Brief Life History of Ruth
Ruth Dudley was born about 1655, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): habitational name from Dudley in Worcestershire, recorded as Duddeleye, Doddeleye in the 13th and 14th centuries, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd 1) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (southern Ireland): in Ireland, when not the English name, it was adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.
Americanized form of French Daudelin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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