Good morning from Australia
I am not too sure where to begin, I go from no information to an avalanche! Thanks an awful for all your trouble all of you and my commiserations to scriv2 on your broken toe must be a real handycap?
My apologies for my obfuscation to date in not being very specific in what I have and what I want. My basic problem is that a fellow born Alfred Bayley to a single mother, Ann Bayley changed his named when his mother married a George Taylor to become Alfred Taylor.
At a later date, the marriage of now Alfred Taylor to Christiana Milns Alfred claimed his father to be 'Amos Evers'! I have searched for many years and there appears to be no sign of an Amos Evers but there exists a family history of Gypsy involvement and that I know nothing of.
My current search began as a search for Ann Bayley in the 1841 census and now has taken on a life of it's own to involve her parents and her brother Thomas and all I can say is I am favourably flabergasted!
The suggestion by Scrive 2 in relation to her find in family Search has all the connotations of being a tale behind a tale, that is the "baptism of, Anne Bayley 10 Oct 1819 Lilleshall, Shropshire parents Thomas Bayley and Elizabeth and then one for Thomas a couple of years later, Thomas Bailey 28 Oct 1821 parents Thomas Bailey and Elizabeth. Maybe, maybe Elizabeth did die soon after and Catherine then came on the scene of neccesity in those hard times as Scriv2 says there is a possible death of an Elizabeth Bailey in 1839:- Deaths Mar 1839 Bailey Elizabeth Newport 18 99 which supports such a scenario, goodness!!!!
Also, the suggestion of Barbera in relation to the baptism of Thomas BAILEY 17 Nov 1785 Lilleshall, Shropshire parents Thomas and Sarah seems to stand up too further extending my direct family line it would seem so far?
The address given on Alfred's birth certificate gives born 23 Feb 1842, Chesswell, Longford, I am not too sure from Australia the relavence of that location in regards to above scenario?
I think I will post this lot and have a strong coffee, my brain just died, (I just turned 73).
Cheers for now all
Bram