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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, probably from Waldridge in County Durham (probably named with Old English wall ‘wall’ + hrycg ‘ridge’). However, in the British Isles, the surname is most common in Suffolk; it may be that another place similarly named, but lost, is the origin.

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