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ashford Name Meaning and History

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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ashford Family Facts

Distribution of ashford Families in the US in 1920
Number of ashford families
 55-108
 19-54		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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