Rue Family History
Rue Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived on a track or
pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’,
‘fold’).English: variant of Rowe 1, from the Old English
byform r?w, or a habitational name from places in Devon and
Isle of Wight called Rew from this word.Norwegian:
habitational name from any of over fifteen farmsteads so named,
notably in Telemark, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rue
Name Distribution of Rue Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rue families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rue families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rue census records
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Rue Family Origin
Rue Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rue Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rue census records
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Military Service by Rue
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