Rye Family History
- Rye Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived on an island or patch of firm ground surrounded by fens, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (from Old English eg, ieg ‘island’). adm English: topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at the river’ (from Old English ea ‘river’). adm; ADM: please check these two; you have ye and eye the other way round in your first checking. KH English: topographic name for someone living at a place where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold it. adm Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named, most of them from Old Norse rjóðr ‘clearing in a forest’, but others from ry ‘dry place with stones’. Danish: habitational name from a place called Rye. OV, LP. Hundreds of Danish and Norwegian in IGI, but only 18 for Sweden
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 249,704 Historical Documents with Rye on Ancestry
- 82,550 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 49,801 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,842 Military Records
- 4,056 Immigration Records
- 106,455 Member Trees
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Number of Rye families
 259 - 515  87 - 258 |
 1 - 86  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rye families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Rye census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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