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ashby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby, from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ or the Old Norse personal name Aski + býr ‘farm’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ashby Family Facts

Distribution of ashby Families in the US in 1920
Number of ashby families
 142-281
 48-141		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 413 - Messages: 1275
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Clarification of the 4 Ashby lines ErnestLeeAshby 11
Any Ashby's living, anywhere! Amanda Ashby 23
John Norvell Ashby diannelynn66 0
John Ashby/Ashbey Bka199 32
William Graham/Esther Ashby oakham61 0
Noveda Metzger's book on LCT Ashby's ariedel11 1
Ashby TerryLeeMiller 10
Y-DNA, a GPS for modern day genealogy, why not us it? ErnestLeeAshby 0
Thomas Ashby 1680 Virginia s_bousum 0
John W. Ashby and Mourning Guthery Ashby ErnestLeeAshby 0
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