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Isabel Savile

Female - 1488


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  • Name Isabel Savile  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Death Between 6 May 1488 and 22 Nov 1488  [5, 6, 7
    Person ID I3651  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 5 Sep 2023 

    Father John Savile,   b. of Thornhill, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 23 Nov 1481 and 21 Jun 1482 
    Mother Alice Gascoigne   d. Bef 14 Jan 1494 
    Family ID F22928  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Oliver Mirfield,   b. Abt 1425, of Howley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 7 Jan 1462 (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Jane Mirfield,   b. of Howley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1 Apr 1523
    Family ID F2336  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

    Family 2 John Asheton 
    Family ID F22923  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Sep 2023 

  • Notes 
    • "Oliver’s widow Isabel married secondly (or fourthly according to some sources), Sir John Ashton. John and Isabel were living at Howley Hall on 6 November 1470 when it was attacked by 200 armed men, led by John Mirfield (of Tong?) and Richard Leeds of Pontefract. The attack may have been incited by William Mirfield to get his mother and her husband to move out of the family home! Isabel died in 1488. It is said that there was once an inscription in Wakefield church "Hic jacet Dom. Isabella Asheton, vidua Joh. Asheton, militis et Mater Gulielmi Mirfield, militis, quae ob. 6 die Maii 1488". Administration of her estate was granted on 22 November 1488 to William Mirfield of Howley in the parish of Batley, armiger, and Thomas Wentworth of Elmsall in the parish of Kirkby." [John Watson, citation details below]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2667] Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "The English Ancestry of William Wentworth of New Hampshire: Male-Line Ancestry for Five Generations." The American Genealogist 90:161, Jul 2018, and 90:263, Oct 2018.

    2. [S6814] The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald; To Which Is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612 by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms ed. Joseph Foster. London, 1875.

    3. [S6835] The Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England by John William Clay. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1913.

    4. [S6895] J. W. Clay, "The Savile Family." Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 25:1, 1920.

    5. [S421] "The Early History of Howley," by W. Paley Baildon. Yorkshire Notes and Queries volume 2, p. 105, 1890., year only.

    6. [S6814] The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald; To Which Is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612 by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms ed. Joseph Foster. London, 1875., year only.

    7. [S6908] John Watson, "The Heirs of Alexander de Neville of Redbourne (Part 4 - Pontefract/Mirfield)." Genealogical Rambling, 13 Oct 2014.