Winnie Bridger (buried 1904)

At a glance

At a glance
Surname: 
Bridger
First name: 
Winnie
Other Christian names: 
Georgina
Gender: 
Female
Children: 
No
Burial number: 
442
Born: 
0/0/1884
Died: 
06/06/1904
Buried: 
11/06/1904
Heene Hallmark: 
No
Commonwealth War Grave: 
No

The Grave

The grave
Cemetery area: 
SWS
Cemetery row: 
5
Cemetery plot: 
12
what3words location: 
https://what3words.com/image.glue.struck
Burial remains: 
Unknown
The headstone
Endowed grave: 
No
Headstone description: 
remainder of inscription has crumbled away
Headstone inscription: 
In loving memory of Winnie Georgina Bridger who passed away ...1904 aged '''

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Life story

Life story

Winnie Georgina Bridger was born in 1884 in Wandsworth to Reuben Bridger, 34yrs, a Draper, and Winnie Bridger, 24yrs, nee Mollinson: they were married on 28th September 1883 at the Parish Church, Battersea. In 1886 her sister, Amy Florence was born. Winnie's parents appear to have separated in the late 1880s. In 1901, Winnie 16yrs and her sister, Amy 14yrs, were living in Worthing at the home of their Aunt and Uncle, George A. Shipwright, retired draper, and Elizabeth Lucy Shipwright nee Bridger, their father's older sister. Their address was Kewhurst Lodge, Valencia Road, Worthing. Winnie Georgina Bridger died at Kewhurst Lodge on 6th June 1904, aged 19yrs. Her death certificate gave the cause of death as: Tubercular Peritonitis, Pulmonary Phthisis, Athenia On Winnie's death certificate her father, Reuben Bridger, was described as deceased, but in 1904 he was beginning a 3yr prison sentence. Reuben Bridger died in 1931 aged 88yrs.

Burial researcher: 
Unknown

Further information

Birth
Date born: 
00/00/1884

Death

Death (details)
Date of death: 
06/06/1904
Age (at time of death): 
19
Cause of death: 
Tubercular Pertonitis; Pulmonary phthisis; Asthenia;
Address at time of death: 
Kewhurst Lodge, Valencia Road, Worthing, Sussex, England

Census and miscellaneous information

Census information
1901 census: 

George A. Shipwright, 78yrs, and Elizabeth L. Shipwright 67, live at Kewhurst, Valencia Road, Worthing, with their daughter, Amy Shipwright, 38yrs, Nellie Shipwright, 5yrs, granddaughter, and two nieces, Winnie G. Bridger 16yrs and Amy F. Bridger 14yrs.

Miscellaneous information

Reuben Bridger

Was from a family in the Drapery business and on his marriage certificate in 1883 he gave his occupation as a Draper. The family did not appear in the 1891 census but from 1894 onward Reuben was convicted of multiple offences in the various Criminal Courts of London. He faced charges on five separate occasions between 1894 and 1904, the charges all being related to fraudulently obtaining goods, using embezzlement and forgery to evade payment. He served sentences of 1 month, 3 months, 12months and 1 month before being convicted of another charge of obtaining goods by false pretences in 1904, when he was sentenced to 3 years penal servitude* aged 55yrs. His records show that he was stealing drapery goods, 20yds of ribbon, cashmere and serge fabrics, skirts and on one occasion, knives (for which he received the shortest of all his sentences!)

Imprisonment: Penal Servitude

Penal servitude was a term of imprisonment at hard labour first introduced by the 1853 and 1857 Penal Servitude Acts as a replacement for transportation. It gave judges the discretion to sentence anyone who might otherwise have been transported for less than 14 years to penal servitude. This normally meant labour in a convict prison.

Reuben Bridger offence, 17.8.1901
Reuben Bridger offence, 17.8.1901
Reuben Bridger offences, 1894, 1895, 1898
Reuben Bridger offences, 1894, 1895, 1898

Mansion House

Reuben Bridger, 47, was charged before the Lord Mayor with stealing cashmere from Messrs. Luccock and Lupton, warehousemen, of Friday Street, by means of a trick, and with obtaining by similar devices black serge of the value of 17l. from the Fore-street Warehouse Company. It was alleged that the Prisoner had been in the habit of sending orders in the names of customers of firms directing them to transmit goods to be called for at railway cloakrooms, and that in that way he had obtained quantities of property of value. There were said to be cases against him - The Prisoner said he was not guilty - The Lord Mayor committed him for trial.