Nat Gould

Jane Berisford 1841-1919

With Joseph Ashton (2)

Jane Berisford (1) was born on 17 December 1841 at Ecton near Wetton in Staffordshire, the daughter of Samuel Berisford and his wife nee Ann Swindel.

She was married to William Askey 1844-1917 on 11 July 1867 at Alstonefield.

They lived in Church Street in Alstonefield village, and had the following children:

Thomas Askey 1868-1952. He was born in 1867 at Milldale. He married Eliza Hill at Ashbourne in 1893, and lived at Harpur Hill, Buxton in Derbyshire. He died in 1952.

Hannah Askey. She was born in 1871. She was married to William Henry Parry in 1892, and lived at Swadlincote in Derbyshire.

Jane Ann Askey. She was born in 1873. She was married to George William Wardle in 1898. They lived at first at Quarnford in Staffordshire, but later moved to Burbage, Buxton.

William Askey 1874-1952. He married Ann Ellen Phillips. They lived at Alstonefield.

Martha Askey. She was born in 1877, and was Known in the family as Patty. She was married to Ernest Bagshaw in 1904. She died in 1911.

Samuel Askey. He was born in 1880, and died in 1952. He married Mary Ann Allen in 1907.

Albert Askey. He was born in 1887, and died in 1921. He married Lydia Alice Gilman in 1914, and they lived in Alstonefield.

Former Egg Market (4)

In the early twentieth century an egg market was held in Alstonefield village every Wednesday. The egg factor came by train to Alsop-en-le-Dale Station from where a horse and cart carried him and his egg packing cases to Alstonefield village where people waited with baskets of eggs. They would have written their name on one egg on top of each basket.

Egg sellers in Milldale counted their eggs on the previous night, and schoolchildren left them with Mrs Jane Askey until their dinner hour. They then collected them and took them to the egg market, where they were paid for them. Then they took the money back to Mrs Askey for safe keeping, and collected it on their way back home from school (3).

Jane Askey died on 27 June 1919 aged 77 years, and was buried at Alstonefield.

Her husband William Askey 1844-1917 had predeceased her on 15 March 1917. There is a fine gravestone inscribed to their memory in Alstonefield churchyard.

(1) The surname is sometimes spelt Berrisford, Beresford or Berresford.
(2) The photograph appears on the front cover of Alstonefield Memories by Tim Eades, Dorothy Critchlow and Doris Goodwin (2002). Jane Askey is pictured in about 1915 talking to her neighbour Joseph Allen of Church Street Farm.
(3) Alstonefield Memories (2002) page 7.
(4) The egg market was held in the building which is now The Cottage Studio, adjoining the former post office, in what is now the entrance to the studio and workshop. Alstonefield Memories page 7.