Lydia D. Bridgham (aft. 1824)

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Biography

Name
Lydia D. Bridgham. ^[1]

Notes

This is highly tenuous. On Oct. 30, 1890, Lydia D. (Bridgham) Jarvis died in Boston. She was born in Minot about 1822 to Samuel Bridgham (mother not named). She was born July 11, 1821, and is buried in Castine. Could she be a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Bearce) Bridgham? We know that they lived in Minot in 1824. Also, in 1857, Samuel's son Samuel named one of his daughters Lydia Jarvis Bridgham, perhaps in honor of his sister.

On March 14, 1841, William Jarvis married Miss Lydia D. Bridgham in Castine, Maine.

In 1850, 28-year-old Lydia Jarvis (b. in Maine) lived in Castine, Hancock, Maine with her husband William and three children (oldest was 12, implying they were married before 1838, when Lydia was just sixteen), and 26-year-old Almira Gray (relationship unknown - there was an Almira Gray b. Sep 1, 1822 in Hancock to John and Sarah (Howard) Gray). But since they were married in 1841, it is possible that the 12-year-old was William Jarvis' child by a previous marriage.

In 1860, 37-year-old Lydia D. Jarvis live in Castine with husband William and 4 children, and with 17-year-old Martha W. Wardwell (relationship unknown).

In 1870, she lived in Melrose, Middlesex, Mass with her youngest child with the Charles and Henrietta Osgood family.

However, the widowed Mary (Bearce) Bridgham lived in Hebron in 1830 with a male between 5 and 9 years of age (her son would have been about 5), and a woman between 20 and 30 (unknown). Thus, Lydia is not accounted for in the 1830 census.

Could Samuel have been married once before his marriage to Mary Bearce? That could explain why Lydia was born 3 years before his marriage to Mary, and why Lydia wasn't living with Mary in 1830. In 1820, Samuel Bridgham, Jr. lived in Hebron. In his household was a male aged 26 through 44 (he was 30), a female aged 16 through 25 (his wife?), and a young female under the age of 10 (Lydia wasn't born yet).

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S276 for Lydia D. (Bridgham) Jarvis.

• Source: S276 "Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915" Repository: www.ancestry.com