When Hiram Ryder was born in 1866, in Esquesing Township, Halton, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Henry Ryder, was 22 and his mother, Caroline Lucinda Swackhamer, was 21. He died in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America.
English and Irish: variant of Rider .
Americanized and Flemish form of Dutch Rijder: occupational name for a mounted warrior or messenger, Middle Dutch rider ‘horseman, rider’.
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