Bridges Family History
Bridges Name Meaning
English: variant of Bridge. The -s generally
represents the genitive case, but may occasionally be a plural. In
some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges
(Brugge), meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with
England in the Middle Ages.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bridges
Name Distribution of Bridges Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bridges families
 488 - 974  163 - 487 |
 1 - 162  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bridges families
|
36 - 69 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bridges census records
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Bridges Family Origin
Bridges Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bridges Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bridges Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bridges census records
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Military Service by Bridges
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