Last name: RIDGEWAY
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RIDGEWAY : This last name is indexed 26,066 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
RIDGEWAY : English: from Middle English rig(g)ewei ‘ridgeway’ (Old English hrycgweg). The surname may be topographic signifying someone who lived beside a ridgeway or habitational signifying someone who lived at one of a number of places so named for example Ridgeway (Cheshire Derbyshire Dorset Somerset Staffordshire) and Rudgeway (Gloucestershire).
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