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Briggs
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The name 'Briggs' originates from England. It is derived from the topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge or metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, from the Middle English word 'brigge', and Old English word 'brycg' meaning bridge, a cognate with the Middle High German word 'brucke', and Old High German word 'brucca'. Building and maintaining bridges was one of the three main feudal obligations, along with bearing arms and maintaining fortifications. In some cases the name deonted someone from the Flemish city of 'Bruges' (Brugge), meaning 'bridges', which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages. 'Bridge(n)s', 'Brigg(s)', Low German: 'Bru(ge)'. Compiled information from Historical and Private archive's has confirmed that the surname 'Briggs' and or it's variant's, dates as far back as the 13th century were a 'Hugh ate Brugge ', from Oxfordshire, England, is recorded on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. Information extracted from Public and Civil registry archive's confirm that the Founder of this family in America was a certain 'Walter Briggs', aged 17, from England, He emigrated to North America in 1638, and settled at Scituate, Massachusetts. He died in 1684, having fathered by 'Mary' his wife, as son 'Corneliusr Briggs' born in 1647. 'Briggs' is the '464th' most common surname in North America. ...
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Gules three (another two) bars gemelles or, on a canton sable a cresent of the second. Crest an arm embowed, covered with leaves vert, holding in the hand ppr.a bow gules a strung sable and an arrow argent.
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