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The ritchey Surname

ritchey Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish, northern Irish, or English: variant spelling of Ritchie 1.
  2. Perhaps also an altered spelling of Swiss German Rütsche, Rütschi, Ruetschi, from pet forms of the personal name Rudolf. .

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ritchey Families in the US in 1920
Number of ritchey families
 160-318
 54-159		 1-53
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Ritchey WilliamRitchey 0
Ritchey caindeborah49 1
ritchey family theda1968 0
daniel ritchey margaret mc namara 23
RITCHEY/RICHEY DNA Project JackieAshley_Pace 2
Anthony Ritchey 1805 France - 1849 IL starzingers 10
Ritchey 1917 Photo James Westover 1
Obit; Naomi Burrows (nee Ritchey) 1942-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
RITCHEY > RICHEY,Henry KY>IN David_Richey 3
John Ritchey son of Gilbert Rush/Hancock Co IN thetates4 0
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