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Coat of Arms: Gold with a blue fesse and overall a red saltire.
Crest: Description not available
Spelling variations include: Asher, Ascher, Asser, Hasher, Hasser, Hascher, Aschey, Aisher, Aza, Azor, Ascer, Passer and many more.
Crest: Description not available
Spelling variations include: Asher, Ascher, Asser, Hasher, Hasser, Hascher, Aschey, Aisher, Aza, Azor, Ascer, Passer and many more.
First found in Staffordshire where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor.
Some
of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: the
name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century
in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern
seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and
to the islands.
Coat of Arms: A red shield bearing three silver chevronels.
Crest: A demi-gold lion rampant.
Motto: Virtute Duce.
Motto Translated: With virtue for guide.
Crest: A demi-gold lion rampant.
Motto: Virtute Duce.
Motto Translated: With virtue for guide.
Spelling variations include: Asch, Asche, Asches, Ascher, Assch, Assche, Aschen and many more.
First found in Swabia, where the name emerged in mediaeval times as one of the notable families of the region.
Some
of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Bertha
Asch, who settled in San Francisco, Cal. in 1862; Isaac M. Asch settled
in Philadelphia in 1836; Mannes M. Asch settled in Philadelphia in 1844.
Asher 
- English (mainly Sussex and Hampshire): topographic name denoting someone dwelling by an ash tree, from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ + the habitational suffix -er.
- Jewish: from the Hebrew personal name Asher ‘blessed’.
- Americanized spelling of German Ascher.
- German (often Äscher): occupational name for an ashmaker (see Aschenbrenner), from Middle High German escher ‘ashes’.
- German: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree or ash grove, from Middle High German asch ‘ash’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
- German: habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with the element asch, including Ascha, Aschach, Aschau.
Jewish
(Ashkenazic): see Asher.
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LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL IDENTITY
German: occupational name for someone who prepared ash from wood fires for use in glassworks and soapworks, from Middle High German asche, esche ‘ashes’ + brenner ‘burner’
