Randle Ashenhurst (1585)

Born 1585 in Staffordshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Dugdale's Visitation of Derbyshire has this information:

Randle Ashenhurst of Glossopdale, co Derby aet 77 ann. 13 Aug 1662

"The Ashenhursts were a Staffordshire house of remote antiquity. John, the grandson of the Beard heiress, who was born here, became that famous, or infamous Parliamentary Colonel during the Civil Wars, whose compound treachery is known to historical students. This fact alone would have attracted many an individual to Beard. The father of the Colonel was a J.P., who donned the profession of a clergyman occasionally, for the entry is on record that he married seventeen couples of Chapel-en-le-Frith lads and lasses one morning".

Sources

• William Dugdale, The visitation of Derbyshire, taken in 1662, and reviewed in 1663 (London: Golding and Lawrence, 1879), page 18
• http://www.stevelewis.me.uk/page53.php
• Harlequin Pedigree