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• About the Aislabie One-Name Study
• Historical occurrences
• Data
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• Contact Details

About the Aislabie One-Name Study

The surname AISLABIE(with several modern spelling variations including AISLABY, AISLEBY, ASELBY and even AISLADIE) is relatively rare. The name seems to originate mainly from the Stainmore area in Northern England, which is west of Scotch Corner on the A1, between the northern edge of the Yorkshire Dales and the Durham moors. A major cluster of the name is still in the area of Bowes and Barnard Castle.

Other AISLABIEs lived in Buckinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and London, and links between some of these different families clearly exist but in some cases are still to be established. AISLABIEs, like many other families, moved out to the British colonies, and there is a significant family presence in Australia and New Zealand.

Historical occurrences

Perhaps the most famous of the AISLABIEs was John AISLABIE (1671-1742), who was Secretary to the Navy (1716) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1717-1721). John was MP for Ripon and created the Studley Royal Gardens. His family acquired Fountains Abbey and Fountains Hall.

Data

The AISLABIE One-Name study includes all references in the national indexes of births, marriages and deaths, all UK wills, and census and parish records in England and Wales.

Over the years contact with other researchers has increased the volume of information available from overseas records, and a number of family trees have been created, so that it is usually possible fairly quickly to identify the family grouping appropriate to any new enquirer.

Links

www.leng.org.uk/page3.html

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Alan J Leng
La Gavache,
32550 LASSEUBE PROPRE
France
E-mail:

This page last updated 27 November 2008.

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