When Francis Reeder was born in 1772, his father, Robert Reeder, was 34 and his mother, Hannah Smith, was 28. He married Sarah Jeffries on 14 March 1799, in Pulham Saint Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Pulham Saint Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in July 1851, in Pulham Saint Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, England, at the age of 79, and was buried in Pulham Saint Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
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English: occupational name for someone who used reeds as a roofing material (a thatcher), a derivative of Middle English rede ‘reed’ + -er. Compare Reed and Redman .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a clearing, a derivative of Middle English rede, ride, rude ‘clearing’ (see Reed ) + -er, synonymous and interchangeable with atte Rede, atte Rude ‘at the clearing’. This type of name, composed of a topographic term + -er, is common in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and it is also found in Essex.
Dutch and German: variant of Reder 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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