Name: William Ashenhurst
Born: 1742-3
Place: Ireland
Died: 12 May 1837
Place: Brown Co., OH
Buried:
I received this information about the origin of the Ashenhurst name in
August 2008 from Peter Blake.
...the name Ashenhurst translates in old saxon as 'grey-wood' or 'grey-grove'.
The Grey wood in Britain would be taken as a birch-wood. Given that Saxon
names are largley descriptive, the person carrying the name originated in a
place in the proximity of a grey wood. In Britain upland areas abutting
moreland were forested with Brich and the lower lying land with Scots pine
in the north predominantly Oak and elm in the south and midlands. So it's
not supprising that Ashenhurst is a Scottish name, and a lowland protestant
one at that.
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