John Lawrence 
John was born about 1280 in Ashton Hall, England.1 John's father was Lawrence de Lancaster and his mother was Margaret Chesford. His paternal grandparents were Thomas (James?) de Lancaster and Matilda de Washington; his maternal grandfather was Walter Chesford. He had a brother and a sister, named William and Alice. He had a half-brother named John. He died after 1348.1 General Notes
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John was granted Ashton Hall for life in 1324. John Lawrence was the first Squire of Ashton and the first to use the surname Lawrence. John was a Member of Parliment in 1301 for Lancaster. Richard, son of William the Cook, gave lands to Thomas, son of Richard de Stainall in 1315-16. This same Richard also gave land to John Lawrence and his wife Elizabeth. In 1323 he held 30 acres in Skerton by a rent of 6s. 8d. In 1331 he made a complaint of trespass on his fishery at Ashton. At that time he also was holding lands in Lancaster and Lentworth from Robert de Holland. He obained land in Stodday on the Netherbaiske Brook in 1337. Between 1318 and 1325 he was a juror in at least eight inquests. In 1346 he was a partner in a farm belonging to the Cockersand Abbey Estate and at an inquest was holding additional lands in Lancaster from the Earl. In 1346 he was paying the Earl 10d. annually for the harrowing, reaping, etc., due from 32 acres in Skerton. Also in 1346, he held a half plough-land in Amounderness Hundred by the service of two crossbows. In 1347 John gave to John the Frereson and Joan his wife (who had sons John and Edmund) a burgage in St. Mary-gate upon Caldkeld Bank and was master of the manor of Ashton by a yearly fee of Ð22. In 1348 he was holding 5 acres in Skerton and Hackensall from the Duke and was a partner with his nephew, John Lawrence of Lancaster, in the milnfield in Lancaster. In 1348-50, William de Heaton made a claim for messuages, etc., in Lonsdale against Thomas son of Marmaduke de Thweng, John Lawrence of Ashton, William de Washington, and Robert de Haldleghes
Details of John's family with Elizabeth Holt
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Further sources/citations:
Lawrence Ancestors & Other Family Lines: Twentieth Generation, Lawrences of Ashton Hall,
Further sources/citations:
Lawrence Ancestors & Other Family Lines: Twentieth Generation, Lawrences of Ashton Hall,
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