ASTON, William (1615-71), of Ship Street, Dublin, and Richardstown, co. Louth.

Family and Education

b. 1615, 1st s. of John Aston of Tixall, Staffs. and Margery, da. of James Walton of Fole, Staffs.CP, s.v. ‘Lord Aston of Forfar’; F. Elrington Ball, The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921 (2 vols. New York, 1927), i. 346; NLI, GO MS 45, p. 67. educ. G. Inn, 15 Mar. 1639.GI Admiss. m. (1) --- Highgate (d. 1661); (2) bef. 1662, Ursula (d. 1720), da. of Thomas Stockton of Cuddington, Chesh. at least 1s.Elrington Ball, Judges in Ireland, i. 346; CP; Lodge, Peerage, i. 172. suc. fa. 1640.CP. Kntd. 28 Sept. 1660.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 231. d. 1671.CP; Elrington Ball, Judges in Ireland, i. 346; P.B. Eustace, ‘Index of Will Abstracts’, Analecta Hibernica xvii. 162.

Offices Held

Military: lt. (parlian.) Salop by Oct. 1645;Brereton Lttr. Bks. ii. 184–5, 204, 222. maj. of ft. regt. of Anthony Hungerford, army in Ireland, Apr. 1647;HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 199; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 643; NLI, GO MS 45, p. 67. maj. of horse, regt. of Chidley Coote by May 1648-Oct. 1653.TCD MS 844, f. 52v; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 619; CSP Dom. 1649–50, pp. 179, 205, 577, 522; CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 37, 790; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 196, 226.

Irish: commr. assessment, co. Louth 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member for co. Louth, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 195. Commr. poll money, co. Louth 24 Apr. 1660–1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 623, 641. 2nd justice k.b. 3 Nov. 1660–d.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 74. Treas. King’s Inns 1665–9.Judges in Ireland, i. 346. Assize judge, north-west circ. Ulster c.1667–d.CSP Ire. 1666–9, p. 709; 1670, p. 591.

Local: commr. assessment, Staffs. 6 June 1657.A. and O.

: Dublin and Richardstown, co. Louth.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ASTON, William (1615-71), of Ship Street, Dublin, and Richardstown, co. Louth.

Will

pr. 1671.Eustace, ‘Index of Will Abstracts’, 162.

Estates

lands at Richardstown and elsewhere in Ardee Barony, co. Louth, (1,000 acres in all) mid-1650s;NLI, D.10484; Down Survey website. property in Ship Street, Dublin, by 1660.Judges in Ireland, i. 346. Held custodiam of lands of Lord Galmoy, Connaught and Clare, bef. Oct. 1663.HMC 8th Rep. 549. £300 salary as 2nd justice of KB, by 1666.Stowe 152, f. 98v.

Oxford 1644

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