Sir Thomas Assheton Knight

   Another name for Thomas is Sir Thomas Ashton Knight.

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. II, Gerard Pedigree, p. 132 ⁷¹³

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 233B:37, father of Dulcia Assheton who married Sir Thomas Gerard, Knight, of Kingley & Bryn. Dulcia's mother was Elizabeth Byron. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Children. ⁵³⁵
Children of Thomas de Ashton and his wife Elizabeth Byron were:

Sir John
Edmund, married Johanna, daughter and heir of Richard Radclyffe of Chadderton
Geffrey, married the daughter and heiress of Thamas Manners, of Shipley
Nicholas, married Mary, the daughter of Lord Brook.
Duclia, married to Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn
Elizabeth, married Sir John Trafford.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, pg. 20

Thomas married Elizabeth le Byron, daughter of Sir John le Byron Knight and Margery Booth ¹⁶⁰.^,535