Descendants of Stephen Bridge near Sittingbourne, Kent
In 1984 I got a letter from Margaret Reeve (née Bridge) who had been researching her family and wanted to compare notes. She sent me a tree summarising all her results, which shows an extended family in the Sittingbourne area, descended from Stephen Bridge and Jane Lithery, married 1701 in Milton Regis. There were no earlier records of any Bridges thereabouts and there is no way of telling where this Stephen came from. Milton is only 20 miles north of Smarden so the families could be linked but there is no way to prove it, other than by using a DNA test. The tree below summarises Margaret's data, but omits the names of those born after 1925.
If any descendants of the Sittingbourne Bridges find this site, please get in touch!
- Stephen BRIDGE ?-1725 m1701 Jane LITHERY (Lower Halstow, by licence)
John BRIDGE 1701-2- Anne BRIDGE 1704-
- Jane BRIDGE 1708-12
- Stephen BRIDGE 1710- m1733 Elizabeth SWEETLOVE
(b.1711) (Milton Regis)
John BRIDGE Nov
1734/5? m1760 Ann COLLINSON (Milton Regis, by licence)- Thomas BRIDGE 1761-1
- Mary BRIDGE 1762-
- John BRIDGE 1764-4
- Stephen BRIDGE 1766
- Elizabeth BRIDGE 1768
- Sarah BRIDGE 1770 m1789 Joseph SHRUBSALL (by licence)
- William BRIDGE 1772-1855 m1795 Hannah PILCHER (d1847)
- Ann BRIDGE 1798 m1822 Henry BOURN
- George Polhill BRIDGE [1799-1885] m1828? Sally
MILLINER (d1866)
- E Kent Poll Book
1832; Block maker, Marine stores (Bagshaw 1847)
- Frances Mary
BRIDGE 1828 m1848 Edmund GRIGSBY
- Edmund GRIGSBY 1852-
Mary Rebecca GRIGSBY 1857- George Polhill
BRIDGE 1829-1905 m1853 Amelia Elizabeth CRUTTENDEN (b1833)
- George BRIDGE 1854-70
- Amelia Elizabeth BRIDGE 1855-1883
- William S BRIDGE 1857-
- Thomas S BRIDGE 1858-
- Alfred Webster BRIDGE 1861-
- Clara M BRIDGE 1863-
- Emily C BRIDGE 1866-
- Ada E BRIDGE 1868-
- Charles E BRIDGE 1870
- Edith Gertrude BRIDGE 1872-
- Ruth BRIDGE 1873-
- Kate Eleanor BRIDGE 1877-
- Mary BRIDGE
1831-
- Betsy BRIDGE
1834-
- James BRIDGE
-1838
- William BRIDGE
1838-43
- John Collinson BRIDGE [1801- ] m Lucy
(POLHILL?)
- John William BRIDGE 1826-
- Lucy Magdalen BRIDGE
- William BRIDGE 1830- m1859 Frances
GOODHEW
- John
William BRIDGE 1860-
- Mary
Elizabeth BRIDGE 1862-
- Emma
Frances BRIDGE 1864-
- Arthur
E BRIDGE 1869-
- Ann BRIDGE 1835- m1854 John
MAYLAM
- Harriet BRIDGE 1837-
- Elizabeth BRIDGE 1840- m1866 Walter
KELSEY
- Priscilla BRIDGE 1774-1849 m1793 Waterer ROBINSON
- Elizabeth BRIDGE 1775-
- Benjamin BRIDGE 1776-
- Robert BRIDGE 1778- (continued below)
- Dorothy BRIDGE 1780-0
- Amy BRIDGE 1782-
- Charles BRIDGE 1784-1836
- John Collinson BRIDGE 1786-6
- Elizabeth BRIDGE
1736-43/44?
- Sarah BRIDGE
1739-
- Stephen BRIDGE
1745-50
- Elizabeth BRIDGE
1751-51
- William BRIDGE 1712-
- Robert BRIDGE 1778- m1800/1? Elizabeth DOWN (1777-1841)
- Amy BRIDGE 1803-
- Mary BRIDGE 1804-
- John BRIDGE 1806- m Mary PRICKETT; family
emigrated to USA 1842
- George BRIDGE
183-
- John Waterer
BRIDGE 1832-
- Stangate Content
BRIDGE ?
- Ruth BRIDGE
1836-
- Amos BRIDGE
1838-
- Ephraim BRIDGE
1840-
- William BRIDGE 1808-9
- Stephen BRIDGE 1810- m1834 Frances COPPIN
- Ebenezer BRIDGE
1836 m1856 Louisa BACHELOR (1830?-1896)
- Louisa Ann BRIDGE 1857-60
- Emily BRIDGE 1861-3
- Albert BRIDGE 1865- m1888 Margaret VINCE
- Margaret Louise BRIDGE 1889-1969
- George BRIDGE 1891-1983 m Minnie TINKNER(?)
no issue
- Bessie BRIDGE 1893-1917
- Albert BRIDGE 1894-1968 m 1918 Edith HILLS
(1895-1963)
- Margaret BRIDGE
1922- m1947 Donald REEVE
- Arthur BRIDGE 1897- m Doris CORKY
- Irene BRIDGE 1920- m Fred A
JOHNSON
- Rex BRIDGE 1921- m Violet
BOND
- Ralph BRIDGE 1923- m Helen
RICHARDSON
- Arthur BRIDGE 1924- m 1944 Maureen
BIRD
- Anne BRIDGE 1868- m 1892 George KEMP
- Stephen BRIDGE
1837- m1860 Emmalina ELVY
- Frederick BRIDGE 1863- m 1888? Alice HICKMOTT widow
- Albert W BRIDGE 1886- m 1915 Ellen HEAP
- Leonard
BRIDGE
- Frank BRIDGE
- Ernest A BRIDGE1888-
- Lily BRIDGE m Charles FOSTER
- Elsie BRIDGE m William EMMENS (in
California)
- Leonard S BRIDGE 1896-
- Emma Elizabeth BRIDGE 1867-
- Alice Susannah BRIDGE 1869-
- Ellen Lucy BRIDGE 1872- m Frank WEBB
- William Alfred BRIDGE 1875- m1903 Kate Eliza BOURNE
- Arthur James BRIDGE 1905-1946
- William Edward BRIDGE 1907- m Beatrice
- Winifred BRIDGE 1908?- m Leslie COLMAN
- Kate Elizabeth BRIDGE 1910- m1937 C
ORPIN
- Doris Rose BRIDGE 1914- m Leonard HILLS
- Edward Stephen BRIDGE 1877-
- Elizabeth Sara BRIDGE 1880-
- Arthur John BRIDGE 1883-
- Alfred BRIDGE
1841-
- Joseph BRIDGE
1845-56
- Benjamin 1845-
m1869 Frances HODGE
- Marion BRIDGE 1870-
- Edward BRIDGE
1847-
- John R BRIDGE
1849- m 1885 Amelia WILSON
- Frances BRIDGE
1851-
- Sarah Ann BRIDGE
1855-
- Elizabeth BRIDGE 1812-
- Philip BRIDGE 1815-
- Priscilla BRIDGE 1816-1830