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ashland Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. Americanized form of Norwegian Ask(e)land (see Askeland).
  3. 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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Distribution of ashland Families in the US in 1920
Number of ashland families
 8-14
 3-7		 1-2
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Threads: 8 - Messages: 19
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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
Robert Dan Ashland & Jeanette Suzanne Hill - Anyone Related? Robert D Ashland 1
Harriet Ashland chimpara 0
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