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William Bayley

1778–1855

Banker. Member of the banking firm Rocke, Eyton, Campbell, Leighton and Bayley of Market Square, Shrewsbury.

Sources

Alum. Oxon.

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/926/2/5/3), 1851 (HO107/1992/542/51)

Commercial directory for Shropshire

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 17 June 2019

Prerogative Court of Canterbury will registers (The National Archives: Public Record Office PROB 11/2219/387)

Shrewsbury School register, p. 71.

Bibliography

Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.

Commercial directory for Shropshire: Pigot & Co.’s national commercial directory; 1828–9; comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders, in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and principal villages in the following counties, viz. Cheshire Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire. London and Manchester: J. Pigot & Co. 1828–9.

Shrewsbury School register: Shrewsbury School register. 1734–1908. Edited by J. E. Auden. Oswestry: Woodall, Minshall, Thomas and Co., Caxton Press. 1909.

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