Nicholas Bradbury

1594 - 1624

Nicholas was born in 1594, the eldest child of Francis and Katherine, and baptised at All Saints in Youlgreave on 8th December ⁽¹⁾. His brother Richard was born in 1597 ⁽²⁾, then Raphael in 1602 ⁽³⁾, and finally his youngest brother John in 1605 ⁽⁴⁾.

Nicholas married Elizabeth Daintrie, in Edensor, on 13th April 1619 ⁽⁵⁾. Their daughter Amy was born in 1620 ⁽⁶⁾, and their son Raphael in 1622 ⁽⁷⁾.

Soon after this Nicholas and family moved to Darley Abbey ⁽⁸⁾ where he seems to have been an arable farmer ⁽⁹⁾, but they couldn't have been there for much longer than a year when Nicholas died aged just 29, in January 1624 ⁽⁸⁾. His inventory shows that whilst he apparently had a considerable estate, it was less than the total of his debts, although the bulk of these were to his father ⁽⁹⁾.

His wife survived him by about 10 years.

• Amy was born in 1620. She was mantioned in her maternal grandparents' wills of 1629 and 1630, but nothing more is known of her for certain. although she may have married a Peter Barker who is named an executor in her brother Raphael's will.
• Raphael has his own page.

1. Parish Register of All Saints, Youlgreave includes the entry:
   [December 1594] Nicholas Bradbury y^e sonne of Francis bapt viii^o die
2. Parish Register of All Saints, Youlgreave [Transcript by Val Neal] lists the baptism of Richard Bradbury, son of Francis & Katherine, on 1st November 1597.
3. Parish Register of All Saints, Youlgreave [Transcript by Val Neal] lists the baptism of Raphael Bradbury, son of Francis & Katherine, on 23rd February 1602.
4. Parish Register of All Saints, Youlgreave [Transcript by Val Neal] lists the baptism of John Bradbury, son of Francis & Katherine, on 29th July 1605.
5. Parish Register of St Peter's, Edensor includes the entry:
   [1619] Apr 13 Nicholas Bradberie of Yolgrave married to Elizabeth Daintrie April 13th
6. Parish Register of All Saints, Youlgreave includes the entry:
   [1620] Yolgr. Bapt Amya fil Nicholai Bradbury March [....]
7. Parish Register of All Saints, Youlgreave includes the entry:
   [1622] Yolgr. Bapt Raphael fil Nicholas Bradbury Sept primo die
8. Administration of Nicholas Bradbury (ref: B/C/11/Nicholas Bradbury, Darley, 1623/24 @ Lichfield Record Office) reads:
   Be it known to all men by theies presente that I Elizabeth Bradburie relicte of
   Nicholas Bradburie late of Darlie Abbie in the Countie of Derbie yeoman decea
   sed for certeyne good causes and consideracons mee thereunto movinge tdo by theies
   presente give full power and authoritie unto my wellbeloved freind Richard
   Brandrith one of the procters of the Lord B^ps consistorie Courts of Lich
   feild to bee for mee my lawful procter and for me and in my name to
   appeare before the right wor^ll M^r Robert Master Comissarie generall
   of the dioces of Coventrie and Lichfield or his lawfull Surrogate, and
   for mee and in my name to renounes the administracon of the goodes of
   my said husband deceased, and to consent that the same administracon maie
   bee grannted unto Richard Bradburie of Yolgrave in the Countie of
   Derbie yeoman one of the natural and lawfull brothers of my said husband
   deceased, And further to do all and everie such thinge and thinges as hee
   the said Richard Brandrith my proctor shall thinke meeke and ex
   pedient in and concerninge the renunciacon of the said Administracon
   and the consent aforemencioned And I the said Elizabeth Bradbury
   do promise to hold good ratefie and confirme all and everie such thinge
   and thinges as my said proctor shall do for mee in and concerninge
   the premisses and everie of them. In witness whereof I have hereunto
   set my hand and seale the nyne and twentieth daie of Januarie in
   the yeare of our Lord god accordinge to the computcon of the Church
   of England one thousand sixe hundred twentie and three *. And in
   the yeares of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the grace
   of god king of England France and Ireland defender of the faithe
   the one and twentieth And of Scotland the seaven and fiftieth
   Sealed and delivered to the use of                     Elizabeth Bradburie
   the above named M^r Richard Brandrith                            E
   in the presence of                                                           her mke
   Francis Bradbury
   John Bradburie
   Reginald [B]ynder
   * Note: The date is from the Julian calendar, so for 1623, read 1624. See note in glossary.
9. Inventory of Nicholas Bradbury (Page 1, page 2, page 3) (ref: B/C/11/Nicholas Bradbury, Darley, 1623/24 @ Lichfield Record Office) reads:
   A true Inventorie
   of all and singular the goodes Cattell and
   Chattells of Nicholas Bradburie late
   of Darleigh Abbie in the Countie of
   Darbie yeoman deceased seene and prised
   by Henrie Cundie gent Edward Smith
   Thomas Walker John Hallie and
   Rodger Bradshall

   	l		s		d
   Imprimis his purse & ap: parell	4	-	0	-	0
   Item two featherbeds one flockbed three mattresses five coverlets 8 blankets 3 pillowes 5 quushions the curteynes and vallance for one bed	9	-	0	-	0
   Item 3 paire of flaxen sheetes and 3 paire of canvasse	1	-	5	-	0
   Item one dozen of napkins 4 [pillowbeares] and two table clothes	0	-	13	-	0
   Item his books	0	-	10	-	0
   Item 2 trunkes one cheste and a box	0	-	10	-	0
   Item 11 yards of flaxen cloth	0	-	11	-	0
   Item 4 silver spoones	1	-	5	-	0
   Item woollen yarne	0	-	18	-	0
   Item 12 slippings of lynen yarne	0	-	6	-	0
   Item one holland sheete	0	-	5	-	0
   Item 12 poundes of flax	0	-	4	-	0
   Item 2 brasse pots	0	-	13	-	4
   Item 3 brasse pannes a brasse morter and pestill one skymmer and one little brasse candlesticke	1	-	10	-	0
   Item ii pewter dishes 1 double salte and one single salt one candlesticke fower [porringers] 4 saucers 2 plates 1 dozen of spoons	1	-	0	-	0
   Item one chaire one chirne 3 [birts] one dozen of trenchers two boules and one sigh	0	-	4	-	0
   Item 3 kyne and a calfe	10	-	0	-	0
   Item 4 mares	12	-	0	-	0
   Item one sowe and 3 shutes	3	-	0	-	0
   Item one red heffer at Yolgrave	2	-	6	-	8
   Item one soiled bed and two other little beds one square table and one cheste at Yolgrave	1	-	0	-	0
   Item 2 bacon flitches	0	-	10	-	0
   Item 43 weathers	17	-	0	-	0
   Item one paire of iron bound wheeles one pc of parings 1 [axeltier] 1 [copyoke] one tundrell waine with pynes and slinges of yron and one broken shovell	1	-	3	-	4
   Item 2 part saddles 3 pads 2 leather sursingles one hackney sadle and one bridle	0	-	12	-	0
   Item two paire of iron geares one swingle tree and one iron [tugwith]	0	-	6	-	8
   Item 3 paire of hempen geares three bridles and 3 collers	0	-	8	-	0
   Item all the hey	2	-	6	-	8
   Item strawe of all sorts	1	-	0	-	0
   Item 49 quarter of malt at 28s a quarter	68	-	12	-	0
   Item 10 quarter of barley at 24s a quarter	12	-	0	-	0
   Item 6 [strikes] of wheat at 4s 4d a strike	1	-	7	-	0
   Item 2 quarter and a halfe of malt at Yolgrave	4	-	10	-	0
   Item 5 strike of beanes at Yolgrave	0	-	16	-	8
   Item the wheate on the ground	6	-	13	-	4
   Item one heare cloth for a kilne	0	-	10	-	0
   Item 9 acre of barlie ground	6	-	0	-	0
   Item 43 strikes of beans at 2s 4d a strike	5	-	0	-	0
   Item 2 barrells and a firkyn	0	-	1	-	6
   Item 2 spynninge wheeles	0	-	2	-	0
   Item one Chamber pot	0	-	0	-	6
   Item one paire of cubberds and one spit	0	-	2	-	0
   Item one paire of pothookes	0	-	0	-	6
   Item one burndiron and one landiron	0	-	2	-	0
   Item one paire of tonges and one fyer shovell	0	-	0	-	8
   Item one paire of [Clivis] and [pynd]	0	-	0	-	6
   Item one broken hatchet	0	-	0	-	3
   Item one [fasket]	0	-	0	-	6
   Suma totalis	178	-	4	-	1
   Debts owing to the deceased as appeareth in his booke of reckoninge
   Item John Halley of Stanton	4	-	10	-	0
   Item Mr Thomas Johnson of Loscoe	2	-	10	-	0
   suma - 7li
   Suma totalis - 185-4-1
   Debts owinge by the deceased uppon bond
   Imprimis to Francis Bradburie by severall bondes	CL	-	0	-	0
   Item to Mr Henry Mellor of Derbie due by bond	30	-	0	-	0
   Item to Richard Sterndale of Crowdycoate by bond	40	-	0	-	0
   Item to Richard Fisher of Yolgrave by bond	30	-	0	-	0
   Also Mr John Bullock Esquire his Mr demandeth for rents, and uppon his accompts	19 - 13 - 7 and above
   Suma debit - 269-13-7
   So his debts amount to more than his estate by	84	-	9	-	6