John Bradley

I found an Ireland born John Bradley married to a Scotland born Mary Blackburn on OGSPI.

I doubt that this is the same John Bradley who settles on Lot 4 of Concession 1 in Balfour Township but I couldn't help but to dig deeper when I saw the Faubert name pop up in my research. Then when I saw Faubert in an 1851 census of Huntington County I was hooked.

Noe Faubert and Delia Brosseau owned part of Balfour C1L10 or 11. Osias Brosseau was probably their son in law and owned the back part of C2L10 or 11 where the coal mine of Collings and Gordon had been prospected in 1896-98.

John Bradley's son James married Edwidge Lafrance in 1865 at Les Cedres, Soulanges, Vaudreuil. Edwidge was the daughter of Frank Xavier Lafrance and Mathilda Faubert Lafrance.

John and Mary Blackburn Bradley had other children; Mathilde, Nathaniel...more

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Forget all those other John Bradley's for a minute and consider this John Bradley. On a 1901 census of copper cliff in Nipissing District, John Bradley is listed as being 28 years old and living as a boarder under the roof of Angus and Nellie Munroe. Consider that at the same time Charles and Elizabeth Kennedy Sanders are living in Copper Cliff where Charles is building houses for Canadian Copper Company. Charles and Eliza have a young family but also take in boarders. In 1905 Charles moves back to Balfour Township. His neighbour is John Bradley.

Could it be this John Bradley ?

Who then are the Munroe's ?
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What is interesting about the Bradley's is that in a 1861 survey of Durham County there are many many of them. The Bradley name is associated to other names like Carson, McNall, Irwan, Millson, Henry and Massey. Most of these people are English and are either Methodist of Presbyterian. There are however Christians named in the 1851 Durham census. Richard Bradley was one and he had a son named John. Richard and his wife Caroline Ireland Bradley were both from Ireland.

The Massey-Bradley connection is as interesting as the Faubert-Brosseau connection.

Could Massey have changed to Mossie or Masse by the late 1800's when Regina Mossie, aka Rosina Masse marries Charles Brosseau and Melina ( I think ) Masse marries Timothee Rheaume. All of these names are people living around the mines being prospected by Stobie, Gordon, Bradley, Errington.

The big name Bradley of this story is not John. It is Frederick W. Bradley.

Who is Frederick W. Bradley ?

Hopefully by finding that out more light will be shed on all of these other characters. This may be a hint. FW Bradley, in 1932, was honored with the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal by the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Who then was Saunders and was he in any way a part of the life of Charles Sanders ???

Such mystery...........