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Jane Cawdron formerly Ashton aka Wolrich

Born [date unknown] in Chadderton, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Daughter of James Ashton and Agnes (Mainwaring) Ashton

Sister of Peter Ashton and Edmund Ashton

[spouse(s) unknown]

Mother of Jane (Wolrich) Gamlyn

Died about 20 Apr 1584 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

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1 Biography
- 1.1 Marriage
  - 1.1.1 Wolrich
  - 1.1.2 Cawdron
- 1.2 Will
2 Sources

Biography

Jane Ashton (bur. 20 Apr 1584 Spalding, co. Lincs), is the eldest daughter of:

James Ashton of Chadderton, co. Lancs. (b. c. 1491 - d. 1549, age abt. 58);^[1]
and Agnes (living 17 Jun 1558), dau. of Charles Mainwaring of Croxton, King's Atty. for co. Chester & Katherine, dau. of Robert Dokenfield of Dukinfield, co. Chester.

Marriage

She married twice.

Wolrich

m.1 Nicholas Wolrich of Spalding, co. Lincs. & Barnark, co. Northants. Issue:

(d. & h.) Jane (bur. 06 Oct 1586 Spalding)

m. Sir Matthew Gamlyn of Fulney Hall in Spalding, co. Lincs. (living 1590; d. 25 Oct 1617; bur. 26 Oct Spalding), son of John Gamlyn, esq. of Fulney Marsh, Spalding, co. Lincs. & of King's Lynn, co. Norf. (bur. 28 Dec 1590 Spalding; will 01 Apr 1590, proved 03 Feb 1591/2 PCC) & Audrey (bur. 22 Nov 1560 Spalding), dau. of Thomas Hampden of Great Hampden, co. Bucks.; lawyer; knighted 23 Jul 1603 along w/ son.

Cawdron

m.2 (15 Apr Spalding 1590) Anthony Cawdron, esq. of Heckington, co. Lincs. (bur. 25 Apr 1590 Heckington; will 17 Apr 1590, proved 02 May 1590). No issue.

Will

Date: 14 Mar 1582/3
Proved: 20 Oct 1610 PCC

"Jane Cawdron of Spaldinge nowe wief of Anthony Cawdron Esquire, of whole minde and perfecte memorie, thankes be given unto god therfore, notwithstandinge somewhat sicke in bodie etc. If it shall please god I would bee buried in the Churche of Spaldinge where my mother was buried or near unto her, unto which Churche and the Churche of Heckington for and towardes the maintenance and repaire of them I give them five shillinges apeece.

To my saide husband my Cheane to bestowe at his death of whome yt pleaseth him, and sixe poundes yearlie duringe the terme of five yeres next after my decease issuinge oute of my Landes in Weston purchased of Roger Manners Esquire.
To Peter Ashton my kinsman fortye pounde. To Jane Ashton his sister fortie poundes.
To William Ashton theire brother six poundes thirteene shillings and four pence.
To James Ashton theire brother fortie shillings a yere for the space of four yeres.
Item my will and minde is that the severall somes before given to Peter and Jane Ashton bee delivered out to some honest and substantiall persons to imploy for their most comoditie and profitt, and to bee delivered unto them ether at the age of eighteene yeres or els at their severall marriages day.
To Ellen Hamerton my daughter's mayd three poundes six shillings and eight pence.
To Bridget Brocklesby tenn poundes.
To Elizabeth Cawdron five poundes.
To Robert Massy fortie shillings.
To Christopher Beeson twentie shillings.
To Luce Garnet my mayd twentie shillings.
To the residue of my maides everie one two shillings apeece.
To my daughter Jane Gamlyn my murrey clothe gowne, my russett Satten dublet and kertle my blacke silke gowne and my damaske kirtle my Braceletts of gould smythe worke my best purse and the gould in the purse. To my said daughter and my nephewe Thomas Hartegrave all my householde stuffe as it nowe standeth furnished whatsoever that was my late husbande's Nicholas Wolriche's in the Abbay house at Spaldinge equallie to be divided betwixt them.
To my nevewe Brocklesby five markes to make him a ringe with a deathe's heade, and to my daughter his wief my Roed taffeta kirtle and dublett.
To my brother Edmund Ashton one gylded bowle and one white bowle of silver not gylt.
To my cosen James Ashton and my neece to ether of them a ringe with a deathe's heade.
To my neece Hopwood my lytle ac n(acorn?) of silver gylded.
To my said kinsman Thomas Hartegrave my land at Weston purchased of the aforesaid Eoger Manners Esquire payinge to my said husband as is aforesaid.
Residue of goods, plate, money, parcell of the two hundred poundes jewells and other goods not given nor bequeathed I give wholly to my said kinsman Thomas Hartegrave whome I make full executor.

Dated the 14th March in the five and twentieth yere of the raigne of the Queene's majestie that now is, 1582.

Witnessed by Anthony Cawdron, Kobert Massye and Jane Cawdron.

Prob. at Lincoln 28 Nov. 1607 by Exr.

She was the daughter of James Ashton, of Chadderton, in Lancashire, and was the wife of first, Nicholas Wolrich, of Spalding; secondly, of Anthony Cawdron, of Heckington, Co. Lincoln. Her daughter by her first husband, Jane, married Sir Matthew Oamlyn Knight, of Fulney Hall, in Spalding."

Sources

↑ 'The parish of Prestwich with Oldham: Chadderton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 115-121. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp115-121 [accessed 29 December 2018].