Counterpart of lease Edmund Bradley to Messrs Perry and Gilbert dated 15 day of November 1814 leases a piece of ground with workshop on the East side of Rose Street Long Acre in parish of St. Martins in the Fields . Edmund is described as an Officer of Excise dwelling at Bell St. Paddington Middlesex.
Marriage entry Page 101 entry 349 Edmund Bradley, batchelor of ther parish of St Austin London, & Sarah CHAPMAN of the parish of St Botolph Aldersgate london, married by Licence of Bishop of London 28 July 1793 by me H. FRASER curate. Both sign. Witnesses John KINTON and Martin PLATTS (who appears on several entries)
35 St Augustine is shortened to St Austin. It was west of St Paul’s cathedral and destroyed in 1941 leaving the tower as part of St Paul’s Choir school
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22 July 1831
Edmund Bradley No. 29 Mary St Fitzroy Square Gent
On his household goods wearing apparel printed books & plate in his now Dwelling house only situate as aforesaid private brick
Two Hundred Pounds 1/5 £200
House only situate at Watford in Herts in occupation of Jones private brick & tiled
Two hundred & forty pounds 1/5 £240
House only adjoining in occupation of West a Shopkeeper brick and timber tiled Sixty pounds 2/5 £60
Stable and chaisehouse adjoining in a Field near timber & tiled Fifty pounds
2/5 £50
House only at No 24 Lisle St Leicister Square in occupation of Smith a Printsetter brick
Six hundred pounds 1/5 £600 (Total) £1150
C.R.Pole B. Pearse G.W.Norman
77/546 Re****.
1841 census 6 Harmood St St Pancras HO 107/683/3 (Kentish Town)
Edmund BRADLEY 70 Ind? Y (born in County)
Sarah BRADLEY 50 Y
1851 census 13 Prospect Terrace St Pancras Marylebone HO 107/1495
Hannah WOOLF Head Widow 44 Dress maker b Reading Bucks
Edmund BRADLEY Lodger Widower 80 Independent b Midx St Martin’s Westmr.
Will made 9 March 1846. late of Hampstead but at present residing in Hereford, gentleman.
To Edmund Bradley when he attains 21 (Edmund Bradley junior’s son, who must have died young) £100, silver watch that belonged to his late grandmother, and a gold finger ring.
To my brothers and sisters £100 between them
To Thomas Shaw my friend director of Mrs Spottiswoods printing Office London, and my son in law Enenezer Child of Hereford musical instrument seller, £5 each.
All the rest to be divided equally between Edmund his son, and daughters Sarah wife of Ebenezer Child, and Anna wife of Thomas Main of Watford near Daventry coal merchant
He left £2209.
Probate granted 29 Nov 1853, to Thomas Clark Shaw of 10 Stonefield St Islington, printer, and Ebenezer Child of Broad St Hereford, dealer in musical instruments, for Edmund Bradley of Prospect place Grays Inn Road, gentleman, Consistory Court of London
114Death certificate shows him as 84 years old, gentleman, dying of Influenza 13 days, pneumonia 6 days certified, informant was Hannah KIRKUS present at death.
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Spouses
DeathNov/Dec 1825, Upper Ogle? St. Parish of St Marylebone35
Burial2 Dec 1825, St Marylebone35
Homes
21 Mary St. William St. Hampstead Road in 1823 (from original letter)
of the parish of St Botolph Aldersgate on marr entry, (which was N of St Paul’s on Gresham st.
Information
Shown in the parish burial record as ‘from birth Chapman’.
Executor And Benefactor Of Her Uncle Thomas' Will. Her uncle Thomas CHAPMAN dies at Thanet and was a solicitor at Margate, although he also owned 19 Buckingham St in the Strand. There are Chapmans in the parish register there, in the 1790s Abraham and Mary, William and Martha, and Reverend William (vicar of this parish)and Ann Chapman are having children, including several Sarahs who die. However these may be coincidence, Rev William dies in 1810.
A Chapman is also shown on the tithe map etc at Watford owning land next to the Bradleys on High St
Marriage28 Jul 1793, St Augustine & St Faith85,35
Baptism5 Dec 1785, St Sepulchre Holborn35 Age: <1
Information
some doubt about baptism, but seems likely, daughter of James and Ann Clark.
at second marriage to Edmund Bradley senior she would have been Sarah Elizabeth HASWELL. She marries Edmund at St John Hackney the same year (1828) that her daughter Margaret Haswell marries Edmund’s son, Edmund Bradley jnr. (info from Pallot’s index)
85On Pallot’s index it says Edmund is of St Marylebone, and they are widow and widower.
Aunt Ware is godmother, and William Ware godfather to one of sons,
A William Ware marries a Sarah Clark at St Leonard Shoreditch on 6 Sept 1778 by banns, both sign, witnesses James Ware and William Burgess, Sarah is presumably James Clasrk’s sister therefore “Aunt Ware”
Marriage1828, St John Hackney85