John Spear Bailey FFFMFF
 

Name – John Spear Bailey

Date and place of birth – 1795 St. George, Easton in Gordan, Somerset

Names of parents – Emanuel Bailey. Christian Spear.

Date and place of baptism – May 1795 St. George, Easton in Gordano

Details of each of his or her marriages – Dec 1819 Bristol. Harriet Porter.

Occupation(s) – Mariner/Waterman

Addresses where they lived –
1841
1851
1861
1871 – Chapel Row, Pill, St. George

Date, place and cause of death – Jan 1879 Golden Key, High Street, Bristol

Date and place of burial –

Details of will / administration of their estate –

Memorial inscription -

There is an entry in the National Probate Calendar for 1879, Morf:

BAILEY John Spear
Personal Estate under £450.
11 February. The Will of John Spear Bailey late of Chapel-row Pill in the Parish of Easton in Gordano in the County of Somerset who died 28 January 1879 at Golden Key High-street in the City of Bristol was proved at Bristol by James Dibbins Hall and John Spear Bailey the Son both of Pill Pilots the Executors.

Any chance he married a second time, Morf? There is this household on the 1851 census at Easton in Gordano / St George, with a John Spear age 36 next door:

John Bailey Head Mar 52 Waterman Somerset St George
Mary Bailey Wife Mar 50 Do Do
Sarah Manley Visitor Wid 23 Do Do
Augusta Cox Servt U 17 House Servant Do Do
James Cox Nephew 13 Scholar Do Do
Thomas Manley Nephew 11 Do Do

Edit - forget that, I see your John is still with Harriet in 1871 and she is on the 1851 listed as "Wife" with no husband there, so I suppose he was at sea on the 1841 - 1861 censuses.

Sorry Kate, I've been out tonight, so only just noticed this.
Looking at the probate report, I think at some point I must have seen this and recorded it on my tree, I wondered where I had this info from lol.
The 1851 census, is a coincidence, but yes, he was probably at sea for most of the census.
Thank you for the info. :)