Individual Notes
Note for: Thomas ASPREY, ABT 1735 -
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Individual Note: The Aspray (Asprey) name could be of Danish Viking or Norse origin, Asp (Aspen tree) and Rey (living beneath). The Aspen tree was used by the Vikings to make wattle buildings, maybe Asprey was a trade name for someone who cultivated the trees. They also lined their cess-pools with wattle.
The earliest I.G.I. entries for the name are for Witham-On-The-Hill in Lincolnshire in 1591, this is a very well known Viking site; Olney, Buckinghamshire (where our Aspreys are believed to have come from) also has an important Viking heritage, and is where the Vikings signed the peace treaty with the Saxons, which basically divided England along the lines of the Roman Watling road which runs from London to North Wales.
A William Asprey of Morden, Surrey, Printer, attested the handwriting in 1756 of Anastasia, Dowager Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth, which family was of Turvey, Co. Bedford.
A William Astbury of Morden was buried 1758. These Williams may have been related to Thomas.
The Aspray (Asprey) name could be of Danish Viking or Norse origin, Asp (Aspen tree) and Rey (living beneath). The Aspen tree was used by the Vikings to make wattle buildings, maybe Asprey was a trade name for someone who cultivated the trees. They also lined their cess-pools with wattle.
The earliest I.G.I. entries for the name are for Witham-On-The-Hill in Lincolnshire in 1591, this is a very well known Viking site; Olney, Buckinghamshire (where our Aspreys are believed to have come from) also has an important Viking heritage, and is where the Vikings signed the peace treaty with the Saxons, which basically divided England along the lines of the Roman Watling road which runs from London to North Wales.
A William Asprey of Morden, Surrey, Printer, attested the handwriting in 1756 of Anastasia, Dowager Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth, which family was of Turvey, Co. Bedford.
A William Astbury of Morden was buried 1758. These Williams may have been related to Thomas.
The Aspray (Asprey) name could be of Danish Viking or Norse origin, Asp (Aspen tree) and Rey (living beneath). The Aspen tree was used by the Vikings to make wattle buildings, maybe Asprey was a trade name for someone who cultivated the trees. They also lined their cess-pools with wattle.
The earliest I.G.I. entries for the name are for Witham-On-The-Hill in Lincolnshire in 1591, this is a very well known Viking site; Olney, Buckinghamshire (where our Aspreys are believed to have come from) also has an important Viking heritage, and is where the Vikings signed the peace treaty with the Saxons, which basically divided England along the lines of the Roman Watling road which runs from London to North Wales.
A William Asprey of Morden, Surrey, Printer, attested the handwriting in 1756 of Anastasia, Dowager Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth, which family was of Turvey, Co. Bedford.
A William Astbury of Morden was buried 1758. These Williams may have been related to Thomas.
The Aspray (Asprey) name could be of Danish Viking or Norse origin, Asp (Aspen tree) and Rey (living beneath). The Aspen tree was used by the Vikings to make wattle buildings, maybe Asprey was a trade name for someone who cultivated the trees. They also lined their cess-pools with wattle.
The earliest I.G.I. entries for the name are for Witham-On-The-Hill in Lincolnshire in 1591, this is a very well known Viking site; Olney, Buckinghamshire (where our Aspreys are believed to have come from) also has an important Viking heritage, and is where the Vikings signed the peace treaty with the Saxons, which basically divided England along the lines of the Roman Watling road which runs from London to North Wales.
A William Asprey of Morden, Surrey, Printer, attested the handwriting in 1756 of Anastasia, Dowager Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth, which family was of Turvey, Co. Bedford.
A William Astbury of Morden was buried 1758. These Williams may have been related to Thomas.
The Aspray (Asprey) name could be of Danish Viking or Norse origin, Asp (Aspen tree) and Rey (living beneath). The Aspen tree was used by the Vikings to make wattle buildings, maybe Asprey was a trade name for someone who cultivated the trees. They also lined their cess-pools with wattle.
The earliest I.G.I. entries for the name are for Witham-On-The-Hill in Lincolnshire in 1591, this is a very well known Viking site; Olney, Buckinghamshire (where our Aspreys are believed to have come from) also has an important Viking heritage, and is where the Vikings signed the peace treaty with the Saxons, which basically divided England along the lines of the Roman Watling road which runs from London to North Wales.
A William Asprey of Morden, Surrey, Printer, attested the handwriting in 1756 of Anastasia, Dowager Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth, which family was of Turvey, Co. Bedford.
A William Astbury of Morden was buried 1758. These Williams may have been related to Thomas.
The Aspray (Asprey) name could be of Danish Viking or Norse origin, Asp (Aspen tree) and Rey (living beneath). The Aspen tree was used by the Vikings to make wattle buildings, maybe Asprey was a trade name for someone who cultivated the trees. They also lined their cess-pools with wattle.
The earliest I.G.I. entries for the name are for Witham-On-The-Hill in Lincolnshire in 1591, this is a very well known Viking site; Olney, Buckinghamshire (where our Aspreys are believed to have come from) also has an important Viking heritage, and is where the Vikings signed the peace treaty with the Saxons, which basically divided England along the lines of the Roman Watling road which runs from London to North Wales.
A William Asprey of Morden, Surrey, Printer, attested the handwriting in 1756 of Anastasia, Dowager Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth, which family was of Turvey, Co. Bedford.
A William Astbury of Morden was buried 1758. These Williams may have been related to Thomas.