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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., The Bradburys of Medford and their ancestry. (search)
first Bradbury to settle within the present limits of our city, to the death of a granddaughter in 1882, this family was here more than a hundred years; and if we look up the Bradbury line, we shall find its members to be descended from good English stock, from eminently respectable and intelligent men and women, well educated, many of them talented, and occupying prominent positions in public affairs. The name Bradbury is of Saxon origin, and of the class styled local. Its components are Brad, meaning broad, and Bury, which is variously defined as a house, a hill, a domain, and a town. It is found variously spelled in English records as Bradberrie, Bradberrye, Bradberry, and Bradbury. The latter is the orthography adopted by the emigrant Thomas, and followed by his descendants generally. Unlike most local names, it never had a wide diffusion in England, and tracing it back through two centuries previous to the settlement of this country, it seems to have narrowed its limits and