Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley

Aged twenty he married Mary Cave on 28 September 1670.^[2] She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet and four years his junior.^[2] The couple had two daughters and a son.^[4] Bridgeman died intestate in 1701 and was survived by his wife for few weeks, she dying on 8 June; both were buried in the Parish Church of St. Michael, Coventry, where a plaque was erected in her honour by her friend Eliza Samwell.^[2][6] As Coventry Cathedral, the church was destroyed during World War II.

Bridgeman was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Orlando.^[4] His older daughter Charlotte (1681-3 March 1718) married Richard Symes of Blackheath as his second wife in 1703.^[7][8] Symes was the son of Thomas Symes Esq. (1617-22 January 1669), and grandson of John Symes, MP from Somerset.

His younger daughter Penelope was the second wife of Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington, a younger son of Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, whose title later was revived for a descendant of Bridgemans older brother John.^[9]

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