Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: after 1729.
Place of Death: unknown.
Miles is named in the 1729 will of his mother in law Alice Fishwick.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Alice Fishwick. Married 29 May 1689 in Winwick, Lancashire.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Presumably there were other children between Alice and Elizabeth whose baptisms are missing.)
Joseph Aspinall (baptized 20 March 1689/90 in Winwick - buried 30 August 1759 in Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire) married Ellen Smith 1712 in Winwick.
Alice Aspinall (baptized 27 September 1691 in Winwick)
Elizabeth Aspinall (born 19 August 1705, baptized 26 August 1705 in Ashton in Makerfield)
Martha Aspinall (born 30 October 1708, baptized 7 November 1708 in Ashton in Makerfield - buried 9 October 1796 in Ashton in Makerfield) married Joseph Williamson 19 April 1731 in Winwick, Lancashire.
Evidence
from the Winwick parish register:
May 1689
29 Miles: Aspinall
Alice: Fiswick
Maryed by Mr Grand by Lycence dated the same day
Joseph the son of Miles Aspinall was baptysed the 20th of March in the year 1689 [written in the margin beside March 1688/9: it is not clear whether the date or placement is wrong]
September [1691]
27 Alice dau’tr of Miles Aspinall
from the Ashton in Makerfield parish register:
August [1705]
25 Elizabeth daughter to Miles Aspinall was born the 19th of Augt & baptized the 26th of Augt
Martha Daughter of Miles Aspinall of Golborn born 30th and Bapt’ed 7th of Nov’r [1708]
Leases, from the National Archives catalogue
(DDGE(E)982) (Gerard family of Garswood, Ashton-in-Makerfield (estate records))
To Miles Aspinall – of Downall Mill etc.
May 18th 1697
(DDGE(E)983, 984) (Gerard family of Garswood, Ashton-in-Makerfield (estate records))
To Joseph Aspinall – of Downall Mill etc.
6 July 1728
from Lancashire Papists’ Estates (p. 18):
Sir William Gerard of Garsood, Baronet
In Ashton-in-Makerfield:
Water corn mill let to Miles Aspinall at 13s. 4d. rent, 3 hens, and 2 capons; consideration £31. In tenure of William Eves.
Cottage let to Richard Aspinall at 3s. 2d. rent and a hen; consideration £10.
(p. 28)
Cottages and gardens let at will to Mary Aspinall at 1s. rent, to Richard Aspinall at 1s. 6d., and several others…
References
Parish registers of Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire. Digital images on FamilySearch.org.
Parish registers of Winwick, Lancashire. Digital images on FamilySearch.org.
The Registers of Estates of Lancashire Papists, 1717-1788 v. 2. (1717) (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1960, v. 108).
Will of Alice Fiswick widow of Upholland. Proved 1729 in the Consistory Court of Chester.