Richard Bach
Events
Date of Baptism: 10 November 1633.
Place of Baptism: Dudley, Worcestershire, England (St Thomas’s).
The baptism is recorded in the parish registers.
Date of Death: 18 September 1693.
The date of death is given in the inventory of his goods.
Date of Burial: 20 September 1693.
Place of Burial: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England (St John the Baptist).
The burial is given in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: William Bach.
Richard’s baptism record names his father.
Mother: Mary Engre.
Mary is named in her marriage record.
Spouse: Sarah Payton (1643 - 1699). Married 18 June 1665 in Tipton, Staffordshire.
The marriage is given in the parish registers. Richard mentions his wife, Sara, and his brother-in-law, John Payton, in his will.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Joseph Bach (born 3 April 1666 - buried 5 November 1757) married Elizabeth Cole.
William Bach.
Hannah Bach married someone with the surname White.
Evidence
from the Tipton parish register:
Richard Bach of the p[ar]ish of Bromsgrove & Sarah Payton of the p[ar]ish of Dudley haveing the Banes lawfully asked in both p[ar]ishes were wedded at Tipton the xviij day of June an[n]o dom: 1665
from Amphlett’s index to Worcestershire fines (1659) (p. 95).
Between Richard Bache plaintiff and Thomas Hunt & defendants in Gannowe &c.
Richard Bach of the Gannow nailor is mentioned in the 1671 will of Thomas Hunt yeoman of Bromsgrove.
Apprenticeship records:
Bromsgrove (Chadwich), 1685.
Apprentice: Mary Orford
Master: Richard Bach, yeoman
Bromsgrove, 1690.
Apprentice: William Bach
Master: Jonathan Sowden
(1690) (p. 295)
Inter William Bache et alios querentes et Ricardum Bache Bumpas Steward et alios defendentes in Gannow et aliis.
from the Bromsgrove parish register:
[1693 September] 20 bu Richard Bach
A transcription of Richard Bach’s will and inventory
A Inventory of The Goods Chattels & Credits of Richard Bach yeoman Deceased Sep. 18th 1693 praised Oct 11th By us William Bach John Payton Mary Ruston Mary Sirietter(?) as Followeth
Imprimis: His Purse and Apparel: 05=00=00.
Item: In the Hall one Table one Boxchaire one Boxcup-board On Pewter frame:00=12=00.
Item: In The Parlor One Table One Chest One Livery-cup-board Two Presses Four joyned stools Three Green Chairs: 02=5=00.
Item:In the Chaimber Over The Stall One joyned bed One Poucelle Bed One Chest One Coffer Two Boxis Two Chairs: 01=08=00.
Item: In the Chaimber Over The ?oler Two Joyn'd Teas One Chest One Box-cup-board Two Boxis: 01=01=00.
Item:In The Pantry One Table One joyned forme Two joyn'd Chairs: 00=09=00. Item: In The Buttery Three Half-hodgs-heads six Barrills Other small vessels:01=05=00.
Item:One Brass-pot Four kettles Two Warming-pans skimmers And Candlesticks And Other small Things:02=12=00.
Item:Thirteen Dishes of Pewter Three Flagons And Other Plate And porringers: 01=13=00.
Item: One Iron pott One Iron Grate Copards And spits:00=13=00. Item:for other goods charis and stools: 00=09=00.
Item:In The Dayhouse Two Bread-vessels One Cheespress Four Cowls One Churne Paile And other things: 00=14=00
Item:Three Feather Beds Three Bolsters Five Pillows One Flatbed Curtains &c: 12=05=00
Item:Sheets Table cloths Napkins &c:11=07=00
Item:New cloth Wool Two yarn Bags:3=?=?
Item:In The Barn Graine And Hay:05=?=?
Item:Two Cows One Colt:07=?=?
Item:Two store swine:05=00=00
Item:Husbandry Geer:00=?=?
Item:Things Out of sight or Forgott:00=?=?
Item:Debts Owing Him:19=?=?
Totall-72-8-00
Debts He Owes:40=00=00
Remaining------32=8=00
In the name of god Amen I Richard Bach of Chadwich in the parrish of Bromsgrove yeoman Being in a sound and disposing memory praise begiven to god for the same doo make this My Last will and Testament in manner and form following: That is to say: first and principally I resigne my soule into the mercifull hands of allmighty God my Creator assuredly(?) hoping through the merits of my blesed saviour to obtaine remission of all my sins and my Body I commit to the earth whence it was taken to be buryed by the discretion of my executrix herein after named and as for the worldly goods and estate the Lord hath lent mee I dispose thereof as follows: Imprimis I give and bequeath to Sara my loving wife all that messuage or tenement where in I now live with all buildings that belong to it [interlineation: "during her life"] I give the _________ ground called the old hayes also being part of this message or tenement to Sara my wife during her naturall life and immediately(?) after her decease: I give and bequeath those lands tenements and buildings that I now hold in my own hands with all the _______ that belongs to them to Hanna my daughter to her and her heires for ever---: but if Hanna die without issue of her body lawfully begotten [Item] I give it to my sones Joseph and William to be equally divided by two honest men between them my intent is to give it to them and thire? assigns for ever: but if either of my sones die without issue of his body lawfully begotten then I give it to the last survivor and his assignes for ever
[Item] I give and bequeath my house and land in Chadwich where in Henry Hall liveth and no moor? but what he holdeth of mee-which is six till? closes ___ house and flock: unto Sara my wife unto such times as Hanna my daughter shall attain to the age of twenty fower yeares and no longer but my will and desire is that if Sara my wife and Hanna my daughter be both alive att those yeares and : that Sara my wife shall give Hanna my daughter all the profit of this ____ing and Hanna pay all taxes and ______ so also my wife to give Hanna five pounds a yeare and my wife to pay and _______: this shall be att my wifes ________ : but consider(?) my will is to give this last gift but during my wifes life that if Sara my wife __ not live till Hanna be twenty fower yeares of age this gift signifies nothing this is but holy(?) till the first gift _____
[Item] I give and bequeath this last gift of my house and land in Chadwich after my wife Sara decease to my son William Bach paying to his sister Hanna Bach threescore pounds of lawfull english money within two years after his mothers decease hanna or her assignes giving him notice which day in the last weeks of the two yeares and within two miles of his house in Chadwich to ______ the money or such security as shall be excepted and for want of such payment or security the sayd Hanna or her assignes shall enter and take possession and the house and land to keepe as thire owne without disturbance or molestation till they are fully satisfied and payd and all charges and damages that my fall
[Item] I give and bequeath the right and title I have in the brandwayes lying in the Gannow which my son Joseph Bach holdeth unto Sara my wife during her naturall life and after my wifes decease then
[Item] I give and bequeath the _______tion and all the right and title I have in them to my son Joseph Bach and to his assignes dureing? my room(?) I have in to
[Item] I give and bequeath the right and title I have in the _____ stockings unto my son Joseph Bach being a morgagd from William Hunt to Joseph Bach but agreed att Joseph's marrag to be mine and att my disposeing but notwithstanding this gift my will and desire is that he shall pay twenty pounds of my debts and pay my funeral expences and charges that shall hapon by my death Joseph to enter of this gift imediatly after my death: and taking the charge of the debts also then and the funeral expences
[Item] And all the rest and residue of my estate goods and chattels not herein before bequeathed I doo give and bequeath unto my loving wife Sarah Bach dureing her naturall life: If shee so long abid in widowhood and unmarryed again: but if it hap that the sayd Sarah shall take any man to husband after my death: then my will and desire is: that one half of every gift: given by mee in this: will: shall cease: and and the one half of my wifes in all my will shall to the intent as though shee were dead except shee marry with the consent of brother(?)William Bach and my brother in law John Payton and for want of eithere of them: then their heires Josiah Bach and Henry Payton: whom I desire to be executors of this my will
[Item] I have considered although notwithstanding I have given my loveing wife all my goods and chattels during her life: yet I have advised and considered and it is my will that if my daughter Hannah hap to marry before my wifes Sarah death: then my will is that Hannah shall have a considerable parte of the best of them I leave it to the discretion of my wife and my overseers: but my will is that Hannah shall have what my wife and overseers thinke conveniant within one moneth of her marriage day: if shee marry in her mothers life time But
but The ______tion of those goods and chattels which are Left in my wifes hand after Hannah hath received her gift in my will: I give as I did before to my wife Sarah Bach during her naturall life and after her death I give them to my three children Joseph William and Hannah to be divided as my wife and over seers shall thnke fitt and conveniant in my wifes life time: but if Hanah my daughter hap to die before shee be marryed Then I give those goods and chattels after my wifes death two my sones Joseph Bach and William Bach to be equally divided : and as fore my debtes I have oweing mee att my death: I give to my wife Sarah Bach: but if it hap or shall be found that I shall owe any money to any man or men: more than twenty pounds will pay : that I have given before to pay my debts: Then my will is and I doo give power to my wife Sarah Bach to fell timber or any wood of any of the lands that shee holdeth for her life or cattell or goods tell that debte that is found on mee att my death be payd and no more: I desire my sones Joseph and William to be assistant and loveing to thire mother my loveing wife Sarah Bach whom I do make sole executrix of this my last will and Testament revoking all other Willes by mee heretofore made In witness whereof I have written this with my own hand: and I have hereunto sett my hand seale this first of June in the yeare 1693
Richard Bach
Commentary
I give the Richard Bach baptized in Dudley in 1633 as the one who married Sarah Payton based on the facts that:
(1) His wife Sarah came from Dudley.
(2) The father of the Richard baptized in Dudley was a nailer, as was the Richard Bach of the Gannow.
(3) The Richard Bach of the Gannow had a brother who lived in Dudley.
This is known of the Richard Bach who married Sarah Payton:
(1) A 1659 fine probably records his purchase of property at The Gannow, near Bromsgrove.
(2) His 1665 marriage record gives his place of residence as Bromsgrove.
(3) He was living at the Gannow 13 March 1670 when he was mentioned in the will of Thomas Hunt of the Gannow, yeoman.
(4) In the 1690 poll tax, he is described as a yeoman nailer of Chadwich. (Chadwick was near Gannow.)
(5) His will describes him as a yeoman of Chadwich, and he mentions property in Gannow.
(6) His brother William was married and had children baptized in Dudley.
The Richard Bach who was baptized in Dudley in 1633 is probably the one who gave 6d towards the paving of a street in Dudley in 1657 and who is recorded as living in Dudley in the 1664 hearth tax records. His father was a nailer.
References
Dudley, Worcestershire, St Thomas’s, parish registers, FHL film 378760, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tipton, Staffordshire, St Martin’s parish registers, FHL film 1526134, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Amphlett, John (ed.) An Index to Worcestershire Fines, 1649 - 1714 (Oxford: the Worcestershire Historical Society, 1896).
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, St John the Baptist parish registers, FHL film 321123, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Will of Thomas Hunt. Proved 1571 in the Worcester Consistory Court. Digital images on FamilySearch.org accessed 28 July 2018.