When Benjamin James Ashdown was born on 29 May 1858, in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Ashdown Sr., was 44 and his mother, Ann Burgess, was 36. He lived in Farnham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 29 August 1869, at the age of 11.
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English: habitational name from Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, named in Old English with æscen ‘growing with ash trees’ + dūn ‘hill’. Perhaps also occasionally from Ashdown in Lenham, Kent.
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