Nash Surname

Introduction: See also "Nash Family History " website by Carol J. Baxter . And her "Nash, First Families and Founding Fathers" email

c_baxter@optusnet.com.au www.members.optusnet.com.au/-aashmore

The surname "Nash" probably originated as a place name from a grove of ash trees as in "Robert atten Ash" and the Latin "Robertus de Fraxino," since fraxinus was the Latin name for the ash tree. The name likely arose independently in different areas of England and Wales, so various families of the same name may not be related. Among the earliest known Nash families were those in North Wales who went to Ireland in 1172 with the conqueror of Ireland, Richard de Clare, known as "Strongbow" (Davies 126).

Our NASHES appeared first in southern Pembrokeshire (Wales) in the more fertile half of the county which had been heavily settled by the Anglo-Normans and is still largely English in language. The Picton Castle papers refer to "Adam de fraxino" in Haverfordwest in 1285 and "John de Nasse" in 1317 and 1323, according to Derek Williams, but our traced ancestors appear later. They may have been connected to a Nash family known in the 15th to 18th centuries in Worcestershire, England, which had the same coat of arms. The Nash arms are given as "Sable, on a chevron three greyhounds courant Argent as many Ash slips proper Vert," i.e. A black shield with a silver chevron, three running greyhounds and three green ash branches. Surprisingly, the arms are often shown without the three ash branches (which refer to the Nash name itself), as here in this drawing made as a souvenir coaster sold in Wales.

BERRY, Sarah Birth : ABT 1844 Family: Marriage: 6 APR 1864 in Hartley, NSW Spouse:

NASH, Samuel Birth : 7 MAR 1833 Death : 1880 Inverell, NSW Parents:

Father: NASH, George Mother: LEES, Mary

Children: NASH, Hannah Birth : 1863 Braidwood, NSW NASH, George H Birth : 1865 Penrith, NSW NASH, Maria L Birth : 1867 Penrith, NSW Death : 1868 Penrith, NSW NASH, Sarah J Birth : 1868 Penrith, NSW NASH, Violet Ann Birth : 1870 Penrith, NSW NASH, Sophie Elizabeth Birth : 1872 Penrith, NSW NASH, John Samuel Birth : 1873 Inverell, NSW Death : 1875 Inverell, NSW NASH, James William Birth : 1875 Inverell, NSW Death : 1937 Mayfield, NSW NASH, Ernest Edwin NASH, Walter A Birth : 1877 Inverell, NSW NASH, Esther Birth : 1879 Inverell, NSW NASH, Samuel Roland Birth : 1880 Inverell, NSW

Nash Coat of Arms

James Nash born 1831. http://www.search4ancestors.net/phpGedView/individual.php?pid=I15137&ged=OZIGENPHP.GED