When Harold Frederick Bradley was born on 27 April 1928, in Merritton, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, his father, William F. Bradley, was 18 and his mother, Gladys Irene Phelps, was 18. He married Elizabeth Delight Girling on 28 May 1949, in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. He died on 28 June 2002, in St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Thorold, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
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.
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