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What is your last sighting of him? Is it the 1891 census?

Is this his death? The chap below was age 85 (birth year 1812).

Name:   Charles C Furnival
Registration Year:   1897
Event Place:   Nantwich, Cheshire, England
Registration Quarter:   Jan-Feb-Mar
County:   Cheshire

I want to order up Charles’ death certificate, but I need the Volume and page numbers, however when I typed out his name in Cheshire BMD it wasn’t coming up and I cannot find it on FreeBMD either and I spelt his surname as you had spelt it.

Don’t know what I am doing incorrectly unless there is a glitch in the system?

Jay

Thank you, Hillhurst!  That will certainly be him and the ‘C’ will be Culcheth. Just the burial to locate.

Jay

Having looked through some papers I had completely forgotten about it would appear that there are two individuals in the RN at roughly the same date so therefore the Edward Bayley marrying Mary Arnot is NOT my ancestor but a completely different person. I had my suspicions and this has been confirmed by information provided earlier in this thread by GR2.

My Edward Bayley appears in the 1811 Navy List, where officers of Royal Marines are listed and was appointed as 1st Lieutenant RM on 24 March 1807. He served in Company 26 and was on the Hamadryad in 1811. He was also included in other Navy Lists between 1811 and 1830 where he is listed as on Half Pay, so not serving aboard a vessel. He ended active service 1st September 1814 and put on Reserved Half Pay as evidenced by a document headed ‘First Lieutenants reduced on the Peace Establishment’ as a result of the Napoleonic wars ending in victory. Waterloo was a year ahead but was a final flourish when Napoleon escaped but this was a necessary reduction. A Navy of 140,000 men was no longer required and was reduced to about 14,000, and so the Royal Marines reduced proportionately.

Thanks once again for all your help.

Having looked at this again, I am beginning to doubt the source this came from and that this Edward Bayley is a different person to the one who appears in my family tree.

Why? Well, my Edward Bayley was living at Welsh Row in Nantwich on the 1841 census. His profession was described as ‘Navy half pay’. Also listed in the household that night with him was his unmarried sister Penelope Bayley and one domestic servant. No wife! But why? If this was the same person where was she? He made his will 26 February 1846 and died July 10 the same year. There is no indication that he was ever married because he mentions no wife. Everything he possesses is left in the hands of two trustees who are under direction to sell all his freehold and leasehold property as well as his personal property upon trust to convey the proceeds to his brother Henry Bayley and his family.

Also GR2 found the widow of Edward Bayley, Lieutenant RN marrying once again on 11 Sept 1846. Surely if this was his wife would she really have married so soon (within weeks) after her first husband died? It just doesn’t add up to me.

The only similarity is the Royal Navy connection but my Edward was a lieutenant of the Royal Marines.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with this