Stanbridge History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

The surname was most likely originally a habitational name, taken on from Stanbridge, a village in the English county of Bedfordshire.

Early Origins of the Stanbridge family

The surname Stanbridge was first found in Bedfordshire (Old English: Bedanfordscir), located in Southeast-central England, formerly part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor in the parish of Leighton Buzzard. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1276 when Gilbert of Stanbridge was recorded with the estates.

Early History of the Stanbridge family

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Stanbridge Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Standbridge, Standbrige, Stanbrugge, Stanbrick, Standbridge and many more.

Early Notables of the Stanbridge family

Distinguished members of the family include

John Stanbridge, Stanbury, Stanbery (died 1474), Cornish divine, Bishop of Hereford, was second son of Walter Stanbury of Morwenstow, Cornwall

Stanbridge migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Stanbridge Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

William Stanbridge, who settled in Virginia in 1635
William Stanbridge, aged 27, who arrived in Virginia in 1635 1
Thomas Stanbridge, who landed in Maryland in 1661 1
Rebecca Stanbridge, who arrived in Maryland in 1663

Stanbridge Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Sarah Stanbridge, who settled in Philadelphia in 1806
Henry Stanbridge, who arrived in New York, NY in 1830

Stanbridge migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Stanbridge Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

A. Stanbridge, who arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship "Golconda" in 1859
Mr. Eli Stanbridge, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Kirkland" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 18th August 1863 2
Mr. Thomas Stanbridge, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Kirkland" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 18th August 1863 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Stanbridge (post 1700) +

Ed Stanbridge (1908-1971), American actor, known for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), State Fair (1945) and Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Martyn Stanbridge (b. 1957), English stage and film actor, known for Good and Bad at Games (1983), Murrow (1986) and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (1985)
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Brian Stanbridge KCVO, CBE, AFC (1924-2003), English Royal Air Force officer, Defence Services Secretary (1975-1979)
the Venerable Leslie Stanbridge, English Archdeacon of York (1972-1988)
Hanna Stanbridge, Scottish BAFTA Award winning actress, known for Outcast (2010), Let Us Prey (2014) and Falling Out (2011)
Matthew James Stanbridge (1876-1939), Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1920 to 1922
Charles Stanbridge (1899-1971), Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne from 1925 to 1929
Alan Stanbridge, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto

Historic Events for the Stanbridge family +

HMS Royal Oak

Harry William Stanbridge (d. 1939), British Sick Berth Attendant with the Royal Navy aboard the HMS Royal Oak (1939) when she was torpedoed by U-47 and sunk; he died in the sinking 3

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
Ships hit by U-boats crew list HMS Royal Oak (08) - (Retrieved 2018 February, 9th) - retrieved from https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship68.html