Family tradition and various accounts published during the last [19th] century attest that Ashinhursts first set foot in the New World in 1793. In that year a group of three families originating in or near Ballykeel, Ireland landed at Norfolk, Virginia. Ballykeel is a village in County Tyrone, one of the six counties in Northern Ireland collectively known as Ulster. It is about three miles from Newton-Stewart, and ecclesiastically in the Parish of Captagh.

Two of the three families were headed by brothers, William and Oliver Ashinhurst. The third was that of their first cousin, William Ashinhurst, whose wife was their sister, Nancy.

Married

1. William Ashinhurst (1742 – 1837)

Children

1. Mary Ashinhurst
2. Nancy Ashinhurst
3. Ralph Ashinhurst (1760 – 1840). Married Sarah Campbell.
4. Margaret Ashinhurst (1765 – 1863).
5. John ASHiNHURST (1771 – 1856)
6. Oliver Ashinhurst (1793 – 1859)

Links

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/l/Donnis-G-Kelly/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1038.html