First found in Lancashire in the town of that name, near Middleton, near Manchester.

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Ainsworth surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Michael Ainsworth who landed in America in 1752; Jonathon Ainsworth who landed in Philadelphia Pa. in 1834; and two Johns, who landed at the same port in 1846 and 1860.

Motto Translated: I hope for better things.

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