General Notes

EUROPEAN ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN COLONISTS - An Index, edited by John S. Martin, pub. 1994 (from ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLONISTS and MAGNA CARTA SURETIES by Rev. F. L. Weiss; and other sources), p. 10-11 lists Aston lineage as follows (all names listed as "Sir" until Col. Walter):

Thomas d. 1413, m. Elizabeth Leigh
Roger d. 1447, m1 Joyce Freyville
Robert m. Joan Brereton
John d. 1483, m. Joan Delves
John d. 1524, m. Joan Lyttleton
Edward d. 1568, m2 Joan Bowles, dau. Frances m. Robert Needham
Leonard, m. Elizabeth Barton
Walter m. Joyce Nason
Walter (Col.) bur in VA 1634; House of Burgesses; dau Mary was 2nd wife of Richard Cooke.


Sir Roger Aston, sheriff of Staffordshire, 5 & 10 Henry 6.  One  of the prime gentry returned by the commissioners for that county, 12 Henry 6.  Married Joyce, one of the three daughters and coheirs of Sir Baldwin Freville, Knt., who, besides large estates, brought him Beldesert-castle, Co. Warwick, which came to the Frevilles by her great grandmother Elizabeth, sister and coheir of John, Baron de Montfort, who was descended from Hugh, the great Earl of Vermandois, third son of Henry 1 King of France.  Sir Baldwin de Freville, the husband of Elizabeth de Montfort, was grandson of Alexander, Baron de Freville, who married Joanna, the descendant, and one of the coheirs of Sir Philip Marmion, Knt.
From Clifford's book on Tixall and the Aston Family published in Paris in 1818.


This is a major work under construction with census, marriage, birth, death, etc. records being added on a regular basis. Please verify and inform me if something is incorrect.  We all want family Trees we can be proud of.  Barbara Anne