Brief Life History of Bradley or Bradly
When Bradley or Bradly Bridges was born about 1837, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Daniel Walter Bridges, was 31 and his mother, Arpie Bridges, was 30. He lived in Clay Township, Dunklin, Missouri, United States in 1850.
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Sources (2)
- Bradley Bridges in household of Nathan Lrides, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Bradley or Bradly Bridges - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Bradley or Bradly Bridges
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World Events (3)
1845
Historical Boundaries 1845: Dunklin, Missouri, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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) in Belgium, meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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