Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 10 March 1610/11.
Place of Burial: Whitminster, Gloucestershire.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: Elizabeth Batt.
This relationship seems to be supported by Elizabeth’s will.
Spouse: unknown Holliday.
This relationship is given by the 1682-3 Visitation of Gloucestershire (p. 15). Her father is said to be a relation of Alderman Holliday of London. (The informant was her grandson William, son of William Bayly below.) The alderman was presumably William Holliday, a chairman of the East India Company, who originated in Gloucestershire.
Spouse: Elizabeth Lugge. Married 13 September 1578 in Whitminster.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Spouse: Ann.
Anne’s burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relative: Richard Bird.
John's son Richard mentions his uncle Richard Bird in his 1595 will. (This was probably the Richard Bird of Wheatenhurst who left a 1612 PCC will.)
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
[Joan?] Bayly (baptized 11 June 1561 in Whitminster)
Elizabeth Bayly (baptized 20 December 1562 in Whitminster)
Mary Bayly (baptized 13 May 1564 in Whitminster)
William Bayly (baptized 7 June 1566 in Whitminster)
Richard Bayly (baptized 3 February 1568/9 in Whitminster - buried 7 September 1595 in Whitminster) married Joan. In his will Richard mentions his uncle, Richard Bird.
John Bayly (baptized 3 February 1568/9 in Whitminster)
Dorothy Bayly (baptized 13 April 1572 in Whitminster) married Gyles Driver 13 November 1592 in Whitminster.
Ansell Bayly (baptized 19 July 1573 in Whitminster) married (1) Joyce; married (2) Dorothy.
Evidence
from the Victoria County History (Gloucestershire 10:sub Wheatenhurst):
By 1578 the manorial estate was divided between two lessees. In that year the Crown leased the manor, without the mills, manor-house, and demesne lands of which the ownership is traced below, to Robert Hayes, who assigned his lease to John Bayly. In 1604 the Crown granted Wheatenhurst manor in fee farm to Peter Vanlore and William Blake, from whom John Bayly's son William bought the manor in 1607. William Bayly died in 1626, and his son and heir William in 1691. The Baylys were presumably descended from John Bayly, a tenant of the manor in 1479, and William Bayly, churchwarden of Wheatenhurst in 1545. In 1672 two men called Mr. Bayly were each assessed for tax on six hearths. Neither, however, lived in the manor-house, and later lords of the manor did not live in the parish. William Bayly of Fretherne, son of the William who died in 1691, sold Wheatenhurst manor to Sir Samuel Eckley, who by 1711, had been succeeded by his brother and heir John.
Whitminster parish registers:
Baptisms:
[Johane??] Bayly the daughtr Johnis was bapt the xjth daie of June [1561]
Elizbeth Bayly filia Johnis was bapt the xxten day of Decem [1562]
Mary Bayly filia Johnis was baptiz the xiijten daye of Maye [1664]
Willm Bayly filis Johnis Bayly was bapt the vijth daye of June [1566]
Johnes et Ricus Bayly filij Johnis were bapt the iij day February [1568]
Dorathy Bayly filia Johnis was baptized the xiijten day of Aprill [1572]
Anselme Bayly filis Johnis was bapt the xix.th. daye of July [1573]
Burials:
Richard Bayly was buryed the vijth daye of Septembr [1595]
Anne the wife of John Baylie buried October xxvijth 1610
John Baylie yeoman was buried the xth daie of Marche Anno Domini 1610.
bishop's transcripts to Whitminster parish registers:
1571
The xxijth of august Elizabeth bayly was buried.
1572
The 7th of august Thomas bayly was buried.
1577
The xijth of november Elizabeth bayly was buried.
1578
The xiijth of September John Bayly & Elizabeth Lugge were married
The will of Elizabeth Bayly:
In the name of god amen // the fourthe day of november in the xix yere of the Reyne of the Soferayne lady quyne Elyzabeth by the grace of God quyne this witnessethe that I Elizabeth Bayly of Whettenhurste within the County of Glouc// wydowe beyinge sycke in body & in god & perffette Remembrance doo make my laste wyll & testamente as foloethe / fyrst I geve & bequeth my soalle unto almyghty god my maker & Redemar & my body to by buryed where [...] shall pleasse [...]/ also I geve & bequev to Richard Bayly my sonne & Marry the [...] ...ones all my beddinge & bedsted to be parted Indeferentely by them bott & John Bayly my sonne provyded alwayes that marry so shall have the beste of the lynen of the same beddynge the which[?] my towles anns [?] have alredy in her costody/ also I geve & bequeve to Anne my dawghter of the apparelle of my body as foloethe my two best cassocks my beste petycote iiij of my best carosols ij smoks ij aprons two of my beste perleletts ij fyene [?] & one doble Raylle & aggoate coffer / also I geve & bequev to Richard Baylyes wyeffe one [...] ij porteletts ij caroses one [...] one waiste coatte & my best hatte also [...] & bequeve to the chyldren [...] Richard Baylie / John Richard & Ane [...] also I geve & bequeve to the iiij chydren [...] [..ayles] & alles other of them
also I geve & bequeve to my syster grace newman[?] my best [...] & to mabell wawname[?] one petycotte & one carches/ also I geve & [...] Clarke & Alizabethe[?] Maell[?] ayther of them anewe payre of [...] [...] geve & bequeve to every one of my godchyldren a [blank]
also I geve & bequeve to Joane Bayly the daughter of John Bayly one table clothe & one waeste cootte of fusstyan, also I geve & bequeve to Elizabeth Bayly one fossett & a panie & in money also I geve & bequeve to Mary Bayly one coffer/ also I geve & bequeve to Kateran Batt one sina…] one [...] also to the chyldren of Jhon Batte Margarett John Wyllym & Peter ather of them
also I geve & bequev to Wylym Hale Gyelles Halle Leonard Hale Wyllyam Bayly Ric Bayly John Bayley Ansuell Bayly & Dorothee Bayly ather of them xij d
also I geve & bequev to Thom Fyssher Chyldren athere of them iiij d
also to Thom hemame xij d
also I geve & bequeve to Ric Bayly my sone in money xl s
also my wyll is that the same Richard Bayly be dysscharged of the paymente of x s to hys [...] Ricd Bayly by my executor besyed the xls/ also I wyll & bequeve that my soone John bayly [...] [..ttly] Injoy & kepe my tenemente & two yards of land with the appurtenances in Whettenhurste nowe in theoccupacyon of the same John payyng my Rente for the hooll yere that is to saye at candellmas xls & at lamasse other xls
also I geve & bequeve to Wyllyam Joanes iijs iiijd
also I doo appoynte for my buryall ls
provyded always that yf any of the sayd sume of l s may be lawfully spared by the appoynted of my overseeres then my wyll is that soo spared shall Remayne to my sone Ricd Bayly [...] formere gaffse
also I geve & bequeve to Thom bat my brother iij s iij d
also I doo appoyntt Thm batt my brother & John Bayly my Sone my overseeres of thys my laste wyll & testament & to paie at my buryall & to doo what they thynke beste without any lett of any person or persons & to Tovyde my legasces accordinge to the trew meanynge of thys my wyll// all the Reste of my goods moveable & unmoveable my Tepts & legasyes payd accordynge to thys my wyll I geve & bequeve to morryse Jones whom I make my sooll executor of thys my last wyll & testamente these beiynge wytnes thomas batt John Bayly with other moo.
References
Morgan, Kathleen and Brian S Smith. “Wheatenhurst or Whitminster: Manors and other estates” in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Wesbury and Whitstone Hundreds. (London, 1972).
Parish registers of Whitminster, Gloucestershire. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 6 April 2019.
The Visitation of the County of Gloucester 1682-3. (Exeter, 1884).
Will of Elizabeth Bayly,1578, Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 6 April 2019.
Will of Richard Bayly,1595, Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 6 April 2019.