Ralph Ashenhurst (abt. 1760)

Descendants

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Biography

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The elusive Ralph Ashenhurst. Was he born in County Tyrone around 1760? In all likelihood, yes. Did he go to Kentucky? Probably a Ralph Ashenhurst did go, but it seems strange that Kentucky Ralph is the same progenitor of this branch of the Ashenhursts. The hunt continues.

DNA tests indicate Ralph is the common ancestor to several of the children linked to this profile. There are no documents, birth, marriage, or death that actually state the common ancestor's name is "Ralph". The common ancestor is the progenitor of the the branch of Ashenhursts that emigrated from County Tyrone in Ireland to Canada.

An Ashenhurst DNA Project is looking for participants to help sort out the confusion surrounding very similar names of branches between ancestors with origins in Canada, and those in the USA. There's a lot of scientific explanation to wrap ones head around, but good on Michael Cooley for pursuing this task.

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 suprising that Ashenhurst is a Scottish name, and a lowland protestant one at that.^[1]

Sources

• WikiTree profile Ashenhurst-3 created through the import of Ashenhurst-Descendants.ged on Feb 6, 2012 by G. MacKay Ahnentafel GM-96. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Graeme and others.

1. ↑ Posted 20 Mar 2011 by flammer5 on ancestry.com