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ashton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tun ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt þ?m) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tun) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ashton Families in the US in 1920
Number of ashton families
 139-276
 47-138		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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