Robert TYSER

[Jayson]

That's brilliant! Thank so much Ian.  I didn't realise that the parish registers for this parish where online.  Arabella was certainly a long way off from home - she was born in Nantwich, Cheshire, and died in France in 1832ish.

Jayson 

[hamburger]

I was just exploring the useful link provided by Ian and somehow got onto a Burke's volume called Colonial Gentry. There's a small reference to Robert Bayley Tyser's daughter Bessie (both of Wellington NZ) in there which might interest you:

http://www.us.archive.org/GnuBook/?id=genealogicalhera00burk#89

or perhaps easier to reach here:

http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalhera00burk

Georgina

[aj689]

I am descended from the Robert Tyser MD who you're talking about, and his wife Maria Walter.  I did not know he had had a child with his 3rd wife Arabella Maria, why can I not find Robt Bayley on the censuses?  When did they go out to NZ?  So many loose ends, so little time...

I attach a picture of Dr Robt, for all your interest

Antonia

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[hamburger]

How exciting - thanks Antonia. Would you mind sending me the .jpg file by mail so that I can keep it? My address is watkins-spies(at)t-online.de
It would be great - he's my gt gt gt grandfather!
What is your connection?
Thanks in advance
Georgina

[hamburger]

Here is a pair of v small portraits of Robert's daughter Maria Sarah and her husband Col. John Thomas Smith. I only have photos of the portraits, don't know who has them.

Georgina

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[hamburger]

These are notes that someone kindly sent me:

Robert Bayley TYSER                                                    ³
³ son of Robert TYSER & Arabella Maria BAYLEY                            ³
³ m.1840 in New Zealand to Emily Isabella FITZGERALD no children         ³
³ Reg Off ref: 0325                                                      ³
³                                                                        ³
³ 1839 owned property in Stapeley (near Nantwich) and Alsager,           ³
³ Cheshire.                                                              ³
³ c1839 note on IGI of b of daughter Bessie Tyser of Desertegny,         ³
³ Londonderry.                                                           ³
³ 1842 possibly arrived NZ on brig                                       ³
³ 1845 Settler at Te Aro, Port Nicholson district, Hutt Valley, New      ³
³ Zealand (had store).                                                   ³
³ 1845-6 Waitt & Tyser, firm on Wellington, buying whale oil and bone &  ³
³ shipping it to England (maybe some connection?)                        ³
³ 1848 Settler at Kai Warra                                              ³
³ 1849 Robert Baillie Tyser arrived on "Cornwall" at Port Chalmers, New  ³
³ Zealand.   
Emily Isabella FITZGERALD                                              ³
³ b.c.1815                                                               ³
³ m.1840 in New Zealand to Robert Bayley TYSER no children               ³
³ Reg Off ref: 0325                                                      ³
³ d.1861 Aged 46                                                         ³
³ bur.21 Aug 1861 in Old Napier Cemetery, New Zealand
Arabella Maria BAYLEY                                                  ³
³ bapt.18 Sep 1792 in Nantwich, Cheshire source:IGI 3                    ³
³ m.25 May 1819 in Chatham, Kent to Robert TYSER and had one child       ³
³ Banns called 24 May 1819 Vicar-General Licence Allegation              ³
³                                                                        ³
³ d.1832 in? Dijon, France                                               ³
³ Will made 26 May 1819.  Witnesses: Thomas Tyser (Barking, Essex)       ³
³ Probate 29 Mar 1832 at PCC.  "late of Dijon in Kingdom of France"      ³
³                                                                        ³
³ Daughter of Peter and Sarah Bayley       

[aj689]

Are we sure Bessie is any relation of Robert Bayley Tyser's?  or any other of our Tysers?

[hamburger]

not 100 per cent sure. The extract from Burke's Colonial Gentry is attached.

[Jayson]

Looking again at the marriage cert of Robert Tyser and Arabella Maria Bayley, I have just noticed a strange coincidence, which is that one of the witnesses was a J Whiffin.  There's a will listed at Chester RO for a Mrs Catherine Wiffin (a widow) who died in 1825.  She is mentioned in the draft will of James Bayley 1759-1840 (Arabella's cousin) of Stapeley Hall as a tenant.  I wonder if the there is a connection?

Wiffin isn't a common name here in Cheshire and there is only one Wiffin (Catherine) buried at Wybunbury.

Jay