Brief Life History of Maria Josephine
When Maria Josephine Bradley was born on 20 May 1845, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert McAffee Bradley, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Ellen Totten, was 29. She married Francis Marion Wolford on 10 August 1863, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Magisterial District 4 Paint Lick, Garrard, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Paint Lick, Garrard, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 14 April 1923, in Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, United States.
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- Martha J Bradley in household of Robert M Bradley, "United States Census, 1850"
- Maria J Bradley, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Moriah Mays, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
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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