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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
Raffles			From Raefel, long-lubber, lath-back, inactive, sluggish
Raleigh			Rhawlaw, in the Welsh, signifies a lieutenant, a vicar
Ralph			Saxon From Rad, counsel, and ulph, help
Ralston			Ralphstown in Renfrewshire
Ramage			Branches of trees
Rankin			Danish Rank, right, upright, erect
Ransom			The price paid for redemption from captivity or punishment
Ransome			The price paid for redemption from captivity or punishment
Rapp			Rap, in Danish, is swift, nimble
Rawlings			Ralphs son
Rawlinson			son of Rawlings
Rawson			Ravenson
Read			Rede, advice, counsel, help, or from the fenny plant, a reed
Record			Rikerd, or Richard
Reeves			From Reeve, a bailiff, provost, or steward
Ricard			Of a powerful, rich, or generous disposition
Rich			Wealthy, opulent; anciently, great, noble, powerful
Richard			Of a powerful, rich, or generous disposition
Richardson			son of Richard
Ricketts			Ricards
Ridder			Ruyter
Ritter			Ruyter, a knight, a chevalier
Robinson			Son of Robbin
Romaine			Roman
Roof			Reeve
Roschild			a town in Denmark
Roswell			Rosveldt, the rose-field
Rothschild			a town in Denmark
Rowntree			mountain-ash
Rundell			Arundle
Russ			Russian
Ruthven			the lands and barony of Ruthven, in Perthshire, Scotland
Ruyter			A knight or chevalier
Ryder			A forest officer, being mounted

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