Ashland Family History
Ashland Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic or habitational name for
residence on or near land covered with ash trees. There are minor
places called Ashland(s) in Hampshire and Leicestershire,
Staffordshire, and Galloway. Asland, a river name in Lancashire,
refers to the lower reaches of what is more generally known as the
Douglas river. It is named from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ + Old
English lanu ‘lane’.Americanized form of Norwegian
Ask(e)land (see Askeland).Probably an
Americanized form of the common French Canadian name
Asselin. Compare Ashline.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ashland Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ashland families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ashland Family Origin
Ashland Emigration Information (US)
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Ashland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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