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Position:Home>Genealogy> What is A Bradbury or Breadbury?Question:My great great grandfather is listed as a Bradbury as and occupation in some of the family records. No one I know seems to have the answer. Do YOU? thanks. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My great great grandfather is listed as a Bradbury as and occupation in some of the family records. No one I know seems to have the answer. Do YOU? thanks. Have a look at the link posted below, it says there was a place called "Bradbury" in Durham between 1837 and 1896, Bracon Ash NFK Henstead Bradbourne DBY Ashbourne Bradbury DUR 1837-1896 Stockton 1896- Sedgefield Bradden NTH Towcester http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/... I have had a look on another site that lists archaic occupations. http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html but there's nothing on there to indicate what sort of employment it was, sorry. "Bradbury" sounds like it was originally a place name ("bury" is an old English suffix that means "town") And of course, it's a common surname. My only guess is that it's the name of a business where your great-great-grandfather was employed. That, or it's a transcribing error---someone entered data in the wrong column or misread a handwritten notation. My friend's last name is Bradley but I am not positive what it means, but I read the other answer and I agree with the other answer. You might want to use www.ancestry.com s they are a good site to research your ancestors. Try that site out! Bye! I think Bradbury was a well-known manufacturer of industrial equipment from England. The equipment might be (I know some of it was, at least), called a "Bradbury Mixer", or a "Bradbury Ram", or etc. Some brand names are so entrenched that a person who operated a particular piece of equipment might be called a "Bradbury Operator", or, just "Bradbury". A little research shows them as a manufacturer of sewing machine equipment and motorcycles. Closed operations in 1923 Then, again, this might be a bit of a stretch. Got any better ideas? |