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Samuel BAILEY
1792 - 1860 (68 years)
Has 10 ancestors and 37 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Samuel BAILEY Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 1792 Kingsteignton, Devon, England 
Baptised 25 Mar 1792 St. Michael’s Church, Kingsteignton, Devon, England Gender Male Occupation From 1800 to 1807 Ware, Kingsteignton, Devon, England Driving horses - Worked for Mr Smales for about 6 years 11 months from the age of eight
(info. from 1827 Settlement Examination)
Occupation Abt 1808 Tar, Kingsteignton, Devon, England Day Labourer - Worked as day labourer for Mr Whale for about 9 months
(info. from 1827 Settlement Examination)
Residence From 1809 to 1813 Newfoundland - Worked in Newfoundland for about 4 years
(info. from 1827 Settlement Examination)
Occupation From 1814 to 1822 Merchant navy - (info. from 1827 Settlement Examination)
Poor Law 31 Dec 1827 Kingsteignton, Devon, England Settlement Examination - "The Examination of Samuel Bailey -
now residing in the Parish of Kingsteignton in the said
County Labourer - touching the place of his last legal
settlement taken on Oath before me one of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in and for the said County this
Thirty first day of December one thousand eight
hundred and twenty seven
Who saith that he was born in the said
Parish of Kingsteignton as he has heard and believes
to be True (but that he has ^ also heard that his Fathers
Settlement was in the Parish of Teigngrace in the
said County) and when examinant was about eight
years old he went to ^ live to Mr. Smales at Ware ^ in the said Parish of Kingsteignton driving
his Horses - for his meat & Cloathes and this
Examinant lived at the said M Smales Six
Years and Eleven Months, when Examinant came
away then went to work at Tar in the said
County with one Mr Whale and worked for him as
a Day Labourer about Nine Months. Examinant
then went to Newfoundland for four years,
when he returned and entered ^ as a Seaman in the Merchant
Service where he remained for eight years and
then got married in the Parish Church of St. Thomas the
Apostle near Exeter Examinant then went to
sea again but has done no other acgt to gain a Settlement
the Mark of
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Samuel Bailey
Taken and sworn the day and year first above written before me
Gilbert Burrington"
There seems to be no removal order for Samuel and his family, and his children, including George born in 1828, i.e. soon after the examination, were all baptised in Kingsteignton, so it appears that the family remained in Kingsteignton.
(DHC ref. 2565 A/PO 51/72)
Occupation 1830 Seaman - At the time his daughter Harriet was baptised
Occupation 1841 Kingsteignton, Devon, England Clay cutter Occupation 1851 Kingsteignton, Devon, England Ag Lab - Shown as a pauper ag lab in the 1851 census
Died Dec Q 1860 Newton Abbot Reg Dist, Devon, England - GRO ref: Bailey, Samuel q4 1860 Newton A RD 5b 99; GRO online index shows age at death as 70
Buried 7 Oct 1860 St. Michael’s Church, Kingsteignton, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 27 Nov 2018)
Siblings1 brother and 7 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
William BAILEY, b. Abt 1724, (probably in or near), Kingsteignton, Devon, England, d. Jul 1817, Teigngrace, Devon, England (Age ~ 93 years) (Grandfather) 
Elizabeth JORDAN, b. Est 1732, d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Notes - With Jane, Harriet & Wm (1841) in Kingsteignton village; living with Jane and children Wm and Betsey in Alms House in 1851
Person ID I956 All Last Modified 29 Jun 2019
Father Joseph BAILEY, b. Abt 1761, Teigngrace, Devon, England , d. 14 Dec 1843, Wolborough, Devon, England (Age ~ 82 years) Mother Elizabeth EVANS, b. Abt 1760, Kingsteignton, Devon, England , d. 1829, Kingsteignton, Devon, England (Age ~ 69 years)
Other Partners: Richard GERRET m. 18 Feb 1783Married 12 Aug 1787 St. Michael’s Church, Kingsteignton, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 2 Sep 2014)
Whilst most Bailey Teigngrace entries are this family, the Joseph who with his wife Elizabeth had a family there in the C19th was not the son of this Joseph, but of Joseph's brother William.
Family ID F726 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Jane SMERDON, b. Abt 1798, Broadhempston, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married 4 Mar 1822 St. Thomas’s Church, Exeter, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Aug 2018)
Children7 children Last Modified 13 Aug 2018 Family ID F734 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Worked for Mr Smales for about 6 years 11 months from the age of eight