Last name: RIDING
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RIDING : This last name is indexed 26,923 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
RIDING : English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived by an area of cleared land an assart from Middle English riding ridding (Old English rydding) ‘clearing assart’.
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