Bridget Neville

Bridget Neville was born abt 1674, in Great Forenaughts, Furness, Co. Kildare, to Richard Neville, son of Edward Neville and Margaret Palmer, and Margaret Ussher, daughter of Sir William Ussher and Elizabeth Parsons. Her father having been born in Keymer, Sussex, England and escaped the country after killing a man in a duel, Bridget returned to England to marry one Thomas Spackman in Wiltshire, in the year 1700. She died in Cliffe Pypard, Wiltshire, England, circa Dec 1769, at age 94 or 95.

Bridget's father was a member of the great Neville family of England, several of whom's members married into the English royal family. He was the grandson of Edward Neville, 5th Lord Abergavenny, who in turn was the son of Sir Edward Neville, who held the offices of King Henry VIII's Standard Bearer in 1531, and Constable of Leeds Castle, Kent in 1534. Their line can be directly traced back to King Edward III, who's grandaughter, Lady Joan de Beaufort, married Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, before November 1396.