William Arthur Risbridger

09/07/1894 — 1969
A brief biography

Ancestors


Risbrig — 1198 —
William de la Risebreage — 1276 —
Joham Rysbrugg — 1320 —
John atte Rysbrugg — 1425
Henry Ryesbrigger of Albury — 1430 —
John atte Rysbrygge — 1461 —
Johanna Risbridger — 1461 —
William Rysbrydger — 1553
Katherine —
John Rysbrydger of Shere ±1520 — 1563
Katherine Rysbrydger — 1597
William Risbridger 1546 — 1615
John Risbridger 1579 — 1631
John Risbridger 1624 — 1718
Edward Risbridger 1657 —
Edward Risbridger —
William Risbridger 1705 — 1752
John Risbridger 1740 — 1801
William Risbridger 1784 —
William Risbridger of Bletchingley 1822 —
William Risbridger of Bletchingley 1860 —
William Arthur Risbridger 1894 — 1969
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William Arthur Risbridger


Son of William Risbridger and Emma Burbery. .

Born in 1894, the fifty-seventh year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and died aged seventy-four in the seventeenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II  He has 27 direct descendants in the family.

A footman at Heather Bank, Summer Hill, Chislehurst


At the age of 16 William Risbridger was working as a servant in the household of Robert Leonard Powell, a local magistrate who had made his fortune as an Indian Leather dealer.

Early years

William Risbridger volunteered to join the RNAS after helping to pull down an observer balloon drifting over fields in Bletchingley at the beginning of the 14/18 War. The officer on board said he should join up, which he did!

He was employed servicing and refuelling dirigibles (like the R101 Airship) at Cardington. You would be surprised how many were built at the time.
The engines used 100 octane fuel which was dispensed  


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