MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPA.
BRIDGWOOD IS ALSO SPELT WITH AN "E", BRIDGEWOOD.
I BELIEVE GEORGE IMMIGRATED IN 1833 AS AN INDENTURED CHILD, & APPRENTICED AS A WAGGON/CARRIAGE MAKER, IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO.
HE MARRIED ELLEN DALTON IN THE LATE 1840's IN HAMILTON.
THERE ARE NO OTHER RECORDS OF BRIDGWOODS IN ONTARIO UNTIL HE HAD CHILDREN WITH HIS FIRST WIFE ELLEN DALTON, IN 1849. THEY HAD 5 CHILDREN.
ELLEN DIED FEB. 16, 1878, HAMILTON.
HIS SECOND MARRIAGE CAUSED PROBLEMS WITH HIS CHILDREN BECAUSE CHARLOTTE AMELIA DUNN, BORN AUG. 18, 1861, WAS YOUNGER THAN HIS YOUNGEST CHILD AND I THINK HAD PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES.
HE MARRIED CHARLOTTE AMELIA DUNN, DEC. 13, 1880, IN HAMILTON & HAD 3 MORE CHILDREN. CHARLOTTE WAS A VAUDVILLE ACTRESS & THEY SEPARATED ABOUT 1888/89, CHARLOTTE TOOK THE 3 CHILDREN TO BUFFALO, NEW YORK & LATER NEW YORK CITY.
THE YOUNGEST CHILD WAS FLORENCE ANNIE BRIDGWOOD, WHO ABOUT 1904, CHANGED HER NAME TO FLORENCE LAWRENCE. FLORENCE BECAME VERY FAMOUS IN THE SILENT MOVIES ABOUT 1906 & IS KNOWN AS "THE FIRST MOVIE STAR", "THE BIOGRAPH GIRL" & "THE IMP GIRL".
SHE & HER MOTHER WERE ALSO "INVENTORS".
GEORGE DIED ALONE, LIVING AT HIS CARRIAGE SHOP, 20 JACKSON EAST, HAMILTON, OF COAL GAS POISONING.
HE IS BURIED WITH HIS FIRST WIFE ELLEN, THEIR DAUGHTER CHARLOTTE LOUISE & HER HUSBAND ALBERT HENRY HOLCOMBE, & GRANDSON WILLIAM JAMES BRIDGEWOOD (SON OF JAMES BRIDGEWOOD & MARY HARTLEY).
MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPA.
BRIDGWOOD IS ALSO SPELT WITH AN "E", BRIDGEWOOD.
I BELIEVE GEORGE IMMIGRATED IN 1833 AS AN INDENTURED CHILD, & APPRENTICED AS A WAGGON/CARRIAGE MAKER, IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO.
HE MARRIED ELLEN DALTON IN THE LATE 1840's IN HAMILTON.
THERE ARE NO OTHER RECORDS OF BRIDGWOODS IN ONTARIO UNTIL HE HAD CHILDREN WITH HIS FIRST WIFE ELLEN DALTON, IN 1849. THEY HAD 5 CHILDREN.
ELLEN DIED FEB. 16, 1878, HAMILTON.
HIS SECOND MARRIAGE CAUSED PROBLEMS WITH HIS CHILDREN BECAUSE CHARLOTTE AMELIA DUNN, BORN AUG. 18, 1861, WAS YOUNGER THAN HIS YOUNGEST CHILD AND I THINK HAD PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES.
HE MARRIED CHARLOTTE AMELIA DUNN, DEC. 13, 1880, IN HAMILTON & HAD 3 MORE CHILDREN. CHARLOTTE WAS A VAUDVILLE ACTRESS & THEY SEPARATED ABOUT 1888/89, CHARLOTTE TOOK THE 3 CHILDREN TO BUFFALO, NEW YORK & LATER NEW YORK CITY.
THE YOUNGEST CHILD WAS FLORENCE ANNIE BRIDGWOOD, WHO ABOUT 1904, CHANGED HER NAME TO FLORENCE LAWRENCE. FLORENCE BECAME VERY FAMOUS IN THE SILENT MOVIES ABOUT 1906 & IS KNOWN AS "THE FIRST MOVIE STAR", "THE BIOGRAPH GIRL" & "THE IMP GIRL".
SHE & HER MOTHER WERE ALSO "INVENTORS".
GEORGE DIED ALONE, LIVING AT HIS CARRIAGE SHOP, 20 JACKSON EAST, HAMILTON, OF COAL GAS POISONING.
HE IS BURIED WITH HIS FIRST WIFE ELLEN, THEIR DAUGHTER CHARLOTTE LOUISE & HER HUSBAND ALBERT HENRY HOLCOMBE, & GRANDSON WILLIAM JAMES BRIDGEWOOD (SON OF JAMES BRIDGEWOOD & MARY HARTLEY).
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