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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 847,004 Historical Documents with Bridge on Ancestry
- 323,794 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 184,982 Census and Voter Lists
- 39,402 Military Records
- 17,781 Immigration Records
- 281,045 Member Trees
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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
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bridge census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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