Zachary Bayly Edwards

Brother of Bryan Edwards the elder (q.v.), dying at Cheltenham in 1800.

1. Zachary Bayly Edwards, Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 15, 1772. [Youngest] s. of Bryan, deceased, and Elizabeth Bayly, late of Westbury, Wilts. [B. there.] School, private. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 4, 1771. Called to the Bar, Nov. 12, 1776. Of Chalcot House, Wilts. Had property in St Andrew's, Jamaica. Married Catherine, dau. of Rowland Otto-Baijer, Esq., of Antigua. Died Aug. 29, 1800, at Cheltenham. Buried there Sept. 2. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 236; G. Mag., 1800, II. 904; Gloucs. Notes and Queries, I. 297; Oliver, History of Antigua, I. 235.).

2. Married Katherina Otto Bayer on 23 Dec 1783 at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset.

3. 29[th August] 1800 At Cheltenham [Death of] Zachary Bayly Edwards esq. of Chalcot House Wiltshire. Will of Zachary Bayly Edwards of St Thomas in the Vale County Middlesex Jamaica proved 20/03/1801. In the will he left his pen called Greenwich Park in St Andrew in trust to be sold. The Waterford estate in Barbados, he said, had been charged with £3000 to his wife under their marriage settlement by Rachel Warner. He secured an annuity of £600 p.a. to his wife Katherine Otto Baijer on his real estate other than Greenwich Park, and left £5000 each to his second son and four daughters.

We are grateful to Dr Sonia Baker for her assistance in compiling this entry.

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online]

2. Ancestry.com, Wiltshire, England, Marriages, 1538-1837 [database online]

3. Gentleman's Magazine (1800) Vol. 70 Part 2 p.904; PROB 11/1355/196.