Brief Life History of Robert Fiske
When Robert Fiske Bradford was born on 15 December 1902, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Edward Hickling Bradford Sr., was 54 and his mother, Edith Annie Fiske, was 42. He married Rebecca "Pat" Crowninshield Browne on 21 June 1926, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 1 years and Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom in 1983. He died on 18 March 1983, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Robert F Bradford, "United States Census, 1950"
- Robert Hickling Bradford, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Robert F Bradford, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1924
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
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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