The Children of Thomas Bradley and Elizabeth Hounsell

The children of Thomas Bradley and Elizabeth Hounsell were:

i. Elizabeth Bradley (1814-????). Elizabeth was born in Tower Hamlets. We know nothing more of her.

ii. Thomas Edward Bradley (1816-1857). He was living in Four Mill Street (now St Leonards Street) at the time of the 1851 census with his wife and family and, like his father, working as a baker. He married Ann Jane Chapman in 1840 in Poplar.

The Sun Flour Mills, St Leonard Street. Probably the Bradleys sourced their flour from here.

iii. Maria Bradley (1817-????). She was living with her brother Henry and his family in 1861 in their house in 8 Coborn Street, Bow. She married Francis Benjamin Boyd Fleuret in 1841 St Dunstans and All Saints Church. He died in 1846, and the couple had two children.

iv. Louisa Bradley (1822-????). She married William Jones, a master mariner, in 1844 at St Dunstans and All Saints Church. Her younger brother, Henry Smale Bradley witnessed the ceremony. We know nothing of what happened to them. However, by 1851, Louisa was living with her recently widowed mother and youngest brother Edwin at 59 Canton Street, Poplar. Her husband may have been at sea or already deceased.

v. Henry Smale Bradley (1825-1880). He was a builder’s manager’s clerk in 1851 and was living in Chelsea with his wife and family.   It was this Henry that on the 20th August 1849 at the Shadwell Parish Church married Maria Harriett Robinson, the eldest daughter of Charles John Robinson and Harriett Wombwell.

vi. Edwin Bradley (1831-????) also became a mariner. He too vanishes from the scene after the 1851 census.

These children all grew up to the east of the Robinson parishes, specifically in in the Bromley-by-Bow and Poplar area. The bakery must have turned over a good profit, and may well have been a major supplier to the docks, since the children as they reached adulthood seemed to have both financial resources and to have been well-educated.

Of these children, Henry Smale Bradley was Hetty Jane Owen’s grandfather, and the other siblings her great uncles and aunts.

The lines of these children will now follow, starting with the rather extended line of Thomas Edward Bradley and Ann Jane Chapman.