Author talk:John Ashton

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Name: John Ashton
Birth - Death: 1834?-1911
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• Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. First edition. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1967. (ChhPo)
• Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. First Supplement. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1972. (ChhPo S1)
• Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Based on entries that first appeared in Literary Yearbook (1906-1913), Literary Yearbook and Author's Who's Who (1914-1917), Literary Yearbook (1920-1922), and Who's Who in Literature (1924-1934). Two volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1979. (WhLit)
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)

Allibones Supplement

Ashton, John, antiquarian.

1. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: taken from Original Sources. Illust. Lon., 1882, 2 vols. 8vo: 1883, 1 vol. p. 8vo.

   "The result of most conscientious and thorough work."—Sat. Rev., 1v. 343.

2. A History of the Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century: with Fac-Similes, Notes, and Introduction, Lon., 1882, p. 8vo.

   "This is a very interesting and curious volume. ... It would have been satisfactory if he had traced the history of this kind of literature from its commencement to its fall." Sat. Jiev., liii. 705.

3. The Adventures and Discoveries of Captain John Smith : with Fac-Siuiiles of the Original Illustrations, Lon., 1884, p. Svo. 4. (Ed.) Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century, Lon., 1883, p. Svo.

   "In some respects it is a most useful book. . . . From its pages might be compiled a very fair picture of manners in the early part of the century ; and by the aid of the excellent Bibliographical Appendix the reader is guided in the direction of fuller research." Sat. Rev., Ivii. 517.

4. English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon the First. With 120 Illustrations from the Originals. Lon., 1884, 2voK Svo.

   "Mr. Ashton has been diligent in searching for materials, and his materials are commensurate with the extent and importance of his subject. . . . He has injured a capital subject by a pretentious mode of treating it." Ath., No. 3013.

5. Old Times : Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Illust. Lon., 1885, Svo.

   "His present period is the twelve years which lie between the appearance of the Times under its present name in 1788 ana the end of the century. . . . The middle classes, their arts and manners, are the staple of his book, and these he has illustrated amply." Ath., No. 3042,

6. The Dawn of the Nineteenth Century in England : a Social Sketch of the Times, Lon., 1885, 2 vols. p. Svo.

   "He has made excellent use of the newspapers of the time ; and his volumes, while they will amuse the uncritical reader, cannot safely be neglected by the more serious student of the period which they treat." Sat. Rev., Ixi. 277.

7. The Romances of Chivalry, told and illustrated in Fac-Simile, Lon., 1886, Svo.
8. Eighteenth Century Waifs, Lon., 1887, sm. 4to.
9. A Century of Ballads: Illustrative of the Life, Manners, and Habits of the English Nation during the Seventeenth Century. Collected, Edited, and Illustrated in Fac-Simile of the Originals. Lon., 1887-88, 4to.

   "On the whole, Mr. Ashton's compilation is exceedingly interesting." Sal. Rev., Ixv. 174.

10. The Legendary History of the Cross. A Series of Sixty-Four Wood-Cuts from a Dutch Book published by Veldeneer, AD. 1483. With an Introduction written and illustrated by John Ashton, and a Preface by Rev. S. Baring-Gould. Lon., 8vo.
11. The Fleet: it* River, Prison, and Marriages. With Seventy Drawings by the Author from Original Pictures. Lon., 1887, 8vo; 1888, p. 8vo.

    "It contains a vast quantity of Information, and must have cost the compiler a great deal of labour. ... On the other hand, it Is difficult to find anything In it that has not been told before in the many histories of London." Sal. Rev., Ixv. 142.

12. Modern Street Ballads. Fifty-Six Illustrations. Lon., 1888, p. 8vo.
13. Men, Maidens, and Manners a Hundred Years Ago. Illust. Lon., 1888, sq. Ifirno.

    "Mr. Ashton sails under no false colours, and honest paste-and-scissors work is far better than the amalgam of fine phrases and false facts which is too often set before the unwary as history." Spectator, lix. 153.

Baptism

Name: John Ashton
Record Type: Baptism
Born: 22 September 1834
Baptism Date: 22 Oct 1834 (p. 174)
Father's Name: Thomas Ashton, Gun-maker
Mother's Name: Isabella Ashton
Abode: Swallow Gardens
Parish or Poor Law Union: Whitechapel St Mary
Borough: Tower Hamlets

Census for England

1891

Name: John Ashton
Age: 56
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Whitechapel, London, England

Civil parish: St Pancras
Ecclesiastical parish: Camden
County/Island: London
Country: England

Registration district: Pancras
Sub-registration district: Camden Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 7
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 130
Folio: 39
Page Number: 16
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward Browning 35
Gertrude Browning 34
Gertrude Browning 10
Edwin H Browning 8
James F Browning 7
Harriett M Gudwin 18
John Ashton 56
Robert Ashton 50
John Hughes 35

1881

Name: John Ashton
Age: 46
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Whitechapel

Civil parish: St Johns Hampstead
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address: 31 Haverstock Hill
Occupation: Literary

Registration district: Hampstead
Sub-registration district: Hampstead
ED, institution, or vessel: 36
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 175
Folio: 37
Page Number: 4
Household Members:
Name Age
John Reading 61
Martha Reading 55
Georgina Slee 53
Elizabeth Hurst 20
Elizabeth Duffield 23
John Ashton 46
Robert Ashton 40

1871

Name: John Ashton
Age: 36
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Deptford, Kent, England
Civil parish: Paddington
Ecclesiastical parish: St Stephen
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Kensington
Sub-registration district: St Mary Paddington
ED, institution, or vessel: 12
Household schedule number: 260
Piece: 6
Folio: 19
Page Number: 30
Household Members:
Name Age
George Collie 42
Emma Collie 38
Francis W Vailes 25
John Ashton 36 (secretary to Aylesbury Dairy)
Robert Ashton 30

1901

Name: John Ashton
Age: 66
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: London, England

Civil parish: Islington
Ecclesiastical parish: St Luke
County/Island: London
Country: England

Registration district: Islington
Sub-registration district: Lower Holloway
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 249
Piece: 171
Folio: 46
Page Number: 41
Household Members:
Name Age
Sarah M Cook 60
Maria Seppings 83
John Ashton 66
Robert Ashton 60
Ellen Bath 62
Annie M Newly 25

1861

mother and brother

Name: Robert Ashton
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Isabella Ashton
Gender: Male
Where born: New Cross, Kent, England

Civil parish: Deptford St Paul
Ecclesiastical parish: Hatcham St James
Town: Deptford
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Registration district: Greenwich
Sub-registration district: St Paul Deptford
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 134
Piece: 392
Folio: 57
Page Number: 28
Household Members:
Name Age
Isabella Ashton 54 (fundsholder)
Isabella C Ashton 23
Robert Ashton 20 (commercial clerk)
Mary Ann Chalk 20

1841

John Ashton
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Civil parish: St Paul
Hundred: Deptford Town
County/Island: Kent
Country: England

Registration district: Greenwich
Sub-registration district: St Paul Deptford
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 488
Book: 13
Folio: 29
Page Number: 13

Thos Ashton 45 abt 1796 Male
Isabella Ashton 30 abt 1811 Female
Eliza Ashton 8 abt 1833 Female
John Ashton 6 abt 1835 Male
Isabella Catherine Ashton 4 abt 1837 Female
Robt Ashton 11 MO abt 1840 Male Kent England
Mary Frances Davn 20 abt 1821 Female Kent England
Eprona Scudder 15 abt 1826 Female Kent England
Elizh Catherine Bently 35 abt 1806 Female