Brief Life History of Ethelbert
When Ethelbert Bradford was born on 16 July 1791, in Turner, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, his father, Jesse Bradford, was 33 and his mother, Judith Weston, was 28. He married Abigail Tirrell on 23 May 1817, in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Turner, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1830. He died on 27 September 1843, in Turner, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Upper Street Cemetery, Turner, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.
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- Ethelbert Bradford, "United States Census, 1830"
- Ethelbrt Bradford, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1907 " BIRTH
- Ethelbert Bradford, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1792
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
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1805
Historical Boundaries: 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, Cheshire, Wiltshire and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
History: This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times. Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, "which no American can mention without abhorrence".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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