Ridge Family History
- Ridge Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a ridge, Middle English rigge, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Ridge in Hertfordshire. The surname is also fairly common in Ireland, in County Galway, having been taken to Connacht in the early 17th century. The name is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire; iomaire is modern Irish for ‘ridge’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 464,242 Historical Documents with Ridge on Ancestry
- 154,984 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 85,253 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,095 Military Records
- 8,504 Immigration Records
- 198,406 Member Trees
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Number of Ridge families
 51 - 99  18 - 50 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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185 - 367 62 - 184 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ridge census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Ridge
- 156
- Confederate
- 49
- Union
- 107
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