When Ann Eliza Bradford was born on 26 May 1840, in Allegany, New York, United States, her father, Shiply M Bradford, was 28 and her mother, Adaline Fowler, was 22. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Levi Stockwell. She lived in Birdsall, Allegany, New York, United States for about 10 years and Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 5 April 1914, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States.
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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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