Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Joan was her husband’s first wife. He died in about 1398.
Relationships
Father: William Radcliffe of Smithills.
This relationship is given by by Rawcliffe (ODBN) and by Summerson (ODBN).
Mother: Katherine Norleigh.
Rawcliffe (HoP) gives Katherine as William’s wife.
Spouse: Sir John Ashton I. Married by 1366.
This relationship is given by by Rawcliffe (ODBN).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir John Ashton II (died 3 September 1428) married (1) Jane Saville; married (2) Margaret Gray.
Robert Ashton
Piers Ashton
Nicholas Ashton
Ralph Ashton
Joan Ashton married Robert Davenport in March 1397.
References
Foster, Joseph. Pedigrees of Yorkshire Families. Vol. II - West Riding. (1874)
Rawcliffe, Carole and Andrew Ayton. “Ashton, Sir John (c.1354-c.1398)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
Rawcliffe, Carole. “Radcliffe, Sir Ralph (d. 1406), of Blackburn and Smithills, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (Boydell and Brewer, 1993).
Summerson, Henry. “Ashton [Assheton’], Sir John (d. 1427)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).