Tracing the Ashcraft Family Name

Spelling was not fixed until the modern era, so Ashcroft could easily become Ashcraft. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Ash tree field”.

• Other spellings include Ashcroftt.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• The two spellings differ in a small detail: Ashcraft has “a” where Ashcroft has “o”.
• Ashcraft ranked 3,576 in the 2010 US Census, with 9,957 people answering to the name.

Heraldry and the Ashcraft name

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