The ridley Surname

ridley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places in England so named, especially the one in Northumberland, which, like that in Cheshire, is derived from Old English geryd ‘channel’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. Those in Essex and Kent appear in Domesday Book as Retleia and Redlege respectively, and get their names from Old English hreod ‘reed’ + leah.
Possibly also an altered spelling of German Riedel or Riedler (see Ridler).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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ridley Family Facts

Distribution of ridley Families in the US in 1920

Number of ridley families

111-219

38-110

1-37

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 255 - Messages: 663

Thread	Author	Replies
Ada Jane Ridley of Warwick Bridge/Nenthead, Cumberland	JanBoyes45	8
RIDLEY Kay 1899-1971	t42Moore	0
Ridley family	normaninz	17
William H. Ridley / Dodson 4-1851 Tenn.	CLRBlackburn	12
Ridley	Cheryl Mackersey	6
Ridley	CLRB62	1
Dorothy Ridley - Park End	avon2001	1
Capt George Ridley	J_JaneKeener	7
Sarah Bailey (Ridley)	Ginny_Sayre	0
Ridley	raycleminson1	0

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