290 Global REDDAN Family Members

REDDAN Family History

Recorded in the various spellings including Raddon, Radden, Raden, Redan, Reddan, and Reddon, this surname is English and locational. It originates from either a now "lost" medieval village called "Raddon" or similar, or it is topgraphical and describes a person who lived by an ancient boundary marker on a hill. The derivation is probably from the Old English pre 7th century words 'ra', meaning a post or marker, and don, a hill. Over five thousand British surnames are believed to originate from now 'lost' villages of which the only public memory in the 20th century is the surname, as in this case, in a number of spellings...