Thomas ASHBY _ STAINES_abt 1733/8-1813_Ashby Brewery ?

[Caliandris]

Meant to include some links for you:

The Staines and Egham Quakers are celebrating 350 years in Quaker Week (this week) with an exhibition at Egham Museum. 

http://www.stainesandeghamquakers.org/events.html

The Quaker family history society page is here:

http://www.qfhs.co.uk/

The Friends House Library website is here:

http://www.quaker.org.uk/library

The 1813 Gentlemen's Magazine reports the death of Thomas Ashby senior, who leaves his wife, seven children, 54 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.  You will have a *lot* of cousins, it seems.  You need to go to Google Books and search for Ashby Staines to find it.  Google books is here:

http://books.google.com/books

Now I must go back to writing my talk!
bws
Fee

[miles_hagen_bown]

Thanks again. This is a bonanza.

I started researching the family here in the US (my line had lost touch with the ancestry except names because of an early death and "moving west") and the family was so interesting, involved in anti-slavery and boycotting slave made goods, that I started tracing them in UK and they are interesting there as well. They did travel back to England and promoted the boycott of slave made cotton. Maybe the Staines records would have information about that trip, or other London meeting. I will get in touch with some people.

My understanding through snippets of information, is that the Ashbys went from raising corn to milling corn to brewing it, and grew so wealthy that they started a bank, then another brewery…so I am looking forward to the history.

Thomas' father then is from Bugbrooke in Northamptonshire, and they are Quakers a long way back. There are some stories I found about persecution of a related line (Gammage), and I suppose they were bothered as well, but not jailed for as long as Gammage. The meeting seems to have been on the Ashby property.

I will definitely make use of your resources, again, thanks.

[pjrich]

Hello all,

I have just stumbled on this thread by accident.

I am descended from the Ashbys in Bugbrooke  - Alice b.1689 who was a daughter of John Ashby and Mary Gammage.

I am interested in some of the resources mentioned, as I have one or two other lines which may also be quaker as I have not found marriages elsewhere. I know that the Northamptonshire quaker meeting records are held at Northampton Record Office, but wondered whether there was also a copy at the Quaker Library mentioned - it would be useful if there was a single place where these could be viewed so that I could check to see whether my family had perhaps married in meeting houses outside Northamptonshire.

Going back to the Ashbys of Staines, one other resource worth investigating is a research done in the Victorian times, I think either done by or commissioned by a Sheldon Dudley Ashby (1836-1887) who was descended from Thomas (1733-1813) and Hannah Wickens.

Regards
Peter

[Caliandris]

Hi there,
I think I am right in saying that the Friends House Library will have copies of all the Quaker records from all over the country.  They may also have originals for meeting records and those may have a lot of information relevant to your family history.

From the 17th century, Quakers have kept detailed minutes of their business meetings, mentioning people by name.

The librarians at Friends House are extremely knowledgeable.  You can contact them through the website, by email or phone.  Their contact details are on this webpage:
http://www.quaker.org.uk/contact-library

Good luck!
Fee

[pjrich]

Hello Fee

Many thanks for the information - I will check it out.

Regards
Peter

[Cookiedc]

Hi - you might be interested in this, not sure. I live in Windsor UK and am currently building a new kitchen extension to our Victorian terrace house. This evening we dug up a prestine glass beer (?) bottle (stopper still intact) embossed 'Charles Ashby & Co, Staines' on the front, and 'J. Honkilner, Wakefield (Maker)' on the back. Having googled it I'm guessing it dates from the very late 19th century... Tangible evidence for you! Best wishes. Dom Cook

[miles_hagen_bown]

Cool!

Must be someone on this tree who would. My line, in the brewing business, doesn't go down that far. I do not see a Charles on my tree, but must be a cousin or second cousin to my ancestor.

There are lots of beer bottle collectors out there too.

[Richard Ashby]

Hi

I am also researching my Ashby family tree. I have a number of Thomas's, although later in time. I now need to work a little further back.

Thanks for the above information, I will come back to you.

Richard Ashby

[David ashby]

Hello,

My name is David Ashby and I am descended from your Thomas Ashby of Staines (Born 1738).  I have in front of me the Pedigree of tha Ashbys of Staines from 1523 to 1918 compiled by Robert Ashby.  I am in the process of sorting through my late aunt's house and am unearthing all sorts of family history of which I know there is information about the brewery and bank.  I will let you know what I find.  And FYI my pedigree does state that Thomas Ashby was born in 1738.  There are Ashbys all over the world I can tell you that!

Best,  David