When John Christoper Bridges was born on 19 June 1836, in Jersey, Illinois, United States, his father, Enoch Bridges, was 26 and his mother, Nancy Ellen Rusk, was 22. He married Emeline Rowden on 11 October 1860, in Jersey Township, Jersey, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in English Township, Jersey, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Comstock, Douglas, Oregon, United States in 1900. He died in 1901, in Colorado, United States, at the age of 65.
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Historical Boundaries: 1839: Jersey, Illinois, United States
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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) in Belgium, meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
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