Descendants of Stephen Bridge near Sittingbourne, Kent

In 1984 I got a letter from Margaret Reeve (née Bridge) who had been researching her family and wanted to compare notes. She sent me a tree summarising all her results, which shows an extended family in the Sittingbourne area, descended from Stephen Bridge and Jane Lithery, married 1701 in Milton Regis. There were no earlier records of any Bridges thereabouts and there is no way of telling where this Stephen came from. Milton is only 20 miles north of Smarden so the families could be linked but there is no way to prove it, other than by using a DNA test. The tree below summarises Margaret's data, but omits the names of those born after 1925.

If any descendants of the Sittingbourne Bridges find this site, please get in touch!



  • Robert BRIDGE 1778- m1800/1? Elizabeth DOWN (1777-1841)
  • |-->Amy BRIDGE 1803-
  • |-->Mary BRIDGE 1804-
  • |-->John BRIDGE 1806- m Mary PRICKETT; family emigrated to USA 1842
  • ||-->George BRIDGE 183-
  • ||-->John Waterer BRIDGE 1832-
  • ||-->Stangate Content BRIDGE ?
  • ||-->Ruth BRIDGE 1836-
  • ||-->Amos BRIDGE 1838-
  • ||-->Ephraim BRIDGE 1840-
  • |-->William BRIDGE 1808-9
  • |-->Stephen BRIDGE 1810- m1834 Frances COPPIN
  • ||-->Ebenezer BRIDGE 1836 m1856 Louisa BACHELOR (1830?-1896)
  • |||-->Louisa Ann BRIDGE 1857-60
  • |||-->Emily BRIDGE 1861-3
  • |||-->Albert BRIDGE 1865- m1888 Margaret VINCE
  • ||||-->Margaret Louise BRIDGE 1889-1969
  • ||||-->George BRIDGE 1891-1983 m Minnie TINKNER(?) no issue
  • ||||-->Bessie BRIDGE 1893-1917
  • ||||-->Albert BRIDGE 1894-1968 m 1918 Edith HILLS (1895-1963)
  • |||||-->Margaret BRIDGE 1922- m1947 Donald REEVE
  • ||||-->Arthur BRIDGE 1897- m Doris CORKY
  • ||||-->Irene BRIDGE 1920- m Fred A JOHNSON
  • ||||-->Rex BRIDGE 1921- m Violet BOND
  • ||||-->Ralph BRIDGE 1923- m Helen RICHARDSON
  • ||||-->Arthur BRIDGE 1924- m 1944 Maureen BIRD
  • |||-->Anne BRIDGE 1868- m 1892 George KEMP
  • ||-->Stephen BRIDGE 1837- m1860 Emmalina ELVY
  • |||-->Frederick BRIDGE 1863- m 1888? Alice HICKMOTT widow
  • ||||-->Albert W BRIDGE 1886- m 1915 Ellen HEAP
  • |||||-->Leonard BRIDGE
  • |||||-->Frank BRIDGE
  • ||||-->Ernest A BRIDGE1888-
  • ||||-->Lily BRIDGE m Charles FOSTER
  • ||||-->Elsie BRIDGE m William EMMENS (in California)
  • ||||-->Leonard S BRIDGE 1896-
  • |||-->Emma Elizabeth BRIDGE 1867-
  • |||-->Alice Susannah BRIDGE 1869-
  • |||-->Ellen Lucy BRIDGE 1872- m Frank WEBB
  • |||-->William Alfred BRIDGE 1875- m1903 Kate Eliza BOURNE
  • ||||-->Arthur James BRIDGE 1905-1946
  • ||||-->William Edward BRIDGE 1907- m Beatrice
  • ||||-->Winifred BRIDGE 1908?- m Leslie COLMAN
  • ||||-->Kate Elizabeth BRIDGE 1910- m1937 C ORPIN
  • ||||-->Doris Rose BRIDGE 1914- m Leonard HILLS
  • |||-->Edward Stephen BRIDGE 1877-
  • |||-->Elizabeth Sara BRIDGE 1880-
  • |||-->Arthur John BRIDGE 1883-
  • ||-->Alfred BRIDGE 1841-
  • ||-->Joseph BRIDGE 1845-56
  • ||-->Benjamin 1845- m1869 Frances HODGE
  • |||-->Marion BRIDGE 1870-
  • ||-->Edward BRIDGE 1847-
  • ||-->John R BRIDGE 1849- m 1885 Amelia WILSON
  • ||-->Frances BRIDGE 1851-
  • ||-->Sarah Ann BRIDGE 1855-
  • |-->Elizabeth BRIDGE 1812-
  • |-->Philip BRIDGE 1815-
  • |-->Priscilla BRIDGE 1816-1830