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My last post on the subject of the Ayscough family from Stallingborough Lincolnshire is about Edward Asycough, an Elizabethan country gentleman.
Edward Ayscough probably lived at the family’s manor house at Stallingborough as his tomb, seen here, can be found in the church that stood adjacent to the house. At this time Spain was threatening war and it was the duty of every Englishman of note to supply horses and weapons for the fight against the Armada.
In 1584 Edward’s local muster point was Caistor, but he failed to turn up with his assessed quota of ‘one dimi-lance and two horses’ his fine for this was to supply a third horse. Three years later he held the position High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Edward Ayscough had married Hester Grantham of Goltho, and as you can see he had rather a large brood of children - fourteen in all.
He died in 1612.
The manor of Stallingborough descended to his son William and then through three more Edwards until it passed, in the mid 16th century, to Isabella his 3x great granddaughter the wife of Andrew Boucherett.
On this marriage, the manor became the property of the Boucherett family.
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Church Lane in Stallingborough meanders its way north with what remains of a medieval village to its left. The green fields, seen in my photographs, cover the foundations of buildings that can be seen as ridges and hollows.
To the south of this lane, there were open fields, archaeologists think this was where the village expanded during the 16th century and where the Tudor house belonging to the Ayscough's was situated.
Living there in the 1520s was Anne, a young girl who was forced to marry a man to whom her dead sister was promised.
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