Rudge Family History
- Rudge Name Meaning
- topographic name from West Midland Middle English rugge, a variant of rigge ‘ridge’, or a habitational name from the village of Rudge in Shropshire, which is named with this word. from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Roger. nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Old French r(o)uge ‘red’ (Latin rubeus). adm
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 207,374 Historical Documents with Rudge on Ancestry
- 84,854 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 54,130 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,700 Military Records
- 10,217 Immigration Records
- 54,473 Member Trees
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Number of Rudge families
 204 - 406  69 - 203 |
 1 - 68  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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