Ashurst Family History
Ashurst Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Ashurst, from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + hyrst
‘wooded hill’. The most significant of these places are in Kent and
West Sussex, but in England the surname is now found chiefly in south
Lancashire, where it probably derives from Ashurst Beacon near
Wigan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ashurst
Name Distribution of Ashurst Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ashurst families
 510 - 1,017  171 - 509 |
 1 - 170  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ashurst families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ashurst census records
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Ashurst Family Origin
Ashurst Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ashurst Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Ashurst Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ashurst census records
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Military Service by Ashurst
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