Well, I knew a Dennis Riddle back at Southeast Middle School, and the name is unusual enough to have stuck out in my head all of these years.
That, and the fact that Dennis Riddle proclaimed to all of Southeast Middle School that he was a Martian. (I'm, sadly, not joking). Hey, we were all kids. I wish I was a Martian. Stupid parents. David On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:54, Doug Riddle wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > > > > > Are you, by any chance, related to a Dennis > > Riddle, who should be in his > > > mid-30's by now? > > > > > > David Jackson
