Another Bayes Family
A family descended from a Richard Bayes, who was born 1765, in Lincolnshire.
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Hello, I'm Jack Bayes.
The family depicted here aren't related to me, (as far as I know). They just happened to be the first likely Bayes family I followed on the 1881 Census, when I began my genealogical journey 25 years ago. I've started to tell their story here, hoping it's of interest to you.
Richard Bayes = Elizabeth
b.1765 │ b.1765
┌──┘
Charlotte Bayes = Joseph Cheetham
b.1803 │ │ b.1813 d.bef.1861
┌──────┘ └──────────┐
William = Hannah Mary Elizabeth
Bayes │ Morrison Cheetham
c.1834- │ 1837-1923 b.12 Dec 1852
1905 │
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William and Hannah had at least 11 children:
Emily Bayes (1856-1931)
Married Robert Storr (1842-1882)
Ellen Bayes (b.1858)
Samuel Bayes (b.1860)
Married Mary Ann Harrison (b.1857)
They had a daughter Frances Ellen (1880-1900)
Alice Bayes (1861-1916)
Married George R. Burrows
George Thorpe Bayes (1863-1952)
Married Ellen N. Greaves (b.1864)
They had (at least) 7 children:
Mary Annie Bayes (b.1885)
Alma Bayes (b,1886)
Elma Bayes (b.1887) md. Richard Garlick
William Bayes (1889-1975) md. Winifrid Dora Hall
Frederick Bayes (b.1893)
Ernest Bayes (b.1901)
Florence Bayes (b.1904)
Frederick Bayes (b.1865)
Married Catherine Daniels
William Bayes (1867-1960)
Married Hannah Cooper (1873-1950) in 1893.
They had (at least) 8 children:
Alice Bayes (1894-1946)
Nellie Bayes (1895-1986)
md. James Boulby (b.1891)
Ernest Bayes (b.1897)
Hannah Bayes (b.& d. 1900)
Walter Bayes (b.&d.1900)
William Bayes (b.&d.1900)
Ivy Bayes (1906-2001)
Married Henry S. Rogers (1898-1947)
Walter Bayes (1909-1997)
Married Gladys
Ada (b.1870)
Charles (b.1872)
Mary Ann (b.1874)
Walter (b.1877)
Birthplaces and census' show where they were:
Emily b. Walkeringham
Ellen b. Walkeringham
Sam b. Gringley on the Hill
Alice b. Walkeringham, (family also there on 1861 Census).
George b. Misterton
William & Dora's Grave on Find a Grave
Frederick b. Walkeringham
William b. Walkeringham
(Baptised there 3 Nov 1867)
For the younger William and Hannah's family, see below.
Ada b. Walkeringham, (by 1871 Census they were at Gringley).
Charles b. Gringley on the Hill
Mary Ann b. Gringley
Walter b. Gringley
Again using Census records and birthplaces, we can follow the younger William and his wife, another Hannah, (nee Cooper), through part of their lives. They married in 1893 at Doncaster, about 14 miles North-East of the Walkeringham area. They stayed around Doncaster for a while.
Alice (born 1894) in Doncaster.
Nellie (b.1895) and Ernest (b.1897) were born in Wheatley, a Western suburb of Doncaster.
By 1900, they were in the more central Doncaster parish of Hexthorpe. (This is the home of The Plant, the famous Railway Works of what was then the Great Northern Railway, later to be part of the LNER, the London and North Eastern Railway).
In that year, (triplet?) babies Walter, William and Hannah were to be born and, alas, to die.
The Census taken in March 1901 finds them, still in Hexthorpe, in Littlewood Street. (The houses in Littlewood Street have gone now). William was a Labourer in a coal yard. They were still there when Ivy was born in 1906 and the second Walter in 1909.
The Census taken in April 1911, tells us that they had by then moved on, by just over half a mile South-East, to St. Catherines Avenue, Balby. William was then a Carrier in the coal trade.
By the time Charlotte was born in 1803, the family lived in Kexby, Lincolnshire.
In c.1834, Charlotte had a son, William, born (and baptised 28 Sep 1834) at the hamlet of West Burton, in North Nottinghamshire.
She didn't marry until 1845, , this was to Joseph Cheetham, at Walkeringham, Notts., who was a brick yard labourer.
(They had a daughter together, Mary Elizabeth in 1852 in Walkeringham).
We now continue with William Bayes, who married Hannah Morrison, (baptised at Everton 17 Nov 1837). The wedding, also at Everton, Nottinghamshire, was in 1856.
The Chesterfield Canal was opened in 1777. When this was being constructed, they found the clay they were digging out in these parts, was perfect for brickmaking. If you look on some old maps along the canal, you will see various clay pits and old brick kilns nearby. (There's ruins of one at Gringley on the Hill).
William was a Brickmaker. It looks like he had a semi-itinerant life. He was following the work, as clay pits and kilns became active.
Using their children's birthplaces and the various Census' we can follow them around. This old Ordnance Survey map from Victorian times, shows the Chesterfield Canal and the places mentioned. You can see Everton in the West, then South of the canal further East, Gringley on the Hill, Walkeringham, (with it's Brick Yard which was worked until the 1950's) and you can just see the edge of Misterton in the top right.
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