Thomas Assheton

Abt 1403 - Aft 1446  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Thomas Assheton  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1403	of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 9 Mar 1446  [2]
  Person ID	I35827	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	John Assheton,   b. of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England d. 3 Sep 1428
  Family ID	F21074	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Byron
  Marriage	1415  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Assheton
  Family ID	F21051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Shortly after his father's death, evidently because of animosity toward his step-mother, he kidnapped his younger half-brother and refused to release him. He was still alive in 1446, in which year he, in company with Edmund de Trafford (father of John Trafford, who married Thomas's daughter Elizabeth), was granted a licence from the crown dated 9 March 1446 (24 Hen. VI), 'encouraging [them] … to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them' (in the words of a modern paraphrase). He and his wife (who was his stepmother’s sister) are said to have had eleven children." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk. [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S5946] The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster Made in the Year 1664-5 by Sir William Dugdale ed. F. R. Raines. 2 volumes, contained in Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volumes 84 (1872), 85 (1872), and 88 (1873), published by the Chetham Society., place only. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site., place only.