Hannah Bailey b abt 1812 Lydney (General)

by RalphCook , Saturday, January 19, 2013, 08:16 (4328 days ago) @ Bailey

There are indeed mistakes in both the works you refer too (and perhaps it is inevitable that there will be as the records are often not really detailed enough to yield demonstrably correct conclusions). Nevertheless, it is possible to iron out some errors. Hannah Bailey b. 1811 was not the granddaughter of King Bailey and her father was not King's son.

Hannah's father, Richard Bailey was born in about 1764 and married (1st) Esther Roberts around 1800. They had 5 children, Ann 1800, James 1803, Eliza 1807, Hannah 1811 and Henry 1815. Richard survived his first wife who died in 1833 and married Ann Parfett in 1834. He lived until 1855, informing the 1851 census that he was born at Newent and he was buried at Lydney. The Newent registers do not have his baptism but nearby Dymock does - his parents were John & Mary Bailey, whose first two children were baptised at Newent.

Obviously, Richard's age rules him out as King's son.

A mistake I picked up in Joy Whaite's work was the belief that King Bailey's son John got married. In fact he was killed at the age of 20 years in an accident with a wagon. This is certain as the death was the subject of a coroners hearing, recorded in the Awre burial register and is inscribed on King Bailey's gravestone at Awre!

However, I'm still working on this family and am by no means convinced I've got it sorted out. I'm reasonably certain about what cannot be true - I'm more hesitant about what certainly is!

Regards Ralph Cook