My mother wrote about the time when there was a religious uprising in England, when then the poor were against the rich because they had nothing to eat, nothing to speak of, and lived in poverty; complete poverty.
The Ashforths were a wealthy people and so they began to change their names to various types that were anything but, "Ashforth". That's why the various spellings including, "Ahysworth". This was supposed to be early on, like the 13th century to 17th - long, long ago.
I have every reason to believe it to be true, but it changes nothing for me; it mattered a lot to Charles, who was my gt, gt, grandfather, and who was born around 1820.
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