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  Reeder Coat of Arms / Reeder Family CrestThis English surname of REEDER is an occupational name for someone who thatched cottages with reeds. The name is also spelt REDER, REEDMAN, READMAN, READERS and REEDERS. Early records of the name mention Emma le REDERE, who was documented in the year 1273, and William REDERE was the rector of Baldswell, County Norfolk in 1420.'In 1512 John King REDER was buried in the churchyard and gave 20 shillings towards building St. Vastes new porch'. A later instance of the name mentions Richard Eaton and Elizabeth READER, who were married in London in the year 1661. Many of the modern family names throughout Europe reflect the profession or occupation of their forbears in the Middle Ages and derive from the position held by their ancestors in the village, noble household or religious community in which they lived and worked. The addition of their profession to their birth name made it easier to identify individual tradesmen and craftsmen. As generations passed and families moved around, so the original identifying names developed into the corrupted but simpler versions that we recognise today. Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their surname as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the surname, they were stuck with it, and people rarely changed them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary, when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error. Among the humbler classes of European society, and especially among illiterate people, individuals were willing to accept the mistakes of officials, clerks and priests as officially bestowing a new version of their surname, just as they had meekly accepted the surname they had been born with. In North America, the linguistic problems confronting immigration officials at Ellis Island in the 19th century were legendary as a prolific source of Anglicization. |
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