Släkthistoria för Ashment
Ashment Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Ashman with excrescent -t. This final -t along with a change in the unstressed vowel from -a- to -e- seems to be a post-medieval development found in a good number of surnames where -man becomes -ment. Compare Bridgement Dayment Hardiment Maidment Marchment Moment Overment Parfrement and Perriment.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
