Ash Family History
- Ash Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ (Old English æsc), hence a topographic name for someone living by an ash tree or a habitational name from any of the many places in southern and central England named with this word (Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Surrey, Shropshire, Somerset, and elsewhere). In New England, Ash is commonly found for French Dufresne, with the same meaning. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an acronym for Yiddish AltSHul (see Altschul) or AyznSHtot (see Eisenstadt).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,268,662 Historical Documents with Ash on Ancestry
- 339,055 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 232,878 Census and Voter Lists
- 35,112 Military Records
- 18,609 Immigration Records
- 643,008 Member Trees
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Number of Ash families
 143 - 284  48 - 142 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ash families
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485 - 968 162 - 484 |
1 - 161 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ash families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Ash
- 613
- Confederate
- 168
- Union
- 445
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