Descents From Edward III For Ursula and Capt. Thomas Aslaby

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Descents From Edward III For Ursula and Capt. Thomas Aslaby

Legg inn av Brad Verity » 06 sep 2007 08:54:59

The Aslabys were a Richmondshire squirearchy family, today obscure and
little-researched. Though the name is sometimes spelled 'Aislaby',
they seem to have a distinctive origin from the mercantile Aislabie
family of York who later became owners of Studley Royal. The name is
also spelled 'Aslakeby' or 'Aslackby' in 16th-century records. Like
the village Aslackby in Lincolnshire, the name is pronounced 'Aze-ul-
be', and was spelled 'Aslaby' by the end of the 17th-century. By the
late 1400s, the family was settled at Barden in Richmondshire and had
married into the Wycliffe family. A younger son, James Aslaby, made a
fortunate match with Margaret, a daughter of Sir Thomas Gower of
Stittenham (d. 1486), and removed to the area around Malton (in the
eastern North Riding), where, no doubt with the aid of the Gowers, he
acquired property in Welburn and Whitwell on the Hill. James's son
Francis Aslaby continued the family's rise by marrying Maud Grey,
daughter of influential local Ralph Grey of Barton-le-Street (d.
1552). Judging from his coat-of-arms, Ralph Grey was descended from
the Greys of Horton, but exactly how remains unclear. Ralph's second
wife Margaret Bulmer was Francis Aslaby's first cousin, and the
families were quite close in the early 1500s. Francis must have been
an accomplished man, for he was able to purchase from the Crown in
1552 the manor and advowson of South Dalton in the East Riding, 6
miles NW. of Beverley, and made it the family seat. The first and
only Visitation pedigree of the Aslaby family was collected by William
Harvey, Norroy King of Arms, that same year. Francis Aslaby was
granted a lease from the Crown of the manor of Bromflete in 1557, and
died the following year, leaving a 21-year-old eldest son and heir.

It was Ralph Aslaby of South Dalton (1537-1573) who was the first to
marry into the Edward III bloodline, with his kinswoman Frances
Ellerker as his wife. Her great-grandfather, Sir Ralph Ellerker (d.
1539) had married Anne, another daughter of Sir Thomas Gower of
Stittenham (d. 1486). The kinship of the two families, plus the fact
that Risby, the family seat of the Ellerkers, lay less than ten miles
south of South Dalton, led to the marriage, which was arranged not too
much before 1558, the year that both fathers of the young couple
died. Ralph Aslaby and Frances Ellerker had only one surviving child,
a daughter Ursula, whose single line of descent from Joan Beaufort is
given below. Ursula Aslaby married Marmaduke Cholmley of Brandsby (d.
1602), but died without issue in 1613.

After Ursula's death, the manor of South Dalton appears to have passed
to Francis Aslaby, son of her first cousin Francis Aslaby (d. 1612),
who in turn was son of her father's youngest brother Francis. It was
Thomas Aslaby, baptized 13 October 1633 at Norton, a village near
Malton in the eastern North Riding, around which the Aslabys still
held some property, who again married into the Edward III bloodline.
The Aslabys were Recusants, and that may explain how Thomas ended up
with Frances, daughter of Stephen Tempest of Broughton Hall, as a
wife. For the Tempests were a West Riding family with no apparent
connection to the Aslaby spheres of local influence, but being an old
Catholic family they no doubt married their daughters to fellow
adherents of the Old Religion. Thomas Aslaby and Frances Tempest had
five children: Thomas, John, Charles, Frances and Euphrasia Aslaby,
all baptized at South Dalton (though the records have not made it into
the IGI), and the couple were both living in 1680, the year Thomas
sold the manor of South Dalton to Sir John Hotham, 2nd Baronet, of
Scorborough for £1,600. Thomas removed the family to the coastal town
of Bridlington, in the northern part of the East Riding, but the dates
of death for him and his wife I haven't yet discovered. Their eldest
son Thomas Aslaby, whose line of descent from Edward III thru Joan
Beaufort is also given below, was a Captain in the Army, and married
Anne, daughter of Sir William Langdale of Langthorpe (also descended
from Edward III), while his younger brother Charles Aslaby married his
wife's sister Mary Langdale. What became of the family afterwards, or
whether there are male-line descendants of Thomas Aslaby and Frances
Tempest remaining today, will have to wait until parish records can be
examined, to be determined.

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (c.1379-1440) had two daughters
(A1 & B1):

A1) Elizabeth Ferrers, Lady Greystoke (1393-1434), who had
A2) Eleanor Greystoke m. Sir Ralph Eure of Witton Castle (d. 1461),
and had
A3) Elizabeth Eure m. John Ellerker of Risby, Yorks., and had
A4) Sir Ralph Ellerker of Risby (d. 1539) m. Anne Gower, and had
A5) Sir Ralph Ellerker of Risby (d. 1546) m. Jane Arden, and had
A6) Sir Ralph Ellerker of Risby (d. 1558) m. Katherine Constable, and
had
A7) Frances Ellerker (c.1540-15--) m. by 1558 Ralph Aslaby of South
Dalton, Yorks. (1537-1573), and had
A8) Ursula Aslaby of South Dalton (d. 1613) m. Marmaduke Cholmley of
Brandsby, Yorks. (d. 1602)

B1) Eleanor Nevill, Countess of Northumberland (d. 1473), who had
B2) Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421-1461), who had
B3) Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (1449-1489) m. 1472 Maud
Herbert, and had
B4) Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (1478-1527) m. c.1490
Katherine Spencer (1477-1542, descendant of Edward III but not thru
Joan Beaufort), and had
B5) Sir Ingelram Percy, youngest son (by 1510-1538), who had
B6) Isabel Percy, illeg. (aft.1529-liv. 1591) m. 1543 Henry Tempest of
Broughton, Yorks. (1527-1605, descended from Edward III but not thru
Joan Beaufort), and had
B7) Sir Stephen Tempest of Broughton (1555-1625) m. 2)1591 Katherine
Lawson (d. 1648), and had
B8) Stephen Tempest of Broughton (1593-1651) m. 1)1612 Susan
Oglethorpe (d. 1628), and had
B9) Frances Tempest (c.1628-liv.1680) m. Thomas Aslaby of South Dalton
(1633-liv.1680), and had
B10) Thomas Aslaby, Captain (liv.1680) m. Anne Langdale

Cheers, ---------Brad

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