It was great to hear from Mary Ainscough again, who has come across the mention of the Aykescogh name listed in a British History Online Article featuring Ulnes Walton; A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6.
"Hi Barbara
Just browsing this afternoon & found this. Under Ulnes Walton Township look at footnote 33- at the end it notes an Ayscow family being present in 1330.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53081
Footnote 33 reads as follows:
An Ayscow or Askue family occurs about 1330–50. In 1331 Joan widow of John de la Legh did not prosecute her claim against Roger de Aykyskowe; Assize R. 1404, m. 18. In 1347 it appears that Roger son of Roger de Aykescogh had by his wife Christiana left two daughters, Alice and Maud, who had a messuage and land; Assize R. 1435, m. 51 d.
Obviously there is no way we can be directly descended from this Roger because he appears to have just the 2 daughters, but surely he was part of a larger family?? The great thing about this of course is that this is a very early reference to Ainscough in Ulnes Walton, which is in Lancashire, some of our Ainscough family are also recorded as having lived here, for example James A. farmer and maltster who died young (d.1818- grandson of Thomas & son of Hugh A 1745 & Mary Smith - see blog Jan.3rd 2007).
If anybody out there knows any more about this particular family of Ulnes Walton I would love to hear from you.
And Jonathon Hopper has also carried out his own search on the same database to find various other early "Ainscoughs" mentioned in the Lancashire region...
"Here are various other results from that site...all the ones for Ainscough.
Just need to type in all 600 variants on the name!
Townships: Heath Charnock
... Radley, (fn. 21) from whom it descended to Thomas Ainscough, clerk, and was
acquired about 1690 by Thomas Willis, (fn. 22) descending ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911)
Townships: Aspull
... 30, In addition to those already named Robert Pennington, Robert Gorton, Roger Rycroft,
and John Ainscough were free holders in 1600; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911)
Townships: Blackrod
... Richard Hoghton and Alice his wife were given the tenements of Robert Ormishaw,
John Almon, Nicholas Huyton, Henry Hodgkinson, Christopher Ainscough, Agnes Vaus ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911)
Townships: Anglezarke
... 21, m. 18. 16, Thomas Willis in 1694 appears to have acquired lands in Anglezarke,
&c., formerly belonging to Thomas Ainscough, clerk ; Exch. Dep. (Rec. Soc. ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911)
Townships: Culcheth
... and descended with Orford and Hale until about 1850, when it was sold to Richard
Watson Marshall Dewhurst, at whose death it was sold to — Ainscough. ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911)
Townships: Rusholme
... 1746, William Twyford, BA (fn. 63) (St. John's College, Camb.). 1752, Thomas Ainscough,
MA (fn. 64) (St. John's College, Camb.). 1762, Miles Lonsdale, MA (fn. ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911)
Townships: Widnes
... 53). 1687, Christopher Marsden (fn. 54). —, John Foxley (fn. 55). oc. 1705–9, Radley
Ainscough (fn. 56). oc. 1718–32, Henry Hargreaves (fn. 57). ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (1907)
Townships: Wrightington
... (ed. 1870), ii, 150. The Fairhurst estate was owned by Hugh Ainscough of Burscough,
and now by his executors; information of Mr. James Ainscough of Fairhurst. ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911)
The parish of Bolton-le-Moors
... centuries, made up a sum of £190 by 1803, which, with £20 given for cloth by Robert
Aston in 1728, and £110 for bread and cloth by John Ainscough in 1812 ...
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911)
