Lewis Bailey
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Lewis Bailey (1585 - abt. 1635)

Lewis Bailey
Born in Englandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 50 in Surry, Virginiamap
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Biography

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Lewis Bailey was a Jamestown colonist.

English preacher

On Nov 20, 1623 Thomas Bilby named Lewis Bailey as his heir.
Listed on the 1624 Jamestown Census as Lewis Baly.[1][2]
On Jan 21, 1628 Lewis Bailey brought suit against John Cooke.
On June 24, 1635 Capt Adam Thoroughgood secured a patent, listing Margaret as a "Bilby", then stated he planned to bequeath his goods to Lewis Bailey.[3]


Sources

  1. "List of the Living and Dead in Virginia. "Living at ye Plantation over against, James Citte Feb. 16, 1623 - LEWIS BALY". Ref: Hotten, Original List of Person of Quality, 1600-1700, page 179, (1874, reprinted 1983)"
  2. http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/jamestown/census/1624cens.txt
  3. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary By Martha W. McCartney
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This Lewis Bayly never resided in VA. According to this source, he died in England and buried at Bangor Cathedral.

Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries, 314-1853 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data:John Le Neve. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae - (1854) Neve/Hardy. Oxford, England: University Press. Hardy, Thomas Duffus, and Le Neve, John. Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. 3 vols. Oxford, England: University Press, 1854.

Is this another Lewis Bayly?

posted by Elizabeth Cromer
No just a man with the same name .I answered on G2G but this man is not the Bishop of Bangor https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bayly-259
posted by Helen (Coleman) Ford
edited by Helen (Coleman) Ford
Bailey-12048 and Bailey-5148 appear to represent the same person because: These two appear to be duplicates. Please confirm and merge.
posted by Karen (Rollet) Lorenz

B  >  Bailey  >  Lewis Bailey

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