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: unknown.
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)
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]
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]
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 the 1682-3 Visitation of Gloucestershire, John’s wife is said to be a relation of Alderman Holliday of London. 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.