Researching Bernard Ashley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5011 people with the Ashley surname? In that year Ashley was ranked number 850 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Bernard means "Brave bear" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Bernard Ashley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bernard Ashley and the Ashley Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 7159 people with the Ashley surname in the UK? Ashley is now ranked number 835 for popularity in the UK. |
Ashley Family Tree Databases
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Ashley Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 48612 people with the Ashley surname in the USA? Ashley is ranked number 141 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Bernard Ashley
Bernard Ashley (businessman)
Sir Bernard Albert Ashley (11 August 1926 – 14 February 2009) was an English businessman and engineer. He was the husband of Laura Ashley, and was her business partner from the founding of their fashion-textiles-centred business.
An engineer with a love of trains, planes and boats, Ashley was often portrayed in the media as a businessman instead of a designer – but he had a huge love of colour and design.
He had interests in Laura Ashley Holdings and the country-house hotel Llangoed Hall. Ranked 796th richest person in the UK with a fortune of £60m in fashion and hotels by the Sunday Times Rich List. He lived mainly in Brussels, but had houses in Hay-on-Wye and France.
Source: Bernard Ashley (businessman), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaBernard Ashley (author)
Bernard John Ashley (born April 1935) is a British author of books for children and young adults. His debut novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft, published in 1974, won "The Other Award", an alternative to the Carnegie Medal. A Kind of Wild Justice (1978), Running Scared (1986), and Little Soldier (1999) were commended runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book. The first two have been reissued by OUP in their Children's Modern Classics series, the third re-issued in a 15th anniversary edition. Ashley's TV drama Dodgem (based on his own novel) won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment programme (BBC) in 1993.
Source: Bernard Ashley (author), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Ashley
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
Acaley Ackley Agglio Aguila Ahokallio Aichele Akeley Akely Aksell Asel Ashall Ashla Ashlaw Ashlee Ashleigh Ashwel Ashwell Ashwil Ashwill Asiel Askell Aslie Assala Assel Aswell Atchley Atchly Augello Ausello Ausiello Ausley Axcel Axcell Axel Axell Azwell
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