English: from Middle English riggewey, hence a topographic
name for someone who lived by such a route or a habitational name from
any of various places so named, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire,
Dorset, and Staffordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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