Charles Ashton was born about 1815, in England, United Kingdom. He married Mary Elizabeth Wills on 30 January 1843, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in St George in the East, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Rome, Oneida, New York, United States in 1875. He died from 1868 to 1927.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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