William Bradford Family Tree and Descendants The History Junkie

W illiam Bradford and his wife Dorothy traveled on the Mayflower; they made the decision to leave behind their five-year old son, John, behind, and have him come later. Dorothy drowned 7 December 1620, accidentally falling overboard while the ship was anchored off Cape Cod Harbor. William was the son of William & Alice (Hanson) Bradford, baptized at Austerfield, Yorkshire, on 19 March 1589/90.. This family tree overview brings together available ancestry resources for William Bradford, including ancestor charts, surname views, source-based family details, and documented relationships to famous kin. Family trees on FamousKin.com are designed to show how individuals fit within a larger network of documented ancestry, shared family lines, and famous kin relationships.

William Bradford was born to Alice and William Bradford in Austerfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, and was baptized on March 19, 1589/90. The family possessed a large farm and were considered wealthy and influential in a time when most of their countrymen were farmers of modest means. Bradford's grandfather was William Bradforthe who had at least four children, including Bradford's father, and.. When William Bradford and his wife Dorothy left Holland for the new world, John Bradford was left behind in Leiden, Netherlands. It was perhaps 20 years before he joined his father and the other family members he had never met in Plymouth Colony. William Bradford Jr was the firstborn son born to William and Alice in 1624.