When Sisson Bradley was born on 26 February 1803, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Lemuel Harnden Bradley, was 21 and his mother, Catherine Waite, was 18. He married Elizabeth Melvina Nobles in 1825, in Haldimand Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Niagara, Niagara, New York, United States in 1860 and Wilson, Wilson, Niagara, New York, United States in 1865. He died in 1865, at the age of 62, and was buried in Wilson, Wilson, Niagara, New York, United States.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Historical Boundaries 1808: Niagara, New York, United States
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English: habitational name from any of the many places throughout England named Bradley, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Scottish: habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire.
Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Brolcháin ‘descendant of Brolacháin’, a diminutive of the personal name Brólach, compare Brawley . This was a learned family.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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