ASSHETON, 



Of Assheton-under-Lyne, county of Lancaster. The elder 

 line ended in co-heiresses, hut from a younger son, after 

 several generations, descended 



Sir Ralph Assheton, Knight, Page of Honour to K. Henry VI., -who, 

 marrying the heiress of the Bartons of Middleton, became, jure uxoris, 

 first of Middleton. He had issue two sons, 



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Sir Richard Assheton, Knight, 

 of Middleton, married Isabel 

 Talbot, and (after several genera- 

 tions) was progenitor of 



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Sir Ralph Assheton, Knight, who by 

 marriage with the heiress of Leaver, 

 became of Leaver, and (after several 

 generations, during which Whalley, 

 Malham, and Downham were ac- 

 quired) progenitor of 



Sir Ralph Assheton,* of Leaver (sold 

 by him in 1629), Whalley Abbey, and 

 Malham. Created a Baronet by 

 K. James I., June 28, 1620. His children 

 were, besides others, 



Sir Ralph Assheton, : 

 of Middleton, mar- 

 ried his distant 

 cousin, Ann Asshe- 

 ton, of Whalley 

 Abbey. Created a 

 Baronet by King 

 Charles II. Aug. 17, 

 1660. 



I 

 Ann, Even- 

 tually heiress 

 of Whalley 

 A.bbey. 



Sir Ralph, 



2nd Bart. 



of Leaver, 



d. s. p., 



Sir Edmund, 



3rd Bart. 



of Leaver, 



d. s. p. 



Sir John, 4th and last 

 Bart., of Whalley 

 Abbey, married the 

 widow of Thomas 

 Lister, of Arnolds- 

 biggin, and dying 

 s. p. June 9, 1697, left 

 his property in Gis- 

 burne, Rimington, 

 Horton, and other 

 neighbouring town- 

 ships, and Malham, 

 to her son, Thomas 

 Lister, ancestor of 

 the present Lord 

 Ribblesdale. (Ba- 

 ronetcy extinct.) 



Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Bart, 

 of Middleton, and of Whalley 

 Abbey, jure uxoris, died in 

 May, 1716, leaving several 

 daughters, co-heiresses, of 

 whom Catherine married 

 Thomas Lister, of Gisburne, 

 ancestor of the present Lord 

 Ribblesdale. 



Richard, married 

 Mary Parker, 

 and left, besides 

 other issue, a 

 son, 



Sir Ralph Assheton, of Middleton, but 

 not of Whalley Abbey, 3rd and last 

 Baronet. Married Mary Egerton, and 

 dying Dec. 31, 1765, left two daughters, 

 co-heiresses (the Baronetcy becoming 

 extinct). 



Mary, who had Middleton, and married in 

 1760, Sir Harbord Harbord, afterwards 

 created Lord Luffield, ancestress of 

 the peers of that name. 



Eleanor, married, in 1769, Sir 

 Thomas Egerton, Bart., of 

 Egerton and Oulton, an- 

 cestress of the Duke of 

 Westminster. 



* From Eadclitt'e Assheton, younger brother of the first Baronet of Leaver and Whalley Abbey, 

 descends in the ninth generation the present Mr. Assheton, of Downham Hall, M.P. for 

 Clitheroe, the male representative of this ancient family, who has rendered me so much assistance. 

 In his pedigree there is a third intermarriage of an Assheton with a Lister of Gisburne. 



