William Askew

From the Ainscough Family History blog maintained by Barbara Ainscough:

http://ainscough-familyhistory.blogspot.com/2006/12/anne-askew-aysc...

Posted Dec. 4, 2006:

The following is an email/letter from Lincolnshire Library (LINCLIB@lincolnshire.gov.uk) forwarded to me from Louis Meek (fmeek@tls.net). I have included it should any readers want to find out more about Anne Askew or the Ayscough family from Stallingborough. It seems the library are keen to help and answer any email queries as well as provide a photocopying service of any relevant documents should they be requested.

Dear Mr Meek

Thank you for your recent enquiry. We apologise for our delay in replying. This has been caused by operational difficulties. We have found a family pedigree for the Ayscough Family of Stallingborough and South Kelsey on pages 58-68 of Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees: Vol 1. This book was published by the Harliean Society in 1902. Although this pedigree shows Anne Askew's parents and siblings it does not show her children or any of her possible descendants. In all the books and articles that we hold on Anne Askew we have been unable to find any mention of her children's names or even their sex. Even the Dictionary of National Biography can tell us no more than that she left her children to go "gospelling".

Nor does there seem to be any certainty as to which Thomas Kyme she married. According to Elaine Beilin, in her introduction to the 1996 Oxford University Press version of in The Examinations of Anne Askew, there were two possible Thomas Kymes of Friskney. One was born in 1517 and the other buried in 1590.

Should you wish we can supply you with a photocopy of the Ayscough Family Pedigree. The charge for this would be 30p per A4 sheet plus postage. Please note that all payment must be made in Sterling and that we are unable to accept payment by credit card for orders under £3.00.

We hope that you find the above information of some assistance in your research. Please contact us again if you have any further queries, or require the photocopies.

Yours sincerely

Eleanor Nannestad, Community Librarian - Information"

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From the Wikipedia page of Anne Askew, his asserted mother:

Anne Askew (née Anne Ayscough, married name Anne Kyme) (born 1520/1521 – died 16 July 1546)[1] was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic. She is the only woman on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.

Born at Stallingborough in 1520 or 1521 into a gentry family of Lincolnshire, she was forced by her father, Sir William Askew (1490–1541), to marry Thomas Kyme when she was fifteen, as a substitute for her sister Martha who had recently died.[2] Anne rebelled against her husband by refusing to adopt his surname. She had at least 'one child, a son, William Askew'.[3] ....

Footnote:

• [3] Rice, Charles Elmer (1904). A History of the Hole Family in England and America. Alliance, Ohio: R.M. Scranton Publ. Co. p. 32.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ayscough (Accessed April 17, 2013)

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From A History of the Hole Family in England and America, pp. 31-33:

https://archive.org/stream/historyofholefam00rice#page/n81/mode/2up

Chapter VI. Generations from William the Conqueror to Jacob Hole (1738-1842)

• 15th - (1) Anne, Duchess of Somerset and (2) Margaret, who married Sir William Askew, Lincolnshire, and had issue,
• 16th - Anne Askew (born 1521), married a Kyme, divorced, and burned as a heretic, July 26, 1546, had issue,
• 17th - William Askew, had son (inherited Marsh Grange from Sir Hugh Askew)
• 18th - John Askew, John had two sons and one daughter
• 19th - Margaret Askew, born 1613, married Thomas Fell and 2nd George Fox
• 20th - Sarah Fell, 1643-1714, married William Meade, 1627-1713
• 21st - Sir Nathaniel Meade, 1684-1760
• 22nd - Wm. Meade married Ellen Worrell
• 23rd - Hannah Meade, married Captain John Thomas
• 24th - Mary Thomas, 1757-1849, married Jacob Hole.

This line from William the Conqueror had been well known as far back as the 15th generation, but little was known of Margaret Stanhope, the mother of Anne Askew, until the writer found the tomb of her sister, Anne, Duchess of Somerset, in Westminster Abbey, and from the lengthy epitaph and pedigree there engraved was enabled to fully and completely trace the line to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, known as Thomas of Woodstock. He, being in the royal line, was easily traced back to William and thus the line is completed. Anne, Duchess of Somerset, the Aunt of Anne Askew, was, says John Hayward, “A mannish or rather a devilish woman, for any imprefectibilities intolerable, but for pride monstrous, exceeding subtle and violent. If Margaret Stanhope, Anne’s sister, was of the same disposition, we can more easily account for the treatment of Anne Askew, her daughter, who bore her aunt’s name and was forsaken by her parents and husband on account of her religious views. As the inscription and the tomb of the Old Duchess of Somerset are of great importance in establishing the family genealogy, it will be here noticed at length…”

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Sir Edward Seymour, was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Beauchamp, June 5, 1536, and was created Earl of Hertford, Oct. 18, 1537.

Two years later, he was appointed Lord-Great-Chamberlain of England for life. Created Baron Seymour, Feb. 15, 1546, and the next day advanced to the Dukedom of Somerset. He became Protector of the Realm and governor of King Edward VI during his minority. He married Anne (daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope) whose epitaph has been given at some length on a preceding page. She was sister to Margaret, the mother of our ancestress Anne Askew, and her daughter Jane Seymour married Sir Hugh Askew, of Kelsey in Lincolnshire, the brother of Anne Askew, and her own first cousin, Sir Hugh Askew and Lady Jane Seymour died childless and their possessions were inherited by Anne Askew’s son, William Askew. The house called Marsh Grange, of which a picture is given in this volume, thus came into the possession of Anne’s son, and it was here that his Granddaughter, Margaret Fell, was born in 1613.