Willard Nicholas BRADY

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• Census: 1900, Living with mother in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1910, Living in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Living in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1930, Living in East Williston, Nassau Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living in New York, New York

Willard married Cora MARTLING on 10 Feb 1907 in Manhattan, New York. Cora was born on 17 Feb 1886 in East Norwich, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Willard married Catherine STOCKFORD on 22 Jun 1918 in Manhattan, New York. Catherine was born about 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Willard married Emma DEGNAN on 17 Sep 1925 in Manhattan, New York. Emma was born on 18 Aug 1892 in Manhattan, New York Co., New York; died in Dec 1971 in Manhattan, New York Co., New York; was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Nicholas BRADY was born on 28 Jan 1927 in Manhattan, New York Co., New York; died on 9 Mar 2012 in East Farmingdale, Suffolk Co., New York; was buried in Pinelawn Memorial Park, East Farmingdale, Suffolk Co., New York .
2. Emma F. BRADY was born on 15 Jun 1929 in East Williston, Nassau Co., New York; died on 9 May 2004 in New York; was buried in Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Suffolk Co., New York.
3. Edwin Lawrence BRADY was born on 24 Apr 1931 in New York, Nassau Co., New York; died on 7 May 2001 in Rockton, Clearfield Co., Pennsylvania; was buried in Morningside Cemetery, DuBois, Clearfield Co., Pennsylvania.

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• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with the John Myer family in Brooklyn, Kings Co, New York
• Census: 1865, Living with parents in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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Son of Sailing Master William Nicholas Brady and Cornelia Waterbury. (w1) Pauline Myers, (w2) Martha A. Roberts, (bur. Woodland Cemetery)'

Middle name "Luckey" appears on a bible record obtained from NYPL.

USN served on ships Vixen and Corwin during Civil War. Captured Confederate flag. Received Navy pension after contentious correspondence.

Captured a Southern Civil War flag but never received proper recognition for the act. Believed to be the only rebel flag captured by the North Atlantic Fleet.

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Edwin married Martha A. ROBERTS. Martha was born in Sep 1849 in Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1900, Living in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1910, Living in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1920, Living in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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• Fact: Son of Nicholas and Anna M. Brady
• Census: 1850, Living in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1865, Living in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1880, Living in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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He was a sailing master and naval officer, retired 1855, author of "The Kedge-Anchor, Or, Young Sailor's Assistant", first published in 1841.

7th Son of Nicholas Brady and Anna M. _____. Husband of Cornelia Waterbury. Sailing Master, USN. Author of "the Kedge Anchor".

Master of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A telescope of his exists at the Mystic Seaport Museum in CT. Telescope; brass with painted leather cover over main barrel, single brass draw; sliding cover over eye piece; removable dust cover over objective with sliding aperture cover; optics produce erect image; painted in white on leather cover, black background, "Wm. N. Brady. U.S. Navy." [Brady served in the US Navy 1829-1865], painted below name are three rows of painted flags and pennants; "POWHATAN" scratched into leather.

A memorial stained glass window exists for him and his wife in the Calvary Baptist Church of Darien, 988 Post Road, Darien CT 06820

In 1855 Brooklyn census, he was born in Kings Co.
In 1865 Brooklyn census, he was born in Westchester Co.
an 1865 military record supports Westchester Co.

According to the 1870 census, parents are foreign born. No indication of parent's birth location in his death record or 1880 census.

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William married Cornelia WATERBURY in pos. 1833. Cornelia (daughter of Frederick WATERBURY and Betsey LOCKWOOD) was born on 10 Sep 1817 in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; died on 10 Mar 1900 in Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut; was buried in Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1865, Living with husband in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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• Census: 1850, Living with daughter, Mary Noyes, in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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One of his descendants identified his wife as Betsey Lockwood. He was married with two female children before the time of the 1810 census, and was possibly married as early as 1800, when he does not seem to have been included in his father's household.

The gravestone (no longer standing) of Betsey, wife of Frederick Waterbury, in the Slason Cemetery said that she died 16 December 1849 age 64. If she was indeed a Lockwood by birth, then she was probably the Betsey Lockwood born in Stamford 8 November 1787, daughter of Jeremiah Lockwood Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Holcraft. In fact, Frederick Waterbury was named administrator of the estate of Jeremiah Lockwood Junior, late of Stamford, on 2 November 1814.

There was only one Frederick Waterbury inStamford or Darien during the time period covered by the censuses of 1810 through 1850, and he has been shown in Part 1 of this article to be a son of Lt. John Waterbury. However, Frederick Waterbury was also involved in a series of deeds to and from distant Waterbury cousins from 1813 to 1818. These deeds related to the property of John Waterbury who died in Stamford in 1813. Family members associated with these transactions included a Henry Waterbury, who might be confused with Frederick's brother. But since this Henry Waterbury was always designated "of New York City" in these and other Darien deeds as late as 1842, he could not have been identical with Frederick's brother, Henry Waterbury, who was in Ohio by 1840 (even though that Henry had lived in New York City at one time). Perhaps Frederick acted merely as an agent for his distant Waterbury cousins, or perhaps his wife was closely related to these distant cousins.

Stamford land records of 1811 and 1820 indicate that Frederick Waterbury owned various properties in Stamford in those years, two of which were purchased from his brother Peter Waterbury on 1 April 1811 and 8 November 1811. All of these holdings appear to have been in the Hoyt Street area that became part of Darien in 1820.

In 1850 census, Frederick Waterbury, age 73, was living in Darien with the family of Belina W. Noyes, his son-in-law.

Frederick and Betsey (Lockwood?) Waterbury had a large family of ten children, but information on most of them is sparse. Frederick did not leave an estate to probate, so the usual list of heirs and land transactions among them are completely absent. No family Bible ha been discovered, and the Darien civil and church records are also little help. Fortunately, a small notebook kept by Belina W. Noyes has survived and its contents were published in 1973. That notebook recorded birth dates for all of Frederick and Betsey's children even though no relationships were stated. It also has death dates for some of them, as well as birth records for all of the Noyes children shown below.

Frederick married Betsey LOCKWOOD. Betsey (daughter of Jeremiah LOCKWOOD and Elizabeth HOLCRAFT) was born on 8 Nov 1787 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 16 Dec 1849 in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Slawson Cemetery, Darien Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Jeremiah Lockwood and Elizabeth Holcroft