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From: "Bobby Rich" <>
Subject: Re: Ritch, Reich, Riche, Rich
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 01:03:54 -0500
References: <20040505.052503.28651.92438@webmail19.nyc.untd.com>


Was Riche French perhaps?

Our line was Reich(German immigrants from the Palatine 30 years war area.
Many of the residents had come from other nations as the original Paletine
people had been killed out. Swiss, Dutch, Austrian etc.

Reich was also changed to Rich after about 1800 after the rev war.

Rich
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> Our line's variation was RICHE (AL/NC). It became RICH during or after
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> #1 RITCH ["sritch22"
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> #2 Re: RITCH []
> #3 Re: RITCH ["Mary Lighthall"
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> I haven't seen anyone researching the RITCH line. Our is in Greenwich Ct.
area. Would love to share my info and learn more abt. my husbands family.
I'm back to James b. 1814 d bef. 1837 Greenwich and Sarah 1815-1837
Greenwich. I think he might be son of James and Mary Ann Lockwood Ritch.
of Greenwich. Looking forward to hearing from another researcher. Thank
you, Sandee from NH
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> Sandee,
> Ritch is certainly a common variant of Rich. Some families retained the
> original spelling and some changed to Rich. Nicholas Ritch of Salem
Massachusetts
> is one of the immigrant ancestors whose descendents have used the Rich
> spelling. It is sometimes not clear when such changes took place.
> I did a search for Ritch on the PDF files which I have scanned of Kinfolk
> back issues. I came up with 136 instances in 59 documents. One of our
members has
> been indexing Kinfolk by entering individuals into a PAF database. Only a
few
> references to the Ritch spelling have been entered in the latest version
> which I have (December 2002).
> You are certainly welcome to publish a querie in Kinfolk, or to summarize
> your findings. The best way to preserve genealogical research is through
> publication in a journal such as Kinfolk which is distributed to more than
400 members
> and libraries 3 or 4 times a year.
> Please let us know where you are in your research.
> Best wishes, Dick Rich - President, The Rich Family Association
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> HI: Another Rich who has an anglicized name in John Rich of Maidstone,
> Vermont. He started out in the Palatine region of now Germany as Johannes
> Reich. Some years later he was in Haverhill NH where there are land
records
> under the spelling John Ritch. Some are also under the Rich spelling,
which
> he used the rest of his life.
>
> Mary Lightall,
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