Based on logic and hearsay, I am placing Lydia Byrd Bradley and her husband here. **See Major Bradley's entry for specifics.
Lydia's nickname is Liddy; she was the daughter of Edmond Byrd (also seen as Edmund, Bird, and other spellings) and Mary Holderfield, and married Major Marmaduke Bradley, purportedly the son of Dennis Bradley and Sarah Turner, on 19 February 1800 in Wake Co., NC several years before their migration to Bedford Co., TN.
Lydia and her brother Joel were bound as apprentices to Ralph Hollified after their father died. Extrapolation from these records places her birth around August 1778 and in North Carolina, most likely Wake County. Elsewhere, Ralph is (ostensibly more correctly) identified as HOLDERFIELD.
Based on that, some have deduced that Lydia and Joe's mother was Mary "Polly" Holderfield.
Lydia and Major can be found on Ancestry and elsewhere, both listed as having died in 1850. There is no proof that Lydia dropped dead as soon as the 1850 Bedford Co., TN Census was taken, but I cannot list "after June 1850" on Find-a-Grave, so I'm placing June 1850 here.
I have seen, when looking at AncestryDNA ThruLines, that someone has her death at 1858, but I've seen no proof or specifics.
Her husband actually died after June 1860, as he appears in that census.
2019 Update: I have a DNA match for a descendant of Morning Bradley, apparently one of the unknown daughters of Major and Lydia.
Lydia's nickname is Liddy; she was the daughter of Edmond Byrd (also seen as Edmund, Bird, and other spellings) and Mary Holderfield, and married Major Marmaduke Bradley, purportedly the son of Dennis Bradley and Sarah Turner, on 19 February 1800 in Wake Co., NC several years before their migration to Bedford Co., TN.
Lydia and her brother Joel were bound as apprentices to Ralph Hollified after their father died. Extrapolation from these records places her birth around August 1778 and in North Carolina, most likely Wake County. Elsewhere, Ralph is (ostensibly more correctly) identified as HOLDERFIELD.
Based on that, some have deduced that Lydia and Joe's mother was Mary "Polly" Holderfield.
Lydia and Major can be found on Ancestry and elsewhere, both listed as having died in 1850. There is no proof that Lydia dropped dead as soon as the 1850 Bedford Co., TN Census was taken, but I cannot list "after June 1850" on Find-a-Grave, so I'm placing June 1850 here.
I have seen, when looking at AncestryDNA ThruLines, that someone has her death at 1858, but I've seen no proof or specifics.
Her husband actually died after June 1860, as he appears in that census.
2019 Update: I have a DNA match for a descendant of Morning Bradley, apparently one of the unknown daughters of Major and Lydia.
Based on logic and hearsay, I am placing Lydia Byrd Bradley and her husband here. **See Major Bradley's entry for specifics.
Lydia's nickname is Liddy; she was the daughter of Edmond Byrd (also seen as Edmund, Bird, and other spellings) and Mary Holderfield, and married Major Marmaduke Bradley, purportedly the son of Dennis Bradley and Sarah Turner, on 19 February 1800 in Wake Co., NC several years before their migration to Bedford Co., TN.
Lydia and her brother Joel were bound as apprentices to Ralph Hollified after their father died. Extrapolation from these records places her birth around August 1778 and in North Carolina, most likely Wake County. Elsewhere, Ralph is (ostensibly more correctly) identified as HOLDERFIELD.
Based on that, some have deduced that Lydia and Joe's mother was Mary "Polly" Holderfield.
Lydia and Major can be found on Ancestry and elsewhere, both listed as having died in 1850. There is no proof that Lydia dropped dead as soon as the 1850 Bedford Co., TN Census was taken, but I cannot list "after June 1850" on Find-a-Grave, so I'm placing June 1850 here.
I have seen, when looking at AncestryDNA ThruLines, that someone has her death at 1858, but I've seen no proof or specifics.
Her husband actually died after June 1860, as he appears in that census.
2019 Update: I have a DNA match for a descendant of Morning Bradley, apparently one of the unknown daughters of Major and Lydia.
Lydia's nickname is Liddy; she was the daughter of Edmond Byrd (also seen as Edmund, Bird, and other spellings) and Mary Holderfield, and married Major Marmaduke Bradley, purportedly the son of Dennis Bradley and Sarah Turner, on 19 February 1800 in Wake Co., NC several years before their migration to Bedford Co., TN.
Lydia and her brother Joel were bound as apprentices to Ralph Hollified after their father died. Extrapolation from these records places her birth around August 1778 and in North Carolina, most likely Wake County. Elsewhere, Ralph is (ostensibly more correctly) identified as HOLDERFIELD.
Based on that, some have deduced that Lydia and Joe's mother was Mary "Polly" Holderfield.
Lydia and Major can be found on Ancestry and elsewhere, both listed as having died in 1850. There is no proof that Lydia dropped dead as soon as the 1850 Bedford Co., TN Census was taken, but I cannot list "after June 1850" on Find-a-Grave, so I'm placing June 1850 here.
I have seen, when looking at AncestryDNA ThruLines, that someone has her death at 1858, but I've seen no proof or specifics.
Her husband actually died after June 1860, as he appears in that census.
2019 Update: I have a DNA match for a descendant of Morning Bradley, apparently one of the unknown daughters of Major and Lydia.
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