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Re: Ancestors' name...
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Although a variation of Royal is possible, this is more likely a use of the English surname Ryal or Ryall as a given name. That surname comes from an English village whose name meant "hill where rye is grown", according to A. D. Mills' A Dictionary of English Place-Names.
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