Nat Gould

Richard Askey 1734-1805

Mapleton Church

Richard Askey was born in 1734 at Ashover in Derbyshire, the son of James Askey and his wife Anne (maiden surname unknown). He was baptised at Ashover on 1 December 1734.

On 1 December 1755 he married Sarah Maddock at Mapleton in Derbyshire. The banns had been called in the little church there on three previous Sundays, 16 November, 23 November and 30 November 1755.

She was the daughter of Anthony Maddock, the son of a family long established in that village. She was baptised there on 26 November 1729.

Marriage Register 1755

They lived in Mapleton, and had had the following children:

Anne Askey. She was baptised on 26 September 1756. She was married to James Allen of Thorpe in Derbyshire on 24 January 1779. Her husband was a sawyer.

Richard Askey 1758-1820. On 10 January 1788 he married Frances Fernihough at Ashbourne in Derbyshire, the daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Fernihough of Ashbourne and baptised there on 28 October 1763.

On 16 July 1792 Richard Askey, together with his son Richard Askey 1758-1820 then of Ashbourne, purchased From James Smallwood for £350 four closes in Mapleton called the Hullands or Hollands Crofts, the Brown Heyes and the Moore "all occupied by John Alcock as tenant at will of James Smallwood and then in the actual possession of Richard Askey the Younger and Richard Askey the Elder or one of them together with all the buildings" (1).

Richard Askey the elder died in the early summer of 1805, and was buried at Mapleton on 4 June 1805. His grave there is unmarked.

(1) The vendor James Smallwood was a Newcastle-under-Lyme ironmonger who had bought the property for £250 from Richard Allcock, a baker also of Newcastle-under-Lyme but formerly of Ashbourne. He was the son and heir of William Allcock baker and innholder of Ashbourne, then deceased. William Allcock was the son and heir of another William Allcock yeoman of Doveridge in Derbyshire, who on 6 July 1708 had settled the closes (among other property) on his son upon his forthcoming marriage to Anne Stubbings of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire. She was the granddaughter of William Dickinson skinner of Uttoxeter, a party to the settlement together with his son and heir Samuel Dickinson skinner of Uttoxeter. Abstract of Title of Mr. Richard Haskey of Lands at Mappleton in the County of Derby (1823) Derbyshire Record Office D231 M/E 326.