Dashwood Family History

Apparently a variant of Ashwood with fused French preposition d(e) ‘of’. It may be a late gentrification of the name. Compare Robert Ashwood 1637 in IGI (Saint Giles Cripplegate London) with George Dashwood 1676 in IGI (Saint Giles Cripplegate London), a London merchant for whose son (Robert) the baronetcy of Dashwood was created in 168.

Ashwood is, however, a W Midlands surname in origin, so an alternative origin for Dashwood in S and SW England is perhaps to be sought.