THE BAMFORD NAME
The link to the web site below gives you a good idea of where the Bamfords ancesters came from. It is very well done. Now I will have to link my Bamford line to it. Which is a slow process of one generation at a time.
BAMFORD ANCIENT HISTORY AND COAT OF ARMS BY DAVID M. BAMFORD
MY BAMFORD LINE
My Bamford line can be found on my Tribalpages web site. James Bamford's will dated April 3, 1843 can be found under recorded documents, then wills on my site. James is as far back that I have been able to trace. He lived in Plymouth, Chenango County, New York when he died. In his will it states that he was a pioneer settler of Plymouth. Born in 1763 and died March 8, 1843. I received the copy of the will from a descendant Sandra Hall who listed his wife as Martha..no maiden name and as she is not in his will I would believe that she died before him. Sandra is descended from James's brother Moses. It also says he was an Irishman from Utica. There is a Utica in New York but I have no other information on him at this time about where he was born so it may not be in New York. It does list 8 sons, one of whom Albert is my gr.,gr.,gr. grandfather and was married to Codelia Gotham. Albert, at the time of the will was living in Clayton, Jefferson County, New York. Most of my line can be found in Jefferson County, New York and Wolfe Island, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. Albert's son William Wells Bamford married Irene Dixon and they moved to Wolfe Island , raised their family there and are buried in the St. Lawrence Cemetery on property they gave to the Church (which burnt) & Cemetery. It is located on the foot of the Island. The house is no longer there but you can find her diaries under my Wolfe Island connection. She gives a very interesting and informative view of Wolfe Island and the hardships they had in the late 1800's.
At one time the Bamfords owned a small island just off of the tip of the foot of the Island named Linda's Island it is mentioned a lot of times in her diaries for they went there often to cut wood from the Island.Next is where the Island was sold once.
Date 8/1982... Linda Island Sold... Linda Island on the St. Lawrence River at Cape Vincent has been sold through Realty World Thousand Islands by Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill. to Jim Aikey of Clearwater, Fl. The seven acre wooded Island is improved with a four bedroom cottage and two-slip boat house. Wallace Paddon, the previous owner, donated the Island to Wheaton College in 1980. NOTE: This Island was once owned by the BAMFORD family of Wolfe Island. It is mentioned in Irene Bamfords diaries of the late 1800’s. It was then called Linda’s Island.
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