John Bridger

Events

Date of Burial: 24 February 1578/9.

Place of Burial: Warminghurst, Sussex, England (Holy Sepulchre).

The burial is given by the Warminghurst Project transcription of the Warminghurst bishop’s transcripts.

Relationships

Father: Richard Bridger.

In his 1553 will, Richard Bridger of Warminghurst left property at Ashington to his son John and his heirs. The inquisition post mortem of John's son Richard mentions property at Ashington.

Mother: Joan.

Richard Bridger mentions his wife Joan in his will. Joan mentions her son John in her will.

Spouse: Alice Steere (died 1561).

The 1634 Visitation of Sussex (p. 156) gives John’s wife’s name as “....d. of ….Steere of Ockley in com. Surrey.” Her burial record gives her first name as Alice.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Richard Bridger (born about 1549 in Shipley, Sussex - died 8 May 1615 in Warminghurst) married Isabel Weller.

Thomas Bridger.

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).

Cornwall, Julian. The Lay Subsidy Rolls for the County of Sussex 1524-1525. (Sussex Record Society, 1956).

Snow, Martin B. Warminghurst Project. URL: http://pastfinders.com/index-warminghurst.htm (accessed 22 April 2014).

Will of Richard Bridger, proved 1553, Consistory Court of Chichester registered wills, Volume 8, page 80. FHL film 194562, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.