Family tradition states that American immigrants, William and Nancy Ashenhurst (said to have been first cousins), were descended from Col. John Ashenhurst, a Cromwellian who moved to Ireland after the Restoration of the Crown. Another immigrant, Ralph Ashenhurst, may have been a son of William and Nancy's. There are Ashenhursts in Canada, and throughout the English-speaking world. Do they all descend from a common patriarch? DNA will answer that question. I hope that Ashenhursts world-wide will participate. I've written a short history of the early Ashenhursts of Ashenhurst and Beard Halls at http://ancestraldata.com/lineages/Ashenhurst/#three. A discussion of the Ashenhurst Y-DNA can be found at http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2018-03-05-Ashenhurst.html. And I'm tracking various lineages at http://ancestraldata.com/lineages/Ashenhurst. Finally, there's a Facebook group for the Ashenhurst family at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2259330546/.