|
||||||
Researched by Kay Collins, 1988-2010 |
||||||
Joseph Bailey and Family
|
||||||
|
||||||
Joseph Bailey was born at Bletsoe BDF in 1779. In 1798 he married Mary Smith of Thurleigh, at Bletsoe Church. Their first son, John, died shortly after birth in August 1799. Their second son Joseph was baptised aged one day at Bletsoe on the 18th February 1803. The family moved to Rushden, and in July 1807 Mary gave birth to a third son, John and he was baptised along with his brother Joseph, at Rushden on 20th September. A fourth son, Robert was born in 1811 and a ffth, James the following year. On 14th February 1815 Mary was buried at Rushden, leaving Joseph with four young sons.
A year later Hannah Knight married Joseph Bailey, widower, and together they had a son William, and three daughters, Martha, Jane and Elizabeth. Joseph (Bayley) was buried in January 1851 aged 80. Robert Bailey (b 1811), son of Joseph and his first wife Mary, married Eleanor Rowland in 1831.
Robert Bailey and Eleanor had 5 sons and 3 daughters. James the first born died in 1839 aged 5, and William the second born died in 1856 aged 18. Third born, another James, went on to be a general dealer in Little Street, and later a beer retailer. The first girl, Fanny, died aged 13 the day after her brother William. Mary (baptised Mercy?) was born in 1847 and married Charles Denton in 1865, Thomas born in 1851 became a groom, and married in 1876, and Joseph was born in 1853. Robert died in 1879 aged 70, and Eleanor died in 1893 aged 79, at the workhouse. Joseph Bailey followed the shoe trade, and in 1874 married Evangeline (Eva) Warren, daughter of William Warren, carrier of Rushden. They had 9 children. Of these, four are researched briefly.
Joseph and Eva both died in 1922, and they are buried in Rushden Cemetery graves E777/8. [no stone or inscription] |
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|