Askew
Also spelt Aikskeugh,Aykescowgh,Ayscough.
Askew, of Standing Stones and Graymains, Cumberland.
This family descends from Thurston de Bosco, who received from the Lord of
Kirkstanton, Aikskeugh or Oakwood, in 1202-3. It is certain that William son of
Guy Boyville granted lands in Kirksanton and Silecroft, near the two standing
stones, to John son of Aykescowgh. Sir Robert Mulcaster and Joan his wife and
Margaret de Bampton granted 1403 their lands in Lacra and Scales. These estates
descended to Matthew Ayscough* who gave them to his son Richard 1478.
They descended to Hugh Askew (1558-1625) who married Elizabeth (1560-1649),
daughter and heir of Thomas Troughton, and so acquired Graymains, Muncaster.
Their son William (1593-1641) succ. and was succ. by his son Hugh (1613-98), who
married 1635 Dorothy, daughter of John Ambrose, of Lowick, and sister and
co-heir of the Rev. John Ambrose.
Their son William Askew (1636-1717) the last male heir of the family, apparantly
sold Graymains, but retained Standing Stones and other property in Cumberland.
By his wife Dorothy (1640-1705), daughter and co-heir of William Musgrave, of
Crookdale, he had an only surviving child Dorothy, who died s.p.having married;
1. 1699 Samuel Poole, of Pontefract, Yorkshire and 2. 1702 John Archer, of
Oxenholme, who inherited her estates.(unpublished account of the Askews by C.
Roy Huddleston).
Arms; Gules, three asses' heads erased.
Crest; An ass passant (M.I. Kendal Church, of William Askew, d. 1717, and brass in Millom Church in Memory of his wife Dorothy. On the tombstone in Cartmel Priory of William's sister Dorothy (1639-1719) the arms appear as; Gules a lozenge......charged with three asses heads.....
* Matthew was ancestor to Christopher Ayscough, of Blyborough, Lincolnshire, father of Sir Hugh Askew of Seaton Priory (d. s.p. 1562), who married Bridget, daughter of Sir John Huddleston, of Millom. Sir Hugh was Sheriff of Cumberland 1561.
Askew of Pallinsburn, Northumberland, England - Originally from Kendal, the family was first recorded in Cumberland as early as 1202 A.D. John Askew of Pallinsburn, Northumberland became High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1776, and Adam Askew of Redheugh became High Sheriff of the County of Durham in 1809. Strong naval tradition in the family.
Askew of Kendal, Storrs, in Cumberland and in County Durham
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