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Ridgeway Name Meaning
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.
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Name Distribution of Ridgeway Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ridgeway families
 39 - 75  14 - 38 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ridgeway families
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50 - 98 17 - 49 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ridgeway families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ridgeway Family Origin
Ridgeway Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Ridgeway
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Ridgeway Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Ridgeway census records
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