William Bradley Estate, Cardiff, Records

Registers of building leases with notes of later transactions

The Bradley family was established in Cardiff by the late eighteenth century. At the baptisms of his nine children between 1811 and 1828 William Bradley is variously described as a chaise driver, grocer, farm bailiff and gentleman. The Bradleys were also members of Cardiff corporation as councillors and aldermen, and served as magistrates and street commissioners. The Bradley estate may owe its origins to William Alexander Bradley (c1811-1859), farmer and attorney, but it was his son William (b 1842) who developed an area of land between Broadway and Pearl Street in Roath to form Helen Street, Cecil Street, Bertram Street and Green Lane around 1875. At different times the family also owned property in the centre of Cardiff and in Canton and Whitchurch. In 1902 the estate was in the hands of William, a solicitor, his brother Frederick Livingstone Bradley (1852-1935) and their cousin The Rev David Nicholl. The last properties belonging to the estate were only sold one hundred years after this.

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Presented by an estate company in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in December 2012

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Compiled by M Wilcox for Glamorgan Archives.

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