BAINES
BAINES : Montgomeryshire
My direct ancestor, Thomas Baynes or Baines, was born in Montgomeryshire c1650 and lived well into his nineties. He was churchwarden of St Mary’s church at Llanllugan, and here he was buried on 18 November 1742. He was probably the son of either John Baynes of Llanllugan who had died in 1679, or Thomas Baynes who had died there in 1684.
His son, Richard Baines, of Cefn Coch, Llanllugan, was born in 1690 and married Margaret Davies at Llanfair Caereinion on 16 May 1707. (Margaret, daughter of David and Catherine Davies, was born in 1691 and died in January 1755.) Richard left a Will dated 26 March 1779 (see below), and he died at Llanllugan in February 1780, in his ninetieth year.
His surviving children included John (1710), Richard (1712), Rowland (1718), David (1720), Jane (1723), and my ancestor Evan (1724).
Evan Baines married Elizabeth Rowland by licence on 6 February 1753 at Castle Caereinion. (Elizabeth had been baptised on 27 April 1725, daughter of Evan Rowland, a husbandman of Llanerfyl and his wife Hannah.) Their surviving children, all born at Elizabeth’s home village of Llanerfyl, were Evan (1754, recorded as an 85 year old farmer of Blowty on the 1841 census), my ancestor Richard (18 Feb 1756), Margaret (19 Jan 1760), Edward (28 May 1762) and Hannah (14 Oct 1764).
Evan Baines died on 19 January 1809 in his 85th year.
In 1787 Evan’s son Richard Baines, a farmer of Cyffin, Llangadfan, married by licence Elizabeth Lloyd (born 7 October 1759, daughter of Robert Lloyd of Blowty and his wife Elizabeth). One of their witnesses was the groom’s maternal uncle, Evan Rowland of Llanerfyl. Richard and Elizabeth were the parents of my great-great-great-grandmother, Jane Baines, who was baptised at Llangadfan on 14 October 1798, four days after her birth at neighbouring Cefn Coch. Their other children were Elizabeth (29 Apr 1789), Margaret (25 Dec 1790), Mary (11 Aug 1793), Evan (8 Oct 1796), Ann (22 May 1801), and Hannah (15 Nov 1803).
At the time of their deaths Richard and Elizabeth Baines were living at Pwll-yr-hwch (Swine Pool). Elizabeth was buried at St Cadfan’s church on 19th April 1837, aged 78, described in the register as interred “5 yards from the small entrance (or porch) and a yard and a half from the wall” and almost exactly a year later Richard was buried beside her, on 20 April 1838, aged 84. When their daughter Mary was interred there on 20 April 1838 she was laid to rest “alongside her father near the path which is between the two porches”.
Their daughter Jane married William Evans, of Llanyblodwell, sometime before 1823 and the family moved to Wolverhampton before 1851 (see EVANS family).
William Evans died in January 1863. Jane married again, to George Phelps, a forge labourer, at St Matthew’s church, Wolverhampton, on 10 November 1864. The marriage certificate gives her father’s name as Richard Baines, deceased.
George Phelps died in 1868. Jane herself died on 31 December 1881 at Frost Street, Wolverhampton, aged 88 according to the death certificate, although her actual age was 83. She was buried at Merridale Cemetery on 5 January 1882. Curiously, the cemetery records give her name as Jane Paley Phelps.
WILL OF RICHARD BAINES OF CEFN COCH, 1690-1780
In the Name of God, Amen. I, Richard Baines of Cefncoch in the Parish of Llanlligan, & in the County of Montgomery, & Diocese of St Asaph, being weak in Body, but of sound & perfect Memory, prais’d be God for the same, do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament in manner & form following: that is to say First and principally, I commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Creator, hoping thro’ the Merits of Jesus Christ to obtain Pardon & Remission of all my Sins, & to Enter everlasting life, & my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried according to the Direction of my Executor hereafter named, & as for such temporal Goods, as the Lord in his great Mercy hath entrusted me with, I give & dispose thereof as followeth – First of all I will that all my Funeral charges & all my debts be fully paid & discharged – Also I give to & bequeath unto my Grandson John Baines all that Messuage & Tenement lately purchased by me, situate lying & being in the Township of Penemis called Garnedd, in the Parish of Llanwyddelan, in the County of Montgomery & his Heirs for ever – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandsons Thomas Baines & Richard Baines twelve pounds each – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandaughter Anne Baines twelve pounds – Also I give and bequeath unto my Grandaughter Margaret Baines twelve pounds – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandaughter Mary Baines twelve pounds – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandaughter Elizabeth Baines, now the Wife of Richard Humphreys, twelve pounds – Also I give & bequeath unto my Son Richard Baines the sum of five pounds a year during the Term of five years to be paid him quarterly by my Executor, & if he dies before those years expire, I will that that sum should be paid to his son Richard Baines – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandson Richard Baines, the son of my son Richard Baines, the sum of twenty pounds – Also I give & bequeath to my son Evan Baines the sum of one pound one shilling – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandson Evan, the son of Evan Baines, the sum of twelve pounds – Also I give & bequeath to Richard Baines & Edward Baines, my Grandsons, the sons of Evan Baines my son, twelve pounds each – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandaughters Margaret & Hannah Baines, the daughters of my son Evan Baines, the sum of twelve pounds each – Also I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Jane one pound one shilling – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandson Richard Hughes the sum of forty pounds, & the Bed & Chest & a little Coffer & two boxes, being in the chamber where I lie above the Kitchen – Also I give & bequeath unto Hugh Hughes my Grandson the sum of twenty pounds – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandson David Baines, the son of Rowland Baines, twelve pounds – Also I give & bequeath unto my Grandaughters Mary Baines & Elizabeth Baines, the daughters of Rowland Baines, the sum of twelve pounds each – Also I give & bequeath unto my Son David Baines the sum of one pound one shilling – I would have it understood that my will is that these Legacies are not to be paid till twelve months after my Decease. Lastly, all the rest & residue of my goods, Chattels & personal Estate, moveable & immoveable, I give & bequeath unto my Grandson & Heir John Baines, the son of my son John Baines, whom I nominate & appoint sole & only Executor of this my last Will & Testament Revoking & disannulling all former Wills by me heretofore made. I do declare this my last Will & Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred & seventy nine.
Richard Baines
Sign’d seal’d publish’d & declared in the presence of Solomon Davies
The mark X of Edward Jones
John Owen, Clerk
JONES
My ancestors Elizabeth Lloyd and Richard Baines married at Llangadfan in 1787. Their daughter Jane Baines was my gtx3 grandmother.
Elizabeth Lloyd was baptised 7 Oct 1759, daughter of Robert Lloyd of the township of Blowty, Llangadfan, and his wife Elizabeth neé Jones who had married at Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwyfa on 24 May 1756; bride’s abode given as Llangadfen.
Elizabeth Jones was the daughter of Thomas Jones of the township of Bryngwaeddan, Llangadfan, and his wife Gwen, and she was baptised at Llangadfan on 1 June 1734.
ROWLAND
Richard Baines was the son of Evan Baines and Elizabeth Rowland, married by licence at Castle Caereinion in 1753. Elizabeth’s abode was shown as Llanerfyl, where she had been baptised on 27 Apr 1725, daughter of Evan Rowland and his wife Hannah. Her brother Evan Rowland, born 1730, witnessed Richard Baines’s marriage to Elizabeth Lloyd in 1787.
Elizabeth Rowland’s father, Evan Rowland, a husbandman of Llanerfyl, made a Will on 15 July 1762 (he was buried 20 Nov that year), naming the following:
Hannah, wife; Evan (b 1738), son – both executors – and daughters Jane (b1732), Ann (b1736), Mary (b1735) and Elizabeth (b1725) wife of Evan Baines; and Baines grandchildren Evan jnr, Margaret, Richard (my forebear) and Edward.
(Mary and Jane’s baptisms give father’s abode as Coedtalog; Elizabeth’s baptism gives it as Lawnt. An infant daughter, Hannah, was buried in 1742. Other deceased children: Edward 1728, Helen 1729, Roland 1731)
Hannah Rowland, widow of Evan, was buried at Llanerfyl on 7 June 1770.
Elizabeth Rowland’s uncle was John Rowland, a tailor of Lawnt, Llanerfyl, who made a Will on 19 May 1794, which mentions her children (unnamed) by Evan Baines, describing them as great-nieces and -nephews.
John Rowland’s Will also names the following:
*Jane Whitaker, niece; Ann Reynolds, niece; Evan Jones, nephew, a tailor of Ty’n Wern; Edward Jones, nephew, of Kyffin; Evan Rowland, nephew, who was executor of the Will.
*Jane Rowland married John Whitakers of Llanllugan at Llanerfyl on 14 Feb 1763; and Ann Rowland married John Reynolds of Llanfechan at Llanerfyl on 7 Feb 1767.
Elizabeth Rowland’s father Evan was possibly baptised at Llanfair Caereinion on 24 Dec 1697, son of John Rowland of Gwaengrug and his wife Margaret.
A John Rowland was baptised at Llangadfan 13 May 1733, son of John Rowland of Bryngwaeddan and his wife Margaret.
LLOYD
Robert Lloyd, father-in-law of Richard Baines, was buried at Llangadfan on 29 Sept 1783. Abode given as township of Blowty. He was baptised at Llanfihangel-yng-Yngwyfa (where he married) on 19 June 1737, son of Ellis Lloyd of Dolwar township. Robert’s brother Ellis jnr, was baptised on 5 Oct 1746.
Ellis snr had married at Llanfechain on 24 July 1736 to Martha Evans of Dolwar. He had been baptised at Llanfihangel on 24 Oct 1708, son of Evan Lloyd, and was buried here on 14 July 1753.
His father Evan Lloyd had been buried in the same place on 14 Feb 1730.