Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Bonner Hypatia Bradlaugh. Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2)
CHAPTER I. PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD
CHAPTER III. YOUTH
CHAPTER IV. ARMY LIFE
CHAPTER V. ARMY LIFE CONCLUDED
CHAPTER VI. MARRIAGE
CHAPTER VII. HYDE PARK MEETINGS, 1855
CHAPTER VIII. THE ORSINI ATTEMPT
CHAPTER IX. EARLY LECTURES AND DEBATES
CHAPTER X. HARD TIMES
CHAPTER XI. A CLERICAL LIBELLER
CHAPTER XII. TOTTENHAM
CHAPTER XIII. THE "NATIONAL REFORMER."
CHAPTER XIV. THE "NATIONAL REFORMER" AND ITS GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS
CHAPTER XV. ITALY
CHAPTER XVI. PLATFORM WORK, 1860-1861
CHAPTER XVII. THE DEVONPORT CASE, 1861
CHAPTER XVIII "KILL THE INFIDEL."
CHAPTER XIX. PROVINCIAL ADVENTURES, 1860-1863
CHAPTER XX. A FREEMASON
CHAPTER XXI. DEBATES 1862-1866
CHAPTER XXII "THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY, TO DO GOOD IS MY RELIGION."
CHAPTER XXIII. THE REFORM LEAGUE, 1866-1868
CHAPTER XXIV. PROVINCIAL LECTURING, 1866-1869
CHAPTER XXV. IRELAND
CHAPTER XXVI. NORTHAMPTON, 1868
CHAPTER XXVII. SOUTHWARK ELECTION, 1869
CHAPTER XXVIII. LITIGATION, 1867-1871
CHAPTER XXIX. PERSONAL
CHAPTER XXX. LECTURES – 1870-1871
CHAPTER XXXI. FRANCE – THE WAR
CHAPTER XXXII. THE COMMUNE, AND AFTER
CHAPTER XXXIII. A DOZEN DEBATES, 1870-1873
CHAPTER XXXIV. FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER XXXV. REPUBLICANISM AND SPAIN
CHAPTER XXXVI. MADRID AND AFTER
CHAPTER XXXVII. GREAT GATHERINGS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA
CHAPTER XXXIX. TWO NORTHAMPTON ELECTIONS, 1874
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Although there has often been desultory talk among us concerning the origin of the Bradlaugh family, there has never been any effort made to trace it out. The name is an uncommon one: as far as I am aware, ours is the only family that bears it, and when the name comes before the public ours is the pride or the shame – for, unfortunately, there are black sheep in every flock. I have heard a gentleman (an Irishman) assure Mr Bradlaugh that he was of Irish origin, for was not the Irish "lough" close akin to the termination "laugh"? Others have said he was of Scotch extraction, and others again that he must go to the red-haired Dane to look for his forbears. My father would only laugh lazily – he took no vivid interest in his particular ancestors of a few centuries ago – and reply that he could not go farther back than his grandfather, who came from Suffolk; in his boyhood he had heard that there were some highly respectable relations at Wickham Market, in Suffolk. But so little did the matter trouble him that he never verified it, though, if it were true, it would rather point to the Danish origin, for parts of Suffolk were undoubtedly colonized by the Danes in the ninth century, and a little fact which came to our knowledge a few years ago shows that the name Bradlaugh is no new one in that province.
Kelsall and Laxfield,1 where there were Bradlaughs in the beginning of the 17th century; Wickham Market and Brandeston, whence Mr Bradlaugh's grandfather came at the beginning of the 19th, and where there are Bradlaughs at the present day, are all within a narrow radius of a few miles. The name Bradlaugh commenced to be corrupted into Bradley prior to 1628, as may be seen from a stone in Laxfield Church, and has also been so corrupted by a branch of the family within our own knowledge. The name has also, I know, been spelled "Bradlough."
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The foregoing is, I think, the only case in Mr Bradlaugh's career in which he kept damages awarded him for his own personal use. In every other case the damages were given to some charity – in later years, always to the Masonic Boys' School. This time however the damages awarded him by the jury were used in a purely personal manner, for the money enabled him to hasten his marriage, and on June 5th, 1855, he and my mother were married at St. Philip's Church, in the Parish of Stepney, he barely 22 years of age, and she two years his senior.
They went to live at Warner Place, as was suggested in a letter I have quoted; and my mother, who had been in very poor health for some time previous to her marriage, seems to have gone with her sister-in-law to Reigate for a few days at the end of the following July. How very straitened their circumstances were, the following extract from a letter of my father's to his wife will show: —
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