The ashland Surname
ashland Name Meaning and History
- English and Scottish: topographic or habitational name for residence on or near land covered with ash trees. There are minor places called Ashland(s) in Hampshire and Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Galloway. Asland, a river name in Lancashire, refers to the lower reaches of what is more generally known as the Douglas river. It is named from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ + Old English lanu ‘lane’.
- Americanized form of Norwegian Ask(e)land (see Askeland).
- Probably an Americanized form of the common French Canadian name Asselin. Compare Ashline.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 8 - Messages: 20
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Robert Dan Ashland & Jeanette Suzanne Hill - Anyone Related? | Robert D Ashland | 2 |
| Forrest Boone Ashland...Anyone related? | Andrew Napier | 4 |
| Any Ashland's from Norway out there?? | Dan Lloyd Ashland | 4 |
| Aslands from Norway, now in Oregon |
 Danas200
| 0 |
| Emelyne Ashland | David Alexander | 0 |
| Bessie G. Ashland |
LTierney4295
| 2 |
| Bessie Ashland Matott |
mkathanpreshong
| 0 |
| Harriet Ashland |
chimpara
| 0 |
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