When Elizabeth Aishment was born about August 1762, in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Ashment, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Farley, was 27.
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English: variant of Ashman with excrescent -t. This final -t, along with a change in the unstressed vowel from -a- to -e-, seems to be a post-medieval development found in a good number of surnames where -man becomes -ment. Compare Bridgement , Dayment , Hardiment , Maidment , Marchment , Moment , Overment , and Parfrement .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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