Events
Date of Baptism: 19 July 1573.
Place of Baptism: Whitminster, Gloucestershire.
The baptism is recorded in the parish register.
Date of Death: 1646.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: John Bayley.
See the Commentary section.
Mother: Halliday.
Spouse: Joyce. Buried 24 July 1610.
Joyce is named in her burial record.
Spouse: Dorothy. Buried 31 March 1637.
Dorothy is named in her burial record.
(probable) Grandchild: Anselm Bayly.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John Bayly (baptized 15 August 1602 in Whitminster)
Elizabeth Bayly (baptized 6 October 1605 in Whitminster)
Hannah Bayly (baptized 22 March 1606/7 in Whitminster) married Thomas Merry 7 December 1633 in Whitminster.
Susanna Bayly (baptized 13 November 1608 in Whitminster)
Jane Bayly (baptized 8 July 1610 in Whitminster)
William Bayly (baptized 15 March 1611/12 in Whitminster)
Mary Bayly (baptized 8 August 1615 in Whitminster - buried 28 January 1616/7 in Whitminster).
Alice Bayly (buried 7 January 1616/7 in Whitminster).
Annsell Bayly (baptized 15 June 1617 in Whitminster) married Mary Dawby, widow, in April 1662.
Thomas Bayly (baptized 8 April 1619 in Whitminster)
Mary Bayly (baptized 1 July 1621 in Whitminster)
Evidence
Whitminster parish registers:
Baptisms:
Anselme Bayly filis Johnis was bapt the xix.th. daye of July [1573]
The xvth of August was baptised John Bayly the sonn of Annsall Bayly. [1602]
Elizabeth the daughter of Anncell Baylie was baptized the vith daie of October Anno Dni 1605
Hannah the daughter of Anncell Baylie was baptized the xxijth daie of March Anno Dom 1606
Susanna the daughter of Anncell Baylie was was [sic]baptiz the xiijth daie of November 1608
Jane the daughter of Annsell Baylie was bapt the eyghth daie of Julie of anno domini 1610
William the sonne of Anncell Baylie was baptized the xvth day of Marche 1611
Marie the daughter of Anncell Baylie was baptized the viijth day of August Anno ut supra [1615]
Ancell the sonne of Annsell Baylie was baptiz the xvth daie of June Anno Dni 1617
Thomas the sonne of Annsell Baylie was baptized the viijth of Aprill [1619]
Marie the daughter of Anncell Baylie was baptized the Fyrst daie of Julie in the yere above nentioned [1621]
Burials:
Joyce the wiffe of Anncell Baylie was buried the xxivth daie of Julie Anno Dni 1610
Jane Taylor the servaunt of Anncell Baylie was buried the first daie of Februarie [1613]
Alice the daughter of Anncell Baylie was buried the vijth daie of January Anno Dni 1616
Marie the daughter of Anncell Baylie was buried the xxviijth daie of the same Januarie [1616]
Dorothy the wife of Ansell Bayly buried the 31th day of March [1637]
from the Gloucestershire archives catalogue:
GDR/89/page 251
1602
Case: Anselm Baylie & Thomas Phelpes v John Etheridge: Testamentary: 8 December 1602
DEPONENTS Arthur Tullye, weaver, of Norton, servant of John Walker of Norton. Born & lives there. Margaret Pyper, single, of Norton. Lived there 2 years. Born Withington. Aged 25. Anne Snowe, wife of John Snowe, senior, husbandman, of Norton. Born Churchdown. Aged 60. Joan Hurlston, widow, of Norton. Lived there 6 years. Born Ripple, Worcs. Aged 46. On the part of John Etheridge
DEPOSITIONS (abstract)
Last St Andrew's day, about ten o'clock at night, Arthur Tullye came to the house of Margarett Gammon, the testatrix, and saw her lying sick in her bed. She said that she had sent for John Etheridge and that she had £40 given her by her father's will and that Richard Phelpes's executors were to pay it. She also had £20 given her by her brother Richard Phelpes, deceased, and she would give this money to her son, John Gamon, and it was in the hands of Anncell Bayly. She had given all the legacies mentioned in the will now exhibited and said her son should be executor. If he died before he was twenty one then the £40 would remain with her brother's children. She also willed that Anne Gamon, her mother-in-law, should be a mother to her child as long as they lived together and after her death she willed her son should be at the appointment of John Etheridge and that he would use the money for her son's good. She desired John Etheridge to be overseer of her will. She was of perfect mind and memory and spoke very sensibly. Anne Snowe, Joanne Hurlston, Margaret Piper, Anne Gamon and John Etheridge were also present. Tullye said there was hatred and a suit in law between Thomas Phelpes and Anne Snowe.
About nine o'clock on the evening of St Andrew's day the testatrix asked Margaret Pyper to ask John Etheridge to come to her as she lay sick in Anne Gamon's house in Norton. When he came the testatrix said she would make her son, John Gamon, her executor and make John Etheridge the overseer and put her whole trust in him to see her son brought up after Anne Gamon's de. She also said that neither Thomas Phelpes nor Ancelme Bayly should have anything to do with her son or his portion. She confirmed other details given by Arthur Tullye and the names of those present. She said that the testatrix was not moved to say anything by any body there.
Anne Snowe gave similar evidence. She added that the testatrix gave Anne Gamon her best cauldron. She said there was anger and malice between her and Thomas Phelpes about last harvest but they were now friends.
Joan Hurlston's account was similar. She also said that the testatrix had given John Etheridge all the power that she had to recover her legacies from the executors of Richard Phelpes for the use of her son and that if God should call her son before he came of age the goods in her chamber should be at the disposition of John Etheridge. She thought that the testatrix had given a petticoat to her sister's daughter, Elizabeth Bowes, which is not set down in the will exhibited.
GDR/148/page 477
CASE: Walter Osborne v Robert Smith, executor. Testamentary (codicil: Thomas Osborne of Wotton under Edge).
DEPONENTS Anselm Baily, clothier, of Wotton under Edge. Born & lives there. Aged 52.
William Younge, clothier, of Wotton under Edge. Lived there 20 years. Born Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Aged 30.
On the part of Walter Osborne
Annsell’s will:
TM Anselmi Bayly
The Fourth day of July Anno Dmi 1645: I Annsell Baylie of Whetenhurst in the County of Gloucester yeoman being sick in body but of good & p[er]fect memory thanks be unto God, doe make and ordayne this my last will and Testament in manner & forme following, Impr[imis] I give and bequeath my soule into the hands of Allmighty God my maker, & Jesus Christ my Redeemer, by whose death and merrits I hope to be saved, And my body to the earth, to be buried at the discretion of my executors It[e]m I give and bequeath unto my eldest sonne John Baylie the Lease of my now dwelling house in Whetonhurst aforesaid, with the orchards gardens errable land, & pasture therunto belonging, during the tearme of the sayd lease It[e]m I give & bequeath unto my sayd sonne John, the tablebord in the parler, and the best standing bedsteed the Cubbord & presse, and all the mer doores in the howse, & glasse, on the windows, and all the plow tack. It[e]m I give and bequeath unto Annsell Merry Anna Merry & Dorrythie Merry the three children of Thomas Merry & Anna my daughter, the some of Tenn pounds equally to be devided among them as they shall come to the age of one & twentie yeares It[e]m I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth tenn shillings Item I give and bequeath unto my youngest daughter Mary Baylie the one halfe of all my houshold stuffe except that before bequeathed & shee to make the first choyse, It[e]m all the rest of my [three lines crossed out] houshold stuffe I give and bequeath to my sonne William Baylie & my sonne Annsell Baylie equally to be devided betweene them It[e]m all the rest of my Goods & Chattels movable & unmovable and my free lands or the overplus of the money that my be made of it, my debts being discharged I give and bequeath it unto William Baylie Annsell Baylie & Mary Baylie my three Children equally to be devided among them whom I make and appoynt my whole & sole executors of this my last will and Testament In witness herof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the day & yeare first above written /
It[e]m my will is that the vayles & gates about my house shall not be moved
Memorand: the three lines wer blotted before the ensealing therof
Sealed & subscribed in the presents of us John Hatts Sibble Hanman her mke + Philip Harris
[signature illegible]
[Proved 23 December 1646]
A true Inventory of all the goods and Chattels of Annsell Baylie sen[ior] of Whetenhurst deceased, made the 9th day of November Anno Domi 1646: by Phillip Harris, John Hall Edward Parke & John Dawbie /
Impr[imis] his wearing apparrell & money in his purse ---03-00-00
In the Chamber over the parler
It[e]m a bedsteed & Cubbord and Tressell --2-10-00
It[e]m a tuke flag bed & tuke boulster 4 pillowes 4 greose curtains & vallians to the bed Item one Coverlid one blanket one chest & a trumcke a brush & a looking glasse 03-10-00
It[e]m a tuke fether bed & bolster & healing ---01-10
In the Chamber over the buttery
It[em] two flock beds a fether boulster & tuke, a flock boulster 2 blankets 2 Coverlids & a old bedstead 02-00-
In the Chamber over the Whitehowse
It[e]m 50 bushells of appells --02-10-00
It[e]m three payr of sheetes - three tableclothers 2 payr of pillowboares 10 napkins one towell & one sheete more 02-04-00
It[e]m two healings --00-04-00
In the parler
It[e]m a long tableboard & frame a forme 3 joynd stooles 2 [illegible] board a carpet cloth & coshuns ---01-05-00
It[e]m 2 brasse poots 3 kettells 2 skillets 01-18-00
It[e]m aleaven greate peeces of pewter 5 sarers of pewter dishes 3 salts, basin one flagon one pewter cann, pewter Candlestick 2 chamber pots a spicemortear -- 01-14
It[e]m one Cubbord cloth --00-02-00
It[e]m 2 broaches, dripping pann, 1 greadier 1 chafeing dish 1 brandier 1 payr of andiers 1 payr of doggs 2 payr of poot hooks --00-07-00
It[e]m in the Kitchin a table board & a foarme --00-05-00
It[e]m a cheese ring 2 dow skeeles a malt & 2 sacks a heard seeve & a search a churne 2 hogsheads 1 barrell 1 bottell 01-00-00
It[e]m 1 hogshead more a little vessell a urthen pitchin a litle cheesvate halfe a barrell of vinigeare 00-07-00
It[e]m wheate in the barne and beanes & barly --14-00-00
It[e]m wheate & rye in the feild --04-00-00
It[e]m a horse & a mare & the geares --12-00-00
It[e]m a sulla & a pary of wythes -- 15s
It[e]m hay--03-00-00
It[e]m one Cow 2 two yeare old heighfers 2 yerling heighfers 2 Calves 14-00-00
It[e]m 4 pultery --00-02-00
a flasket & basket & a peck & a sidsadell --00-01---
It[e]m 3 ladders 1 rine seend & riddle, a hatchet --00-04-00
It[e]m ward & other small implements that my be forgotten -- 00-05-00
[subscribed by William Baylye Annselm Baylye et Maria Baylie]
from the Gloucestershire archives catalogue:
DR/205/ page 443
CASE: William, Anselm & Mary Bayly, children & executors v John Bayly, son: Testamentary [Anselm Bayly of Wheatenhurst]: 24th November 1646, 1646
DEPONENTS John Hall, clothier, of Wheatenhurst. Born & lives there. Aged 53. Phillip Harris, yeoman, of Wheatenhurst. Born & lives there. Aged 36. Sybil Hamnan, widow, of Wheatenhurst. Born & lives there.
Aged 40.
DEPOSITIONS
John Hall deposed that about the date on the will he was requested by Anselm Bayly, one of the plaintiffs, to come to the testator’s house in Wheatenhurst. He found the testator very sick but of perfect mind and memory and he gave instructions for the making of his will. He read the will over to Anselm who approved it and put his mark and seal to it in the presence of himself, Sybil Hanman and Phillip Harris. He made the bequests that are in the will and made William, Anselm and Mary Bayly his executors. The will shown him is the same will as it is in his handwriting without alteration. When asked to add an acre of corn to his son John’s bequest he refused to do so. John is his eldest son and the legacies given him were solely in the power of the testator. He gave John a bond of about £150 so he could enjoy a lease that had not been sealed. The free lands were worth about £160 but the goods and chattel were of little value to the executors for the testator died in debt.
Phillip Harris deposed that Anselm Bayley had asked him to come to his father’s house. He was present when John Hall wrote the will on the testator’s instructions and gave a similar account of the process and legacies. He thought the free lands were worth about £100. He has carefully perused the will and seen his own name in his handwriting on it.
Sybil Hanman made a similar deposition. She was a neighbour of the testator and came at Anslem Bayley’s request to be a witness when the will was read.
Commentary
Annsell’s parentage:
Annsell’s will gives his abode as Wheatenhurst (now Whitminster), and his children were baptized there starting in 1602. The Whitminster parish register records the baptism in 1573 of Anselme Bayley the son of John. No other baptism of an Anselme Bayly occurs in the period in the indexes. In his 1626 will, William Bayly of Cherington, made a bequest to the poor of Wheatenhurst, and named children of his brothers Richard and Ansell. The baptisms of William, Richard, and Ansell all appear in the Wheatenhurst register, with the father recorded as John.
In the 1682-3 Visitation of Gloucestershire, John’s wife is said to be a relation of Alderman Holliday of London (Sir Leonard Halliday). John later remarried twice, but given the dates of the baptisms the first wife was probably the mother of John’s children.
References
Parish registers of Whitminster, Gloucestershire. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 6 April 2019.
Will of Annsell Bayly, proved 23 December 1646 in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 6 April 2019.