George
Cayley
Born before in Hull, Yorkshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Cornelius Cayley
and Elizabeth (Smelt) Cayley
Brother of
William Cayley, Cornelius Cayley, Cornelius Cayley, Leonard Cayley, John Cayley, Elizabeth Cayley and Edward Cayley
Husband of
Anne (Prescott) Cayley
— married
25 May 1774 in British Embassy, St Petersburg, Russia
Father of
Cornelius Cayley
Died
after age 53
in Hull, Yorkshire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Oct 2017
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Biography
George was the son of Cornelius Cayley and Elizabeth Smelt.[1] He was baptised at Holy Trinity, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire on 14 February 1735/6.[2][3]
He went to St Petersburg, Russia,[1] where his family had a merchant firm.[4]
He married Anne Prescott at the British Chapel, St Petersburg, Russia on 25 May 1774.[1] They had one child:
- Cornelius, born on 10 January 1776, baptised at the British Chapel, St Petersburg the next day, died on 8 September 1776[1]
George died at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire according to the Gentleman's Magazine[5] and at Beverley, Yorkshire according to Joseph Foster.[1] He was buried at Holy Trinity, Hull on 16 January 1790.[6]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Joseph Foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. III (North and East Riding), 1874, Cayley pedigree, Internet Archive
- ↑ "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BK-R92W : 23 February 2022), George Cayley, 1735: gives the year as 1735; the image of the parish register on FindMyPast makes clear it was 1735/6
- ↑ Yorkshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked image: transcript gives the year as 1735; the parish register image shows in was 1735/6
- ↑ Anthony Cross. By the Bans of the Neva, Cambridge University Press, 1997, passim
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, 1790, p. 89, Google Books
- ↑ "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD34-8ZW : 14 March 2020), George Cayley, 1790
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