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ramsden Name Meaning and History

Northern English: habitational name from any of various places so called from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ (or possibly the genitive case of the Old English byname Ram(m) ‘ram’) + denu ‘valley’. There are villages so named in Essex, Kent, Oxfordshire, and Warwickshire, but the surname is most common in Yorkshire, where there are several minor places so named, Ramsden in the parish of Kirkburton being a well-recorded instance.

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Distribution of ramsden Families in the US in 1920
Number of ramsden families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
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Annie Ramsden, Yorkshire Stocky205 1
Ramsden S.J. Davis 5
Ramsdens of Dewsbury heathernuttall1 0
RAMSDEN, HUNT & NORTON in Kent, ENG (1800s) Irene Hunt 6
james fletcher Ramsden helenplussteve1 0
Ramsden of Brooklyn and Hempstead Alice_Nowak 0
EDWARD PLUMPTRE RAMSDEN Carolyn Chalmers 4
Ramsden Ossett/Horbury georginaevans35 0
Herbert Ramsden Rhode Island Greg McCabe 5
John Ramsden b.1784 Yorkshire England barbaraburdett 15
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