John Weeks Moore

“ We have frequently been delighted with the second Miss Ashe's accomplished style of singing, and very superior performance on the piano-forte, although from appearance she is not yet nineteen. We can only speak of Ashe as an author, from having heard many of his flute concertos performed by himself, which abounded with new passages fancifully dispersed, and the melodies highly pleasing. The reason we have heard assigned for their not being as yet given to the public, is a tenaciousness in the composer to reserve them for his own performance ”

“ In the year 1799," says the editor of the London Times, "Ashe married a pupil of Rauzzini, whose vocal excellence (as Mrs. Ashe) is too generally known to make any comment from us necessary. They have had a numerous family, nine or ten of whom are now living : the eldest daughter is a very finished performer on the harp, but is not in the profession, being married to a gentleman of property in the West Indies. ”

“ Whyte back to Ireland, and Ashe, having long had a hankering after the land of his birth, from which he had been absent since his infancy, willingly accepted Mr. Whyte's offer of accompanying him to Dublin. Not long after his arrival in Ireland, he was engaged for the Rotunda concerts in Dublin, which were then brilliantly supported. Here Ashe remained a few years, and the great applause his performance always met with was a stimulus to his further improvement. ”