About Mary Bayly
Lived 1816 – 1899 (aged 83). Mary Bayly was a British activist and writer.
Mary Bayly (née Saunders; 4 March 1816 – 13 December 1899), sometimes spelled Mary Bayley, was a British temperance activist and pamphlet writer.
Life Bayly was born in Market Lavington in 1816, the daughter of Mary (née Box) and Amram Saunders. Samuel Saunders (1814–1908), Alfred Saunders (1820–1905), and William Saunders (1823–1895) were her brothers.
She married in Bath at the Argyle Congregational Chapel to George Bayly who was a master mariner. George would work in the Merchant Navy and Trinity House and he was an amateur artist.
Bayly died in Streatham in 1899.
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British temperance activist and writer (1816–1899)
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Mary Bayly was born on 4 March 1816 in Market Lavington.
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Mary Bayly died on 13 December 1899 in Streatham.
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Mary Bayly was an activist and writer.
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