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Ashby Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby, from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + bȳ ‘farm’. Similar surnames: Ashby. Asby.
*** Around 1792 Jesse Ashby moved his family from Monongalia County, Virginia, to Kentucky.(Kentucky became a state in 1792.)After a few years in Mercer County, Kentucky, Jesse Ashby and family settled down on a spread of wilderness called Walton’s Creek along the Rough River in Ohio County, Kentucky.It’s located between Centertown and ...
Ashby is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Ashby family once lived in a dwelling near an ash tree. Ashby is a local surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames. There are a variety of types of local surnames, some of which include topographic ...
Origin. Ashby : English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + bȳ ‘farm’.
Leonard James Ashby, research physicist at the University of Michigan who taught at Kalamazoo College from 1921 to 1924, died in Ann Arbor on June 12. Ashby, an assistant professor of physics during his tenure here, was founder and former president of the Kalamazoo Amateur Astronomy Association. A son, Frederick Ashby, is an ensign in the navy.
The name Ashby has its origins in the English language and is derived from the combination of two elements: ash and by. The element ash refers to the ash tree, known for its strong, durable wood and attractive, feather-like leaves.
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William Thomas Ashby, descended from Ashbys — among whom a Jesse Ashby figured prominently in virtually every generation — who served in most of the nation’s major wars, including the Revolutionary, and the War Between the States, was a farmer and mill owner.
