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LOOKING FOR ANY OF MY FATHERS FAMILY WHO LIVED IN OR NEAR CLUTTON, MY FATHERS NAME WAS JOHN BRIDGES WHO ALSO HAD A BROTHER CALLED ERNEST V BRIDGES. I KNOW THAT I HAD LOTS OF FAMILY AROUND THE BRISTOL AREA BUT CANNOT REMEMBER THEIR NAMES. I WOULD APPRECIATE IF ANYONE KNOWS THE BRIDGES FAMILY TO PLEASE CONTACT ME. THANK YOU DAVE BRIDGES.

Welcome to the boards David.

It's unlikely that family members will just happen by your thread.

Try using the Search facility top right of this board (then search members trees) and enter what details you know to see if any other members have your Father and uncle in their trees. You can then try to contact the tree owner. GR can forward your message if they still have the email address that they registered with GR. Be prepared to wait a while for answers but also to not get answers - not everyone wants to or can answer for whatever reason.

Below from the free to use site - https://www.freebmd.org.uk

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Sep 1928 (>99%)
Bridges John Osmond Bristol 6a 64

Births Jun 1934 (>99%)
Bridges Ernest V Osmond Bristol 6a 92

There are 10 births between 1920 and 1934 including these 2 in the Bristol RD with same mmn of Osmond.

You can use the site to check for yourself, then look for their marriages and possible children so you have more names to look for under Search.

Likely marriage of the parents of those children

Note difference in spelling of Osmond/Osmand - it's a transcription error looking at the original, but be prepared to widen your searches

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Jun 1918 (>99%)
Bridges John Osmand Bristol 6a 331
Osmond Stella M Bridges Bristol 6a 331

Family in 1939 - closed records indicate that the death of these people has not been picked up

(Google 1939 register to read what it's all about)

1939 Register
36 Willington Road, Bristol, Bristol C.B., Gloucestershire, England

First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number
John Bridges 01 May 1889 Male Disabled Through The Great War Of 1914 Married 154 1
Stella M Cartwright (Bridges) 03 Jan 1900 Female Housewife Married 154 2
Violet R Armstrong (Bridges) 07 Aug 1920 Female Daily Work Heavy Work Single 154 3
Dorothy Steel (Bridges) 22 Jan 1922 Female Daily Work Heavy Work Single 154 4
Beatrice Withers (Bridges) 07 Sep 1926 Female At School Single 154 5
The record for this person is officially closed.
The record for this person is officially closed.
The record for this person is officially closed.
The record for this person is officially closed.
Vera K McGavin (Bridges) 24 May 1934 Female At School Single 154 10

Looks like Stella remarried to a Cartwright, Violet married an Armstrong, Dorothy a Steel, Beatrice a Withers and Vera a McGavin - all post the Register being taken but it shows their most recent name with the previous in brackets

There appear to be 8 children on the register, so unless 2 are elsewhere then it looks as though 2 may have died -

Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Sep 1925 (>99%)
Bridges Arthur E 0 Bristol 6a 15

Deaths Dec 1930 (>99%)
Bridges George 2 Bristol 6a 115

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Jun 1942 (>99%)
Armstrong Leonard Bridges Bristol 6a 346
Bridges Violet R Armstrong Bristol 6a 346

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1 child to marriage 1944 - find on freebmd site

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Violet's death - DOB as per 1939 register (not on freebmd as their records only go to c 1983)

England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007

First name(s) Violet Rose
Last name Armstrong
Gender Female
Birth day 7
Birth month 8
Birth year 1920
Age -
Death quarter 3
Death year 2001
District Mendip
District number 7213
Register number W37B
Entry number 008
Date of registration mm/yy 0701
County Somerset
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from Great Britain, England

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1941 (>99%)
Bridges Dorothy Steel Bristol 6a 561
Steel Alexander Bridges Bristol 6a 561

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1 birth 1942 in Bristol RD

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Dorothy's death

England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

First name(s) Dorothy
Last name Steel
Gender Female
Birth day 22
Birth month 1
Birth year 1922
Age -
Death quarter 2
Death year 2005
District Bristol
District number 3011G
Register number G31C
Entry number 160
Date of registration mm/yy 0505
County Gloucestershire
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from Great Britain, England

Try checking some out yourself ............

You can also check
btphonebookonline for the area
192.com
Electoral rolls (under search top of page)
etc

There's the marriage of an Ernest V Bridges in Bristol in 1998.

He and his wife Josephine were still living in Bristol in 2011, per ER.

They seem to still be there, as there's a planning application in his wife's name, dated June/July 2021.

You can find the address by looking Ernest up on the Electoral Roll mentioned already by Greyghost - under "Search" at top right of this page.
Click on the document symbol at the right hand side of the search result to see the full address.

Try doing some research

Unless anyone on GR has the names in their trees, no-one is connected.

Look in ‘search all member trees’

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HINTS AND TIPS. DAVE.

Name: Vera K Bridges
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep 1954
Registration District: Sheffield
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Spouse: Henry Mcgavin
Volume Number: 2d
Page Number: 509


Use freebmd to look for births of children

MS Vera McGavin
Residence Date: 2003-2005
Address: 68, Whitehall Road, BS5 9BQ
Residence Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England



Name: Vera Kathleen McGavin
Death Age: 71
Birth Date: 24 May 1934
Registration Date: Oct 2005
Registration District: Bristol
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Register Number: C40C
District and Subdistrict: 301/1C
Entry Number: 42

Name: Henry McGavin
Death Age: 51
Birth Date: 11 May 1925
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep 1976
Registration District: Bristol
Inferred County: Avon
Volume: 22
Page: 0921

WITHERS, BEATRICE 1926
GRO Reference: DOR Q1/1999 in BRISTOL (3011G) Reg G19C Entry Number 54

Marriages Mar 1958 (>99%)
BRIDGES Stella M CARTWRIGHT Birmingham 9c 1083
CARTWRIGHT Ernest E BRIDGES Birmingham 9c 1083


Deaths Mar 1966 (>99%)
CARTWRIGHT STELLA M 66 BRISTOL 7B 115