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Ridley Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places in England so named, especially the one in Northumberland, which, like that in Cheshire, is derived from Old English geryd ‘channel’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. Those in Essex and Kent appear in Domesday Book as Retleia and Redlege respectively, and get their names from Old English hreod ‘reed’ + leah.Possibly also an altered spelling of German Riedel or Riedler (see Ridler).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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