English: habitational name from Ashburnham in Sussex
(Esseborne in Domesday Book), Ashbourne in Derbyshire, or
Ashburton in Devon (Æscburnan land in a document of 1008),
all named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + burna
‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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