When Florence Ashdown was born about 1866, in Dymchurch, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Ashdown, was 34 and her mother, Isabella Sharvell, was 34. She married Frederick C. Fries on 23 June 1890, in Tottenham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. She died in 1930, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65, and was buried in Chingford, Waltham Forest, London, England, United Kingdom.
English: habitational name from Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, named in Old English with æscen ‘growing with ash trees’ + dūn ‘hill’. Perhaps also occasionally from Ashdown in Lenham, Kent.
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