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Some few of us New England Ashleys are assimilated Quebecois, descendants of Zephirin Lafrenier and his son Delphis P. Lafrenier/ Philip Ashley, of Westbrook, Maine. These Lafreniers are a branch of the desRosiers clan of the Berthierville area in Quebec, whose ancestors arrived in la belle province before 1650. "Ashley" can derive from ash-grove, and a freniere could be a grove of ash trees, so ...