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Dictionary of
Family Names
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ASKEW,
ASCOUGH, AINSCOUGH, AINSCOW.
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From A Dictionary
of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley, A. Bardsley,
1901, and,
An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, by
William Arthur, M. A., 1857.
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ASKEW, ASCOUGH,
AINSCOUGH, AINSCOW.
Bardsley has: A local name meaning "of Aiskew," a township in
the parish of Bedale, co. York; v. Askey.
The original form was Aiskew or Ayscough. This by an intrusive n
became, in Lancashire, Ainscough and Ainscow. But Askew
is the generally adopted form. It was natural that the surname should
cross the border from Yorkshire to Lancashire. Arthur
has: ASKEW (Saxon)
Acksheugh,
hilly lands covered with oaks. Aschau, local, a town on the bend of a
river in Sleswick, Denmark. Askew, crooked, from the Danish.
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