Hi
Barnaby has been nagging away at me for a while! I'll have a look at Welsh Newspapers online - thanks for this info.
Landlords of the White Hart Inn, Beaufort Square, Chepstow were John Gallett 1823-5, James Gallett 1825-30, and Barnaby Gallett 1830-2.
The first records I have of Barnaby are as landlord of the White Hart Inn, then his marriage in 1833 to Ann Taylor while at the Boothall Inn in Hereford. The birth of his and Ann's daughter, the deaths of his daughter and mother and his own demise in 1843 all happen within these few years. It must have been very hard for his widow to lose so much in such a short time.
Local newspaper cuttings show that he and his wife Ann were very popular and respected in Hereford, but where was Barnaby for the first 29 years of his life, who were his parents, and how was he able to purchase the Booth Hall, along with its warehouses, workshops, yards and other dwellings?
The IGI shows that Barnaby Davies Gallet was baptised in Tarrington, Herefordshire on 19 June 1796, the son of Elizabeth Gallet. His father’s name is not recorded.
Barnaby’s widow Ann Gallet (Taylor) was visiting the Taylor family at Lays in Tarrington during the 1851 census. John and Elizabeth Gallett (nee Marks) living at Brook House, Tarrington at the June 1841 census were not Barnaby’s parents - Barnaby’s mother Elizabeth Gallett died at the Booth Hall in January 1841. In 1851 Elizabeth Gallett (nee Marks), now widowed, was still living at Brook House, where she died in 1856. Ann Gallet (nee Taylor) also died at Brook House, on September 19th 1857 aged 64, possibly because it was then the residence of her brother Bennet Taylor.
I have notes of Galletts in and around Tarrington from before 1562, but no link to Barnaby, and no others with the name.
A possible connection may be to Barnaby Davis, Yeoman farmer of Coldmore, Woolhope, a parish neighbouring Tarrington. He was b.abt 1762, poss. in Marden, Herefordshire and died in 1829. If I can get a copy of his will, this may help. He had a son named Barnaby Davis from his second marriage, who was a wheelwright and who also died in 1843.
But any connection may depend on knowing who was the first wife of Barnaby Davis. Their daughter was named Mary, perhaps after her mother. He also had a natural daughter, Elizabeth. She did not marry, and remained with Barnaby Davis’ second wife Mary Davis (nee Jones), after the other children had married . Mary may have been her stepmother, or her birth mother - Elizabeth is described as daur. on 1841 & 1851 censii. Barnaby Davis this may be a red herring, of course
Nick
