 1788 - 1863 (75 years)
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| Name |
George Wilson BRIDGES |
| Prefix |
Rev. |
| Suffix |
,Rector of St. Annes,Jamaica,later Incumbent at Beachley |
| Born |
1788 |
Leyton, Essex, England  |
| Christened |
14 Aug 1788 |
Leyton, Essex, England |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1863 |
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Buried |
Beachley , Gloucestershire, England |
| Person ID |
I26377 |
Kirkpatrick Family |
| Last Modified |
14 May 2015 |
| Father |
George BRIDGES, ,Banker and Merchant, of Lawford Place, Essex, b. 2 Sep 1764, d. 13 Sep 1835 (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Mary WILSON, b. 13 Apr 1767, Whitechapel, London, England , d. 6 Feb 1863 (Age 95 years) |
| Married |
14 Aug 1787 |
Leyton, Essex, England |
- Ref:England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940.,Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Supplementary Volume. Vol. III
George ,Mary and family were painted by John Constable in 1804, the portrait now in the keeping of the Tate Gallery in London.. Their children were George Wilson (1788-1863), John William (1795-1866), ; Mary Ann (1790-?) ,Jane Monck (1793-1871), Elizabeth Ann (1799-1858), Frances Maria Yale (1800-1815), Sarah Ann (1797-1820), Ann (1803-31). The group is depicted in what was probably the drawing-rooom of Lawford Place, which George had built c1790.
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| Family ID |
F6033 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elizabeth Raby BROOKS, b. 1796, Jamaica , d. 14 Feb 1862, Ealing, London, England (Age 66 years) |
| Married |
3 Mar 1816 |
St George Hanover Square, London, England |
- Ref:Westminster Marriages Transcription
The elopement and later marriage to Elizabeth Raby Brooks caused a family split and gave a poor start to the marriage. In 1834 Bridges' wife left him, taking their son, Henry, for company. Elizabeth left for Britain leaving Bridges with four children to parent. At the time of this estrangement, they had six children. The last child was in England. After some months Bridges returned to England to find his wife and his missing son and daughter.
In 1837 the separated couple were to face a disaster when a boat accident resulted in the loss of all four of their daughters. Some small consolation was that their son was saved. Bridges and his son turned their backs on England and on Jamaica and set out for Canada.Bridges and his son were there for a number of years and they had an octagonal house built at Lake Rice. In 1842, William Bridges was ill so they returned to England.
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| Children |
| | 1. Henry BRIDGES, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. Cmdr. William Wilson Somerset BRIDGES, b. 1831, Jamaica , d. 21 Jun 1889, "Millbrook" , Throsby Park, Berrima, New South Wales, Australia (Age 58 years) |
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| Last Modified |
10 Dec 2014 |
| Family ID |
F8876 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Besides being a violent defender of slavery, and equally violent opponent of Baptism, and Methodism while in Jamaica as Rector of Manchester, and later St Ann., in which latter parish, during the disturbances of 1831-2, he encouraged the Colonial Church Union to open conflict with nonconformist missionaries.After leaving Jamaica in the 1830s, following a breach with his wife and the loss of his daughters in a boating accident, Bridges contacted William Fox Talbot and became a pioneer photographer of some importance.
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