB FHL 884551 Name,parents,Byr(also 1272),pla(Anderson-pickering Lithe,York),Spouse(name only),Md(also 1430<1431),pla,Bap,SP,SS-IGI,addendum
  
  === Sir Thomas Assheton, of Ashton-under-Ly ===
  Sir Thomas Assheton, of Ashton-under-Lyme, noted alchemist, who was licensed by King Henry VI to transmuye metals into silver and gold. From him descend all the Asshetons of Ashton-under-Lyme. Chadderton and Shelpley, all of which are now extinct in the male line. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Byron, and had Sir John, his successor, Edmund, Geoffrey, Nicholas, Dulcie, Elizabeth and four others.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 8WKF-KL ===
  Ancestral File Number: 8WKF-KL
  
  === Name Suffix: (Sir) Ancestral File ===
  Name Suffix: (Sir) Ancestral File Number: FBWL-FM
  
  === There were three other dau for this fam, ===
  There were three other dau for this fam, names & dates not known
  
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  Ancestral File Number: FBL8-79 ===
  
  Ancestral File Number: FBL8-79
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
  Eighteenth Great Grandfather.
  Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather
  
  === !Ankatil Malorie's brother, William de l ===
  !Ankatil Malorie's brother, William de la Zouche, Archbishop of York, settled upon him 1/3 of Sudborough Manor.
  
  === !MARRIAGE: from Lancastershire Pedigrees ===
  !MARRIAGE: from Lancastershire Pedigrees Batch #: 1760846, Source Call #: Film #: 177933, Page #: 827, Ordinance #: 32045 Batch #: 1760805, Source Call #: Batch #: 1761082, Source Call #:
  
  === There were three other dau for this fam, ===
  There were three other dau for this fam, names & dates not known
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  === chil known ===
  chil known
  
  === Sir Thomas Assheton, alchemist, ancestor ===
  Sir Thomas Assheton, alchemist, ancestor of the extinct Asshetons of Ashton-under-Lyne, Asshetons of Chadderton, and Ashtons of Shepley. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  === !CHILDREN: Of Robert Foulshurst and [ ===
  !CHILDREN: Of Robert Foulshurst and [ ] Cecily - Doc. Line 233B-37

• m. 1417 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England

1. Elizabeth de Ashton, b. ABT 1429 in Ashton Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, Borough of Tameside, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1490 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England

• m. BEF 1420

1. Elizabeth de Ashton, b. ABT 1429 in Ashton Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, Borough of Tameside, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1490 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England

1. Title: Thomas Ashton & Bryon in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Q5-K9X8-Q?cc=2060211&wc=WWNV-NZQ%3A352087101%2C353000801
   Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Q5-K9X8-Q?cc=2060211&wc=WWNV-NZQ%3A352087101%2C353000801 : 20 May 2014), A > Ashton, Myles - Ashworth, George (1700) > image 390 of 1234; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Q5-K9X8-Q;
   Note: Thomas Ashton married Elizabeth Bryon and had children according to research in 1968
   Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research
   
2. Title: Pages from the life of John Sparling of Petton
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/25610/records/181;
   
3. Title: Millennium File
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7249&h=10117701&indiv=try;
   
4. Title: Thomas Ashton in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   Author: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p912.htm#i27396
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p912.htm#i27396;
   Note: Father Sir John Ashton Mother Jane Saville Sir Thomas Ashton was born circa 1400 at of Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England. [5] He married Elizabeth Byron, daughter of Sir John Byron and Margaret Booth, circa 1422. Family: Elizabeth Byron b. c 1402 Children: Douce Ashton+2 Sir John Ashton+6 b. c 1423, d. 1508 Edmund Ashton, Esq.+5 b. c 1425, d. Mar 1490 Jane Ashton+7 b. c 1425 Elizabeth Ashton+8,3,4 b. c 1432 Citations: 1. [S8488] Unknown author, Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, p. 20. 2. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 249. 3. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 207. 4. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 181. 5. [S11580] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV, by John Burke, Esq., p. 400. 6. [S11576] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by John Burke, Esq. and John Bernard Burke, Esq., p. 20. 7. [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC. 8. [S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 771.
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5. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/3599/records/115537;
   
6. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
7. Title: British Chancery Records, 1386-1558
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8. Title: Cheshire, England, Extracted Parish Records
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/5856/records/257812;
   
9. Title: Thomas de Ashton, Wikipedia
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Ashton_(alchemist) "Ashton, Thomas de (fl.1446)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Ashton_(alchemist);
   Note: Sir Thomas de Ashton or Assheton (fl. 1446), was an English alchemist. Ashton was born in 1403, the son and heir of Sir John de Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne, who died in 1428. Permission was granted by Henry VI to Sir Thomas to transmute the precious metals, and on 7 April 1446 a special order was issued, encouraging two Lancashire knights, Ashton and Sir Edmund de Trafford, to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them. Sir Thomas, born in Kingsley, Lancashire, England, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Byron, by whom he had eleven children.
   
10. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9289&h=27637209&indiv=try;
    
11. Title: Cheshire, England, Extracted Parish Records
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/5856/records/256883;
    
12. Title: Millennium File
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/7249/records/10117701;