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Personal data Richard Ashton 

• Alternative name: Richard Assheton
• He was born in the year 1670 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England.Source 2
• He died in the year 1715 in Barnsley, Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, he was 45 years old.Source 2
• He is buried in Worsbrough, Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.Source 2
• A child of Richard Assheton and Beatrix Allott

Household of Richard Ashton

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth Ashton  1693-1773 
2. John Ashton  1695-????

Notes about Richard Ashton

This Richard was not the son of Sir Ralph
Assheton, Sir Ralph (1651-1716), 2nd bt. Elder son of Sir Ralph Assheton (1626-65), kt. and 1st bt., and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, 1st bt. of Great Lever and Whalley Abbey, born 11 February and baptised 19 February 1651. Educated privately by an ejected Presbyterian minister appointed by his mother, and at Brasenose College, Oxford (matriculated 1668); travelled abroad, 1673. He succeeded his father as 2nd baronet, 28 April 1665. He was brought up in the Presbyterian faith but conformed to the Church of England after returning from his travels c.1673, and was made a Freeman of Preston, 1662 and 1682; JP for Lancashire, 1675-87 and 1689-1716 and DL 1682-87, 1688-1716; MP for Liverpool, 1677-79 and for Lancashire, 1694-98. An officer in the Lancashire militia (Lt. Col. by 1680; Col. by 1697). He married 1st, c.1680, Mary (d. 1694), only daughter and heir of Thomas Vavasour esq. of Spaldington (Yorks), and 2nd, 30 July 1696, Mary (d. 1721), only daughter and heir of Robert Hyde esq. of Denton (Lancs), and had issue:
(1.1) Anne Assheton (1681-1729), baptised at Middleton, 21 July 1681; inherited her mother's estate of Spaldington (Yorks); married, 15 August 1701 at Manchester, Humphrey Trafford esq. of Trafford, and had issue four sons and four daughters; died 9 August 1729 and was buried in Manchester Collegiate Church (now Cathedral);
(1.2) Dorothy Assheton (1683-86), baptised 6 November 1683; died in infancy, 27 January 1685/6;
(1.3) Frances Assheton (1685-90), baptised 27 June 1685; died young, 3 April 1690;
(1.4) Edmund Assheton (1686-88), born 25 November and baptised at Middleton, 15 December 1686; died in infancy, 20 June 1688;
(1.5) Richard Vavasour Assheton (1689-1708), baptised 20 May 1689 at Middleton; died unmarried in the lifetime of his father, 14 February 1707/8;
(1.6) Elizabeth Assheton (1690-91), born about November 1690; died in infancy, 15 January 1691;
(1.7) Catherine Assheton (1692-1728), born 5 March and baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (Middx), 18 March 1692; inherited her stepmother's estate at Denton (Lancs); married, 27 November 1716 at Middleton, Thomas Lister (1688-1745) of Arnoldsbiggin and Gisburn Park (Yorks WR) and had issue two sons; died 30 August 1728;
(1.8) Mary Assheton (c.1694-1776), born about November 1694; inherited the Whalley estate from her father; married, 19 February 1716 at Middleton, Sir Nathaniel Curzon (1675-1758), 4th bt., of Kedleston (Derbys) and had issue three sons (one of whom died young); died 18 March 1776; will proved May 1776.
He inherited the Middleton Hall estate from his father in 1665 and came of age in 1672. In 1697 he inherited the Whalley Abbey estate from his kinsman, Sir John Assheton, 4th bt. At his death, Middleton passed to his nephew, the 3rd bt., and Whalley to his youngest daughter and her husband.
He died 3 May 1716 and was buried at Middleton, where he is commemorated by a monument; his will was proved 13 February 1716/7. His first wife died 11 November 1694 and was buried at Middleton, where she is commemorated by a monument erected in 1709. His widow died at Kensington, 16 June 1721 and was buried at Denton (Lancs), 6 July 1721; her will was proved 27 June 1721.

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