When Conway Alan Ashton was born on 18 February 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Elias Conway Ashton, was 33 and his mother, Rosabel Hall, was 26. He married Emma Rae McKay on 16 August 1939, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Scotland, United Kingdom in 2009. He died on 4 August 2009, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesElder Ashton was a great mission friend to my grandfather, Elder Max Rulon Openshaw. Elder Openshaw often spoke in his mission journal of how well the got along and the good talks they had while servi …
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