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08-May-18
Origin of the
Name Bradshaw

Non nobis solum
nati sumus
The
origin of the name Bradshaw comes from the Township of Bradshaw in the Parish of
Bolton-Le-Moors, Lancashire, England. In the early 13th century this old
district of Bolton was called "Bradeshaghe" meaning a "broad wood" or
copse.
(motto - We
are not born for ourselves alone)
The Parish of Bolton-Le-Moors,
Lancashire
Township of Bradshaw
“In 1298, William son of Richard (son of Ughtred)
de Bradshagh and Mabel his wife, were in possession of the manors of Haigh and Blackrod, which were Mabel's right as heir of the last-named Hugh le Norreys.
Her husband from his name is supposed to have been a descendant of the Bradshaghs of Bradshaw, near Turton.
”
Ref: A
History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. 4
"Of the period 1350 -1500, we
have but fragmentary evidence of the Bradshaw family and their activities at
Bradshaw, but the name de Bradshaw occurs many times in inquisitions post
mortem, marriage settlements, and indeed law suits."
Extracts from Lords of The Manor of Bradshaw by James J Francis
(1977),
by kind permission of
Turton Local History Society
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Shield above the Doorway
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Shield above the Window
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Bradshaw Hall - 18th Century
Bradshaw Hall before it was
demolished in 1948
(photographs courtesy of Richard
Lee Bradshaw)
Bradshaw Hall showing 17th
century mantelpiece
(photograph courtesy of Bolton
Museum)
(Location - 53deg 36'40N & 2deg 24'07W)
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Bradshaw of Marple Hall, Cheshire
On 27th March 1694, John Bradshaw Senior entered into a legal contract for
the sale of the remainder of his estate and Lordship to Henry Bradshaw of Marple
Hall. The sale was completed within six months and "included the Coat of Arms (Bradshaw of Bradshaw) of John Bradshaw the father and the son and liberty
to quarter the same with the said Henry Bradshaw's own Coat of Arms" - selling
price £4000.
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Marple Hall became
derelict in the 1940's and was
eventually demolished and grassed
over by Marple Council. |
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Bradshaw of Haigh, Lancashire
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Sir William Bradshaw of Haigh
Wigan, Lancashire |
(Photograph courtesy of Richard Lee Bradshaw)

Sir Roger Bradshaigh, first Baronet, was born
on 13 January 1628 at Haigh Hall, near Wigan and died 31 March 1684. Sir
Roger had been responsible for establishing the Haigh Colliery as one of the
largest in Lancashire. When Sir Roger Bradshaw, the last Baronet died in 1787 without
issue, the Manor and Estate
passed on to his sister Elizabeth who
was married to John the son of Sir Henry Edwin.
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Bradshaw of
Duffield, Derbyshire, England
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Anthonie Bradshaw
of Duffield, Derbyshire
(1545-1614) |
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Near this place lies the body
of Samuel Bradshaw of Holebrook,
Gent, who served King William, Queen Anne and King
George near 30 years as Receiver General of Their Majesties Land Tax in the County
of Derby ..... He Died ..... August 19th 1716 Aged 64 |

Colonel Joseph Bradshaw
Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath died in Command of the 1st.
Battalion 60th. Royal Rifles, at Kussowlie, in the East Indies on the 18th. day of
October 1850 aged forty four years .................... |
Photographs by
kind permission of St. Alkmund's Parish Church, Duffield, Derbyshire
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Bradshaw Hall, Eyam, Derbyshire, England

Front view before it collapsed in 1961 |

Rear view - March 2009 |

“Bradshaw Hall was built about 1611
as a three story extension to the east side of Stafford Hall by Francis
Bradshaw, great grandson of Francis who married Anne, daughter of Humphrey
Stafford, in 1565. The widow and daughter of Squire George Bradshaw fled the
village at the onset of the plague in 1665 and never returned.”
Eyam Museum.
(This account of Elizabeth fleeing Eyam in 1665 at the outbreak of the
plague is disputed. George Bradshaw died in 1646 and Elizabeth was left to raise five children.
In 1660, she left for nearby Brompton, leaving Bradshaw Hall, Eyam unoccupied)
“About 1630,
George Bradshaw,
gentleman of Bradshaw in Derbyshire, married Elizabeth Callum, daughter of Sir
Hugh Callum and Mary F Emerson of Cloughwater”, Co Cavan.
O'Harts Irish
Pedigrees
George (1587-1646) of Bradshaw
Hall in Eyam may well have been a merchant in Dublin. He was involved with his
Uncle Peter who had lands in Ireland. Peter was a prosperous merchant and
operated out of London, at The Sign of the Antelope, in Watling Street.
Richard Lee Bradshaw
George's wife, Elizabeth
(1613-1671), was the daughter of Captain (later Sir) Hugh Culham (Cullum) of Cloughouter Castle in County Cavan. She may have been born at Cloughouter. Hugh
Culham was the son of Hugh Culme, Esq. of Chanston and Cannonleigh, Devonshire.
Internet Source
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Bradshaw Hall,
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England
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1620 Francis
Bradshawe
The Jacobean Hall is
located in Bradshaw Edge Township in the Parish of
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire
(written above archway) |
Bradshaw Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith - March 2009 |

Inner/ Hall Side of Gateway - 2009 |

Outer side of Gateway - 2009 |
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"Over the old gateway at Bradshaw, which is
in good preservation, his own name and the date (1620) have been carved on
the side facing the Hall over a shield, on which is a curious device which
has puzzled every modern student of heraldry who has seen it. Lord
Hawkesbury, who has recently been kind enough to search into the question,
is of the opinion that it is a badge or cognizance, and Mr. P.
Carlyon-Britton, of London, that he should describe it as 'a thorn between six nails.' With this assistance, a possible solution suggests itself,
which, if correct, is at least amusing. That the device is a rebus on the
name Bradshawe, viz, six nails for the plural 'Brads', a species of nail,
and the thorn for the old English 'Haw' hence Brads-haw. This suggests
a further possibility, viz, whether the scroll of foliage surrounding the
shield may not be a spray of barberry, the whole being in honour of Barbara Bradshawe, whose name would thus appropriately follow that of her husband,
as her initials did upon the stone of the previous year. This would account
for the otherwise curious absence on the main gateway of any reference to
her. We must not forget in this relation the acrostic of Anthony Bradshawe
at Duffield. On the outer side of the gateway is a shield, bearing a
coat-of-arms, as follows; -
Argent, two bendlets between
two martlets sable (Bradshawe), Impaling, or, a chevron, gules, between
three martlets, sable (Stafford) with a crest above, a stag at gaze
(statant) proper
under a vine tree, fruited, proper (Bradshawe).
The tricking of the arms bears
the impress of the work of an amateur. The Stafford arms, borne by his
mother as an heiress, ought to have been quartered by Francis Bradshawe,
with the Bradshawe arms on the dexter shield; while the Davenport arms, as
borne by his wife, should have been impaled. This error has misled
genealogists into a supposition that the Hall and arch were built by his father........"
Analysis by Charles Eyre Bradshaw Bowles and
courtesy of Richard Lee Bradshaw
Fire Surround thought to have originated from
Bradshaw Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith
Bradshaw Hall was built in 1620 and the fire
surround is dated 1621
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Qui vit content tient assez 21
FrancisBradshaweAnne |
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Arms - Two Bendlets between two Martlets.
Crest – On a wreath, on a mount a stag statant. under a vine, fructed.
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In 2010, the fire surround was installed in a Listed House in
South East England
(Photographs courtesy of Alan George)
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Henry Bradshaw of Halton Hall,
Buckinghamshire

In
1545/6 Henry Bradshaw purchased
the Manor of Halton from Henry VIII for
the sum of 800
marks. Henry was
Solicitor General of England 1540-45
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Pray for the Souls of Henry Bradshawe Esquire Chief Baron of
the Exchequer of the Lord King and Johan his wife which
certain Henry died the XXVII Day of July Ano Dom MDLIII and
in the VII year of the reign of King E VI on whose soul May
God have Mercy |
Photograph & Translation courtesy of St. Michael & All Angels Church, Halton, Buckinghamshire
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Here Lyeth the Bodye of
Johan Bradshawe daughter and coheire of John Hurste of
Kingston on Temes in the county of Surry Gent, who
--- and to her second husband Henry Bradshawe Esq,
late Lord Baron of the Xchequer ---
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Photographs courtesy of St. Giles Church, Noke, Oxfordshire
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Bradshaw of Co. Limerick & Tipperary
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Farmyard View - May 2009
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Rear View -
May 2009 |
Sir Roger Bradshaw's (1608-1657) son, Robert Bradshaw 1643 -
1718), came to Ireland in 1662 with his
mother Elizabeth nee' Bradshaw and brother, and lived in the
above castle - Castletown, Coonagh, County
Limerick
(52 deg 35' 03.20" N, 8 deg 15' 18.20" W)
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William Bradshaw VC of Thurles, Co. Tipperary
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Sacred to the Memory
of
WILLIAM BRADSHAW V.C.
Late Assistant Surgeon 32nd Light
Infantry Who Died on the 9th March 1861 He served with the 50th Reg't At the siege and fall of Sebastopol
From the 8th Nov 1854 (medal, clasp & Turkish medal) and with the 90th Light Infantry
During the Indian Campaign of 1857
and 58 was present with Havelock's Column at
the actions of the 21st and 23rd Sep' was wounded
at the latter Relief and subsequent defence of
Lucknow Defence of the Alumbach under Outram,
and Fall of Lucknow, (medal, clasp and
Victoria Cross)

QUI VIT CONTENT TIENT
ASSEZ |
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QUI VIT CONTENT TIENT ASSEZ
In memory of
Dr. GEORGE BRADSHAW
of Thurles
Who died on the 14th August 1867
Aged 68 years
His wife
ALICIA
Who died on the 31st October 1852
Aged 52 years
and their son
Dr. JOHN BRADSHAW
Staff surgeon who died at sea
on the 19th July 1858
Aged 32 years
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In memory of
Dr FRANCIS BRADSHAW L.R.C.S.I.
youngest son of
Dr. GEORGE BRADSHAW
of Thurles who died of fever at Sierra Leone
on the 6th of April 1866
Aged 26 years
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Memorials in
St. Mary's Church of Ireland, Thurles, Co. Tipperary
(Photographs, courtesy of Tim Robinson & permission of St. Mary's
Church) |
Bradshaw of Milecross Lodge, Newtownards, Co. Down
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Milecross Lodge,
built in 1780
by
Thomas Bradshaw |
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Bradshaw Coat of Arms
The book Victoria History of
Lancashire, states that in 1306, Robert de Bradshaw was the
first Bradshaw named tenant of the Township. The coat of
Arms - Bradshaw of Bradshaw, is the original, from which
subsequent Bradshaw Arms have been derived.
Bradshaw
Coats of Arms include;
Bradshaw of Bradshaw (Township of Bradshaw, Bolton), Bradshaw of Haigh Hall
(near Wigan, Lancashire), Bradshaw of Marple (Cheshire), Bradshaw of D’arcy
Lever (near Bolton, Lancashire) and Bradshaw of Milecross (Newtownards, Co
Down).
Senior Branch of Bradshaw Family |

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Bradshaw of Bradshaw,
Lancashire |
John Bradshaw of D'arcy Lever,
Lancashire |
Roger Bradshaw of Aspull,
Lancashire 1664 |
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John Bradshaw of
Prisall,
Lancaster (Skale) |
John Bradshaw of Lancashire
1624 |
Henry
Bradshaw of Halton, Buckinghamshire |

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Bradshaw of Haigh, Lancashire
(College of Arms) |
Bradshaw of
Haigh, Lancashire
(Sir
Bernard Burke) |
Sir William Bradshaw of
Haigh, Lancashire |
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James Bradshaw of
Hope, Lancashire (Pendleton) |
Bradshaw of Wyndley
Derbyshire c.1567 |
Bradshaw of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire |
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Anthony Bradshaw of Duffield,
Derbyshire |
Bradshaw of Marple,
Cheshire |
Frank Bradshaw JP. of
Lifton Park, Devon |
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Richard Bradshaw of Bonny,
Nottinghamshire |
Bradshaw of Oola,
Co. Tipperary |
Bradshaw of Milecross,
Co. Down 1844 |
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Bradshaw of St.
Dogmaels
Pembrokeshire |
Bradshaw of Shropshire |
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Bradshaw of D'arcy Lever, Lancashire
John Bradshaw of Darcy Lever, Lancashire - younger son of
Bradshaw of Bradshaw in the county of Lancashire.
This 10-generation pedigree ended with two sons James Edward Bradshaw (b.1811)
and John Bradshaw (b. 1814)

Arms -
Argent between two bendlets three escallops in bend sable
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Roger Bradshaw of Aspull, Co. Lancaster
A
four-generation pedigree dated 1664 and headed by Roger Bradshaw
of Aspull County Lancaster.
The pedigree ends with two daughters of Sir James Bradshaw, who
was born circa. 1647 and Knighted in 1672

Arms - Argent between two Bendlets three Mullets in bend
sable
Crest - On a wreath (Argent & Sable) On a mount vert a buck
statant (attired Or) between an Oak tree proper
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William Bradshaw of Halton Hall, Lancaster

Arms - Argent three Annulets between two Bendlets sable
Crest - On a Wreath (Argent & Sable) A stag proper attired
unguled and charged on the shoulder with an Annulet Or
standing
beneath a Hawthorn Tree proper
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John Bradshaw of Lancashire
In January 1624, John Bradshaw of Lancashire was granted
Armorial Bearings
Deputy
Chamberlain of the Exchequer; successively Rose
Rouge, Rouge Croix and Windsor;
Died at Southwold, Suffolk,
September 1633; buried in St Anne's Chapel,
Westminster [Almonry].

Arms - 2 bends sable & a canton checky argent & azure.
Crest - 2 keys in pale back to back encircled by a crown or,
the keys respectively or and argent
(Reference: British History on
Line)
Arms - Argent two Bendlets Sable a Canton chequy Argent and
Azure
Crest - On a wreath of the colours Two Keys in pale back to
back encircled by a Coronet Or.
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Bradshawe of Halton Hall, Buckinghamshire


Copied from the wall plaque at St. Giles Church, Noke, Oxfordshire
Attorney-General
Henry Bradshawe's Coat of Arms
Asure, two bars gules, between nine Leopards
1506. Argent two bars gu. between nine lions pass, guard.or
Coat of Arms when Chief Baron of the Exchequer
(The General Armoury of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales,
By Bernard Burke)
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Bradshaigh,
or Bradshaw
(Haigh, Co. Lancaster, descended from Sir John Bradshaw, of
Bradshaw, a Saxon
living at the Conquest; the chief of this ancient and
distinguished race at the at the period of the civil wars
was
Sir Roger Bradshaigh, of Haigh,
a gallant and devoted
cavalier, created a baronet in 1679, extinct,
circa 1786).
Qui vit content tient assez
Arms - Argent
(silver) Two bendlets between two Martlets
sable.
(black)
Crest – On a mount vert a stag at gaze ppr. under a vine vert,
fructed gu.
Motto –
Qui vit content tient assez. (He that lives content, has
got enough)
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Sir William Bradshaw of Haigh
Wigan, Lancashire |

Arms - Ar. (Silver) Two bendlets between three
Martlets sa (black)
Crest - On a mount vert a stag at gaze pr. under a vine vert,
fructed gu.
Motto - Qui vit content tient assez
Source: The General Armoury of England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales, by (Sir) Bernard Burke
This 19th century walking stick, with a gold band
showing a Bradshaw shield bearing three Martlets, is associated
with the Bradshaw of Haigh family.
Robert Emanuel Bradshaw is descended from Sir Roger Bradshaw of
Haigh, Co. Lancaster. British History on-line also
shows a Bradshaw of Haigh shield - Argent two Bendlets between
three Martlets sable
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Gold band on a 19th century walking stick
owned by Robert
Emanuel Bradshaw (1854 - 1903/4)
of Co. Tipperary & Dublin |
Arms - Two bendlets between three
Martlets
Crest - On a Wreath, on a mount a stag at gaze pr. under a vine.
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Bradshaw of Oola,
Co. Tipperary
In 1787, William
Harden Bradshaw (1764-1845) of 48 Harecourt Street & XI
Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin; claimed right to "heir male" of
Bradshaigh of Haigh, Lancashire, upon the death of Sir Roger
Bradshaw 4th Baronet, who died without issue.

Qui vit content tient assez
Arms - Argent two Bendlets between two Martlets sable
Crest -
On a mount vert a stag at gaze ppr. under a vine vert, fructed
gu.
Motto - Qui vit content tient assez.
(He that lives content, has got enough)

St.
Mary's Church of Ireland, Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Arms - Argent two Bendlets between two Martlets sable
Crest - On a mount vert a stag Statant, under a vine,
fructed
Motto - Qui vit content tient assez.
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Bradshaw of Milecross, Co. Down
On 6th
June 1844, the College of Arms, London granted a coat of Arms to
Joseph Hoare Bradshaw &
Robert Bradshaw
of Milecross, Newtownards, Co. Down.
(Reference: College of Arms Mss 107, Pages 284
& 285) Joseph and Robert
are great great grandsons of James
Bradshaw, son of William Bradshaw and Elizabeth L Beaumont of Prestwich Yarith
(now Manchester) in Lancashire, England.
James came to Ireland in 1649 as a soldier in Cromwell's army and was
Captain
of the Forlorn Hope at the storming of Drogheda Castle.

Deus mihi spes et tutamen
Arms - Argent three Trefoils
slipped proper within two bendlets Sable all between as many
Martlets Gules
Crest - On a Wreath (Argent and
Sable) "On a Mount Vert a Buck statant beneath an Oak tree
proper"
Motto
-
Deus mihi spes et tutamen (God is my hope and safeguard)
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Bradshaw of Pendleton, Lancashire
A
four-generation pedigree of Bradshaw of Pendleton
headed
by James
Bradshaw of Hope, Lancashire and his wife, Alice
Robinson.

Arms -
Argent a
Cinquefoil Gules pierced of the field between two bendlets
between as many Martlets Sable
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Bradshaw of Derbyshire
A four-generation pedigree headed by William
Bradshaw, the second son of Henry Bradshaw of Bradshaw,
Derbyshire.
(Anthony Bradshaw of Duffield, Derbyshire has similar Arms. See
above)

Arms-Argent on a Torteau a Martlet Or between two Bendlets all
between two Martlets

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Frank Bradshaw, Esq., JP., Lifton Park, Devon

Arms - Argent two Bendlets between two Martlets sable
Crest - A mount vert, thereon a stag statant ppr., gorged
with a collar grenel Or, between two oak trees also ppr.
Motto - Tu ne cede malis (yield not to misfortunes)
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Bradshaw of Shropshire

Arms -
Sa. Two bendlets raguly betw. as many hawks ar. Two fleur-de-lis
of the first, on the pale a cross patonce Or.
Crest - A Wolf's Head erased arg., collared and Lined Or.
Motto -
(Source - Fairbank's Book of Crests - 1905)
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Richard Bradshaw of Bonny, Nottinghamshire

On March 18, 1576, arms was granted to
Anne the wife of Henry Stanley, of Sutton Bennington, Nottinghamshire, daughter of Richard Bradshaw of Bonny,
Nottinghamshire.
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William Philip Bradshaw (1770 - 1827)

NUMEN LUMEN MUNIMEN
(God, My Light, My Protector)
In 2000, the
London College of Arms granted the above Bradshaw Family Patent to all male
descendants of William Philips Bradshaw (1770-1827). The knight's helmet
represents military service, the corn by the stag and in the wheat sheaths are
for the farming /
milling connection.
(Pedigree researched by Richard Lee Bradshaw)
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College of Arms, London
"There is no such thing as a 'coat of arms for a surname'. Many people of
the same surname will often be entitled to completely different coats of arms,
and many of that surname will be entitled to no coat of arms. Coats of arms belong to individuals. For any person to have a right to a coat of arms they
must either have had it granted to them or be descended in the legitimate male
line from a person to whom arms were granted or confirmed in the past."
When married, a woman may unite her arms with those
of her husband in what are called marital arms; their arms are impaled, meaning
placed side by side in the same shield, with those of the man on the dexter and
those of his wife on the sinister. If one spouse belongs to the higher ranks of
an order of chivalry, and thereby entitled to surround his or her arms with a
circlet of the order, it is usual to depict them on two separate shields tilted
towards one another, termed accollé. A married woman may also bear either her
own arms or her husband's arms alone on a shield with a small differencing mark
to distinguish her from her father or husband. If the woman is an heraldic heiress, her arms are
shown on an inescutcheon of pretence (a small shield) in the centre of her
husband's arms. When widowed, a woman continues to use her marital arms, but placed on a lozenge or oval.
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Contributors to
this page include; Turton Local History Society,
Lancashire; Richard Lee Bradshaw, California; Tim
Robinson, Co. Tipperary; John Bradshaw, Tipperary, Co. Tipperary; Bolton Museum, Lancashire; Alan George, Suffolk, Eyam Museum, Derbyshire, St.
Giles Church, Noke, Oxon, St. Michel & All Saints Church Halton, Buckinghamshire & St. Alkmund's Parish Church, Duffield,
Derbyshire
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