Person:William Bradford (5)

William Bradford's life displayed a mixture of the commonplace and the extraordinary that was characteristic of the Puritan experience. Bradford was the son of a prosperous farmer in Yorkshire, England. He received no higher education but instead was taught practical arts of farming.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:425704&id=I41008 REFERENCES & EXCERPTS OF REFERENCES: SAINTS AND STRANGERS by George F. Willison, 1945 p.45-46 Gov. William Bradford's father was a prosperous yeoman who tilled many acres, died shortly after William was born in 1589. Alice Hanson was daughter of a local shopkeeper and farmer; remarried when William was just 4, sending him to his grandfather, another William Bradford I. Grandfather and mother died 1596 and the boy was taken in by paternal uncles.

1. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 (6).
2.   William Bradford II - burial: 15 July 1591; Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.

   NEHGR: Extracts from the Register Books of Austerfield, in Yorkshire,
   1561-1631, Volume Info: 4, Page: 177-178; reprinte, H. G. Somerby, Apr. 1850
   Notes
   burial: 15 July 1591; Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

3.   William Bradford Jr, (II) "Find A Grave Index".

   "Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV2K-53FM : accessed 10 June 2015), William Bradford Jr, 1591; Burial, Austerfield, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, Austerfield, St Helena Church; citing record ID 79609353, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.