John H.R. and Margaret Bayley had six children:

Hamlet Ambrose, the oldest, born in 1836, was a schoolmaster, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He married Esther Ashcroft in 1859 and they had three children, all of whom left for America. After Hamlet’s wife died, he left for America also.

Laura Fidelia, the second child, was born in Dudley, Warwickshire in 1840. No record of marriage has been found for Laura although she was listed as a widow in the 1881 census in Birmingham. In that census, she and her children, Edgar and Gertrude, are listed under the surname Bailey. Laura’s occupation in this census is governess, and in the 1891 census as a manageress of the White Hart Public House.

Werner Bayley, the third child, was born in 1847 in Wolverhampton. He was listed in census records as a merchant’s clerk and an ironmongers’ clerk. He married Elizabeth Sarah Harford of Birmingham in 1875 and they had two children, Eleanor and William. The family lived in Birmingham where Werner died in 1888.

Marion Bayley, the fourth child, was born about 1849 in Wolverhampton. Little is known about Marion. She was two years old when the family was recorded in the 1851 census in Wolverhampton.

The children of Annie Bayley, Marion’s great nieces and nephew, did have a picture of her. Their memories of her are fairly vague, but, according to various stories, she may have owned a dress shop, she may have taken Annie under her wing when Annie’s mother died, and she may have gone with Annie and Annie's husband Charles Edward Miller when they left for Canada in the early 1880s.

Ada Jane Bayley was the fifth child, born in 1852 in Hanley, Staffordshire. She was a draper’s assistant, living in the Birmingham area, where she died in 1884, apparently unmarried.

Pauline Edith Bayley, the last child, was born in 1855, also in Hanley. She was married first to Edward Genevar in Birmingham. Sometime after her husband died in 1884, Pauline married someone whose last name was Cole. She is listed in the 1891 census as Pauline Cole, widow.

1. Parish Register, Kendal, England, vol.6, pp.19 and 65. FHL Microfilm 0973138.

2. Will of John Miller, 29 May 1777, Lancashire Record Office, Ref. 1778, Court of Probate: Archdeanery of Richmond.

3. Will of William Miller, 13 April 1826, Lancashire, England, Lancashire Record Office, 1827.

4. Parish Register, Kendal, England, vol.6, pp.47,109, 144, 191; vol.7, p.1. FHL Microfilms 0973138 and 0973139.

5. Parish Register, Kendal, England, vol.7, p.87, 138. FHL Microfilm 0973139.

6. Will of John Miller, 29 May 1777, Lancashire Record Office, Ref. 1778, Court of Probate: Archdeanery of Richmond.

7. Notice of death of William Miller, d.1826. Gore's Advertiser, p.3, col.6. Died 7 inst. Aged 74 years.