The Family of Dorothy Bradley

Peter Bradley and Dorothy Gardener were married on 16 December 1811 at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Lancaster, Lancashire. They had nine children - including one set of twins. Dorothy, their youngest, was born on the 24th and baptized on the 28th of September 1828 at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Lancaster, where her mother and father married almost 17 years earlier. The sponsors were William and Mary Bradley and the officiating priest was Father George Brown.

By the time of the 1871 Census most of their children had either died or moved away to start families of their own. The exceptions being Elizabeth - who was by then a widow - and Dorothy, who at 42 may have been afraid that she would be "left on the shelf".

1871 CENSUS OF CLAUGHTON-ON-BROCK, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
Peter Bradley	Head	Mar.	M	80	Farmer of 30 Acres	Heaton, Lancashire
Dorothy Bradley	Wife	Mar.	F	81	Farmer's Wife	Claughton, Lancashire
Elizabeth O'Neil	Dau.	Widow	F	49	Farmer's Daughter	Heaton, Lancashire
Dorothy Bradley	Dau.	Unm.	F	35	Farmer's Daughter	Heaton, Lancashire

Dorothy's mother died on 1 December 1871 at the age of 82 and was buried in the churchyard at St Mary and St Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Bonds, Garstang, Lancashire. Her father Peter died 4 years later on 8 November 1875, aged 85 years and was buried along side his wife.

A little less than a year after her father's death Dorothy, age 48, married Barnaby Morton.

MONUMENT INSCRIPTION:

(FRONT:) "Pray for the soul of Joseph Bradley, of Claughton, who died at Cark, March 10th 1863, aged 38 years. Also of Dorothy Bradley, his mother, who departed the 1st of December 1871, aged 82 years. Also of Peter Bradley, husband of the above, who died November 8th 1875, aged 85 years. Also Edmund Bradley, son and brother of the above, who died January 7th 1891, aged 74 years." (REAR:) "Pray for the soul of Elizabeth O'Neal, who died March 7th 1903, aged 85 years. Also for Dorothy Morton, her sister, who died April 4th 1904, aged 75 years. R.I.P." (Buried in plot H, no.8 (a family grave) at SS Mary and Michael Roman Catholic Church, Garstang)

NOTE:
1:	Living at Claughton-on-Brock. (RG10-4227, folio 65/2)
2:	Miss Dorothy Bradley was actually 42 at the time of this census.