Ryedale is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 7 characters long in length.
The Ryedale is a variant of Ridler. 1. A dealer in wool is so called in Lincolnshire. 2. A maker of the peculiar kind of sieves called riddles.
The surname is a variant form of Riedel. Descendant of Riedel, a pet form of names beginning with Hrod meaning "fame," as Hrotfrid, Rothhari and Hrodmar.
The family name Ryedale is the variant form of the Riddle. Descendant of little Rada meaning "counsel"; dweller on, or near, a red hill; one who came from Rydal or Ryedale, i.e., valley where rye was grown, in Westmorland and Yorkshire respectively.
Surname Ryedale is the form of Riddell. Of that Ilk, in the parish of Lilliesleaf, county of Roxburgh. There is a tradition of great antiquity, ascending to the VII or VIII century. See Lay of the Last Minstrel, notes—but documentary evidence goes back to the XII only Richard Basset, justiciar of England, temp - 1. French laie, a lane through a forest 2. Lay, not clerical; unlearned. In the latter sense the word is used by B. In Hudred Rolls, Le Lay, Du Lay, and De Lay.
Henry I, married the heiress of Riddell, and his eldest son assumed his mother's surname. Genealogists differ as to the extraction of the family.
Ryedale is a form of Riddle. See Riddell - Of that Ilk, in the parish of Lilliesleaf, county of Roxburgh. There is a tradition of great antiquity, ascending to the VII or VIII century. See Lay of the Last Minstrel, notes—but documentary evidence goes back to the XII only Richard Basset, justiciar of England, temp - 1. French laie, a lane through a forest 2. Lay, not clerical; unlearned. In the latter sense the word is used by B. In Hudred Rolls, Le Lay, Du Lay, and De Lay.
Henry I, married the heiress of Riddell, and his eldest son assumed his mother's surname. Genealogists differ as to the extraction of the family.
Lastname is variant of Ruddle. A member of the family of Picard changed his name to Ruddle, at the instance of King Edward IV, the latter being the designation of his birth-place. Blore's Monument. Rem.
The surname is variation of Riddell. It is remarkable that in the oldest Scottish charter extant (of the XI century) the only surnames mentioned are Riddell and Corbet.