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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Reddish in Lancashire or Redditch in Worcestershire, which are respectively ‘reed ditch’ (Old English hrēod + dīc) and ‘red ditch’ (from Old English rēad). The surname is now common in Nottinghamshire.

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