When Ann Ackerley Ash was born on 29 October 1843, in Middlewich, Cheshire, England, her father, James Ash, was 27 and her mother, Phoebe Ackerley, was 17. She married Thomas Tagg Wharton on 14 June 1863. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Kinderton cum Hulme, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Middlewich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom for about 2 years. She died on 26 September 1865, in Wyoming, United States, at the age of 21.
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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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