Brief Life History of Lewis
Lewis Ashton was born about 1332, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Ashton and ?. He married Barbara in 1357.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Lewis Ashton - birth:
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1332– Male
1342– Female
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Name Meaning
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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