Ridge Family History
Ridge Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a ridge,
Middle English rigge, or a habitational name from any of the
places named with this word, as for example Ridge in
Hertfordshire. The surname is also fairly common in Ireland, in County
Galway, having been taken to Connacht in the early 17th century. The
name is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire; iomaire is
modern Irish for ‘ridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ridge
Name Distribution of Ridge Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ridge families
 185 - 367  62 - 184 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ridge families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ridge census records
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Ridge Family Origin
Ridge Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ridge Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ridge census records
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Military Service by Ridge
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