Släkthistoria för Ridgeon
Ridgeon Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Rigden with the consonant cluster /gd/ simplified to /ʤ/ giving Ridgeon Ridgen etc. and with lowering of the vowel Re(d)gin Region and Regent. Compare Thomas Rygdon 1461–2 in Canterbury Wills (Probate) (Lower Hardres Kent) with William Ridgen 1661 in Kent History Centre (Lower Hardres Kent) and Anne Rigdenn 1628 with Ann Ridgen 1743 both in IGI (Chislet Kent).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
