Reid Family History
Reid Name Meaning
nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy
complexion, from Older Scots reid ‘red’.topographic name
for someone who lived in a clearing, from Old English r¯d
‘woodland clearing’. Compare English Read.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Reid
Name Distribution of Reid Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Reid families
 828 - 1,653  277 - 827 |
 1 - 276  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reid families
|
3,175 - 6,347 1,059 - 3,174 |
1 - 1,058 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Reid census records
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Reid Family Origin
Reid Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Reid Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Reid Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Reid census records
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Military Service by Reid
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