Last name: BRIDGES

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BRIDGES : This last name is indexed 136,706 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRIDGES : English: variant of Bridge. The -s generally represents the genitive case but may occasionally be a plural. In some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (Brugge) in Belgium meaning ‘bridges’ which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
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