William Bradbury (son of Robert Bradbury)504, 505 was born 1480 in Littlebury, Essex, England506, 507, and died Abt. June 15, 1546508. He married Elisabeth in England.
Notes for William Bradbury: Ancestral # 16 (Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury...)
Wife/Mother recording problem. See History Notes.
Source of the Following Information: Bradbury Memorial, p. 29 A Note pertaining to William Bradbury, b. 1480, m. Joan (Fitzwilliams) Bendish also The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury ... p. 37,63
"We have followed the Herald's Visitation here, but there is evidently a serious mistake in their reckoning. Thomas Bendish died about 1477, and his wife Joan or Jane had deceased prior to May 4, 1490, at which date her inquisition post mortem was held, when it was found that Richard Bendish, grandson of Thomas, aged five years, was heir to her estate. She evidently belonged to a generation back of William Bradbury, and if she married a Bradbury, as she is reported, it must have been his father Robert. (Robert is consistent with the Genealogy of Ralph Waldo Emerson). When Symonds made his collection of epitaphs in Essex in 1639, there was in the church at Clavering a stone bearing the inscription in Latin: "Pray for the souls of William Bradbury, Esq. and Wife Elisabeth," which Elisabeth died August 13, 1536. William Bradbury died later, after his removal to Littlebury, and was buried there. This would show that his wife's name was Elisabeth. The Herald's Visitation do not give the name of the wife of Robert Bradbury, and unfortunately he left no will, and there was no inquisition post mortem to solve the mystery. In some of the pedigrees he is said to have married Anne Wyant, and we have followed it, but with this explanation. His son having been assigned a wife that belonged to the generation of the father, it is quite probable that the Visitation has made a mistake of one generation, and that Jane (Fitzwilliam) Bendish was the mother and not the wife of William Bradbury."
William was named in the iquistion post mortem on the estate of his uncle Sir Thomas, in 1510, then aged 30 years; named in the will of his uncle Sir Thomas, to whose estate he succeeded, Lord of the manor Mancenden, acquired the manor of Catmere Hall in Littlebury, county Essex, in 1443, and was buried in Littlebury, June 15, 1546. He is incorrectly said to have married Joan, daughter of Sir John Fitzwilliams, Loard of Elmynand Spotsbury, and widow of Thomas Bendish of Bowre Hall, in Steeple Bumstead, Esq, who died in 1477, leaving issue Richard Bendish Esq.
More About William Bradbury: Bradbury Memorial #: E-8.509 Burial: June 15, 1546, Littlebury, Essex, England.510, 511
More About William Bradbury and Elisabeth: Marriage: England.
Children of William Bradbury and Elisabeth are:
+Matthew Bradbury, b. Bet. 1505 - 1510, Wicken Bonant, Essex, England512, d. June 19, 1585, Wicken Bonhunt, Essex, England513, 514, 515.
William Bradbury (b. 1480, d. Abt. June 15, 1546)
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