Genealogy

Bradshaw of Brampton-en-le-Morthen

Godfrey Bradshaw, of Bradshaw and Windley, married Emma, daughter of Anthony Shalcross, of Shalcross, Derbyshire. Children:

• Francis Bradshaw, of Bradshaw, esq. the head of the family in 1611, married Ann, daughter and co-heir of Humphrey Stafford, of Eyam
• Leonard, who had a son of the same name living in 1625
• Geoffery
• Peter Bradshaw, citizen and merchant tailor of London, made his will 23rd May 1625, devising property at Ulster, in Ireland; Duffield, Bonsall, Castleton, Ferneylee, Coombs, and Bentley Mills, and other property in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, and London, and personalty to his wife, Amy Johnson, sister of John Johnson and the Lady Burd, and to his children, Edward, Peter, Francis, Paul, Thomas, William, and Elizabeth.
• Henry
• Anne
• Grace
• Maria
• Bridget
• Ellen

The Bradshaws left Eyam and came to Brampton to escape the plague. They never returned.

Francis Bradshaw, of Bradshaw, esq. who married the co-heiress of Stafford, was father of Francis Bradshaw, of Brampton-en-le-Morthen. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Vesey, of Brampton. Francis Bradshaw of Bradshaw, was Sheriff of Derby in 1630-31. He died 21st December, 1659

In the Brampton Chapel of St.Helen's Church Treeton are many memorials of this family. Francis Bradshaw, of Brampton, the son and heir, died 29th December 1677. On his monument is a brass with the Arms of Bradshaw and Vescy, quarterly.

Inscription reads: Herein interred the body of Elizabeth daughter of John Vesey of Brampton Gentleman Sometime wife to Francis Bradshaw of Brampton Esq. and also wife to John Bolle Esq. who departed this life the fourteenth day of March 1676.

Francis Bradshaw had two sons Francis and John. Francis succeeded all the estates and died unmarried in 1677 when the estates were left to his brother John who continued living at Brampton.

The head of the following Pedigree, John Bradshaw of Brampton, esq. Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1717, son and heir of Francis. He married Dorothy Eyre. John died in 1726 leaving a son George and daughter Mary. George succeeded to the Bradshaw estates, and died childless in 1735, the estates devolved on his sister's son as heir at law

A George Bradshaw had a daughter Mary, who married John Garland of Todwick.

In 1699 Henry Duke of Norfolk leased to John Bradshaw of Brampton, and William Clayton of Lincolns Inn a messuage in Todwick, and the Great Moor Crofts in Dinnington, and the Little Moor Crofts in Aston.

Will of John Bradshaw of Brampton

Dated 1719. Proved 24 January 1727

He mentions his estates in Derbyshire and Yorkshire

Names:

Eldest Son George
Son John
Son in law Joshua Galliard
Daughter Galliard
Daughter Mary Bradshaw
Property in Morthen and Whiston¹ ... in the possession of Christopher Radley and John Kitchin. Hay and Corn in Guilthwaite ¹
Land in Brampton purchased of Thomas Malinson
Grandaughter Elizabeth Galliard

Witnesses:
Elizabeth Garland
John Billam
Robert H...man

Codicil 1722. I give and devise to my son John Bradshaw besides the Annuity of £50 which I have given him by my Will the sum of £500 and also I give unto him and his Heirs half part of all my Lead Mines and all my shares, parts and interest in Lead Mines as was opened and not opened and all Store/stores? possessions whatsoever which I have or shall have at the time of my decease.
In the presence of E. Wright Jos. Heywood William Johnson 11/10/1722

Reference to Properties

¹ Mortgage in fee. By John Bradshaw of Brampton parish of Treeton, esq. to Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, parish of Wath-on-Dearne, Rotherham, esq., for £1200, of two third parts of tithes of corn, gain and hay arising from Morthen and Guilthwaite which tithes are now let to George Westby, gent. and Christopher Radley at a rent of £20.1s.8d. per annum, a messuage at Morthen with closes called the Croft, the Brecks, Upper New Close, Spring Close, 11 acres in Dimple Field, 12½ acres in Stow Bridge Field, 2½ acres in Morphett Field, 7 acres 3 roods in High Field, 22 acres in the Lees and Four Lands Close (total 98 acres) in the tenure of Robert and John Kitchin at a rent of £46.16s.8d. and also a capital messuage at Morthen with closes called Cakerflatt Close, Morphett Close, Intaile Close, Moor Close, the Crofts, Plonk Close, 3 acres in Morphett Field, 3 acres in Linwood Field, 4 acres in Letley Field, 4 acres in Dimple Field, 3½ acres in Stow Bridge Field, 2 cow gates on the Moor, Gravill Mills Close and 5 acres in the fields (total 57½ acres) in the tenure of Christopher Radley at a rent of £23.5s. per annum. Creation dates: 31 January/1 February 1706/7. 31 January/1 February 1706/7.