Ashford (surname)

Ashford (surname)

Ashford is an English habitational surname from any of several places called Ashford. Those in Essex, Devon, Derbyshire, and Shropshire are named from Old English "æsc" ‘ash’ + "ford" ‘ford’.

One in Surrey is first recorded in 969 as "Ecelesford", probably from a personal name "Eccel", a diminutive of "ecca" ‘edge (of a sword)’ + "ford". The one in Kent is from "æscet" ‘clump of ash trees’ + "ford". [Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4]

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