Asher Family History
Asher Name Meaning
English (mainly Sussex and Hampshire): topographic name
denoting someone dwelling by an ash tree, from Middle English
asche ‘ash tree’ + the habitational suffix -er.Jewish: from the Hebrew personal name Asher ‘blessed’.Americanized spelling of German Ascher.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Asher
Name Distribution of Asher Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Asher families
 84 - 166  29 - 83 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Asher families
|
50 - 97 17 - 49 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Asher census records
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Asher Family Origin
Asher Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Asher Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Asher families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Asher Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Asher census records
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Military Service by Asher
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