Reading Family History
Reading Name Meaning
habitational name from the county seat of Berkshire,
which gets its name from Old English Readingas ‘people of
Read(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.topographic name for
someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English
ryding.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Reading
Name Distribution of Reading Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Reading families
 310 - 617  104 - 309 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reading families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Reading census records
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Reading Family Origin
Reading Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Reading families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Reading Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Reading families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Reading Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Reading census records
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Military Service by Reading
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