My ex-wife was born a Bradford. She was born out of wedlock to a "woman friend" of her biological father, Dale Elwood Bradford...a direct descendant of the Gov. Bradford of note. Her biological father convinced his wife of many years that they should adopt his illegitimate daughter, which they did. A bit more than 11 years later, the young girl had the dubious honor of watching her biological father shoot her adoptive mother then turn the gun on himself & commit suicide. Dale Bradford had been mixed up with organised crime in the state of Missouri until his death in the late 1950's. From what my ex-wife's grandmother (his mother) had said, his birth father (her ex-husband) had been a true brigand in his own right, but she refused to discuss him much, since she had already been widowed by her second husband, by whom she had two very sucessful sons (one and attorney, and one a doctor). Evidently, many of the Bradford clan would have qualified as blacksheep. Sorry I can't supply more detail, but the ex-wife is the one who refused to have any of my "genealogy junk" in "her" house, so all this is from memory, and I left her over 10 years ago. Mike, IBSSG