Yes, that is a strange thing to ponder, assuming you can even be made aware of and grasp that concept, because who is ordinarily in the habit of digging around in the 1930 census for strange information on a certain day in 1930, about their 73-year-old widowed great-great-grandmother, maybe, and her odd tenant/boarder surnamed Ashton, born in Ohio, listed as a drayman who does odd jobs.
You would think that his name was Astor, due to a cloud
of obfuscating smog emanating from the glitzy snobs of New York, for
some unknown reason, but no, the name was only Ashton, Is there anyone in the family who can explain
that in a satisfactory way? I for one certainly know nothing about
that.