Bridge Family History
Bridge Name Meaning
English: from Middle English brigge ‘bridge’, Old English
brycg, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived near
a bridge, a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, or a
habitational name from any of the places named with this element, as
for example Bridge in Kent or Bridge Sollers in Herefordshire.
Building and maintaining bridges was one of the three main feudal
obligations, along with bearing arms and maintaining
fortifications. The cost of building a bridge was often defrayed by
charging a toll, the surname thus being acquired by the toll gatherer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bridge
Name Distribution of Bridge Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bridge families
 1,527 - 3,051  510 - 1,526 |
 1 - 509  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bridge families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bridge census records
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Bridge Family Origin
Bridge Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bridge Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bridge Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bridge census records
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Military Service by Bridge
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