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there 23rd May, 1647. Entry in the Bible, "Elizabeth Brad- 

 shawe was borne the 6''' daye of June 1646, about tenne of the 

 clocke aforenoone and was Chryssened the 14''' daye." 



Mrs. Bradshawe, after her widowhood, continued to live 

 at Eyam. In the following May her youngest daughter, who 

 had been born three weeks before her fathers death, died, 

 under a year old. Five years later, namely, 20th January, 1652, 

 her eldest .son, Francis Bradshawe, married Elizabeth, the eldest 

 daughter and co-heir, with her sister Sarah, of John Vesey, of 

 Brampton, Co. York. This was undoubtedly the first step 

 which eventually led to the final abandonment by the Brad- 

 shawes of a Derbyshire home. Bradshaw Hall was probably 

 let,* and Eyam Hall had been left to his mother for life, so 

 he was forced to find another home for himself and his wife, 

 and he found it with his widowed mother-in-law at Brampton, 

 Co. York, in the old hall, which for over three centuries had 

 been the residence and property of the Veseys, and which 

 eventually formed part of his wife's possessions. There he 

 lived, and there he died. 



This marriage had doubtless been brought about by the 

 presentation, in 1642, of the living of Treeton, Co. York, in 

 which parish was Brampton, to the Rev. Shoreland Adams, the 

 rector of Eyam, Co. Derby. It is not unnatural to suppose that 

 the two families living at the hall and at the rectory were 

 closely associated, and that their friendship was not broken 

 by the departure of the rector for Treeton, a village not far 

 distant from Sheffield. Not only did Francis Bradshawe, how- 

 ever, in visiting his old friends, find a wife in that neighbourhood, 

 but his eldest sister, Anne, found there a husband in her old 

 companion, Michael Adams, the son of the late rector of Eyam, 

 which marriage took place at Eyam, 20th April, 1665, just 

 four months before the plague broke out, which swept through 

 the village with such dire resultst ; indeed, the record of their 



* I'age 43. 



t \N oocPs History of Eyam. 



