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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from various places, for example either of the places named Radway (in Devon and Warwickshire), Reddaway or Roadway (both in Devon), all named from Old English rēad ‘red’ + waye ‘road’, ‘way’, or from Rodway in Somerset, in which the first element is from Old English rād ‘road’, ‘track’.

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