Ashcraft

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Ashcraft is a surname. Reaney and Wilson have suggested this is a place-related surname referring to "dweller at a croft with an ash-tree";[1] a "croft" refers to a small parcel of land used for farming.

Notable people with the surname include:

* Alan E. Ashcraft Jr. (1906–1961), American politician and judge
* Braxton Ashcraft (born 1999), American baseball player
* Forrest Ashcraft (1922–2004), American politician
* Graham Ashcraft (born 1998), American baseball player
* Hale Ashcraft (1920–2010), American politician
* Karen Ashcraft (living), American academic
* Mark H. Ashcraft (1949–2022), American academic
* Percy Ashcraft (living), American politician and local government official
* Richard Ashcraft (1938–1995), American academic
* Tami Oldham Ashcraft (born 1960), American sailor and author

## See also

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* Doki Doki Literature Club!, a 2017 video game, for which Jillian Ashcraft sang "Your Reality"

## References

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1. ^ Reaney, Percy Hide; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). Routledge. p. 103\. ISBN 0-415-05737-X. Retrieved 15 March 2024 - via Google Books.

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