Robert Ashby (abt. 1517 - 1557)

Born about 1517 in Leicestershire, England

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Died 24 Aug 1557 at about age 40 in Leicestershire, England

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Biography

"ROBERT ASHBY (b. 1517), then of the age of nineteen years (in 1536), was her (Anne Ashby of Quenby) next heir. This gentleman united by marriage with Barbara,‘ daughter of George Ashby, esq. of Loseby, in Leicestershire, the two families of the name. By her, who died in 1598, aged one hundred and five, he had issue..."

Burke's shows a daughter Elizabeth Ashby as born around 1538. However, the 1619 Visitation Of Leicestershire and other sources put Elizabeth as having a son born seem to put Elizabeth as married to John or Johannes Warde of Carlton Curlew Leicestershire and having a son born around 1528.

The visitation has Robert's father as another Robert Ashby, brother of George and son of William Ashby.

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http://members.aol.com/patander73/ashanc.html

Ancestors of Thomas Ashby, Generation No. 6:

Robert Ashby: On May, 12, 1536, Robert Ashby inherited the manor of Quenby from his first cousin Anne

Ashby Skevington. This was apparently because of restrictions in wills that required the estate be passed to male heirs of the Ashby family. Robert's uncle William Ashby was an MP in parliament and was involved in helping Thomas Cromwell break up the monastaries and passed those lands he acquired to his nephew Robert upon his death.

Text: Anne Ashby, of Quenby, who wedded George Skevington, of Skevington, [Skeffington] in Leicestershire, but had no issue. She d. 12th May, 1536, when it was found that she was seized of the manor of Quenby, and of lands there and at Houghton, and that her cousin, Robert Ashby, then of the age of nineteen years, was her next heir. This gentleman united by marriage with Barbara, daughter of George Ashby, esq. of Loseby [Lowesby], in Leicestershire, the two families of the name. By her, who died in 1598, aged one hundred and five, he had issue...

Author: Burke, John

Publication: London : Published for Henry Colburn by R. Bentley, 1834-1838

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Full title: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours

Sources

• A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain ..., Volume 4, By John Burke, p. 176, free eBook available from Google Books
• The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the Year 1619, By Samson Lennard & Augustine Vincent, p. 13, 14 & 83 free eBook available from Google Books

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Gordon Simpkinson for creating WikiTree profile Ashby-492 through the import of Simpkinson 20100522.ged on Feb 22, 2013.

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