Ashford Family History
Ashford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Ashford. Those in Essex, Devon, Derbyshire, and Shropshire are named
from Old English æsc ‘ash’ + ford ‘ford’. One in
Surrey is first recorded in 969 as Ecelesford, probably from a
personal name Eccel, a diminutive of Ecca ‘edge (of a
sword)’ + ford. The one in Kent is from æscet ‘clump
of ash trees’ + ford.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ashford Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ashford families
 55 - 108  19 - 54 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ashford families
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278 - 554 93 - 277 |
1 - 92 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ashford families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ashford Family Origin
Ashford Immigration Information
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Ashford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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