In England in 16th to mid 18th centuries, our branch of the Bailey family mostly lived in the area around Wheatenhurst, a village some eight miles SSW of the city of Gloucester and on the eastern side of the river Severn, in the county of Gloucestershire. The village was part of the manorial estate of Wheatenhurst (nowadays called Whitminster).

Just when the Baileys first lived there has not been established, though they are not mentioned on the Subsidy Roll of 1327 in the reign of Edward II. During the time of Richard II there is a report in 1479 of a John Bailey as a tenant at Wheatenhurst and in 1483, Richard III undertook to grant that estate together with other properties to Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham, but the grant lapsed on Stafford's execution in November of that year. Later on it became part of the estates of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The earliest will from our family in Wheatenhurst is that of Anselm made in 1645 and he was baptised there in 1573, his father being named as John.

The only John who could have been Anselm's father was the one baptised in October 1554, but there is no record of his parents.

Two men named Thomas Bailey were married at Wheatenhurst around 1550, but as that name does not appear in our next generations, these men have not been further researched, though they may be related.

The most likely parents of John baptised in 1554 were William Bailey and Johan Evans, who were married in 1548 and William may have been the one reported as a churchwarden at Wheatenhurst in 1545 in the reign of Edward VI.

This William may also have been the one from Wheatenhurst who bought Badnams mill at Elkstone, north east of Painswick in 1549. When it was sold by a John Bailey in 1570 there were actually two mills, one being for crushing corn and the other a fulling mill used for compacting or felting cloth to make it thicker.

Records in a collection of documents known as Hockaday Abstracts name a William Bailey who in 1551 took out a case of defamation against Richard Shepherd. William alleged that the latter had "on the way to Church on the Sonnedaye before Michaelmas (September 25) last past" declared in front of witnesses that William and Margaret Blake (wife of John Blake) "doo lyve naughtilie togeyther.....in the grove."

In the defamation papers, William stated he had been born in 1511, though he had not come to live in Wheatenhurst until 153l. Maybe he was born in Elmore and a relation of William who died there in 1579 who had a son named Anselm. Perhaps this was the reason that William's grandson born in Wheatenhurst was given the name of Anselm, the first of that name to be recorded in that village.

There is a record of a William Bailey being buried in March 1557, and he may have been John's father, and if so his spouse Johan and daughter Margaret had died only six months earlier, but unfortunately William left no will.

On the other hand, this burial may refer to another William Bailey, mentioned in Hockaday Abstracts, with a wife Elizabeth and natural son John. His estate had been proved and a proclamation issued on 15 April 1558 for his goods to be sold to pay his creditors.

The years after l554, when John was baptised were turbulent ones in England. Edward VI had died early in 1553 and was succeeded for a few months by Lady Jane Grey. The next ruler in that year was Edward's half sister Mary I who made her own religion, Catholicism, that of the State. Mary died in 1558 and having no heir, Mary's half sister Elizbeth I came to the throne and England once again became a Protestant nation, as it had been under her father, Henry VIII.

From burial records it would seem that John had married his wife Anne sometime before 1572 and that they had a daughter Dorathy baptised in 1572 and a son Anselm, baptised one year later. Both these children were left twelve pence in the 1577 will of Elizabeth Bailey a widow of Wheatenhurst. She had made bequests to numerous relatives and in the same group with Anselm and Dorothy, mention is made of William, Richard and John Bailey. No detail was given to show whether or not these were siblings or other relatives and so they have not been entered in the genealogy.

John may have been the one who in 1583, took over the lease of Wheatenhurst from Robert Hayes, to whom it had been assigned by the Duchy of Lancaster, after Wheatenhurst had been separated from the larger Whitminster estate.

Sometime before 1602, Anselm baptised in 1573 married for the first time and his son John was the first of five children. Young John was only seven months old, when the long Elizabethan era came to an end and the new ruler of England was Elizabeth's cousin, James I. As James VI, he had been King of Scotland and belonged to the Stuart line, which had ruled that country since 1371.

In 1604 Wheatenhurst was sold to two London merchants and they in turn sold it to a William Bailey of Cherington some ten miles to the south east. Whether John was related to this William Bailey is not known, nor whether he stayed on as a tenant and unfortunately he left no will.

Around 1600 Wheatenhurst had a fulling mill, and Anselm was recorded as a clothier (one who makes cloth or clothes) in a case at a court sitting at Withington some seventeen miles away. It seems he was one of four partners who owned 40 acres of arable land, meadows and pastures in that area. The land was leased out, but when the original tenant died, his wife remarried and stayed on the property. The partners said the lease had been broken and they and Anselm were charged with wrongfully entering the premises to demand repayment, but there is no report of the outcome.

Anselm was also recorded as a clothier (one of the two in Wheatenhurst) in a muster of men able to bear arms, taken in 1608 in Gloucestershire. The records for Wheatenhurst state that William Bailey Gent was Lord, whilst Anselm clothier of middle stature age 20-40 years, was a trained soldier with a servant Henry Thomas who had been baptised in Wheatenhurst in 1572. His father John (now 54) was not recorded in detail, though he had furnished one cozlett i.e. a suit of light body armour.

According to burial records, it would seem that Anselm's first wife was Joyce and she died in 1610, only six weeks after the birth of her fourth daughter, Jane baptised in July. Anselm must have remarried soon after and his new wife Dorathy bore a son William baptised in 1611/12, with the last of their five children being baptised in 1621.

Four years later, in March 1625, James I died and was succeeded by his son Charles I, who like his father, believed that the King, not Parliament, should prevail in matters of State.

In January 1642 Charles went to Westminster with his Cavaliers to arrest 5 members of Parliament, but they were not there, having been forewarned by their friends. This incident so provoked the citizens of London, that Charles was forced to flee to Hampton Court and then to York, to rally his sympathisers. Charles wanted to join up with his Welsh supporters, but could not do so by land, so the alternative was to take control of the river Severn, when his men and supplies could be taken by barge and land in Wales. To this end, Charles attacked the city of Gloucester in January 1643, but was defeated by Cromwell and his Roundheads and had to retire to Oxfordshire.

Anselm died some time before December 1646, his second wife Dorathy having predeceased him in 1637/8. His will, made on 4 July 1645 left to his son John the remainder of the term of the lease of his house in Wheatenhurst. After all Anselm's debts were paid, his sons Anselm and William shared with their younger sister Mary the remainder of his estate and his freelands or the "overplus" of the money made from it. All of Anselm's other daughters, except Elizabeth, to whom he left ten shillings, seem to have died prior to 1645.

To his three Merry grandchildren he left the sum of ten pounds, to be divided between them when they were 2l. They were the family of his daughter Hannah who had died in 1640. She had married Thomas Merry in 1632 and he may be related to a William Merry, who had sold 120 acres of land at Cherington to the William Bailey who had bought Wheatenhurst.

An inventory of household goods made after Anselm's death gave their value as one hundred pounds and they included 11 great pieces of pewter and 4 pewter dishes. These latter may have been the ones mentioned in later Bailey wills.

In 1648 Charles I forces had been defeated all over England and eventually in 1649 the victorious Cromwell had him executed. The Protectorate under Cromwell and his son Richard lasted until 1660, when Charles II one of the Stuarts was restored to the throne, this time under Parliament's terms.

With most of England affected by Civil War, many parish records have not survived, particularly those for Wheatenhurst and details about the children of Anselm who died in 1646 are incomplete.

No further record has been found of Anselm's elder son John until his death in 1689 but the will of an Anselm Bailey made in June 1689 which appointed his father (unnamed) as overseer of the will implies that John was still alive then. In fact, he survived his son Anselm by about 10 days and Anselm's death was recorded on his headstone as 11 December 1689, whilst John was buried on 21 December, both at Wheatenhurst.

The only surviving record of the baptism of an Anselm is at nearby Elmore in 1623, but there his father was named as Anselm. However records are not always accurate, so there is a possibility that the father of this Anselm was actually John ? the one born 1602 and that this Anselm was the one who died in 1689.

Records of his childrens' baptisms show their mother as Sarah, who on Anselm's headstone, was shown as being born about 1638. This fifteen years difference in their age may partly account for the fact that Sarah survived Anselm by over thirty years.

There are no records in Wheatenhurst that show the marriage nor the children of Anselm's second son William born in 1611/12. However there is a William Bailey in nearby Elmore who had 6 children there between 1642 and 1654, including a son Anselm, who died as an infant. It is possible he was John's brother and his descendents are recorded with the Elmore Baileys.

Anselm and Dorathy's second son and namesake did not marry until he was 45, according to a Marriage Allegation found in Hockaday Abstracts. His wife was a widow named Mary Dawby and so far, there are no records of any children, and Mary was buried in 1677. Perhaps Mary was a relative of Giles or Elizabeth Dawby mentioned in wills made at Wheatenhurst by Alice and Richard Bailey made in 1580 and 1595.

Charles II died suddenly in 1685 and his brother James II succeeded him. James and his Queen were both Catholics and appointed many of that faith to important posts. In 1688, Queen Mary gave birth to a son, ensuring a Papist succession and this was the last straw for Parliament. They offered the throne to James' nephew, William of Orange and his wife Mary, a descendent of Charles II and by the end of 1688 William III and Mary II were ruling England and James II had been allowed to escape to the Continent.

In Anselm's 1689 will, there are records of 3 of his and Sarah's children, born at Wheatenhurst between 1670/2 and 1678, but the baptism of their second child Anselm has yet to be found.

Their elder daughter, Sarah, was not married when her father's will was made, so she was left a sizeable dowry of one hundred pounds, to be paid when she was 23 i.e. in 1693 or 95. The money for this was to come from the sale of Anselm's stock, but there was a mortgage to be paid first. Should there be no dowry Sarah was to get an acre of arable land at Broadfield in parish of Hardwicke. There are 2 marriage records that may relate to Sarah, but it is not certain which one, if any, is correct.

Anselm and Sarah's second son was Anselm and according to his headstone he was a yeoman and born about 1673 and he died in 1743. His father had left him several pieces of land and property, but he was not to have these until his mother Sarah died in 1722. Unfortunately he left no will, so there are no details of any legacy he received. In 1699 he married at nearby Haresfield, Ann Whitterne, who may be a connection of his brother John's wife, Edith Whitthorn. Edith's father, Richard Whitthorn in his will of 1709, surrendered land to pay his debts to Thomas Humphries, Edith's brother in law and to an Anselm Bailey, probably Ann's husband.

Anselm and Ann's children were Edith, Anne, an Anselm who lived only three years and the last child another Anselm who was born in 1719.

During this period William and Mary died and they were succeeded by Queen Anne and after her death, George I.

It is thought that Anselm and Ann's second daughter Anne married Daniel Wilkins who died in 1742 and he was buried at Wheatenhurst in the grave of her grandfather Anselm. In his will, Daniel had left Anne a life interest in 3 acres of land at Hammadgefield (Hamage) which was to revert to their son James. This was probably adjacent to or perhaps a consolidation of the three separate parcels of one acre that Anne's grandfather Anselm had in 1690 left to Anne's father and his two brothers.

The Anselm born in 1719 went to Oxford and graduated from Exeter College in 1740 and before 1772 became a Doctor in Civil Law. He was ordained into the Church of England and on 22 January 174l was appointed a lay vicar of Westminster Abbey. On l3 March 1744 he was made a priest of the Chapel Royal and in October 1746 he was married at St. Georges Bloomsbury (in London) to Jinnet Yates. In 1751, Anselm was made Vicar of Tottenham, near London and in 1758 published an attempt to rationalise English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew grammars "An Introduction to Language". In 1764 Anselm was appointed sub dean of the Chapel Royal, as well as being a minor canon of St. Pauls Cathedral but despite these duties, he continued his theological writings and those on language. While he was living at James Street, Westminster, he wrote in 1772 "A Plain and Complete Grammar" dedicated to George, Prince of Wales including a separate section "The English Accidence" dedicated to Right Hon Lady Charlotte Finch Governess to Their Royal Highnesses the Young Princes. The next year saw the publication of "A Plain and Complete Grammar of the Hebrew Language" and his wife Jinnet died in 1775 and was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. After her death Anselm re-married, and having studied medicine, patented in 1787 an invention to prevent and relieve rupture.He wrote about religion and the study of music, as well as having works published in 1771 and 1789 about musical prosody. His work on "The Alliance of Musick Poetry and Oratory" was published in 1789 and he had written at least twelve books before he died he died in November 1794.

Anselm's brother William had married Elizabeth Daw at Gloucester, in the same church and only a month after his younger brother John. He too, was left land and property in his father's will and under the same terms, but when he died in 1754 he left no will. After his death, he was buried, together with Elizabeth who had predeceased him by 10 years, in his parents' grave at Wheatenhurst.

It was Anselm and Sarah's third son, John, who carried down the line of our Bailey descent and he was born in 1678 at Wheatenhurst and in 1705 he was married at Gloucester to Edith Whitthorn.

The Baileys and Whitthorns are both recorded in Edith's birthplace, Charlton Kings, in 16th and 17th centuries, while Whitthorns are listed on Subsidy roll at Wheatenhurst in 1327.

The newly wed couple went to live at Standish, where their eldest son Anselm was born in the same year. Their second son was John born in 1706, then in 1708 Richard (possibly named after Edith's father) who lived only a year.

Their first daughter Sarah, born in 1711 was named maybe after her paternal grandmother while another son William, born in 1712 and a daughter Edith born in 1714 completed John and Edith's family. John died at the age of 63 in 174l and as Edith is not mentioned in his will dated 1736, she had probably died earlier.

John left his eldest son Anselm the land at Puckpitt and Hinton Haling which he had inherited from his own father, and in an addition made only 3 days before his death, all his free land in Wheatenhurst, with the responsibility for paying the mortgage on it and in addition, "the largest pewter dish marked AB". He was also appointed one of the two trustees of his father's will.

John and Edith's second son and namesake had married Mary Birt, who came from nearby Moreton Valence. Perhaps it was because his father did not approve of his bride, that all John was left in Anselm's will was five shillings.

Their elder daughter and third child was Sarah and when she was 20, she married John Eagles. He may have some connection with the Eagles who in 18th century were a prominent merchant family involved in the sugar trade at nearby Bristol. Possibly because she was already married, Sarah only had ten pounds from her father Anselm's will, to be paid by her brother Anselm, a year after her father's death. Sarah and John lived at Longney, where they raised their 6 children, and Sarah was a witness to her brother Anselm's will, made in 1768.

In 1727, four years before Sarah and John were married, George I had died and George II came to the throne of England, where he reigned for the next twenty three years.

John's third son William was left the rest of the inherited land at Hamage, plus half an acre of land at Broadfield in Parish of Hardwicke. William's grandfather Anselm had in 1690 left this land originally comprising one acre, not to William's father John, but to his sister Sarah or to his brother Anselm, depending upon circumstances when his estate was settled. As Anselm who died in 1690 also left a mortgage on his estate, perhaps John received one half of the land at Broadfield, in return for paying off part of his father's debts.

The younger daughter Edith had 30 pounds from John's will, as well as half of the household goods not already bequeathed and her brother Anselm was to pay her ten pounds a year after her father died. It was almost a year after his death, and in 1742 that she married James Wilkins of Haresfield, who was but 19 years old. Probably because James was a minor, it was a Roger Rapier of Wheatenhurst who applied for their marriage licence, with Edith's age being given as 25 years. Her husband may have been the James Wilkins Snr, one of the trustees of the will of Edith's brother Anselm made at Longney in 1768.

It is through John and Edith's eldest son Anselm who was Walter Bailey's great great grandfather that our line of descent continues. When Anselm was 46, in 1751 he applied in Longney, for a marriage Licence to wed Sarah Jones of Mitcheldean, said to be 29 years old and his brother William was bondsman for an amount of two hundred pounds. On the licence, Anselm's age was given as 28, whether from desire to appear nearer to his bride's age, or from a clerical error is not known and this made tracing Anselm's baptism very difficult. It is because of the similarity of the signatures on the Licence and on Anselm's 1768 will and of his age, given on his headstone as 63, that we know that the age of 28 mentioned on the Licence is false. Though the licence was written at Longney and repeated as such in IGI the actual marriage, found only by chance, took place at Mitcheldean, the bride's birthplace, only a few days later. The newly wed couple returned to Longney to live, and here all their six children were born.

It was in 1760 during the infancy of Anselm and Sarah's second son Anselm that George II died and the sixty year reign of George III began.

When his youngest child William was only 6 years old, Anselm died, having made his will in January 1768, nearly two years earlier.

In it, all the land he had inherited was gone possibly in payment of the mortgage on his father's Wheatenhurst land, or maybe because it had been acquired by a large landholder under one of the Enclosures Acts. Strangely enough, he had managed to acquire a half acre of the Broadfield land, but whether this was the half acre that had been left to his brother William or the other half acre of the original one acre mentioned in his grandfather's will is not known - there are no other wills available to show what had happened in the meantime. His wife Sarah was Executrix and none of the children's bequests were valid until she died or remarried.

It was only 3 years after Anselm's death that his widow Sarah married James Harper of Longney, with James' brother Thomas as bondsman for the sum of five hundred pounds. Their Marriage Allegation was made in June 1773 and in it Sarah who was by then 55 gave her age as '40 and upwards', while James said he was '28 and upwards' and according to Parish records, they were not married until December that year.

The first child that Anselm and Sarah had was a daughter also named Sarah, baptised in 1754, who was left thirty pounds and half the household goods, under her father's will. In 1774, she married her cousin Samuel Eagles and their Marriage Allegation mentions one John Bagnall Watchmaker of the City of Gloucester, who stood surety for five hundred pounds. They had 8 children, who were mostly born at Longney.

The record of another daughter, Elizabeth in June 1753 has only been found in IGI was a duplication and another Elizabeth baptised in May 1758 at the Gloucester City church of St. Mary de Lode and of whom there is no further record is an equal mystery and she is not mentioned in her father Anselm's will.

The next daughter Edith, baptised in 1754 was also left thirty pounds and half the household goods in Anselm's will. There is a computer listing of her marriage to Thomas Whittel at Langton Herring in Dorset, in 1799 and there they had 8 children, but this has not been checked.

Anselm and Sarah's eldest son John baptised in 1756 married Dianah Merrett in 1783 in Longney and they had 2 children. In his father's will, he was left the Broadfield land, plus 2 large pewter dishes and fifty pounds.

Our descent is through the second of Anselm and Sarah's sons, another Anselm baptised in 1759, and in his father's will, he too was left fifty pounds, as well as 2 large pewter dishes marked AB. He married Mary Fowle in October 1787 at Blaisdon, where Anselm's brother William also lived.

Though she was born at Huntley, Mary Fowle lived at Little Dean at the time of marriage and perhaps it was because of his mother's connections, that her son, William Fowle, returned there to live sometime before 1827. Anselm is said to have been a carpenter and wheelwright and was only 31 when he died, but as death certificates were not introduced until 1837, there is no record of the cause of his death - he may perhaps have been killed in an accident.

Anselm and Mary had 2 children, who were both born at Blaisdon and details of their elder son William Fowle through whom our line of descent passes down, are provided in chapter three.

Anselm and Mary's younger son, also Anselm was born in 1790, four months after his father died and when he got married he chose the parish church of St. Mary de Lode in Gloucester City for the wedding. His bride Ann Smith came from Rudford a hamlet about 4 miles north west of Gloucester and they had 3 children, all born in Huntley between 1816 and 1818, but none of them left any issue. By the time of 1851 census, on March 31, all their children were dead and in it, Anselm was recorded as a Master Wheelwright, employing one man and besides Ann the only other person in the household was a widow, Hannah Marshall. Ann who was nearly 20 years older than Anselm, died in 1860 and Anselm survived her by only 4 years and they were both buried at Huntley.

Anselm and Sarah's youngest son William was baptised in 1764 and he had fifty pounds and 3 large pewter dishes from his father in his will. He was married at Blaisdon, and his bride Ann Hyett came from that village. Though their Marriage Allegation was dated 15 September 1790, they were not actually married until three months later, on 29 December of that year. Their first child Ann was born at Blaisdon and the second William at Westbury on Severn both before 1794, while their third child called Anselm was born in Flaxley in 1797.

Sometime after that the family moved to Little London, near Longhope and there Ann died in 1831 and William in May 1840, though they were both buried back at Blaisdon. William had made his will in 1827, well before his death, leaving Ann a life interest in his estate (though she had died before his will came into effect) and judging by its contents he must have been a prosperous man.

William and Ann's daughter Ann was living at Brockworth, about 4 miles south east of Gloucester when in March 1819 she married John Sterry a Stone Mason from Huntley.

A year later in 1820, the people of England had a new king, George IV, who reigned only 10 years, before he was succeeded by William IV.

Ann and John Sterry were living at Little London in 1847, having by this time had 8 children and at their births John was recorded as a Shopkeeper and Miller and in 1838 as a Publican. When her father died in 1840, Ann had been left twenty pounds, to be paid to her by her brother William and land at Notwood Garden in Blaisdon. Perhaps she had sold this land to John's uncle Abraham, because property of that name which then included a dwelling was left in his 1843 will to Abraham's nephew and John's cousin Samuel Sterry. In the same will, Ann's husband John was left one hundred pounds.

Ann died sometime before 1851 and in that year her family was living at Huntley, where John's household included his elder daughter Ann, who was running the household and her base born son John, then one year old. By 1871, John was back in Little London and the only other person in his household was Elizabeth, recorded as his (second) wife.

William and Ann Hyett's son William went to live in Cheltenham, where he was a carpenter. In 1827 at Gloucester he married Hannah Powell and their daughter Ann Susannah was born the next year.

When his father died in 1840, William was one of his executors of the will and he was left the house at Little London where his father lived as well as a barrel and hogshead of cider.

In March 1851 Census they were living at 18 Fairview Street, Cheltenham, whilst Anne, who was a schoolmistress, was visiting an Elizabeth Lloyd at Gloucester Place in the same town - she was most likely Anne's future mother-in-law. When William her father died in 1870 he left a will made at his solicitors in Cheltenham dated 30 Jan 1864, leaving his estate to his wife Hannah and their daughter Ann Susannah wife of Edwin Lloyd and all her children. So far, no record of their marriage nor of their children has been found - most likely they lived in another county.

William and Ann Hyett's younger son Anselm was christened at Flaxley and was nearly 40 when in 1836 at Flaxley, he married Susannah Sims who was living at that village, although she had been born at Longney in 1803.

It was only a year later that William IV died and the long reign of Queen Victoria began.

Anselm and Susannah spent the rest of their lives near Westbury on Severn, as Anselm had in 1839 leased Boseley Mill, on the lower reaches of Westbury Brook from the Crawley Boeveys who owned it. The mill was used to grind corn and had been recorded as early as 1607 when it was originally called Cut Mill, though in 1717 it was occupied by the heirs of William Phillips and was then called Phillips Mill. Anselm and his family worked the mill until 1890's when it apparently closed down and it was finally disbanded about 1930.

In July 1840, Anselm then called a Mealman (Miller) proved his father William's will at Westbury on Severn. In it he was left land in Huntley known as Nursery or Huntley Wood Garden, all the money deposited in his father's savings account, twenty pounds to be paid to him by his brother William as well as cider. He was 73 when he died in 1874, having made his own will only 2 years earlier and his estate was left to all of his family.

Anselm and Susannah's first son William born in 1838, survived only 6 months and their first daughter Susannah with the unusual second name of Albinia died about 6 months after her 21st birthday. Another William with the second name of Hyett was born in 1841 and he was one of the executors of his uncle William's will, made at Cheltenham and proved at Gloucester in 1870. In 1881, he was recorded as a Miller and Farmer, unmarried and living at Horsmans Bridge, near Westbury on Severn.

The second daughter Harriett was born in 1842 and was not married when she was a witness at her sister Mary Elizabeth's wedding in 1869. By the time her father William made his will in 1872, she had married James Hall, who according to 1881 census was 30 years older than his wife. In 1881 the family was living at The Malt House, Westbury on Severn and they had 3 children, including a daughter, Anselena, probably a female version of her grandfather's name.

The baby of the family Mary Elizabeth born in 1844 was married in 1869 at Westbury on Severn, due east across the Severn to Edward Hawkes, who was a baker, like his father. In 1881 Census Edward is shown as a Farmer and they were living at Highcliffe Farm, Quedgeley which was a property of 90 acres and they had 6 children.

Contemporary with 16th century Bailey families at Wheatenhurst, another less numerous family was also recorded from Elmore a parish about 5 miles to the north and also on the eastern side of the river Severn. It is separated from Wheatenhurst by the parishes of Moreton Valence and Hardwicke.

The first Anselm recorded there was baptised in l560, but his parents were not named. It seems his father was William Bailey who died in 1579 and his mother was probably Johane Jenyng, who William married four months after Anselm was born.

William was a husbandman (farmer) and Anselm is the only child mentioned in his will made only ten days before he was buried. At that time Anselm was just 19, so his father appointed as overseers Jhon Newman and Thomas Wiman, who were to have the 'guiding oversight and use' of Anselm for the next three years and for this task they were to have two shillings each.

The will mentioned clothes for William's brother John, as well as several small legacies of money and stock, including two shillings to an Agnes Wymane. Her father was most likely Thomas, appointed overseer in William's will and she and Anselm were married nine months later. Anselm Bailey is mentioned in 1608 muster of Men and Armour as being a yeoman of tallest stature and about forty years of age. There is no record of any of his children, at least not in Elmore and Agnes died in 1619.

Two children whose father was recorded as Anselm were baptised in Elmore - William in 1621 and Anselm in 1623 and they may have been from a second marriage of Anselm soon after his wife Agnes died in 1619. No record has been found of this marriage, nor of any will when Anselm died in 1634.

It is possible that William baptised in 1621 may have died unrecorded as an infant or he may be the father of six children baptised in Elmore between 1642 and 1654. There is no record of his marriage, nor did he leave a will.

One of the six children was John who was baptised in 1643 and he was most likely the father of an Anselm Bailey who was married in 1710 at North Nibley but whose children were all born at Wheatenhurst. His line of descent has been traced by Robin Roberts of Cannock in Staffordshire, whose research provided the basic genealogy of the Elmore Baileys to which has been added a compilation of records from various sources.

The father of the six Elmore children may not however have been William born in 1621, but another William whose father was also Anselm who was baptised in 1611/2 at Wheatenhurst and details about him are in the previous section. As the names of the male children suggest both possibilities, they are cross referenced in both genealogies.

Further details about Anselm baptised in 1623 at Elmore being the person who died in 1689 at Wheatenhurst have been previously presented and these too have been cross referenced.

A Nathaniel Bailey who was baptised at Eastington was the brother of Anselm married in 1710 and all of his children were born at Wheatenhurst. When Nathaniel died there in 1734, he was buried in the same grave as Anselm who died in 1689 and his wife Sarah who died in 1722, suggesting that he was related to that family.

Though named as Elmore Baileys, it was only William's family who lived there and succeeding generations went to live in other parishes including Wheatenhurst.

It is because of these relationships, the coincidence of the children's names and possible earlier connections not yet found that both Wheatenhurst and Elmore genealogies are shown in the one chapter, with the Elmore records being given the descendent code of 2e.

All the places in the two genealogies that follow, unless otherwise noted, are in Gloucestershire, England.

2.1 William bp c 1511 ? Elmore m 28 Jan 1548 Wheatenhurst (Wheat) Johan (Evans) bu 17 Sep 1556 Wheat

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.2] Family of John BAILEY and Anne(??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.5.1] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Joyce (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.5.2] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Dorathy (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.6] Family of John BAILEY and (??)

[2.8] Family of Hannah (Bailey) and Thomas MERRY

All baptisms at Frampton

[2.16\2e.4] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Sarah (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.17] Family of Anselme MERRY and Ester (Knight)

All baptisms at Frampton

[2.19] Family of Dorothy Merry and William ROGERS

all baptisms at Frampton

[2.21] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Anne (Whitterne)

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.22] Family of William BAILEY and Elizabeth (Daw)

[2.23] Family of John BAILEY and Edith (Whitthorn)

All baptisms at Standish

[2.28] Family of Edith (Bailey) and Henry WESTBURY

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.29] Family of Anne (Bailey) and Daniel WILKINS

2.46a William bp 1 May 1726 Fretherne MA 6 June 1747 Wheat/Glos St. Peters Hester (Bailey) of Wheat ?2e.40

2.46b Daniel bp 5 May 1728 Wheat ? bu pre 1729 Wheat in grave of Anselm Bailey [2.16] NO ISSUE

2.46c Ann bp 5 May 1728 Wheat ? twin of above m 30 Aug 1749 Glos St. Peters Charles POWELL

2.46d Daniel bp 20 Jan 1729 Wheat

2.46e John bp 21 Nov 1731 Wheat bu pre 1737 Wheat in grave of Anselm Bailey [2.16] NO ISSUE

2.46f Elizabeth bp 17 Jun 1733 Wheat

2.46g John bp 22 Aug 1737 Wheat d as infant Wheat bu in grave of Anselm Bailey [2.16] NO ISSUE

[2.31] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Jinnet (Yates)

[2.34] Family of Eliz (Bailey) and Robert TRIGG

All baptisms at Churcham

[2.38] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Sarah (Jones)

[2.39] Family of John BAILEY and Mary (Birt)

[2.41] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and John EAGLES

[2.42.1] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (James)

All baptisms at Standish

[2.42.2] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (Millard)

All baptisms at Standish

[2.43] Family of Edith (Bailey) and James WILKINS

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.49] Family of William EAGLES and Sarah (Wellington)

[2.51] Family of Thomas TRIGG and Sarah (Smith)

[2.53] Family of Robert TRIGG and Elizabeth (Church)

[2.54] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and Samuel EAGLES

All baptisms at Longney

[2.56] Family of Edith (Bailey) and Thomas WHITTEL

All baptisms at Langton Herring Dorset

[2.57] Family of Dianah Merrett

[2.57] Family of John BAILEY and Dianah (Merrett)

All baptisms at Longney

[2.59] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Mary (Fowle)

[2.60] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (Hyett)

[2.61] Family of John BAILEY and Ann Hitch

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2.66] Family of Richard EAGLES and Mary (Wintle)

All baptisms at Longney

[2.69] Family of William EAGLES and Esther (Greening)

[2.72] Children of John BAILEY and Sarah (Clark)

All baptisms at Moreton Valence

[2.73] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (Merrett)

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.76] Family of Richard BAILEY and Elizabeth (Thomas)

[2.78] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Elizabeth (Dutton)

All baptisms at Minchinhampton

[2.79] Family of Edith (Bailey) and William LEECH

All baptisms at Quedgeley

[2.106] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Ann (Smith)

All baptisms at Huntley

[2.107] Family of Ann (Bailey) and John STERRY

All baptisms at Longhope

[2.108] Family of William BAILEY and Hannah (Powell)

[2.109] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Susanna (Sims)

All baptisms at Westbury on Severn

[2.137] Family of Ann Sterry

[2.138] Family of John STERRY and Emma (??)

[2.149] Family of Harriet Ann (Bailey) and James HALL

All baptisms at Westbury on Severn

[2.150] Family of Mary Elizabeth (Bailey) and Edward HAWKES

All baptisms at Quedgeley

[2.8] Thomas MERRY

Father John MERRY

[2.19] Anne (Whitterne)

bp 1675 Father William WHITTERNE

bp 1682 Father John WHITTERNE Sibling Richard bp 15 Aug 1680 Glos St Nicholas

[2.22] Elizabeth (Daw)

Father James DAW of Putley Standish

Mother Elizabeth (??)

Pam Daw member of GFHS has further details of this family

[2.23] Edith (Whitthorn)

Father Richard WHITTHORN bu 7 Nov 1706 CK but will 1712/323 dated 1709 PGF Richard WHITTHORN (F William WHITTERNE /WHITTHORN) bu 8 Mar 1689/90 will 1680/119 PGM Ann bu 8 Apr 1680 CK

m 2 Oct 1672 Standish

Mother Elizabeth (Reefe) bu 24 Dec 1712 will 1712/342

Siblings All bp Charlton Kings: Elizabeth bp 9 Nov 1676 m 9 Feb 1697 Glos St Mary de Lode Thomas HUMPHRIES - mentioned will 1712/323, Richard bp 18 Aug 1678, Sarah bp 11 Mar 1682, Margaret bp 6 Sep 1685 ? m 21 Nov 1707 William BLAKE, Walter bp 24 Jun 1688 bu 30 May 1701 NO ISSUE, Samuel bp 4 Nov 1689/90 executor will 1712/ 342 and John bp 19 Nov 1693 mentioned will 1712/342

Curtis Talbot has further details of this family

[2.31] Jinnet (Yates) Father Thomas YATES Doctor of Divinity of Charlton upon Utmoor, West Oxford

[2.34] Sarah (Jones)

Father John JONES

? m 18 Jul 1699 Newland

Mother Susan (Nelmes)

[2.39] Mary (Birt)

Father James BIRT bu 12 Jun 1732 MV Mother Elizabeth (??) bu 26 Apr 1732/3 MV

[2.41] John EAGLES

Father ? John EAGLES m 25 Jul 1697 Standish Mother Sarah (?Curles/Curtis)

[2.57] Dianah (Merrett)

Father William MERRETT Mother Anne (??)

[2.59] Mary (Fowle)

Father Josiah FOWLE

m 11 Feb 1760 Ruardean

Mother Sarah (Bennett) bp 18 Sept 1837 Ruardean

MGF Joseph BENNETT (F Emmanuel BENNET M Isabell (??))

MGM Elizabeth (Dew) (F George DEW M Elizabeth (Goodwin))

Curtis Talbot has further details of this family also

[2.60] Ann (Hyett)

Father John HYETT Mother Ann (??)

[2.79] William LEECH

Father Samuel LEECH PGF Richard LEECH of Boddington PGM Sarah (??)

m 8 Mar 1760 Quedgeley

Mother Mary (Clutterbuck)

Pam Daw has further details of this family also

[2.107] John STERRY

Father John STERRY bp 28 Nov 1756 Blaisdon bu 13 May 1829 Huntley PGF John STERRY bp c 1728

m 4 Feb 1752 Newnham PGM Mary (Robbins) of WOS bp c 1727

m 7 Dec 1776 Longhope

Mother Mary (Bullock) bp c 1756 d post 1841

Siblings: Joseph bp c 1774, Sarah bp 12 Jan 1777 Huntley, Samuel bp 19 May 1782 Huntley

Debbie Hopton and Anne Martin, members GFHS have further details of this family

[2.108] Hannah (Powell)

Father John POWELL

m after Banns 26 Feb 1797 Newent (Witnesses:Elizabeth Goode,Jonathon Powell)

Mother Susannah (Phillips)

[2.109] Susanna (Sims)

Father William SIMS of Longney

m by Licence 16 Oct 1800 Frampton (Witnesses: William Longney,Mary Smith)

Mother Mary (Longney)

[2.138] Elizabeth (Daunce) formerly (Edwards)

Father William EDWARDS Occ Gamekeeper

[2.139] Mary Ann (Ballinger) formerly (Bullock)

Father Benjamin BALLINGER Occ Farmer

[2.145] Edwin LLOYD

Mother ? Elizabeth (??) b c 1795 Stow

[2.150] Edward HAWKES

Father Samuel HAWKES Occ Baker bp c 1804 d 19 Jan 1870 Quedgeley

Mother Sarah (??) bp c 1802 d 26 Apr 1879 Quedgeley

2e.1 William BAILEY bu 28 Mar 1579 (will 1579/206) m 11 Jul 1560 Johane (Jenyng) bu June 1571 Elmore

[2e.2.2?] Family of Anselm BAILEY and (??)

[2e.3]/[2.11] Family of William BAILEY and (??)

All baptisms Elmore

[2e.6] Family of John BAILEY and Franc (Collett)

[2e.8] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Budden)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.10.1] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Jane (Pinchin)

All baptisms Painswick

[2e.10.2] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Hannah (Tailer)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.13] Family of Anselm BAILEY and (?Elizabeth) (Boon)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.14] Family of Nathaniel BAILEY and Elizabeth (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.16] Family of John BAILEY and Ann (Millard)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.18] Family of William BAILEY and Francis (Holdey)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.29] Family of John BAILEY and Sarah (Clark)

All baptisms Wheatenhurst

[2e.30] Family of Francis (Bailey) and Samuel COLEMAN

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.33] Family of William BAILEY and Hannah (Wilkins)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.37] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Ovens/Owens)

[2e.40] Family of Hester (Esther) (Bailey) and Richard BAILEY

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.42] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Bailey)

[2e.43] Family of John BAILEY and Hannah (Cook/Parker)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.45] Family of John BAILEY and Mary (Gayner)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.46] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Mary (Baglin)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.47] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Ann (White)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.48] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and James CLUTTERBUCK

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.50] Family of James BAILEY and Mary (Clutterbuck)

All baptisms Wheatenhurst

[2e.60] Family of William BAILEY and Jane (Underwood)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.79] Family of King BAILEY and Damaris (Wait/e)

All baptisms at Awre with Blakeney

[2e.80] Family of John BAILEY and Mary (Beach)

All baptisms at Quedgeley

[2e.81] Family of Mary (Bailey) and William YEATES

[2e.83] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Sarah (Eagles)

All baptisms at Frocester

[2e.92] Family of John BAILEY and Anne (Williams)

All baptisms at Awre with Blakeney

[2e.93] Family of William BAILEY and Hannah (Horsham)

[2e.97] Family of George BAILEY and Betty (Elizabeth) (Knight)

All baptisms at Eastington and Alkerton

[2e.98] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Dun/n)

[2e.99] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and Samuel Bishop ALDER

Robin Roberts member GFHS has further details about this family

[2e.105] Family of John BAILEY and (Mary) Anne (Smith)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.108] Family of Richard BAILEY and Hannah (Brown)

[2e.112] Family of Thomas (Waite) BAILEY and Matilda (Balinger)

All baptisms at Awre with Blakeney

[2e.113] Family of John BAILEY and Jane (Hogg)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.120] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Latham)

All baptisms at Minchinhampton

[2e.124] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Ann (Crook)

[2e.131] Family of George BAILEY and Sarah (Price)

All baptisms at Berkeley

[2e.132] Family of Edmund BAILEY and Lucy Ann (Hogg)

All baptisms at Frampton

[2e.137] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Alice (Smith)

[2e.139] Family of George BAILEY and Mercy (Gough)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.144] Family of Anselm/Hansell BAILEY and Sarah (Roff)

Colin Williams of The Gap near Brisbane Qld who is a direct descendent of Alithea has the full story of this family and has provided all the above details

[2e.145] Family of Henry BAILEY and Hannah (Daw)

[2e.174] Family of Nathaniel Browning BAILEY and Jane ?? (Parker)

All baptisms Berkeley

[2e.194] Family of Alithea (Bailey) and John Edward HOWES

All above left England 9 September 1884 on "Duke of Argyll" arriving Brisbane 11 November 1884

[2e.200] Family of Charles Henry HOWES and Annie F (Godber)

[2e.201] Family of Ellen Gertrude (Howes) and Henry Augustus Blagrove COOLING

[2e.202] Family of Annie Louisa (Howes) and Frederick John Wesley WILLIAMS

[2e.204 Family of John Edward HOWES and Emily Dublie (May)

[2e.2] Agnes (Wyman)

Father Thomas WYMAN

[2e.29] Sarah (Clark/e)

Father Thomas CLARKE bp 1 Feb 1668 Wheat

PGF William CLARKE bp 19 Oct 1651 Leonard Stanley m 27 Apr 1682 Wheat

PGM Elizabeth (Allin/Allen)

Mother Sarah (??)

Robin Roberts member of GFHS has further details of this family

[2e.48] James CLUTTERBUCK

Father John CLUTTERBUCK Mother Mary (Gibbons)

[2e.50] Mary (Clutterbuck)

Father John CLUTTERBUCK Mother Mary (Gibbons)

[2e.85] John HAWKINS

Father Henry HAWKINS Mother Eleanor (??)

[2e.98] Mary (Dun/n]

Father William DUNN

? Sibling: Sarah witness marr 1804

[2e.99] Samuel Bishop ALDER

Father James ALDER/ALDAY Occ Cloth Worker/Labourer

Mother Mary (Burford)

Robin Roberts has further details of this family also

[2e.132.2] Lucy Ann (Hogg)

Father William HOGG Mother Hannah (??)

[2e.144] Sarah [Roff]

Father Robert ROFF

m 1797

Mother Elizabeth (??)

Siblings all bp Stow on the Wold: 1. Ann bp 21 Apr 1799 2. Robert bp 30 Mar 1800 Farmer Cs 1851 living Lower Swell Baptist Minister Cs 1861 Stow m pre 1834 Ann (??) d pre Cs 1861 Issue: a. Sarah b c 1834 b. Martha b c 1838 Housekeeper Cs 1861 c. Charles b c 1839 Plumber Cs1861 3. Eliza bp 22 Aug 1802 4. Henry bp 2 Dec 1804 Builder Cs 1851 Stow Grocer Cs 1871 m pre 1846 Caroline?? (possibly Chambers) b c 1821 Issue: a. Robert b c 1846 b. Jabez b c 1847 Coal & Corn Merchant Cs 1891 m pre 1884 Mary (??) b c 1851 Issue: Jabez b c 1884

[2e.197] John Edward "HOWES"/TAYLOR

Father Unknown TAYLOR

Mother Elizabeth (Acott) b c 1829 Cirencester Cs 1851 both living Cheltenham with Elizabeth's uncle Robert Howes

MGF possibly Samuel ACCOTT bp c 1798 Mason Cs 1851 living Cirencester

MGM Mary (??) bp c 1803 Cs 1851 living Cirencester