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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Historical Boundaries 1845: Dunklin, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
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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