Rye Family History
Rye Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived on an island or
patch of firm ground surrounded by fens, from a misdivision of the
Middle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (from Old
English eg, ieg ‘island’).English:
topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from a
misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at the
river’ (from Old English ea ‘river’). adm; ADM: please
check these two; you have ye and eye the other way round in your first
checking.English: topographic name for someone living at a
place where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or perhaps a
metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold it.Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named, most of
them from Old Norse rjóðr ‘clearing in a forest’, but
others from ry ‘dry place with stones’.Danish:
habitational name from a place called Rye. OV, LP.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rye
Name Distribution of Rye Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rye families
 259 - 515  87 - 258 |
 1 - 86  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rye families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rye census records
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Rye Family Origin
Rye Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rye Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rye Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rye census records
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Military Service by Rye
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