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Asculf Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Asculf.' No doubt this surname is lost in Hasell and Hazell, which see. There are no modern representatives of the true original form. Probably some of the many Hasells and Hazells of Berkshire (a district which was familiar with the fontal name Asculf or Hascul) are to be referred to this source.

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Asculf Surname Meaning

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This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Asculf.' No doubt this surname is lost in Hasell and Hazell, which see. There are no modern representatives of the true original form. Probably some of the many Hasells and Hazells of Berkshire (a district which was familiar with the fontal name Asculf or Hascul) are to be referred to this source.

Harsculph, alias Ascurt de Cleseby, 1301. Writs of Parliament.

Hascul de Pracres, Oxfordshire, Henry III- Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

Robert Ascolf, provost of Norwich, 1219: History of Norfolk.

John Asculf, Buckinghamshire. 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Roger Hasseholf, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Asulph Ma, Essex, Henry III Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

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