Ashcraft
Ashcraft is a surname. Reaney and Wilson have suggested this is a place-related surname referring to "dweller at a croft with an ash-tree";[1] a "croft" refers to a small parcel of land used for farming.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan E. Ashcraft Jr. (1906–1961), American politician and judge
- Forrest Ashcraft (1922-2004), American politician
- Graham Ashcraft (born 1998), American baseball player
- Hale Ashcraft (1920-2010), American politician
- Karen Ashcraft (living), American academic
- Mark H. Ashcraft (1949–2022), American academic
- Richard Ashcraft (1938-1995), American academic
- Tami Oldham Ashcraft (born 1983), American sailor and author
See also
[edit]- Doki Doki Literature Club!, a 2017 video game, for which Jillian Ashcraft sang "Your Reality"
References
[edit]- ^ Reaney, Percy Hide; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 0-415-05737-X. Retrieved 15 March 2024 – via Google Books.
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