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Facts and Events
Elizabeth - ASKE is a township of 1,764 acres. It is written Asse in Domesday Book, and had, previous to Norman usurpation, belonged to Tor, a Saxon. Soon after the Conquest, the manor was granted to Whyomar, kinsman and sewer* to Alan, the first Earl of Richmond. Whyomar's descendants, under the name of Aske, flourished here for upwards of 500 years. The direct line, terminating in females, Elizabeth, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Roger Aske, conveyed this estate in marriage, about 1530, to Richard Bowes, one of the Streatlam family, in the County of Durham. The manor remained in this family until the time of Sir Talbot Bowes, who sold it to Philip, Lord Wharton.
Note that this same Alan, Earl of Richmond is said to be the progenitor of the Bowes family.
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