There were no other Schwartz families listed in Adams County at the time. They then migrated to Weston Twp, Dunn Co., Wis. where they joined other Styer families. The emigrant was Peter Styer who left Holland with his six children and second wife, Marie Flammont, in 1856, arriving in New York in January 1857. Most of this family settled in Wisconsin where many descendants can be found today. Bridgeman The Bridgeman ancestry begins in Limerick, Ireland with James and Alice Naughton Bridgeman who were married in the parish of Shanagolden 9 February 1839.
Parish records show they had four children baptized in the parish.
In 1851, their son Patrick Bridgeman, age 12, was sent to America where he lived with the family of a Methodist minister in Shellbourne, New York for about 6 years. Patrick, together with his mother and sister and brother, moved to Sauk County, Wisconsin about 1858. While Patrick Bridgeman settled in Wisconsin, his brother John migrated to Iowa where he raised his family and many of his descendants still reside. Michael never saw the new land as he died while at sea outside Quebec, Canada. Honora and her daughters continued to Dunkirk, New York where she married widower James Curtin in 1849.