General Notes

4 June 1830, John Bayley married Betty Mather.  His witness was Lawrence Wroe.  Two years later, Lawrence Roe married Maria Knowles.  Lawrence who was Irish and Maria (both born about 1810) lived in Pilkington in 1841 when Lawrence and Maria were neighbours of John and Mary Mather nee Johnson  (20 & 30), so perhaps Betty had a brother John. 

In 1841, John a bobbin maker and Elizabeth Bailey (both 35) were at Mitton, Blackburn in the district of Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley (North of Preston) with Alice (10), Richard (10), James (8), Thomas (5), and John (3).  There were still there in 1851, John a master bobbin maker and employer of 5 men, with all their birth recorded as Bailey, so this is another family.  John married Elizabeth Bradley at Mitton in 1830 and the birth of their son John, registered at Chipping in 1830 shows the MMN as Bradley.