Glastonbury Tor (centre) as it appears from Marston Bigot.

George & Phoebe  (Nee Gibbons)   (1769-1840)               (1761-1850)

GEORGE  was the second son of either Robert Ashby (1730-1807) ) OR Lord Edmund Boyle - and  Dorothy Meaden Ashby (1737-1809) George was the father of Edmund II and George II, the two young Ashbys who moved to County Tipperary  (See George 1798)

AN OLD TOMBSTONE LEANS AGAINST THE SOUTH WALL OF ST LEAONARDS.  It reads:           In memory of GEORGE ASHBY, born May 19, 1769, died May 4 1838. aged 89           Also of PHEEBE (sic) wife of above George Ashby, who died May 17, 1850, aged 89 Somewhere, within sight of Glastonbury Tor (above), lies the former farm of George and Phoebe.  It is clear that they lived near enough to Marston Bigot to identify with it..  Their immediate descendants became the  Irish branch of the Ashby family, who remained conscious of their Somerset roots and made many references to Marston Bigot.  Despite this we know nothing of George and Phoebe except dates of birth and death.  There are no birth or christening records at the Marston Church.   They could be elsewhere, at Frome (St Johns, Trinity, Fidlington, Fitzhead) or at Nunney (All Saints),  or perhaps Shepton Mallet.  We know from their son George's date of death that he was born in either 1798 or 1799, and that their other son Edmund, was older than George. George & Phoebe were Noel's Great Great Grandparents, and George II his Great Grandfather.

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