Bradley is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad meadow" in Old English.[1] It is also an Anglicisation of the Irish name Ó Brolacháin (also O’Brallaghan) from County Tyrone in Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork, and England as the adjacent extract from Irish Names, page 445, 1901, confirms. This particular family lines traces from Cork with the first recorded name being two John Bradleys, father and son. The second was born in 1770.
The Fraser line has been traced back to Donald Fraser in Invernessshire with his son Alexander marrying Margaret Unthank. Margaret was bon in Sandsend,Lyte. Her line traces back to James Unthank who lived in Kirkleatham, Cleveland, Yorkshire. He would have been the 11th GGF of Kathleen Fraser.
In 1884 he married Margaret o Keefe born in 1852 in Limerick. Ireland. Together they had nine children -Norah, Ellen,Edmond, Margaret. Mary. Catherine, Rachel. Anastasia amd Timothy.
He married Australian born Catherine Courtney in Oct 1975 in Hokitika. They had 10 children.
In 1915 he married Mary Claphame Moss shortly after her arrival in NZ following her father's death.
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