BRIDGE

BRIDGE. From residence at one. The medieval forms are Ate-Bruge, Atte Brigge, &c. It has been pluralized in the forms of Bridges, Brydges, kc. ; and has given rise to Bridger and Bridgman. The A-Sax. is hricg ; whence Brigg and Briggs. In the H.R. Ave Jiave Ate Brugeende, i.e. ' at the bridge-end.' BRIDGE. The great barons by writ, De Fauconberg, were summoned to Parliament from 1295 till about 137G. The heiress married William, younger son of Ealph, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, who thereupon wrote himself W. Neville de Fauconbcrge. The name seems to be derived from an estate in Yorkshire, perliaps the same as that called in H.R. Fulkebrigge.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.