When Fanny Ashton was born on 11 February 1861, in Mount Vincent, New South Wales, Australia, her father, William Ashton, was 43 and her mother, Mary McConnell, was 32. She married Daniel Murrell in 1879, in Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 24 October 1924, in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 63, and was buried in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
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’.
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