Ryve is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 4 characters long in length.
Surname is a variant form of the Reeve. The bailiff of a franchise or Anglo-Saxon gerefa. One of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims is a Reeve, but the poet's account of his duties and pursuits reminds us more of a great man's farm bailiff than of the official reeve.
"His lordles scheep, his meet, and his dayerie,
His swyn, his hors, his stoor, and his pultrie,
Was (w) holly in this Reeve's governynge."
"In ancient time," says honest old Lambarde, "almost every manor had his Reve, whose authoritie was, not only to levie the Lord's rents, to set to worke his servaunts, and to husband his demeasnes to his best profit and commoditie, but also to govern his tenants in peace, and to lead them foorth to war, when necessitie so required. And although this name, and so much of the authoritie as remained was (after the comming in of the Normanes) transferred to another, which they called Baylife; yet in sundry places of the realme (especially in copiholde manors, where olde custome prevaileth) the woord Reve is yet wel inough understood." Perambulation of Kent, 1576. Le Reve can be found in Hundred Rolls.
A variation of Reeves. Reeve, sheriff, steward, bailiff.
A variation of Reeves. A minor official appointed by the lord of the manor to supervise his tenants' work.
A variant form of Reaves. Variant of Reeves, who was a minor official appointed by the lord of the manor to supervise his tenants' work.