Ancestry of
William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

Lydia Bradford

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• • Mother of William Henry Burleigh — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • John Bradford 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Bond   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Apr 1779 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Feb 1853 
  • Death Location:
  • Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rinaldo Burleigh
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Sep 1805 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Frances Mary Bradford Burleigh

  John Oscar Burleigh

  Charles Calistus Burleigh

  William Henry Burleigh (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Lucian Burleigh

  Cyrus Moses Burleigh

  George Burleigh

• Sources for Lydia Bradford

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Plainfield, p. 2, Birth records for children of Rinaldo and Lydia Burleigh.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/09/2025).
  • ³ Burleigh, Celia, Poems by William H. Burleigh: With a Sketch of His Life, New York: Hurd and Houghton (1871), vii.
  • ⁴ Burleigh, Charles, The Genealogy of the Burley or Burleigh Family of America, Portland: Press of B. Thurston and Company (1880), 139-147.
  • ⁵ Burleigh, Charles, The Genealogy of the Burley or Burleigh Family of America, Portland: Press of B. Thurston and Company (1880), 132-133.