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| Surname origins | Location Derived from the location where an ancestor originated |
| Meaning | i)
'Broad wood' or 'clearing' ii) Name of the village where the ancestors lived |
| Geographic origins | i)
Over a dozen counties ii) From the villages of Bradley in Lincolnshire or west Yorkshire or a number of other villages with the name Bradley throughout England |
| Language | Old English |
| Sources | i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967) ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) |
| Two
generations of my line of the Bradley family were clergymen in the
counties of Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. Their
lineage
can be traced back to the port of Liverpool in the second half of
the 18th century where John Bradley and Margaret Ashworth lived. Over the following century various branches of the family emigrated to destinations as diverse as St Kitts and Nevis, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the USA and in the 20th century to Canada and Austria. My branch of the family moved south at the beginning of the 20th century, settling eventually in Folkestone in Kent and later Surrey. |
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Bradley
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