Born in Kingston, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Holmes
and Rebecca (Waterman) Rand
Sister of
Mary Holmes, Joseph Holmes, Lydia Holmes, Rebecca Holmes, Lemuel Holmes, Jedidiah Holmes, Meletiah Holmes, Anna (Holmes) Bailey, John Holmes and Thomas Holmes
Wife of
Stetson Bradford
— married
31 Oct 1771 in Kingston, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Elisabeth Bradford, Zilpah (Bradford) Waterman, William Bradford, Charles Bradford, Spencer Bradford and Peleg Bradford
Died
at age 84
in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Apr 2016
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Biography
Lurana, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Waterman) Holmes, was born at Kingston, MA on March 27, 1740.
In 1757, above the age of 14 years, Lurania made the choice for Robert Waterman of Halifax to be her guardian.[1]
She married Stetson Bradford on October 31, 1771.
Lurany died at Kingston on March 13, 1825 of influenza. She is buried at Old Burying Ground.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-XHVF : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1755-1758 and 1859-1862 vol 14-14E > image 155 of 498; State Archives, Boston.
- Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., E Virginia Hunt, ed., Mayflower Families In Progress, William Brewster, Fifth Generation, Love Brewster, (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003), p. 73
- Vital Records of Kingston Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), (birth)
- Vital Records of Kingston Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), (marriage)
- Vital Records of Kingston Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), (death)
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39863348/lurana-bradford : accessed 05 October 2021), memorial page for Lurana “Lurany” Holmes Bradford (27 Mar 1741–13 Mar 1825), Find a Grave Memorial ID 39863348, citing Old Burying Ground, Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Mayflower Pilgrim 332 (contributor 47081711) . Edit suggestion sent to FAGM for birth year.
- Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQV-QP6 : accessed 27 September 2021), entry for Lurana Lurany Holmes, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch.
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