Mary Reed was born in 1829, in County Mayo, Ireland. She married Patrick Casey on 17 May 1869, in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Lakeville Township, Dakota, Minnesota, United States in 1875. She died on 31 August 1879, in Dakota, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Apple Valley, Dakota, Minnesota, United States.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
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