Rider Family History
Rider Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a mounted warrior or messenger,
late Old English ridere (from ridan ‘to ride’), a
term quickly displaced after the Conquest by the new sense of
Knight.English: topographic name for someone who lived in
a clearing in woodland. Compare Read 2.Irish: part
translation of Gaelic Ó Marcaigh ‘descendant of
Marcach’, a byname meaning ‘horseman’. The Gaelic name is also
Anglicized as Markey.Americanized form of German
Reiter.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rider
Name Distribution of Rider Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rider families
 363 - 723  122 - 362 |
 1 - 121  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rider families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rider census records
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Rider Family Origin
Rider Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rider Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Rider 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
Rider Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rider census records
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Military Service by Rider
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