Joseph Ashton

Male1709–30 November 1747

Brief Life History of Joseph

Joseph Ashton was born in 1709, in Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 30 November 1747, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Joseph Ashton
1709–1747
Sarah Ashton
1712–
James Ashton
1714–

Sources (6)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Ashton - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: about 1677; Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
  • Joseph Ashton, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ancestry Family Trees

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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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