Shown As Michael From Mottingham in Eltham Parish registers.
I have copy of will.

My Parents Saw His Grave And Headstone Near The Gate

Michael was a farmer of some means living in Mottingham, Kent. According to D.B.Bayly the inscription on his gravestone near the gate in St. John’s Eltham Churchyard gave his dates as 1700-1777, and this is confirmed by the parish register burial record. He married Elizabeth FRENCH at St John’s Eltham on 3rd January 1723. Elizabeth was born about 1703/4 according to her parish register burial entry. Michael and Elizabeth had at least twelve children, but many of them died young. At least two births were not recorded in the parish register, but they appear in Michael’s will. Several of the children were privately baptised. The clerk entering their names in the parish register chose a variety of ways to spell BAYLY, but he nearly always added son/daughter “of Michael of Mottingham”. Mottingham was a small hamlet, having no church of its own.

Will of Michael Bayly
(From the copy kept at London P.C.C.)

This is the last Will and Testament of me Michael Bayly of the hamlet of Mottingham in the County Of Kent Farmer who not being well in health but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding Praised be Almighty God for the same considering the uncertainty of this life Do hereby make this my last Will as follows First I give and bequeath unto my son Michael Bayly All that my Leasehold Messuage Tenement or Farm House wherein I inhabit or dwell situate and being at Mottingham aforesd. with the lands and Premises thereto belonging To hold the same unto my said Son Michael Bayly his Executors Adminstrators and Assigns for and during all the Residue and Remainder of the Terms as I shall have to run therein at the time of my decease Also I give and bequeath unto my said Son Michael Bayly All my Stock and Crop of Hay Corn and Grain whatsoever Beans Peas or other thing which shall be growing arising or being in upon or about the said Farm Lands and Premises now occupied by me at the time of my decease and also all my Waggons Carts Horses Harness Ploughs and all my implements and Utensils whatsoever in Husbandry in about belonging to used in the said Farm and Lands upon this express Condition That he my said Son Michael Bayly Do and shall within one month next after my decease well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto his Sister Harriot Green Wife of William Green of the Village of Eltham in the said County of Kent Farmer the sum of one hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain And do hereby charge and subject my said Stock and Crop of Hay Corn Grain and other things and also my said Waggons Carts Horses Harness Ploughs and all other my implements and utensils in Husbandry in about belonging to or used in the said Farm Lands and Premises with the payment of the said Legacy or Sum of one hundred pounds to my Daughter the said Harriot Green accordingly Also I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Waller of East Greenwich in the County Of Kent Widow the sum of one hundred Pounds of like lawful money Also I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann Newman the sum of five Guineas of like lawful money Also all the rest residue and remainder of my Personal Estate and Effects of what nature kind or sort soever and wheresoever situate lying and being after payment of my just Debts and two last mentioned Legacys of one hundred pounds and five Guineas to my said two Daughters Sarah Waller and Ann Newman and Funeral Expenses I give and bequeath the same unto my loving Wife Elizabeth Bayly her Executors Adm-ors and Assigns for ever And I do hereby nominate Constitute and Appoint my said Wife Elizabeth Bayly and my said Son Michael Bayly Executrix and Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making null and void all former Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this and no other to be my last Will In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament set my Hand and Seal this nineteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven Michael Bayly Signed Sealed Published Prom-ited and Declared by the said Testator Michael Bayly as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our Names as Witness thereto in the Presence of the said Testator and of each other and at his request J.Ellis Joseph Everson


This Will was Proved at London the fourteenth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven Before the Worshipful Thomas Bever Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful Sir George Day Knight also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of Elizabeth Bayly Widow the Relict
and Michael Bayly the Son of the Deceased and Executors named in the said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn only to administery Exd

Original Document, Inventory taken in conjunction with will, not available with will
An inventory & Appraisment of the Household Furniture Linen, Plate, Waring Apparel & fixtures of Mr Michal Baly of Motingham in Kent Deceased Taken the 7th Day of September 1780

No 1 Left Hand Garret
Two Stump bedsteads 2 Feather beds
Two bolsters 6 blankets two Cover leds
A Walnut tree Chest of Drawers A
Old Chest & 3 Chairs

page 2
No 2 Right Hand Garret
A Stump bedstead a Feather bed
a Bolster 3 blankets & a Quilt
A Trunk a Night Stool, a Walnut Tree Chest of Drawers
5 old Chairs a pr brandirons
Fender & Looking Glass

No 3 Landing place
A Large Oak Chest
2 Close Baskets

page 3
No 4 Right Hand Front Chamber
A Four Post bedstead with Yallow Morine Furniture
A Feather bed, bolster & 2 Pillows &
A Mattrass, 3 Blankets & White Quilt
Six Walnut Tree Chairs, & am Arm Ditto
Two Yallow Morine Fustoon Window
Curtains to Correspond with the Bed
Laths Line & l

page 4
No 5 Left Hand Front Chamber
A four Post Bedstead Lath & Compass Rod
A Feather bed Bolster & 2 Pillows
three blankets & Quilts
White Counterpain
A Wainscot Wardrobe with Drawer
& Sliding Shelves
A Walnut Tree Double Chest of
Drawers Locks & Key
A Mahogany Dressing Table with
3 Drawers A Ditto Glass in a
Walnut Tree Swing frame

page 5
No 6 Righthand Back Chamber
A Compass Stove brass Mounted
Brass Shoval & tong & Iron fender
A Four Post bedstead with Crimson
China Furniture
A Feather bed bolster & 2 Pillows
three Blankets & Quilts
A Wainscot Dressing Chest of Drawers
A Yew Tree Bureau Locks & keys
a Small Nest of Drawers
A Wainscot Dressing Table with
a Drawer -------------

four Old Chairs Matted Seats
A Arm Ditto Cane Back & Matted Seat
A Pier Glass in a Walnut frame

page 6
No 7 Left Hand Back Chamber
A Four Post bedstead with Printed
Linin furniture -------------
A Feather bed bolster & 2 Pillows
Old Mattrass, 3 blankets 2 old Quilts
A Walnut Tree Chest of Drawers Lock
& key -----------
A Wainscot Dressing Table with
three Drawers
A Ditto Glass in a Walnut Swing
Frame

Page 7
No 9 Parlour
A Pier Glass
A Mahogany Pillar & Claw Table
An Old Carpet
An Old Wainscot Bureau

No 10 Passage Next the Brewhouse
A Oval Wainscot Dining table
a Stool -------------

No 11 Washhouse
Brewing Copper with lead Curve
a Do. Small
Choping board, & Wood Tray, 4 Trenchers
Rooting Bin, brass Ladle, tin Basting
Laddle, Ditto Egg Slice, Copper Warming
Pot, Tin Driping Pan, Do. Cullinder
Kneeding Trough & Stand

page 8
A Small Wainscot Table
Two Milk Pailes, & Do Seive ap? a Wood
Scales & half D? Weight?, a pewter Funnell
Three Tin Sauspans with covers
Three Water Pails & forms?
a pair Spit Racks Driping Pan Stand
and Big Iron
A Copper Pottage Pot & Cover
A Ditto Tea Kittle & Small brass
Kittle two Bellmettle Pottage Pots
2 Small Copper Frying Pans
A Ditto Sauspan

page 9
No 12 Dary & Back Wash house
4 Pickling Tubs & 2 Long Forms
A Churn & 2 Butter Tubs
Plate Rack & form
Twelve Earthen Crocks & Milk Pans
four Wash Keelars A Mash Tub
A Ham Tub a Stirer?, Wood Peal?
Eight Iron Bound Beer cask
Three Tun Tubs Two Beer Stands
Two Filters Bottle Rack & Bottles
A Funnel & Wood Bowl
About 50 Stone Pickell Pork?

page 10 - back, blank

peel - used to lift loaves out of an oven, flat round blade with handle.
wainscot - wooden panelling used to line walls of a room, also used for panelled chests, chairs etc.
stump bedstead - has neither canopy or posts.