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Constantia Ashby (Broughton)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Arksey, Yorkshire, England
Death: January 20, 1720 (42)
St Tho St Denis,Berkeley,South Carolina,USA
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Andrew Broughton, of Seaton and Anne Broughton
Wife of John Turner Ashby, Jr., Esq., 2nd Cassique
Mother of Thomas Edward Ashby; Elizabeth Hasell; Mary LeJau; Ann Manigault; Robert Ashby and 1 other
Sister of Gov. Thomas Broughton, President of His Majesty's Council in the Province; Christina Broughton; Lydia Broughton; Andrew Broughton, of Stafford; Margaret Johnson and 1 other

Managed by: Geoffrey David Trowbridge
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About Constantia Ashby

Biography

From https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/_7...

VIII. CONSTANTIA BROUGHTON, d. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 20 Jan 1720[/1];[64] m. JOHN ASHBY, Esq., 2nd Cassique, of South Carolina. John, d. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, 30 Nov 1716.[65]

Accounts of John Ashby have been published in SCMG[66] and Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives.[67] In a letter dated 1715, Thomas Broughton mentions his son’s ‘ant Ashby.’[18] In another letter dated 19 May 1721, Andrew Broughton of London recites that in previous letters from his Brother Thomas Broughton of South Carolina (dated 26 December 1720 and 9 March 1720/1), he was informed of the death of ‘Poor Sister Ashby.’[18] Her children legatees in will of Aunt Christiana (1742).[39] Wills have not survived for John Ashby or his widow.[68]

Issue:

  • (i) John Ashby, 3rd Cassique (m. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, 8 November 1726, Elizabeth Ball),[69]
  • (ii) Elizabeth Ashby (m. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, South Carolina, 21 January 1714/5, Rev. Thomas Hasell),[70]
  • (iii) Mary Ashby (m. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, 14 April 1726, Col. Francis Le Jau),[71]
  • (iv) Ann Ashby (m. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, 29 April 1730, Gabriel Manigault),[72] and
  • (v) Thomas Ashby (m. St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, 16 August 1720, Elizabeth Le Jau).[73]
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Constantia Ashby's Timeline

1677
December 19, 1677
Arksey, Yorkshire, England
1694
January 25, 1694
Leicestershire, England
1695
1695
1698
September 1698
Quenby Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina, Colonial America
1703
1703
1705
1705
Quenby Plantation, Charleston, SC, United States
1720
January 20, 1720
Age 42
St Tho St Denis,Berkeley,South Carolina,USA
1720
Age 42
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