Ashton Family History
Ashton Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Ashton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ashton families
 139 - 276  47 - 138 |
 1 - 46  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ashton families
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3,500 - 6,998 1,167 - 3,499 |
1 - 1,166 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ashton families
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21 - 40 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ashton Family Origin
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