ASHLEY (ASHBY ST. LEDGERS) COLLECTION

A gentry family with estates in Ashby St. Ledgers, Hellidon, Braunston, Long Buckby, Watford and Welton. Gatesby and Ianson family deeds. Correspondence and business papers of Joseph Ashley and John Bentley Ashley, 18thC., including papers on army clothing contracts 1691-1702 and on J.B. Ashley's shrievalty 1756. Household accounts 1736-1828, 19thC. estate vouchers. Ashby St. Ledgers court rolls 1497-1696 and parish records.

Medieval Deeds

a) Deeds of the Deacon family of Ashby St. Ledgers

b) Deeds of the Watson family of Ashby St. Ledgers

c) Deeds of the Boys family of Ashby and Watford

d) Miscellaneous Ashby St. Ledgers charters

e) Copies of Inquisitions

The Catesby Family

a) Ashby St. Ledgers deeds

b) Rentals

c) Catesby family deeds

Transition from Catesby to Ianson

The Ianson Family

a) Leases at Ashby

b) Family papers, settlements and mortgages

c) Miscellaneous Ianson items

d) Tithe dispute at Ashby 1605-1674

Joseph Ashley I

a) Estates at Ashby

b) Estates elsewhere in Northants.

c) Offices

d) Personal and family

e) Corr. with his son Solomon, and litigation after 1740

f) Army clothing contracts

g) Business matters and collection of debts

h) London interests

John Bentley Ashley

a) Family and personal

b) John Ashley's Shrievalty 1756

c) Mrs. Jane Ashley

Joseph Ashley II

The Ashby St. Ledgers Estate under the Ashley and Senhouse families to 1902

a) Accounts and rentals

b) Maps

c) Estate management (Ashby and elsewhere)

d) Senhouse tenancy agreements

e) Decease of Capt. William Senhouse 1865

f) Senhouse settlements and wills

g) Purchase by H.P. Senhouse of the Gaitskell interest in Senhouse estates

h) The Senhouse estates until sale in 1902

Ashby St. Ledgers - Manorial

a) Draft Court Rolls

b) Other manorial items

Ashby St. Ledgers Parish, Advowson and Tithe

a) Settlements, removal orders etc.

b) Parish miscellanea

c) Ashby Town Lands

d) Advowson

e) Tithe

Ashley and Senhouse purchases of estates outside Ashby St. Ledgers parish

a) Manor House etc. at Hellidon 1710

b) House, cottage and land at Hellidon 1713, confirmed 1721

c) Corr. about above purchases 1710-21

d) 1¼ yardland and odd pieces at Hellidon 1728

e) ½ yardland at Hellidon 1729

f) Lands at Welton 1720 and 1721

g) Lands at Braunston 1710, 1712 and 1718

h) Lands at Watford, Welton, Braunston and Kilsby 19thc.

Accounts of Ashley estates at Welton, Braunston, Hellidon and Long Buckby

Miscellaneous

Catalogue of Additions to the Ashley (Ashby St. Ledgers) Collection (Accession Number 1978/233) and catalogued as ASL/1151-1273.

Medieval Deeds

a) Deeds of the Deacon family of Ashby St. Ledgers

b) Deeds of the Watson family of Ashby St. Ledgers

c) Deeds of the Boys family of Ashby

d) Miscellaneous Ashby St. Ledgers charters

The Catesby Family

a) Ashby St. Ledgers deeds

c) Catesby family deeds

Transition from Catesby to Ianson

The Ianson Family

a) Leases at Ashby

b) Family papers, etc.

c) Miscellaneous Ianson items

Joseph Ashley I

c) Offices

e) Litigation after 1740

g) Business matters

John Bentley Ashley

b) John Ashley's Shrievalty 1756

c) Mrs. Jane Ashley

The Ashley Estate

a) Accounts and rentals

Ashley St. Ledgers Parish

c) Town Lands

d) Rectory etc.

e) Tithe

Estates outside Ashby St. Ledgers parish

a) Manor House etc. at Hellidon 1710

b) House, cottage and land at Hellidon 1713

f) Lands at Welton 1720 & 1721

h) Land at Braunston, Welton etc., 19th C.

Miscellaneous

<span class="wrapper"><p>Ashley papers in the Monckton (Fineshade) collection, M(F)</p> <p>Papers of John Bentley Ashley</p> <p>Papers of Mrs. Jane Ashley (nee Pocock)</p> <p>Papers relating to the Ashley family generally</p> <p>Papers relating to the Pocock family</p> <p>The Ashley estates 1704-1771</p> <p>Ashby St. Ledgers parish 1728-1764</p></span>

Accessions 1966/7, 1978/233

Joseph Ashley, a London draper, purchased Ashby St. Ledgers from Esther Ianson in 1703. When his great nephew, also Joseph, died in 1798 the estate passed to his daughter Mary who had married Sir Joseph Senhouse of Cumberland. Elizabeth Senhouse married Joseph Pocklington in 1835. Lord Wimbourne purchased the estate in 1903.