Noting your ancestry.. my Pater's middle-name was Anders.. perhaps yer a twig on that sapling?
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Hmmm.. haven't totted up but there's Lots more 'Ashton's out there than I'd imagined (not just Ashton Carter..) both as first-and last-names..

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..and I thought I was soo Special! Oh well, 'Pride goeth before ...'
(also too, My Uncle/namesake was Ashton Smith!; how's That for er, anonymity?)

Still, should you somehow gather together your name-clones (world's largest-yet Round Table?) ... you should fershure get a rilly low-bid for
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making all those engraved-in-two-tone-plastic, The Honorable _____.

i'm an orphan now re the generation who knew where all the *bodies were buried; sometimes I regret my uncuriosity way-back. Other times ..maybe I sleep better now?
..for Not-knowing. In the immortal words of Yul Brynner:
It's a Puzzlement! but funny thing, I really don't Miss all that info==antithetic to say, Feynman's omni- Curiosity wherever his eyes fell.)

*Hey! didja know that your Great-grate-irascible Grandfather shot Justice in-her-pretty-blue-dress? waay-back.

(Somewhere there is/was another son of my Pater--even my Aunt didn't know his whereabouts at time of her death); a collective which would have been the last ..to obsess over one of those family-Tree thngs. Did they know too much/or too little? Puzzlement #2 I guess.


oTpy.
PS: there's a cousin who has 'meant to' drop a load of such matters on moi; not yet though. What, Me Worry?
PPS: Welcome back, O irascible-/but really a pussy-cat One. ;^> ^{Used with permission of © Holder}.