Bradley Family History
Bradley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places
throughout England named Bradley, from Old English brad
‘broad’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.Scottish:
habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire.Irish
(Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó
Brolcháin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bradley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bradley families
 719 - 1,435  240 - 718 |
 1 - 239  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bradley families
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2,595 - 5,187 866 - 2,594 |
1 - 865 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bradley families
|
320 - 637 107 - 319 |
1 - 106 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bradley Family Origin
Bradley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bradley
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Bradley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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