Walter Aston (MP for Staffordshire)

Biography

Family

• Edward, his heir, and who's estates in the counties of Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire produced an annual £10,000 income, married twice. Firstly Mary, third daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp, who died childless, and secondly Anne only daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote Warwickshire. They had five daughters and three sons including his heir Walter who would become 1st Lord Aston.
• Robert, of Parkhall, who married Jocosa, 2nd daughter of William Dallyson, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, and had three sons, William, Robert, and John, of whom William left an only child, Frances, his sole heir, who, 28 April. 1647, married John Whitehall, into whose family she carried the estate of Parkhall. Robert died without issue. John married Margery Walton and was the father of the distinguished judge Sir William Aston, who founded the Irish branch of the family.
• Richard, who died before his father.
• William, of Millwich, ancestor of the present Lord Aston.
• Hastings, who died unmarried.
• Devereux, who died unmarried.
• Joan, who married William Crompton, of Stone, in Staffordshire.
• Mary, who married Thomas Astley, of Pattershall.
• Eleanor, who married William Portoe, of Chesterton, Warwickshire.
• Elizabeth, who married Basil Feilding, of Newnham, and was mother of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh.
• Catherine,who married Stephen, son and heir of Sir Stephen Slaney, Lord Mayor of London.