Bradshaw Family History
Judge John Bradshaw
1594 - 1654 (60 years)-
Name John Bradshaw Title Judge Born 1594 Chester, England 
[1] Gender Male Died 3 Aug 1654 [1] Person ID I1137 My Genealogy Last Modified 1 Jan 2019
Father Henry Bradshaw, d. 1654 Mother Catherine Winningham Married 4 Feb 1592/93 Family ID F596 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Benjamin Bradshaw, b. Abt 1700, Henrico County, Virginia , d. 17 Aug 1761, Goochland County, Virginia (Age 61 years) Married WFT Est 1691 1743 [2] Children 1. Arthur Marcum [natural] 2. Anna, b. WFT Est 1670 1713, d. WFT Est 1696 1794 (Age 81 years) [natural] Last Modified 20 Feb 2014 Family ID F0146 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes When Charles II was restored to the throne of England most Bradshaws fled, taking refuge in Ireland, Scotland, France and the colonies of North America. This was probably because of the following: One of the most famous Bradshaw families in England was the family of John Bradshaw who became a lawyer in 1627. By 1647 he was Chief Justice of Chester. In 1648 he was presiding over the High Court of Justice that tried and condemned King Charles I. It was Judge Bradshaw who, at the end of the trial, pronounced the King guilty of treason and sentenced him to death "by the severing of his head from his body". They carried out the sentence in the Palace of Whitehall on February 6, 1649. When he died in 1659 he was buried in Westminster Abbey.
After the Monarchy was restored in 1660, with the return of Charles II from exile in France, Judge Bradshaw's body along with the body of Cromwell, were disinterred, gibbeted and thrown into a pit with other notables. Judge Bradshaw had no children, but one of his brothers, Robert, was a General in Oliver Cromwell's army and following the restoration he and most of his family escaped to the colonies.
This was not a good time to have the Bradshaw surname.
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