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I would like to learn more about William Charles Bradshaw.
"William Charles Bradshaw was born in the year 1798, the year memorable as the Great Irish Rebellion, at a small place named Anacline, near the large town of Hillsborough, County Down. This County was largely Protestant - the people being deeply moved during those really perilous times. It was a pleasure to him to recount many of the scenes of that day as related to him by his parents, and others of his own remembrance. One of which was the celebrated William Pitt, who was opposed to Free Schools, which was remarkably distasteful to Mr. B."1
"His father Thomas, was a farmer, while the rest of the family and friends were weavers." He married Nancy R. Singleton in Ireland probably about 1820 - 1824,2 she died some time between the census of 1860 and 1870. "He was 25 years of age (in 1823) when he left Belfast, Ireland and landed at Quebec. The old steamboat Washington took him to Burlington, Vermont, which he heard of as a place of good repute, where he went into a woolen manufactory and afterwards worked as a gardener. He also found it what he had sought, truly a Land of Liberty. All his children were born in Vermont with the exception of Mrs. Ball, who was born in Ireland on the 17th day of March" 1824.
"William Charles Bradshaw was born in the year 1798, the year memorable as the Great Irish Rebellion, at a small place named Anacline, near the large town of Hillsborough, County Down. This County was largely Protestant - the people being deeply moved during those really perilous times. It was a pleasure to him to recount many of the scenes of that day as related to him by his parents, and others of his own remembrance. One of which was the celebrated William Pitt, who was opposed to Free Schools, which was remarkably distasteful to Mr. B."1
"His father Thomas, was a farmer, while the rest of the family and friends were weavers." He married Nancy R. Singleton in Ireland probably about 1820 - 1824,2 she died some time between the census of 1860 and 1870. "He was 25 years of age (in 1823) when he left Belfast, Ireland and landed at Quebec. The old steamboat Washington took him to Burlington, Vermont, which he heard of as a place of good repute, where he went into a woolen manufactory and afterwards worked as a gardener. He also found it what he had sought, truly a Land of Liberty. All his children were born in Vermont with the exception of Mrs. Ball, who was born in Ireland on the 17th day of March" 1824.