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Jeff Knaggs - Genealogy - the BURGH or BURGE Family

The Dictionary of Surnames gives BURGE as an English (mainly Somerset and Dorset) variation of BRIDGE or BURKE. It is a topographic name for someone who lives near or on a bridge, or near or in a fortification.

Eliza BURGH or BURGE
Eliza BURGH or BURGE was my father's mother's mother's mother.
She married Laurence SHEPSTONE on 17 May 1840 at Long Ashton parish church.
She lived at 6 Skinner Street, St Pauls in April 1843.

Her names is BURGE on her marriage certificate, but BURGH on the birth certificate of her daughter Eliza.

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Siblings
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Children
Charles SHEPSTONE 1841 - 1904 Knife Grinder, St Phillips Bristol, married Emily ?
Eliza SHEPSTONE
Sophia SHEPSTONE 1845 - ? Lion Street, St Phillips Bristol
Sarah Jane SHEPSTONE 1848 - ? St Phillips and Long Ashton
Elizabeth SHEPSTONE 1850 - ? Lion Street, St Phillips Bristol
Hannah SHEPSTONE 1852 - ?
William Lawrence SHEPSTONE 1854 - 1909 Labourer, Brick Burner, Furniture Painter, Albert Street and Rudgeway Road, Stapleton Bristol
Albert SHEPSTONE 1860 - 1906 Labourer and Brick Maker, Stapleton Bristol, married Hester ?
Georgiana SHEPSTONE 1861 - ?, blind cripple, Rudgeway Road, Stapleton Bristol


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