Rowland Otto Baijer or Bayer

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1805

Biography

Son of Rowland Otto Baijer (1726-1762), and father of Samuel Otto Baijer (q.v.). Sold Vaughans to James Donovan (q.v). in 1785. Will proved in 1805: a Rowland Otto Bayer was buried at Hurst, Berkshire on 01/04/1802 and a second man of the same name reportedly died at Verdun in 1805.

Will of Rowland Otto Bayer of Old Bond Street [made in 1799] proved 19/12/1805. Under the will he left £3000 to his daughter Maria and his estates and people to his son Samuel Otto Baijer, then to his daughter Maria and then to the children of his sister Catherine, wife of Zachary Bayly Edwards.

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. I p. 19; Ancestry.com, England, Selected Deaths & Burials, 1538-1910 [database online]; Trial of Lord Stirling (1845).

PROB 11/1434/204.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic?

Spouse

Sarah Harman

Children

Samuel;

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

- 1785 [EY] → Owner

Donovans [formerly Vaughans] [ Antigua ]

1805 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Heir

Pares Estate, Old North Sound [ Antigua ]

Co-heir with his sister Katherine Edwards of their aunt Rachel Pare. He died in the same year as his aunt, and the estate passed to his son Samuel Otto Baijer.