I missed the Dennis Riddle question. Brief history. All (almost all) Riddles in the US are decended from a gent named Ridgely that came over from Wales in the early 1600's. The name is Welch (Celtic Welch) for a device used to thrash corn (wheat). He was a second som of a land owner and thus not in line for inheritance. His dad gave him some money and equipment and he came over and started farming. When the language became written down as a rule (mid to late 1700's), the name had morphed into Ridgely, Ridel, Riddel, Riddle, and Riggley, depending on where the families lived and how the accent had changed. During an exhaustive search on the family name in the seventies we were unable to find any Riddles that could not trace their name to that gentleman. Even the more recent immigrants are decended from relatives that had gone back to Europe.
So, short answer, yes, but not closely. Most of the Riddles in the area are from a branch that moved south in the early eighteen hundreds. My branch stayed on the western fronteer and only moved back to the the middle areas around 1900. We have rule, "Do not live in the same area as your parents." We all get along a lot better that way. Bettcha don't ask me that again. ;-) --- David Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doh! > > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:29, Jim Carter wrote: > > You should've changed the subject! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of David Jackson > > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:03 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Terrible Lies! > > > > > > > > Are you, by any chance, related to a Dennis > Riddle, who should be in his > > mid-30's by now? > > > > David Jackson > > > > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:37, Doug Riddle wrote: > > > Please not to change the header on this thread. > I am > > > adding a filter to avoid having my account fill > up. > > > Thanks in advanvce. > > > > > > Doug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle Capital punishment makes the state a murderer. On the other hand, life in prison makes the state a gay dungeon master. -- Rev. Jesse Jackson "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions..." - Doug Riddle __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
