[Illustration] A Lancashire family of good antiquity, and until the
middle of the last century lords of Ashurst in that county, where
they appear to have been seated not long after the Conquest. In the
reign of James II. the eldest son of a younger brother was created a
Baronet, of Waterstock in this county. His daughter and eventual
heiress married Sir Richard Allin, Baronet, whose daughter, marrying
Mr. Ashurst of Ashurst, great-grandfather of the present
representative of the family, brought the estate of Waterstock into
the elder line of the Ashursts.
See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetage, and his Landed Gentry.
ARMS.--_Gules, a cross between four fleurs-de-lis argent_. The
Baronet family bore the _cross engrailed or, and but one
fleur-de-lis of the same_.
Present Representative, John Henry Ashurst, Esq.