can anyone help me with the will of a richard asshebye of hackney dated1558 i am trying to find the earliest ashbys in that parish and their place of origin which maybe ashby de la zouch as a Lord Zouch is recorded as beig in Hackney in 1600's.
I'm not sure what you are asking (bit slow in a morning
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Do you have a will for Richard dated 1558 or are you trying to find it?
Have you looked at the national archives documents online? There is a William Ashby sentence (legal ruling on disputed will I think) from Clerkenwell 1594, that is not so far from Hackney. The only Richard I see listed is from 1596 embroiderer in the City of London. Try searching from the advanced search,
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/power-search.asp?searchType=powersearch using ashb* as that is likely to catch most of them, and set the date range to 1500-1600 and see if any look interesting. There is a Thomas Ashby will from 1523 in the City of London.
I think an early will could well be in Latin. I have seen posts on this site asking for help translating - either by posting bits for specific help or by asking if anyone will do the whole thing via email perhaps.
Not sure of the context of the "landed" question but if wills are involved then I would have thought it referred to land owned.
To be honest I think if you want to make any real connection between families then you have to concentrate on what you have as fact and try and work back from that. Ashby was a common place name (which is why the de la Zouch bit was tacked on to distinguish it. There is a bit about Lord Zouche in Hackney here
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/tudorhackney/localhistory/lochhy3.asp(interesting that about the lobelia, I never knew that - I grew up in Ashby de la Zouch and always liked lobelias!).
Are you trying to push backwards from family history already established by someone else? What is the last bit that there is documentation for? That would be a good place to start (assuming that you trust the more recent stuff
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