Anne Assheton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

(possible) Date of Burial: 27 May 1588.

Place of Burial: Bolton, Lancashire.

The burial is recorded in the parish register. Ormerod suggests that it is the burial of the Anne of this page. It seems possible that it is rather the burial of a first wife of Anne's grandson John.

Relationships

Father: Ralph Assheton.

Mother: Eleanor Hulton.

This relationship is given in the 1567 Visitation of Lancashire (p. 28).

Spouse: John Crompton.

This relationship is given in Middlesex Pedigrees (p. 164), citing MS. Harl. 1551, fo. 123, and in the 1567 Visitation of Lancashire (sub Ashton of Great Lever, p. 28). 

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

John Crompton (died about 1604)

Thomas Crompton (died October 1601) married Mary Hodgson.

Richard Crompton (died about 1598)

Evidence

from the Bolton parish registers:

[1588]

uxor John Crompton of darcy leuer buryed in the church the xxvijth of maye

References

Davidson, Alan. “Assheton, Ralph (c. 1500-59), of Great Lever, Middleton, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (1982).

Flower’s Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster in 1567. (Chetham Society Vol. LXXXI, 1870).

Hyde, Patricia. “Crompton, Thomas II (d. 1601), of Bennington, Herts., Hounslow, Mdx. and Farringdon, London” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (1981).

Middlesex Pedigrees, as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1551. (London, 1914).

Parish registers of Bolton. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 10 January 2020.

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (London, 1911).

The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire A.D. 1533, part II (Chetham Society Vol. CX, 1897).