William Thomas Bradford

Brief Life History of William Thomas

William Thomas Bradford was born in 1853, in Accomack, Virginia, United States as the son of Emily A. Bradford. He married Annie Maria Milliner on 8 February 1882, in Accomack, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lee District, Accomack, Virginia, United States for about 50 years. He died in 1934, in Accomack, Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Edge Hill Cemetery, Accomac, Accomack, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Thomas Bradford
1853–1934
Annie Maria Milliner
1863–1956
Marriage: 8 February 1882
Charles Kellam Bradford
1882–1957
John William Bradford
1884–1966
Mary Ann Bradford
1886–1943
George Thomas Bradford
1887–1892
Minnie S Bradford
1890–1984
George Thomas Bradford
1894–1963
Lula Emma Bradford
1896–1997
Hazel A Bradford
1906–1975

Sources (71)

  • William T Bradford, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Wm T Bradford, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • Wm. T. Bradford, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"

World Events (8)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

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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