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Locality R Surnames Family History Resources

Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Radcliff		Locality	A place in Lancashire, England
Rainsford		Locality	Ravensford
Ramsey		Locality	Ram's Isle, a place in Huntingdonshire, England
Ranney		Locality	Renaix, Reinow, or Renais, a town of Switzerland
Rawdon		Locality	Royden, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, England
Reddenhurst		Locality	Reddon, Cornish British, fern, and hurst, Saxon, a wood or grove
Retz		Locality	A town in Moravia
Rhodes		Locality	island of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean Sea
Riddell		Locality	From lands in the county of Yorkshire, formerly called the Ryedales
Ripley		Locality	A market-town in west Yorkshire, England
Rochester		Locality	city in Kent, England
Rochfort		Locality	town of France
Romanno		Locality	lands in the county of Peebles, Scotland
Root		Locality	A place lying low
Rowe		Locality	A river that overflows its banks
Rowel		Locality	the river Rouel, in the Netherlands
Rowen		Locality	a tree, the mountain-ash
Rue		Locality	Reaux, in Hainault, Netherlands
Ruggles		Locality	A town of France
Rusbridge		Locality	town of Rousbrugge, in Germany
Russey		Locality	A town in Doubs, France
Rutherford		Locality	the lands of Rutherford on the river Tweed, in the parish of Maxton, Roxburgshire, Scotland
Rynders		Locality	A town in North Jutland

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