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6 unusual facts about Ashburnham


1871 Boston Red Stockings season

The Boston Red Stockings were formed in 1871 by Boston businessman and Ashburnham native Ivers Whitney Adams.

Ashburnham, Massachusetts

For geographic and demographic information on the village of South Ashburnham, please see the article South Ashburnham, Massachusetts.

Austin Warren

He attended public grammar school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and briefly attended Waltham High School, where he received instruction in Latin and studied Esperanto independently.

Hooe, East Sussex

The River Ashbourne flows into the Haven, down which iron products, particularly cannon, used to be shipped from the Wealden iron works at Ashburnham.

John Ashburnham

John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham (1687–1737), his son, British Member of Parliament for Hastings

John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham (1724–1812), his son, Lord Lieutenant of Sussex


1st Troop of Horse Guards

1713 John, Baron Ashburnham —Ashburnham's Horse Guards
(July 7, 1713 - May 10, 1715)

Ashburnham County

Ashburnham County was named in honour of Bertram Ashburnham, who was the 4th Earl of Ashburnham between (1797-1878).

Harrietsham

, of Broomham, Sussex, ancestor of the Ashburnham baronets, bringing the manor of Harrietsham into the Ashburnham family.

Kathleen Newton

Kathleen Irene Ashburnham "Kate" Kelly was descended from an Irish Catholic medical family and raised in Agra and Lahore in India.

The Good Soldier

Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham (the “good soldier” of the book’s title) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

Thomas Ashburnham, 6th Earl of Ashburnham

Lord Ashburnham became ill with a cold during the trans-Atlantic journey on the White Star Liner SS Regina.

Wilfred Harvey Schoff

Schoff, Wilfred H., The descendants of Jacob Schoff who came to Boston in 1752 and settled in Ashburnham in 1757 : with an account of the German immigration into colonial New England (Philadelphia : J. McGarrigle, 1910)


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