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A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1646 for his sequestered estate. 20 In 1717 John Ashton of Whiston, watch-maker, as a 'Papist,' registered his estate as a house at Prescot; Arthur Ashton, tailor, had two small houses; Edward Ellam and Edward … Comp. ii, 1493. Eng. Cath. Non-jurors, 119, 121, 152. John Ashton seems to have been connected with the Harringtons of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… town parts of Ribbleton and Brockholes on the east and of Ashton on the west were taken into the municipal borough in 1880 71 and a further part of Ashton in 1888, 72 but the number of wards, though the areas … Church and Avenham in the centre or ancient urban area; Ashton on the west; Maudland, St. Peter's, Moor Brook, Park …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Mill was in 1560 the subject of a dispute between Richard Ashton and George Middleton. The latter claimed under a lease …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… that he held lands also in Prescot, Wigan, Billinge, and Ashton in Makerfield. 22 His son and heir Henry was only …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… or Smarshalls farmhold, had been purchased from Hamnet Ashton or Elizabeth his wife. This, from the entry in the … by the Crown in 1585 when land in the holding of Hamlet Ashton and lately belonging to the abbey was sold to Walter … of 1624 is said to have been purchased from Hamlet Ashton and Elizabeth his wife. Raven House and land had been …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… London and North Western Company's line from this town to Ashton crosses it, with a station called Reddish, near the … John Hulme, younger brother of William, received lands in Ashton-under-Lyne and in the Heaths near Newton Lane in … mother, had died in 1627 holding lands in Manchester and Ashton, which she bequeathed to her son John, because he had …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… (Chet. Soc), 48. The same partners also held a moiety of Ashton at the other side of Preston. In both cases the right … the manor of Ribbleton and a fourth part of the manor of Ashton. The remainders, after their children (John and others), were, so far as Ashton was concerned, to the right heirs of Alice; and as to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… or that they claimed any manor. Richard Mascy and Hamlet Ashton were the only landowners contributing to the subsidy … including the 6 s. 8 d. chief rent due from John Ashton of Glazebrook. Ibid. R. 174; after Hamlet's sons in … have been a branch of the Ashtons of Penketh. A Humphrey Ashton attested a Mascy purchase in Rixton and Glazebrook in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and at last turns west towards the Lune, passing through Ashton. The London and North-Western Company's main line … Manors Before the Conquest SCOTFORTH was, with Ellel and Ashton, held by Cliber, Machern and Gillemichael, and was … family. 4 The lordship descended in much the same way as Ashton, being parted among the heirs of Lancaster, 5 and held …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… de Molyneux of Sefton was granted to him and Matthew de Ashton, clerk, in August, 1372, 400 marks being paid; Duchy … and lands in Liverpool, Charnock Richard, West Derby, Ashton in Makerfield, Preston, Toxteth and Smithdown, …