Bridgewater

Family History

 

The information published here is a collection from various websites.

Some of this information is based upon research in progress and

and has not necessarily been proven or finalized.

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Earl of Bridgewater
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of (1736-1803)

Earl of Bridgewater is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. The holders of the second creation also held the title of Duke of Bridgewater from 1720 to 1803. Francis Egerton, the final Duke of Bridgewater, is famously known as the Canal Duke, for his creation of a series of canals in Manchester

 

Immanuel Bridgewater 1715

 

Source: Notes for Samuel from Mrs. Noye are as follows:

BRIDGEWATER, Samuel 4/10/1749-5/11/1827, Pvt. Rev. War Mary Ann (Coffman) 10/25/1755-3/20/1847 (3/21 in Walker Family History Samuel (and his brothers Elias and Isaac) were sons of Immanuel Bridgewater, an English Duke, who died without visiting America. The three sons immigrated to America sometime before the Revolutionary War, about 1770. He and his sons were navigators for the celebrated Earl of Bridgewater, who was known as the father of inland navigation in England. The Earl of Bridgewater was also a Duke. These men owned quite a line of sea faring vessels for that day. In America, Immanuel's sons took sides with George Washington, and when war broke out, they joined the army. R H Ross 10 Oct 1996 NOTE 11 July 1997--I now find that Samuel Bridgewater was a Private in the Revolutionary War serving from Virginia and that his widow received a pension.

At least 4 of his sons served in the Revolutionary War. Emmanuel and his family were all members of the Established Church of England

 

Source: Vern Paul (link unknown)
Visit website "The Bridgewater Register" at http://www.vernpaul.com
 

Immanuel Bridgewater, is the purported father of Samuel, Elias, and Isaac Bridgewater, according to a paper written by Vincent Cravens, a grandson of Samuel Bridgewater. Cravens was the youngest son of Samuel’s youngest daughter and probably the least likely to be well aquatinted with the early genealogy of the family that he states as fact. Other researchers have added a fourth son, Levi Bridgewater. This has apparently been a conclusion based on the close association between Levi and Samuel, but at this point is not a proven relationship. There is just as much possibility of Levi being Samuel’s nephew or cousin as his brother. It is commonly circulated that Immanuel was born in 1710 and married about 1730. This was apparently based on an estimate that grew into fact without any proof at all. The first actual record of any Immanuel Bridgewater in America is in a tax list of Boguerterhorton Hundred, Somerset Co., Maryland in 1723 [Emanuel Bridgewaters]. Also in Somerset County, Maryland, 1724 Tax Lists, Bogerternortin Hundred. This alphabetical list was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and contains the name "Emannuel Bridgwater. The location and timing is close enough to allow this individual the possibility of being the father of Samuel, Elias, and Isaac, even though Cravens states Immanuel never came to America. Also, Cravens’ statement that Immanuel Bridgewater was a Duke is probably not true. The title of Duke in English nobility is lofty enough to leave more than enough documented evidence to either prove or disprove Cravens’ assertion. The association with the celebrated Duke of Bridgewater is more likely one of invention rather than fact. It seems unlikely that three brothers engaged in the prestigious and particularly notable occupation of canal building and “inland navigation” and owners of “sea faring vessels” would show up in America as farmers and laborers. The education and status they would have enjoyed in England would have assured a different and perhaps more lucrative profession in America than subsistence tilling of the soil.

 

Source: The Ancestors of Vickie Beard Thompson & those others related by marriage!!!

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=popfraley&id=I2225

 

This is an assumption of a researcher: The first actual record of any Immanuel Bridgewater in America is in a tax list of Boguerterhorton Hundred, Somerset County, Maryland in 1723 [Emanuel Bridgewater]. Also in Somerset County, Maryland, 1724 Tax Lists, Bogerternortin Hundred. This alphabetical list was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and contains the name "Emmanuel Bridgewater. The location and timing is close enough to allow this individual the possibility of being the father of Samuel, Elias, and Isaac, even though Cravens states Immanuel never came to America.

Also, Cravens? statement that Immanuel Bridgewater was a Duke is probably not true. The title of Duke in English nobility is lofty enough to leave more than enough documented evidence to either prove or disprove Cravens? assertion. The association with the celebrated Duke of Bridgewater is more likely one of invention rather than fact.

It seems unlikely that three brothers engaged in the prestigious and particularly notable occupation of canal building and ?inland navigation? and owners of ?sea faring vessels? would show up in America as farmers and laborers. The education and status they would have enjoyed in England would have assured a different and perhaps more lucrative profession in America than subsistence tilling of the soil.

Immanuel Bridgewater, was a duke, lived and died in England, never visiting in America. He owned quite a line of sea faring vessels for that day. He and his sons were navigators for the celebrated Earl of Bridgewater, who was known as the father of inland navigation of England. Immanuel and his family were all members of the Established Church of England. (This info from Pat Griffin 6 Sep 2004)

 

 

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