Släkthistoria för Riddleston
Riddleston Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Riddlesden with -don or -ton substituted for -den. An alternative variant in Suffolk is Riddlesdal(l)e (see Riddlesdell); compare Elizabeth Riddlesdale 1596 in IGI (Stoke by Nayland Suffolk) and John Riddlesdale of Polstead (Suffolk) 1664 in TNA (Stoke by Nayland Suffolk) with the 1757 1778 and 1847 bearers below. perhaps from Riddistone in Winkleigh (Devon) recorded as Redelestun al. Ridelestun in 120 The place-name consists of an Old English personal name either Rēðel or Hrē ðel in the genitive case + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’. However since no medieval evidence has been found for the surname in Devon and Cornwall it is possible that the name arrived there by early modern migration and is identical with that in (1) above.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
