Rhoades meaning | Last name Rhoades origin

Rhoades is a variant form of Rhodes. May be not from the Island, as stated in English Surname; but a corruption of Roadhouse or Rodehouse, as appears from the Par. Reg. of Eckington, county of Derby.

The family name is variant of the Rhodes. Dweller at a clearing; one who lived at the roadside.

Dweller at a clearing; one who lived at the roadside.

Variant form of Roads. See Rhodes - May be not from the Island, as stated in English Surname; but a corruption of Roadhouse or Rodehouse, as appears from the Par. Reg. of Eckington, county of Derby.

Rhoades is the variant of Royd. A common termination of names of places in the North of England, signifying a clearing in a forest, in legal phrase, a roda or assart. "Rode land is used in this sense in modern German, in which the verb roden means to clear; hence, near the Hartz forest, Elbingerode, Blacherode, and Osterode. The combination of the syllable rod, rode, or royd, with some other term, or with the name of an original settler, has no doubt given to particular localities such de signations as Huntroyd, Ormerod, etc." [Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey; Gloss.] In Lancashire and Yorkshire, the adjunct sometimes refers to the early proprietor, as in Monkroyd, Martinrode, etc.; sometimes to the trees ridded or cleared, as in Oakenrode, Ac royd, Hollinrode, Holroyd, etc.; sometimes to other characteristics.