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This
interesting and curious surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from a place called Higher Ridihalgh in
the county of Lancashire. The placename is composed of the initial element "hreod", the Olde English word meaning reed, and
the second element the Olde English "halh, healh", a corner of land, hough or recess. During the Middle Ages, when migration
for the purpose of job-seeking was becoming more common, people often took their former village name as a means of identification,
resulting in a wide dispersal of the name in a number of variant forms. Variants of the name in the modern idiom include Ridealgh,
Ridehalgh, Redihalgh, Reddihough, Reddyhoff, and Reedyhough. The surname itself is first recorded in the early 14th Century
(see below), while Robert del Riddyough appears in 1397, in "The Rolls of Burgesses at the Guilds Merchant of the Borough
of Preston". The latter source also records Edward Riddihough, Riddihalgh in 1682. John Riddiough married Lucy Pollard on
October 17th 1774, at St. Nicholas' Church, Liverpool. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that
of William de Redihalgh, which was dated 1324, in "Some Court Rolls .... of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster", during the reign of
King Edward 11, known as "Edward of Caernafon", 1307 - 1327. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal
taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop"
often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
List of Surnames
Spelling variations include:
Riddenhalgh, Riddeough, Redihalgh, Redihough,
Reidiheugh, Ridenhough, Readyhough, Reddyhoff, Reddihough, Riddiough, Redheugh, Redhalgh, and many more....
Here are some of the Riddiough's mentioned in a surname
book.
Local 'of the riddyhough' The suffix_hough is generally
found as _halgh in co.Lancashire.;cf Whitehalgh and Greenhalgh (pronounced halsh) Riddehalgh lay in the neighbourhood
of preston
Robt.del Riddyough; 1397: Preston Guild Rolls p.1
Edw. Riddihough 1682 ibid.p.174
James Riddihough of Preston 1678
John Riddihalgh Skipton in Craven 1697 Exchequer Depositions
Co Lancashire.
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