Arabella Bayley

[hamburger]

Arabella was born in Nantwich in 1780 to Peter and Sarah Bayley. Married to Robert TYSER born 1779
(I posted this under Tyser but hope that someone here may have interest)

I made a bit of a breakthrough this week:  I discovered that Robert's third wife Arabella Bayley was a married woman (to William Prockter Thomas in 1811). This marriage was dissolved in 1819 via the Exeter Episcopal Court, Somerset Assizes, before landing before the Lords and Commons as a Bill presented by the Earl of Shaftesbury, which finally passed the Commons on 12 May 1819.
If you are interested type in "Prockter Thomas divorce" and then you get Journals of the House of Lords in Google Books which you can follow through (luckily Prockter is v unusual spelling: he was a landowner in the Tiverton/Wellington area and a man of the church: whilst he took afternoon services they got to know each other, as you can read in the evidence.
Arabella and Robert married on (?) 24th May 1819 in Chatham, probably en route for Jersey/Guernsey, where their son Robert Bayley Tyser was born either that year or the following one. I am still piecing it together.
What happened to the children of Arabella and Prockter Thomas?
And what happened to the five children of Robert and Maria Walter? In his brother Thomas Tyser's journal he mentions that Robert visited his children in 1820. Robert had property in Stapeley and Alsager which he also visited at that time.
My gt gt gt grandmother, the youngest, Maria Sarah Tyser, sewed a sampler in 1819 giving the address of Harcourt House, Pembury, Kent. In Robert's biography the address 2 Paradise Row in Stoke Newington also crops up early and late - was that the home of the Walter family? Did they look after the young children when Robert left for exile in France? He died at Paradise Row in 1840, after Arabella had died in 1838 in Dijon, France.

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[..claire..]

Hi

In the 1841 census 2 Paradise Place is occupied by this family

George Tyser  32  Merchant  nt bn in County
Maria Tyser  23  bn in County

plus 3 servants

Class HO107, Piece 669,  Book 7, Parish: Stoke Newington,  Folio 17, Page 26, Line 22.

There is also a Will on Anc* of Arabella Maria Tyser formally Bayley wife of Robert, who died in Dijon but this was proved and probate granted May 1832. It basically says that all her estate etc. to be shared equally between the children from her marriage to Robert Tyser.

Her father Peter's Will can also be found on there also.

claire

[..claire..]

Hi,

Some info on Arabella and Williams children

Mary Melhuish Thomas married a man called John Benson

Arabella Thomas married George Gatton Hardingham (lots of info on him on G**gle)

A burial also of Maria Elizabeth Thomas 28 January 1814 Wellington, Somerset. Daughter of William Prockter and Arabella Maria Thomas.

claire

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Robert TYSER here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=207992.msg5554083#msg5554083

[Jayson]

Hello Hamburger

How interesting! I noticed that you are researching Arabella Maria Bayley.  Although I do not really know much regarding her movements after she left Cheshire I did know that she had been married to one Robert Tyser but then I found - as you have too - her marriage to a Mr Thomas which I found rather confusing but didn't chase it up at the time.

Arabella was the daughter of Peter Bayley who seems to have spent most, if not, all of his life in Nantwich, Cheshire.  He was an attorney at law and died in 1806.  His wife was Sarah Tomkinson, and after Peter's death she remarried one William Bellett but this marriage ended in separation.  You can download her will from the National Archives. 

Peter Bayley was born in 1742 at Stapeley Hall, Wybunbury, and was the youngest son of James Bayley (1692-1764).  If you are interested, you can find more about Peter and the family from whom he was descended in Burkes Landed Gentry under "Bayley of Willaston Hall". Alternatively you can contact me for anymore help I can give re the Bayley side via email if that would be of any use to you.

Jayson     

[hamburger]

The name of Mrs Bayley's second husband is William Bennett: he gives evidence to the House of Lords (it is all written out online) and says that after Arabella and Prockter Thomas parted, she went with her daughter. The tone suggests he didn't expect (?or want) her back again. As Arabella was pregnant with Robert Bayley Tyser, she presumably needed mummy's support. (You can look at the evidence at:  "Prockter Thomas divorce" in Journals of the House of Lords in Google Books which you can follow through as it crops up in four or five different parliamentary sessions of the Lords.
My interest is simply that through his marriage to Arabella, Robert Tyser sr. appears to have dumped his five children (including Maria Sarah, the youngest, my gt gt gt grandmother who was born as Maria Walter, the second wife of R.T., died in 1816. So he was a v attractive widower already involved with Arabella, as the evidence suggests.
Slightly prurient to read what the various servants tell the Lords!

Best wishes, Georgina

[Jayson]

Hi

Sorry to disagree with you but it is actually "Bellett" not Bennett as I have in my possession the relevant title deeds stating as such when part of her late husband's (Peter Bayley) estate was sold off.  I also have her will which again says Bellett.  Having the title deeds meant that I was able to trace Sarah after her first husband died.  I guess title deeds being actual legal documents are more likely to be correct. 

I haven't seen what is written online but I'm guessing it's a transcription rather than "actual documentation" that you've read online which is just someone else's interpretation. 

We also have portraits of Peter Bayley and Peter Bayley, junr. which were originally at Willaston Hall.

Best - Jayson