Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 28 May 1603.
Place of Burial: Warminghurst, Sussex, England (Holy Sepulchre).
The burial is given by the Warminghurst Project transcription of the Warminghurst bishop’s transcripts (Isabella ux Richard Bridger).
Relationships
Father: William Weller (died about 1573).
Mother: Joan.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Richard Bridger (died 1615).
This relationship is given is by Renshaw (p. 63 fn), the 1634 Visitation of Sussex (p. 156), and Dallaway (6:2:265).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Henry Bridger (baptized 29 January 1584/5 in Warminghurst - buried August 1657 in Warminghurst) married Jane Ravenscroft (licence 6 April 1613).
Elizabeth Bridger (buried 24 May 1597 in Warminghurst).
Thomas Bridger (baptized 16 February 1589 and buried 2 June 1590 in Warminghurst).
Mary Bridger (baptized 14 February 1590 in Warminghurst).
Richard Bridger (baptized 7 June 1594 in Warminghurst).
female Bridger (baptized 25 April 1596 in Warminghurst).
Joan Bridger (buried 18 May 1604 in Warminghurst).
Commentary
Isabel’s parentage
The 1634 Visitation of Sussex (p. 156), calls Isabel’s father “Willm. Wells of Shipley in com. Sussex.”
Renshaw (p. 63 fn) gives Isabel’s last name as Weller rather than Welles, and seems to be correct: In his 1573 will, William Weller of Shipley mentioned his daughter, Isbell.
William also named his wife “Jon” in his will.
References
Bannerman, W. Bruce (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex, made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms, and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset herald, and George Owen, York herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux (London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1905).
Dallaway, James. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex: including the rapes of Chicheser, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city of diocese of Chichester. (London: T. Bensley, 1815-32).
Renshaw, Walter Charles. Searches in the History of the Family of Byne or Bine of Sussex (London: Chiswick Press, 1913).
Snow, Martin B. Warminghurst Project. URL: http://pastfinders.com/index-warminghurst.htm (accessed 22 April 2014).
Will of William Weller, in Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Sussex Consistory Court Wills, 1570-1589, Folder F 156 (Film # 1068591)