Joseph Bailey MP 1st Bt. (1783 - 1858)

Born 21 Jan 1783 in Great Wenham, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Anne (Hopper) Bailey — married 19 Aug 1830 in Leamington Priors All Saints, Warwickshire, England

Descendants

Died 20 Nov 1858 at age 75 in Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet was baptized 9 Mar 1783 in Great Wenham, Suffolk, England, the son of John Bailey, of Wakefield, and his wife Susannah. ^[1] His parents had moved from Normanton, near Wakefield, in around 1780, by which time they had already had at least three children (Ann, Elizabeth and William). Joseph was the second child of a further five children to be born in Great Wenham (the others being an older sister, Susan, and three younger siblings, John, Thomas and Crawshay.^[2]

About 1800 the young Joseph Bailey made his way to south Wales to seek employment with his maternal uncle, Richard Crawshay (1739-1810), a wealthy iron merchant . He was followed shortly afterwards by his younger brother Crawshay Bailey. The two brothers made a favourable impression on their uncle, who perhaps recognised in them the same steely focus and determination which he himself had exhibited at a similar age. They were taken into the Cyfarthfa business, and when Richard Crawshay died, Joseph was left a 25% share in the firm and Crawshay a legacy of £1,000. The rest of the Cyfarthfa company went to Richard's son, William Crawshay (1764-1834) (who owned 50%) and his son-in-law, Benjamin Hall (1778-1817), who had the remaining 25%. ^[3]

Joseph, became heavily involved in the iron industry in South Wales and served as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1826. He also represented Worcester in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1847 and Breconshire from 1847 to 1858. In 1852 he was created a Baronet, of Glanusk Park estate in the County of Brecon.

Bailey married, firstly, Maria Latham, daughter of Joseph Latham, in 1810. They had eight children, of which the eldest son, Joseph, served as an MP for Sudbury. Their daughter Jane married James Stuart Menteath, 2nd Baronet of Closeburn and Mansfield.^[4]

Known children include:

1. Joseph Bailey M.P. (1812–1850)
2. Maria Susan Bailey (1814–1871)
3. Margaret Elinor Bailey (1815–1858)
4. Richard Bailey (1816–1853)
5. John Crawshay Bailey (1818–1896)
6. William Latham Bailey 1820–1875
7. Henry Bailey (1822–1899)
8. Dame Jane Bailey (1825–1905)

About 1826 he bought Glanusk Park and had a mansion house built there. After his first wife's death in 1827 he married, secondly, Mary Anne Hopper, daughter of John Thomas Henry Hopper, 19 August 1830 at All Saints' Church, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom^[5] They had a daughter, Mary Anne Bertha, born 17 Jul 1832 Aberystryth, Monmouth, England. ^[6]who married Alexander Young Spearman, son of Sir Alexander Spearman, 1st Baronet.

Sir Joseph died in November 1858, aged 75 ^[7]As his eldest son had predeceased him in 1850, he was succeeded in his title by a grandson, Joseph Russell Bailey, who in 1899 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glanusk. Lady Bailey died in 1874.

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB4D-KLM : 19 March 2020), Joseph Bailey, 1783.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Bailey,_1st_Baronet
3. ↑ https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2018/01/319-bailey-of-nantyglo-house-and.html?m=1
4. ↑ Solicitors Journal and Reporter 5 March 1870. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Bailey,_1st_Baronet
5. ↑ "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXYL-4YR : Sat Mar 09 08:51:58 UTC 2024), Entry for Joseph Bailey and Mary Anne Hopper, 19 August 1830.
6. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JS5Q-VJ4 : 5 February 2023), Joseph Bailey in entry for Mary Anne Bether Bailey, 1832
7. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCJ-SMRK : Sun Mar 10 15:39:20 UTC 2024), Entry for Jos Bailey, Sir Bart Mp and Mary Anne Latham, 23.

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Watkin William Price, M.A., (1873–1967), Aberdare, BAILEY , Sir JOSEPH ( 1783 - 1858 ), baronet, iron-master, landowner, and M.P. Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales, 2009 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Welsh Biography Online
• Price, W. W., (1959). BAILEY family, of Glanusk Park, Brecknock. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 23 Apr 2020, from https://biography.wales/article/s-BAIL-GLA-1700
• See also: Joseph Bailey Family Search Records

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