Bradford (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of September 13, 2020:
- Bradford surname project contacted
- Recruiting men whose Y-DNA ancestor is Gov. William Bradford for Next Generation Sequence/Whole Genome Sequence (NGS/WGS) testing. Interested individuals can contact Raymond Wing email: wing (DOT) genealogist (AT) gmail (DOT) net
Background
Paper trail
William Bradford was baptized at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England on 19 Mar 1589/90, son of William Bradford (II) and Alice Hanson. His father, William (II), died 15 Jul 1591 and William (III) went to live with his paternal grandparents, William Bradford (I) and Alice Morton. His Bradford grandparents died by 1600 and his mother died in 1597, so before he was aged ten, the future Gov. was raised by an uncle, Robert Bradford.
Some sources list a pedigree for Gov. Bradford beyond his grandfather, William (I), but this pedigree has not been verified.
Bradford married his first wife (Dorothy May) at Amsterdam, Holland on 9 Dec 1613. She had only one child, John (born about 1618) before her death at Plymouth Harbor in December 1620. This son (John) married Martha Bourne, widow of (Lieut) Thomas Tracy. Martha had several children by Tracy, but none by her second husband. Thus, all of the descendants of Gov. Bradford are by his second wife.
Bradford married his second wife, Alice Carpenter at New Plimouth Colony, 14 Aug 1623. This was the fourth marriage to occur within this colony. They had a daughter, Mercy (born before the 1627 Land Division) and two sons (who both carried on the Y-DNA of the Bradford family):
Second Generation
(Maj.) William (IV) born 17 Jun 1624. He was was married three times, first abt 1650 Alice Richards; second to an unknown woman; and third aft 1677 to Mary (At)WOOD Holmes. By his first wife he had nine children: Maj. John, William (V), Lt. Thomas, Mercy, Alice, Hannah, Melatiah, Lt. Samuel, Mary and Sarah. By his second wife he had a son, Joseph. By his third wife he had four sons: Israel, Ephraim, David & Hezekiah.
Joseph born 1630. He married Jael Hobart (daughter of Rev. Peter) at Hingham 25 May 1664. They had three sons: Joseph, Elisha & Peter.
DMA Results I-BY351
Previous Y-DNA testing
Previous Y-STR testing through the Mayflower Society[1] and the Bradford surname DNA project[2] has indicated that the Bradford lineage belongs to the Y haplogroup I-M253, which is quite common in Northern Europe and Northwestern Europe. Plugging in the modal 111 STR values for the family into the Nevgen Haplogroup Predictor tool gives a prediction the family falls under: I-M253>DF29>Z63>BY151>BY351 with a 95.6% probability.
NGS/WGS testing
NGS/WGS testing of Bradford descendant(s) would further refine the clade as well as possibly differentiate the branches of descendants.
- ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mayflowersociety/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
- ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/public/bradford?iframe=ycolorized (Group 3) NOTE: At the bottom of this group are individuals who are NOT descended from Gov. William Bradford and fall under a different Haplogroup of I-M253.
References and External Links
- Wakefield, Robert S. and Lainhart, Ann Smith, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: vol. 22 Bradford General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 2004
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References, (from contemporary records & scholarly journals) [www.stewartbooks.com Stewart Publishing & Printing], Canada. Second edition 2015
- Governor William Bradford Compact Bradford Family Association founded in 1946
- Wikipedia biography of Gov. William Bradford
- History Channel biography of Gov. William Bradford
- Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History biography of William Bradford
- "A William Bradford Web Page
- Wikipedia article on Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantaion
- excerpts from Bradford's novel Of Plymouth Plantation
- Of Plymouth Plantation available for download in various formats
