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Brodebrige is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in Sussex, in the hamlet of Broadbridge in the parish of Bosham. Broadbrige means "bridge over the broad river crossing," and is three miles west of Chichester and been inhabited since the period of Roman occupation of Britain. Another village in the area is called Broadbridge Heath, and is the birthplace of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the great romantic poet who lived from 1792 to 1822. The name Broadbridge is a compound of the Old English words brad and brycg, which mean "broad" and "bridge," respectively.
The surname Brodebrige was first found in Sussex, where they held a family seat from ancient times.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Brodebrige research. Another 221 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1192, 1296, 1327, 1500 and 1750 are included under the topic Early Brodebrige History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Brodebrige family name include Brodbridge, Broadbridge, Brodebridge, Broadbrige, Bradebrige and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Brodebrige Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Brodebrige surname or a spelling variation of the name include: a number of settlers who arrived by the 19th century.