Grace (Pitt) Ashe (abt. 1579 - abt. 1647)

Born about 1579 in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England

Ancestors

Wife of James Ashe — married 15 Nov 1596 in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England

Descendants

Died about 1647 at about age 68 in Freshford, Somerset, England

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Biography

Grace Pitt was baptised at Radipole (Melcombe Regis) 19 Sept 1579 , the daughter of Richard Pitt and his first wife Margaret Baily ^[1]

Marriage

She married James Ashe on 16 November 1596 at Radipole (Melcombe Regis) ^[2]

Research notes

• James Ashe was born circa 1565 at of Freshford, Somersetshire, England.1 He married Grace Pitt, daughter of Richard Pitt and Margery Bailey, circa 1590
• Family Grace Pitt b. c 1566
• Child Edward Ashe, Esq.+1 b. c 1610, d. 1656

Sources

1. ↑ Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. Edited by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. 3rd ed. Volume 2, p 480 Pedigree of Pitt of Causeway and Melcombe Regis and of North Crickett from visitation of Somerset, Mr D Bond's manuscript and the Parish Registers of Radipole and Melcombe Regis (note the registers in Hutchin's time dated from 1560, the earliest pages now extant date from 1595)
2. ↑ Dorset History Centre, PE MCR RE 1/1 Radipole parish register (filed as Melcombe Regis but at this time Radipole was the parish)

   James Aishe and Grace Pitte marryed 16 November Ancestry sharing link

• Pedigree 1 Ashe of Westcombe and Freshford [1]

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3758.htm#i112862

• Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Societies, Vol. IX, p. 52

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