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Emily and Bill Briddell Collection

6 cartons, 3 oversize folders (6.3 linear feet)

(1672 – 2017)

bulk 1880-2000

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier 2022.009
Creator(s) Emily and William Briddell; Rebecca Skinner
Acquisition

Collection donated by Rebecca B. Skinner
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding aid written by Zach Foster, January 2023.
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Abstract

The Emily and Bill Briddell Collection contains genealogical records of the Briddell, Ames, Stevenson and other families. The collection ranges from 1672-2017 with the bulk of materials from 1880-2000. the collection contains correspondence, official and unofficial documents, pamphlets, maps, and photographs.

Biographical History

Emily Briddell was born on July 14, 1927 near Dalby's in Northampton County, VA. the daucghter of the late Rufus T. Ames and Lillian Stevenson Ames of Northampton. Gradtuating from old Northampton High School in Eastville VA in 1944 Emily pursued a career in nursing, graduating from the Elizabeth Buxton Hospital School of Nursing in Newport News, VA in 1947. upon her graduation Emily attained employment at the Elizabeth Buxton Hospital and later worked at Northampton-Accomac Memorial Hospital and Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Emily married William B. Birddell Sr. on October 16, 1948 and they remained married for 72 years. the Briddells had four children Rebecca A. Skinner of Salisbury, MD; Paige B. Hazelton (Bob) of Timonium, MD; Bryan Briddell (Sue) of Saratoga Springs, NY; and Donna Bartrug (Rocky) of Hebron, MD.

Heavily involved in her comunity, Emily was Girl Scout Leader for Troop #98 from 1961-1967. furthermore she engaged in volunteer work with the PTA of North Salisbury Elementary School and the Opportunity Shop for over 40 years. She was a life member of Plus Volunteers of PRMC, serving over 2500 hours in the Diabetic Nursing Department and actively served with the Board of Elections as Democratic Chief Judge for the Salisbury City elections (1978-1984). In 1982, Emily joined Chapter V of PEO Sisterhood serving on various committees, and as corresponding secretary, and treasurer. finally, Emily was a member of the Christ United Methodist Church and the Friendship Sunday School Class on Phillip Morris Drive in Salisbury. 

William ("Bill") Briddell Sr. was born in 1927 in Princess Anne Maryland, he was the son of the late John Paul and Annie (Bloodsworth) Briddell. He was a graduate of Washington High School and a veteran of WWII serving in the Army in the Pacific Islands until contracting malaria and receiving an honorable discharge. William Briddell was married to Emily Stevenson Ames on October 16, 1948.

Bill's early employment was with Commercial Credit Corp (GA) and then with Larus and Brothers Tobacco (PA). He returned to Salisbury in 1955 to lease Atlantic Esso on North Salisbury Boulevard, eventually buying it in 1962. from then on Bill operated his buisiness as T/A Briddell's Exxon Service Center until his retirement in 1987. this was a short retirement, as Mr. Briddell subsequently  went to work as a parking attendant in downtown Salisbury until his final retirement in 2001.

Like his wife, Bill valued his community and regularly gave back and volunteered. He was a member of the Salisbury Lion's Club (Treasurer 1973-74, President 1977-78, and Deputy District Governor 1980-81). He was a member and past president of AARP #1276; was President and Liaison of the American Field Service (AFS) program- Salisbury Chapter; served on the Mayor's Roundtable under Mayor Barry Tilghman in 2008; was an alternate for the City of Salisbury Zoning Board; was past member of the City of Salisbury Traffic Advisory Committee; past Board member helping to form the Johnny O Recovery Center; and was a Life Member of PRMC Plus Volunteers. The last large project that he participated in was fundraising for the restoration of the Salisbury Bandstand in Salisbury City Park (2002). In 2005, Bill was nominated for volunteerism and community service by the Commission for Aging. He was a Wicomico County Business Frontline Person of the Year. He was honored in 2006 by Lion's Club International with the Melvin Jones' Fellow for Dedicated Humanitarian Service. though his favorite award was his 1966 Rotary's Four Way Test Award.

A devout christian from childhood, Bill maintained his spirtuality throughout his life attending church regularly as a member of Christ United Methodist Church and the Friendship Sunday School Class.

 

 

Scope and Content Note

The Emily and Bill Briddell Collection includes records of the Briddell family from 1672-2010 with a bulk ranging between 1880-200. It is arranged into four series which are, GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS, ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, FLAGS AND PAMPHLETS, and PHOTOGRAPHS.

The Genealogical Documents Series follows the history of the Briddell Family and their related lines through official documents and contains the Genealogical research of Emily and William Briddell. the Original Documents Series follows the history of the Briddell Family and their related lines using original correspondence and photos. the Flags and Pamphlets Series contains related and unrelated pamphlets along with books relating to historic flags and flag design. the Photographs Series contains original photographs and collages of extended family members. the collection also contains several folders which function as unpublished biographical representations of the lives of Emily Briddell, Lilian Stevenson, and the union of Bill and Emily Briddell.

Arrangement Statement

This collection was organized topically by series and alphabetically by folder. the collection contains Series 1: GENEALOGY DOCUMENTS, Series 2: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, Series 3: FLAGS AND PAMPHLETS, Series 4: Original Photographs

Series 1: Genealogy Documents

Series 2: Original Documents

Series 3: Flags and Pamplets

Series 4: Original Photographs

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Genealogy --- Maryland
    • Military History
    • Military service --- United States
  • Corporate Names
    • Asbury United Methodist Church
    • Girl Scouts of America
  • Location Terms
    • Accomack County (Va.)
    • Eastern Shore (Md.)
    • Maryland

Inventory List

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  1. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Ames Family of Accomack and Northampton Counties Virginia Past and Present Part 1, 1992
  2. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Ames Family of Accomack and Northampton Counties Virginia Past and Present Part 2, 1992
  3. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Ames Family of Accomack and Northampton Counties Virginia Past and Present Part 1 Copy 1672-1992, 2009
  4. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Ames Family of Accomack and Northampton Counties Virginia Past and Present Part 2 Copy 1672-1992, 2009
  5. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Genealogy Material Ames Part 1 1700-1980, 2002
  6. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Genealogy Material Ames Part 2 1700-1980, 2002
  7. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Genealogy of Lilian Ames, 1994
  8. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Genealogy of Ames, Kellam, Lankford, 1998-1999
  9. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Virginia Ames, Stevenson allied lines, 1985-2000
  10. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Survey Copies of Ames Property 1784-1826, undated
  11. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Descendants of Isaiah Bredle, 2005
  12. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Resource Book Briddell and Related Lines, 1976-2002
  13. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddell Coat of Arms, 1972
  14. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddell Workbook Part 1, 1994
  15. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddell Workbook Part 2, 1994
  16. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddells of Old Somerset, Worcester, Somerset, and Wicomico Counties of Maryland Part 1, 2017

Box 2

  1. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddells of Old Somerset, Worcester, Somerset, and Wicomico Counties of Maryland Part 2, 2017
  2. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddell - Hall Genealogy Part 1, 1910-1946
  3. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Briddell - Hall Genealogy Part 2, 1910-1946
  4. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Emily and William Briddell - George K. Ames, 2003-2012
  5. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Sally A. Briddell Direct Lines, 1992
  6. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Brickhouse Genealogy, 1977
  7. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Bloodsworth Briddell and Allied Lines, 1905-1983
  8. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Workbook Bloodsworth, Jones and Related Lines, 2004
  9. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Bloodsworth Family and Related Lines Part 1, 2001
  10. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Bloodsworth Family and Related Lines Part 2, 2001
  11. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Resource Book Bloodsworth Jones & Related Lines, 1992-2008
  12. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Workbook & Resource Material - Stevenson, Brickhouse, Hunt, Luker, Kellam, Moore, Parker, Travis, Waterfield, Watts Island Willis Part 1, 1997
  13. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Workbook & Resource Material - Stevenson, Brickhouse, Hunt, Luker, Kellam, Moore, Parker, Travis, Waterfield, Watts Island Willis Part 2, 1997
  14. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Thomas Stevenson Family and Related lines of Brickhouse, Hunt, Luker, Kellam, Moore, Parker, Travis, Waterfield, Watts Island Willis Part 1, 2002

Box 3

  1. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) The Thomas Stevenson Family and Related lines of Brickhouse, Hunt, Luker, Kellam, Moore, Parker, Travis, Waterfield, Watts Island Willis Part 2, 2002
  2. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Wise Darby and Allied Lines 1695-1990, 1988-2010
  3. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Wise Family Genealogy, 1995
  4. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Virginia Obituaries, 1895-1972
  5. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Gorman Brittingham, Undated
  6. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Estate Records Dorothy Garber and Tommy Garber, 1975
  7. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Ernest Washington Morris, 1959
  8. Series 1 (Genealogy Documents) Original Papers George C. Wheatley,  1889
  9. Series 2 (Original Documents) Francis Ames Inventory, 1905-1908
  10. Series 2 (Original Documents) Lilian S. Ames Book 1 Part 1, 1907-1961
  11. Series 2 (Original Documents) Lilian S. Ames Book 1 Part 2, 1957-1970
  12. Series 2 (Original Documents) Lilian S. Ames Book 2 Part 1, 1972-1985
  13. Series 2 (Original Documents) Lilian S. Ames Book 2 Part 2, 1985-1989
  14. Series 2 (Original Documents) Lilian S. Amers Photographs, 1922-1949
  15. Series 2 (Original Documents) The Life of Lilian S. Ames, 1916-1984
  16. Series 2 (Original Documents) Life of Lilian Rebecca Stevenson Ames, 1985

Box 4

  1. Series 2 (Original Documents) Will of George C. Ames, 1954-1970
  2. Series 2 (Original Documents) Some Letters and Papers of Thomas Carrol Ames U.S. Army and George Kenneth Ames U.S. Navy During World War II, 1943-1944
  3. Series 2 (Original Documents) Ames Stevenson Original Articles Photographs Etc., 1972-1992
  4. Series 2 (Original Documents) Family Data Correspondence Stevenson, Brickhouse, 1970-2014
  5. Series 2 (Original Documents) James Stephen Bredle Deed 1739, Undated
  6. Series 2 (Original Documents) Briddell - Bloodsworth Original Articles, Photographs, Newspaper Clippings 1916-1991
  7. Series 2 (Original Documents) Original Family Photographs - Brickhouse, Stevenson, Briddell, Bloodsworth, 1820-1978
  8. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily Elizabeth Ames and William Bryan  Briddell Photos and Clippings, 1944-1950
  9. Series 2 (Original Documents) Rachel and Elihu Bredell 1822-1830, 2010
  10. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily Elizabeth Ames Record as 4-H club Member, 1940
  11. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 1 Part 1, 1944-1971
  12. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 1 Part 2, 1971-1982
  13. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 1 Part 3, 1984-1998
  14. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 2 Part 1, 1992-1998
  15. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 2 Part 2, 1998-1999
  16. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 3 Part 1, 1977-2003

Box 5

  1. Series 2 (Original Documents) Emily and Bill Briddell Book 3 Part 2, 2003-2005
  2. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Accomack Wills Notebook, Undated
  3. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Assorted Items of Genealogical Interest Somerset, Worcester, and Dorchester Counties, 1997-2001
  4. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Assorted Items of Genealogical Interest Jamestown Virginia, 2003
  5. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Bridgetown Virginia, 1935-1978
  6. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Extracts Census Records Northampton County Virginia 1820-1880, 1997
  7. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Extracts of Wills Accomack & Northampton Counties Virginia 1796-1890, 1997
  8. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Flags and Pamphlets, 1940-1984
  9. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Hacks Neck and its People Past and Present James Edgar Mears, 1937
  10. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Hacks Neck - James Mears, 1965
  11. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) 160th Anniversary Johnson's Methodist Church, 1950
  12. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Northampton Wills Notebook, Undated
  13. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Scenic California Pamphlet, 1945
  14. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Somerset County Registers of Wills Notes, Undated
  15. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Tax List of Somerset Maryland 1725, 1990
  16. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Herbert Hoover's Hideaway, 1971
  17. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Methodist Women and Missions of the Easternshore of Virginia, Undated
  18. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) National Geography Untold Stories of D-Day, 2002
  19. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Silver Beach Hymns, 1987-1992
  20. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) The SchoolMa'am, 1918
  21. Series 3 (Flags and Pamphlets) Virginia Conference Annual, 1954

Box 6

  1. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Ames Briddell Old Family Photos, 1910-1970
  2. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Brickhouse, Stevenson Old Fmaily Photographs, 1890-1960
  3. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Collage Book of Emily Briddell, 1940-1975
  4. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Lilian Stevenson Photograph Book, 1916-1919
  5. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Luker, Stevenson, Photograph Book, 1944-1970
  6. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Memorial Photobook Rufus T. Ames, 1916-1984
  7. Series 4 (Original Photographs) Untitled Family Photographs, Undated

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