Joan Radcliffe

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).