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Early Origins of the Radde family

The surname Radde was first found in Angus (Gaelic: Aonghas), part of the Tayside region of northeastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, formerly known as Forfar or Forfarshire, where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.

Early History of the Radde family

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Radde Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Reddy, Reddie, Readdie, Reedie, Reidie and others.

Early Notables of the Radde family

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Ireland Migration of the Radde family to Ireland

Some of the Radde family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.


United States Radde migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Radde Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Margarethe Radde, aged 23, who arrived in Baltimore, Maryland in 1893 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Radde (post 1700) +

  • Theodore Radde, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948 2
  • Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde (1831-1903), German naturalist


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 9) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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