When Jane Graham Ash was born in 1813, her father, Joseph Ash, was 37 and her mother, Jane Graham, was 33. She married Thomas Skitt on 4 September 1843, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died on 18 November 1893, at the age of 80, and was buried in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom.
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English: from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ (Old English æsc), hence a topographic name for someone living by an ash tree or a habitational name from any of the many places in southern and central England named with this word (Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Surrey, Shropshire, Somerset, and elsewhere).
Americanized form of German Asch and Esch , the latter ultimately also of Swiss German origin (see Oesch ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dufresne , with the same meaning as 1 above.
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