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William Bradshaw
1826
Male
Person 00003455
Born 08/10/1826 at Sutton, Cambs (FC)
Father: Benjamin Bradshaw (1795)
Mother: Hannah Howsden (1803)
Christened 36/11/1826 at Sutton (H)
1836 at Sutton, Cambs ()
mother died - taken in by her family?
1841 at Sutton, Cambs (C)
13, servant, living on High Street with family of Thomas Upshaw, farmer
around 1842 at ? ()
apprentice baker
1851 at Sutton, Cambs (C)
journeyman baker, 24, with Mary Custance (nee Shaw) - miller and baker, 51, and also servant Sarah Bradshaw (26)
Married 20/11/1855 at Sutton, Cambs (RC)
to Kezia Ellwood (1834)
Dec 1855 Ely District 3b/1325
Married at Baptist Meeting House, Sutton, before the registrar, William Cuttriss. William, bachelor, 28, journeyman baker, son of
Benjamin, carpenter; Kezia, spinster, 22, daughter of William, ag lab. Witnesses John Randall and (sister) Martha Bradshaw .
? possibly 1857 at Sutton, Cambs (C)
voted in General Election
? from 1860 at Stretham, Cambs ()
? 1861 at Stretham, Cambs (C)
Baker at Green End age 34 with wife, two kids and servant (Jane Allen, 13)
? 1869 at Stretham, Cambs (S)
Post Office Directory incorrectly lists him as Thomas Bradshaw, baker
? 1871 at Stretham, Cambs (C)
Baker, 41, at Lower Road Bake Office with wife and 7 oldest children plus two servants: William Mailes, 21, baker's assistant, and
Elizabeth Taylor, 14, general domestic from Grunty Fen
? 1877 at Stretham, Cambs (S)
Cambs archives have record of Evans and Sons:
Absolute surrender: Stretham: John Jacobs, shop keeper, formerly of Stretham, now of 162, Newmarket Road, Cambridge, to
William Bradshaw, baker, for £60: cottage with yard etc. in Stretham. 27 December, 1877
283/B2/56
? 1881 at Stretham, Cambs (C)
54. Baker & flour dealer at Green End Bake Office, Stretham, with wife and 8 children.
Died 05/03/1886 at Stretham, Cambs (RW)
age 59, 3b/434
Will proved 6/4/1886. "The will of William Bradshaw late of Stretham in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge, baker, who died 5
March 1886 at Stretham, was proved at Peterborough by Kezia Bradshaw, widow, the relict, and Arthur William bradshaw and
Benjamin Herbert Bradshaw, bakers, the sons , all of Stretham, the executors." Personal estate £3059 12s 4d. (perhaps £300000
now)
Funeral 10/03/1886 at Stretham, Cambs (TB)
gravestone in Churchyard - age 59
Children
Martha Bradshaw (1856)
Anna Bradshaw (1857)
Emma Bradshaw (1859)
Arthur William Bradshaw (1862)
Benjamin Herbert Bradshaw (1864)
Julia Bradshaw (1866)
Charles Bradshaw (1868)
Alfred Bradshaw (1870)
Harry Elwood Bradshaw (1873)
Percival (Percy) Bradshaw (1877)
Last updated 07/11/2023
Source Key: A=Baptist records B=Burial register C=Census F=Family H=Christening register I=IGI L=Letter M=Marriage register P=Personally known R=Registry office (certificate or index) S=Website T=Tombstone W=Will Y=Boyds marriage index
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