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Joan Bradley, widow of Patrick Bradley,
January 22, 1465 ; Roger Bradley, of York,
January 21, 1436.
In the Harleian Society Publications,
Volume XII, containing the "Visitation
of County Warwick," England, pages
354-55, are found the arms and pedigree
of the family of Bradley, which has many
grounds of probability of being that fam-
ily from which the New Haven Bradleys
are immediately descended.
The pedigree is as follows
William Bradley, of Sheriff-Hutton,
County York, England.
William Bradley of the city of Coventry,
County Warwick, married Agnes
Margate. Children: i. Francis, married
Francesca Watkins. 2. Thomas, married
Maria Cotes. 3. William, of whom further.
William (2) Bradley, son of William
and Agnes (Margate) Bradley, was born
in Coventry, England. He married Johanna
Waddington. Children : i. Wil-
liam, believed to be the American pro-
genitor. 2. Anna. 3. Magdalen. 4. Eliza-
beth. 5. Letticia. 6. An infant, born September
I, 1619.
Pedigree of the Bradleys of Bradley,
County Lancaster:
John Bradley, born about 1465. of Brad-
ley, County Lancaster. He married Cath-
erine Caterall. Children: i. Thomas, of
whom further. 2. Allan. 3. John.
Thomas Bradley, of Bradley, was born
about 1490. He married Grace Sherborne,
daughter of Hugh Sherborne. Children
:
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I. John, of whom further. 2. Hugh. 3.
Thomas. 4. Anne. 5. Helene.
John Bradley, born about 1520, was living
in 1567. He had a son John, of whom
further.
John Bradley settled in Bryning,
County Lancaster. He had a son John,
of whom further.
John Bradley, of Bryning, gent., mar-
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ried and had a son James, of whom fur-
ther.
James Bradley married Ellen Tildesley,
and they had children: i. Edward, slain
at the battle of Marston Moor. 2. Thomas.
3. John. 4. Richard. 5. Jane. 6. Anne.
7. Helen.
Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire
names the Bradleys of Ackworth.
John Bradley, of the Bradleys of Berkshire,
was in King Henry VIII's army
upon an English expedition to France.
His sons were: i. Richard. 2. Henry, of
whom further. 3. Abel.
Henry Bradley, of Okehingham, County
Berks, died in 1645. He married Barbara
Lane. Children: i.John. 2. Thomas,
of whom further.
Thomas Bradley, chaplain to Charles I,
was rector of Ackworth. He was born in
1598. He matriculated at Exeter College,
Oxford, in 1617; received his B. A., June
21, 1620; and his D. D., December 20,
1642. He was rector of Castleford in
1630, and of Ackworth in 1643. A great
Royalist, he was expelled from his livings
during the period of the Commonwealth,
but they were returned at the restoration.
He married Frances, daughter of John,
Lord Savile, of Pomfret. Children: i.
Thomas, a merchant in Virginia. 2.
Savile. 3. Frances. 4. Barbara. The
Bradleys of Louth, Lincolnshire, trace to
Robert Bradley, of Louth.
The line continues through Thomas
Bradley, of Louth, a merchant, who had
the following children: i. Nicholas. 2.
Thomas, of whom further.
Thomas Bradley, of Louth, a merchant,
was born in 1503. He married Alice Et-
ton. They were the parents of a son,
John, of whom further.
John Bradley, of Louth, one of the
assistants of that town, died in 1590. He
married Frances Fairfax, and had the fol-