Last name: ASHDOWN
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ASHDOWN : This last name is indexed 21,744 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ASHDOWN : English: habitational name from Ashdown Forest in East Sussex named in Old English with æscen ‘growing with ash trees’ + dūn ‘hill’. Perhaps also occasionally from Ashdown in Lenham Kent.
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