Joseph Bailey and mother Esther Lane by death certificate #8, Gloucester, MA, private record #55, born Rockport, was called Sandy Bay, now part of Gloucester,  [Gloucester VR 1:81] , VRM 75

marriage record: Joseph, 3d, a. 24 y., mariner, b. Rockport, s. Joseph and Esther, and Elizabeth W. Allen, a 21 y., d. Daniel and Susan, Mar. 21, 1848, vol. 2, page 75

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster


Record below proves that Esther Lane and Joseph are Joseph's parents

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7BQ-3QMr

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 or April 26