Baylis Family.

[keith57]

Hi,

I am trying to locate some photographs of a grocers shop in Red Lion Street, Redditch.  Benjamin Baylis has a shop from the census in 1841 through until  after the 1881 census.  I have found his son Francis had a shop in the same street through the 1891 and 1901 census it could possibly be the same one.

Thanks Keith.

[Kells]

Hi Keith,

Would this Benjamin be any connection to the one born c1813 in Bromsgrove? I ask this as the Benjamin in my tree had a father John who was a grocer.

Cheers,

Kelly.

[Humphpaul]

Has anyone lost a Thomas Baylis who appears from nowhere in 1770  when he marries a Mary Ritson in Cumberland. He was a mariner and from then on the family stayed in the Maryport area and there are still traces of them there. There were no Baylis's in CUM before him.

Thomas was a g.g.grandfather of mine. My bit of the line moved to Liverpool and Baylis was used as a middle name for 3 generations after for some reason I cannot see. It was having an uncle William Baylis Paul that got me into F.H. in the first place.

Any suggestions appreiciated. Thanks Alan Williams

[keith57]

Hi Kells,
The Benjamin Bayliss i have is born about 1812 in Tardibigge and dies in 1888, he had a grocers shop in Red Lion street from about 1836 until his death when his son took it over until about 1904. I have not got Benjamin's parents so it is possible John was his father.

Keith

[The Geneal Geologist]

Surname distribution indicate BAYLISS (and variants) have a concentration in the south Midlands. I have a map on my BAYLISS webpage http://creativegraces.net/genindex/bayliss.html which illustrates this.

If anyone's trail leads them back to C17th/C18th Bidford on Avon, please get in contact. I'd like to connect my single family member to a greater one.

Regards,
Mark

[Kells]

Hi Keith,

It is quite possible we are looking at the same Benjamin - the only info I have is that my Benjamin was baptised 31 Dec 1813 in Bromsgrove, which is only a few miles from Tardebigg I believe. I have no info on other Benjamin's, not sure there were others at that time in the area, so it is a likely match, especially as he is a grocer, not uncommon to follow the father's profession, and if he is from my family, he is the eldest son.
Did your Benjamin marry Hannah? I have found this family in the census living in Edgbaston & Birmingham, Warwickshire, children John, Jane, Ann & Alfred Berry, but I did not see a Francis?

If you think it might be a link let me know and I would be happy to share more research.

Kelly 

[Kells]

Alan, sorry I don't know of any connection to Cumberland or Liverpool Baylis's but perhaps someone else may - have you posted your own message on the pages relevant to those areas? Hope you have some luck with it.
Kelly.

[Kells]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the link, it is interesting to see how the name is clustered in that region. I'm very interested in its origins as it was my mother's surname and there are few of them in our part of Australia.

Hope you make some connections, this site is a great way to get help.

Kelly.

[Yegvard]

Hi Folks,

Sorry to pour water on everything, there are BAYLIS(S), and variants all around here.  Including a Benjamin BAYLIS, baptised in Studley, Warwickshire, just a few miles away, on the 6th September 1812 (IGI).  Although in the 1871, aged 53, he does give Redditch as the parish of birth.  There was also a birth in 1819 in Bromsgrove (IGI).

I don't know how well you know the Tardebigge/Redditch area but borders are a bit vague.  Tardebigge isn't a village as such.  It's just a place.  Yes it has a church and a school, but the nearest hamlet is Tutnal.  About a mile a way towards Bromsgrove is Finstall, which was in Stoke Prior parish, but in the Bromsgrove registration district.  So trawl both St. Stephen's, Redditch, and St. Bartholmew's, Tardebigge registers.

Nobody has a Florence Elizabeth BAYLIS, born 1876, in Redditch do they?

Cheers

Mike