Hi, I'm looking for Joseph Bradshaw b 8-26-1786 and his parents, migration track, etc.. I think he was born in NC. His son John appears in the 1880 Choctaw Co. MS census as being 55 years old and born in SC. His parents are said to have been born in NC. John is a problem since he has three possible years he could have been born. The bible, which was bought in 1785 and records Joseph's birth in 1786, records John in one place as 5-7-1822, the census age of 55 is close enough at 1825. Elsewhere all of Joseph's children are listed and John is stuck in the middle at 1834. Joseph's children are Thelma b 6-19-1827, Nancy b 10-25-1828, Irene b 7-28-1830, Mary b 7-17-1832, (John), Joseph b 5-9-1836, Margaret b 5-13-1838, Isaiah b 10-17-1840. I know that Isaiah was in the 34th Miss Infantry of the Confederate Army. I found a Joseph also in the 34th Infantry who died in 1917 and is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Higginsville, MO. but I don't think that it could be Joseph the younger because he married Elizabeth A. Randolph 7-9-1861 and they had 3 children through the course of the war. Margaret Jane b 4-12-1862, John Thomas b 9-24-1863, ? R. b 12-5-1864 and (after the war) Nancy b 10-17-1867. I provide all this info in hopes that someone who knows about this branch of the Bradshaws will recognise someone. I'm really stumped. There is some support for John arriving in MS from Tenn. I know nothing about them except what my mother copied out of the old bible and I don't know where it is since it went to my grandfather's brother and on to his kids. Joyce