Arrived in New Zealand on the Amelia Thompson in 1840.
NB
- Is this the same William Bayly mentioned At
3?
BAYLY TRIAL
William Alfred Bayly was charged with the murder of
Samuel Pender LAKEY and Christobel LAKEY
at Ruawaro on the 15th October 1933.
His case came before the Auckland Supreme Court, Mr Justice HERDMAN
presiding, from the 21st May 1934 to the 23rd June 1934.
Bayly was convicted, and sentenced to death.
VERDICT AND SENTENCE
All through the Judge's summing up Bayly sat in the
corner of the dock. Rarely did
he exhibit any signs of distress.
The accused's wife sat alongside Mr LEARY (defence
lawyer), and during the summing -up it was noticeable that she was distressed. When the jury retired the unfortunate woman could no longer
stand the strain and she collapsed.
Mrs Bayly was removed to her room in the Commercial Hotel remaining
in bed for several days.
After requesting the jury to retire and consider their
verdict, His Honour left the bench.
The jurymen were locked in their room at 11.20.
There was much speculatin by the crowds inside and outside the court
as to the result.
At 12.25 there was a cry; "Here comes the jury."
Those who had gone out into the corridors rushed back into the court.
None of Bayly’s relations were in the court when the jury filed in.
Bayly came up from the trapdoor from the cells below and walked to
the front of the dock. At 12.27 the crier called 'Silence,' as Mr Justioce Herdman
took his seat. Standing erect,
Bayly first looked at the jury and then fixed his eyes on the Judge.
'Gentlemen, have you agreed upon your verdict?' asked the registrar.
The foreman: 'Yes, sir, we have.'
The registrar: How say you, guilty or not guilty?
The foreman: Guilty on both counts.
'Guilty
on both counts!'
Like pebbles thrown into still waters, those four words
fell sharply into the sudden hush that had come upon the crowded court.
They told William Alfred Bayly the price the law exacted for his crimes.
Yet he listened unmoved.
Standing erect and caslm in the dock, Bayly stepped back a pace, placed
both hands in his side coat pockets and braced himself.
He swayed ever so slightly, while across the court his eyes unflinchingly
sought those of the stern, black draped figure who was to sentence him to
death.
"William Alfred Bayly," said the registrar,
"you have been found guilty of murder.
Have you anything to say why sentence should not be passedupon you
according to law?"
At first Bayly appeared as though he was about to speak,
his lips moved slightly, but he closed them tightly.
The mournful proclamation of the court crier then broke
the silence.
"Oh yez, oh yez, oh yez" he cried aloud.
"All manner of persons are commanded to keep silent while the
judgement of death is pronounced by the court on the prisoner at the bar,
upon payment of fines or imprisonment."
The judge then placed the black cap upon his wig.
Only Bayly’s tightly-closed lips and his hands dug
deep into his pockets betrayed his anguish of mind as he steeled himself to
listen to Mr Justice Herdman’s level tone.
"Prisoner at the bar ... the jury, after a long
and patient hearing, have found you guilty of the murder of Samuel Lakey and
the murder of Christobel Lakey ... For the crime of murder ... by the law
of this country ... one punishment only is prescribed ... and that punishment
is death. The sentence of the
court is that you be taken from the place where you now stand ... to the place
of execution ... and there hanged by the neck until you are dead".
Bayly lowered his eyes for a moment as the judge’s
cold dispassionate sentence beat upon his ears.
"And there hanged by the neck until you are dead".
For Bayly the curtain had fallen, yet for some seconds
he scarcely seemed to realise it. He
still stood erect. He still loked
at the judge. Then a warder plucked
his right sleeve. Bayly turned
sharply. He seemed to be trying
to collect his thoughts. The
two warders stretched out their hands, but Bayly scorned their assistance.
He paused before he went below.
At the head of the steps he took a quick glance at those in the rear
of the Court, suddenly squared his shoulders, placed one hand on the warder
who was in front of him and urged him forward.
Married
in Opotiki to Catherine SLATER (?)
c1910 - 1915. The couple
moved to a farm at Paerata cl920, and William died a couple of years later.
Born
at Opotiki, where she was educated and later married William
Bayly. After William's death
cl920, Catherine was left with a young family to raise.
She moved to Pukekohe where she purchased a property which she ran
as a private boarding house for many years. In 1964, she became
ill and after a few weeks of hospital treatment, died, at the age of 79.
Lived
in Te Puke (1964)
Lived
in Papakura (1964)
Lived
in Glen Eden (1964)
Married
H F TAYLOR.
Lived in Ellerslie (1964).
Son
of Jessie Bayly and H F Taylor. Pallbearer
at his grandmother Bayly's funeral.
Lived
in Pukekohe (1964).
In
1888 when he married Fanny FANTHAM he was farming at Manaia.
Daughter
of one of Taranaki’s earliest and best known farmers, Mr A A Fantham.
Fanny came from Canterbury with her father c1870 to settle in Taranaki.
In
1885, when she was 19, she was one of a party who climbed to Fantham's Peak
on Mt Egmont, which was then unnamed.
The peak was named in her honour, as she was the first woman to climb
that far on Mt Egmont.
In
1888 she married Fred BAYLY who was then farming at Manaia.
She lived in many parts of Taranaki, moving to New Plymouth c1918.
In
WWI she went to England, where she worked in a munitions factory and nursed
at a hospital at Walton-on-Thames.
In
1946, at the age of 80, she flew to Australia to visit her daughter (Z HAVYATT).
She
died in New Plymouth on 10 September 1948, aged 81.
Mrs
Z HAVYATT of Sydney (1948).
b.cc1890
Mrs
F FODEN of New Plymouth (1948)
b.cc1890
Mrs
P BIGNALL of Whangaehu (1948)
b.ccl890
(m)
Of Tarata (1948)
b.ccl890
Geoffrey
Fantham Bayly was the descendant of settlers who came out to NZ on the Amelia
Thomson and settled in the Waitara district.
He
was born in New Plymouth in 1901 and educated at the New Plymouth Boys' High
School.
He
spent his early years farming in the Turakina Valley where he married Miss
Lexie McLEAY, elder daughter of
well known settlers of the valley.
From
the Taranaki province he and his wife and family moved to the Waikato where
he farmed at Putaruru and was for a time a member of the firm of Thos
BORTHWICK and Son.
During
some 16 years in the Waikato district he became actively engaged in sporting
activities being President and Captain of the golf club, secretary of the
bowling club and a rugby selector.
He
went to Te Puke in 1952 where he took up a mixed farm holding of 200 acres
on the No. 3 Road, and in later years this was cut up, the elder son, Fred,
farming the balance of the property.
Geoffrey built up the bottom portion of the holding retaining an interest
in the farm up to the time of his illness.
During
his time in Te Puke he also took a great interest in golf, bowls,and rugby.
He
died in March 1961 at his home on the No. 3 Road, Te Puke, leaving his wife,
two daughters, Anne (Mrs J HAWORTH
of Putaruru) and Beverley (Mrs
B BENNETT of Te Puke) and two sons, Fred (of Te Puke) and Ian
(of Takapuna).
Elder
daughter of well known settlers of the Turakina valley. Married
Geoffrey Fantham Bayly.
b.cc1925.
Married [?] HAWORTH, of Putaruru.
b.cc1925.
Married [?] BENNETT of Te Puke.
b.ccl925.
Lived in Te Puke in 1961.
b.ccl925.
Lived in Takapuna in 1961.
Humphrey
Bayly was “one of Wairoa’s most prominent farmers.”
He ran Romney sheep and Angus cattle, predominantly, in the Wairoa
and Gisborne district. His farming
background included the setting up of Angus and Romney studs and the supervising
of his family' s land at Cricklewood and Tahaenui, which included one or two
blocks in the Gisborne area.
He
was president of the Wairoa A & P Society, as well as a member of the
Electoral College (and chairman) of the NZ Meat and Wool Boards, and a member
of the Wairoa County Council and the Angus Breed Society.
He
was a keen horseman in his younger days.
He
suffered ill-health for 17 years, but died after a fall in the Adventist Hospital
in Auckland in January 1985. He
had travelled to Auckland for his grand-daughter's
wedding, which he thoroughly enjoyed according to his son John.
Son
of Humphrey Bayly.
bccl925?
Farmed
at the summit of Pukekohe hill.
Born
in 1870, Jessie Bayly was the daughter of William Bayly and spent her early
years at her parents I home f arm on the summit of Pukekohe hill.
In
1887 she became a teacher and after a probationary period at the Pukekohe
school she taught at Pukeowane, Waitangi, Pt Chevalier and Puni before moving
to Auckland in 1908. She spent
a number of years relieving at city schools before being appointed to Newton
West on 1916, where she remained until 1927.
She retired at 57, owing to ill-health and spent most of her 33 years
of retirement in Papatoetoe.
She
retained an unswerving faith in and loyalty to the young of all generations,
and displayed a keen interest in the physical, moral and educational welfare
and its betterment for the young. She
died in Auckland on 11 August 1960 [1959?].
Educated
in Pukekohe. He worked on his
father's farm which included a large part of the summit of Pukekohe Hill.
He took over the farm when his father died, but later sold the land
and lived in the Borough.
He
was a prominent wing forward in the Pukekohe and Franklin rugby teams and
captained the Pukekohe team on several occasions when it won the Franklin
Championship between 1901 and 1907.
He was also prominent in tennis, and a life member of the Pukekohe
club.
For
some years he was a member of the vestry of St Andrews Anglican Church, Pukekohe.
When he died in 1959 he
was resident in Selwyn Road, Mission Bay.
FIVE
NEW LOCAL J P’S
Mrs
Joan BAYLY has lived for 20 years in Johnsonville and has 3 grown up
children. She says she
has been involved in the "usual things women get involved in".
Joan Bayly has been associated with the Girls' Brigade for about
18 years and has held posts from captain of the Johnsonville Company
to Commissioner for the Wellington district.
Over the years her children grew up Mrs Bayly helped support
local Plunket, Johnsonville Kindergarten, School and Onslow College.
She has played tennis and table tennis.
She has been and is still very involved in her church - the Union
Church.
Joan
Bayly has [worked] for one day a week for more than 10 years at the Presbyterian
Social Services Op Shop and she is a Samaritan.
She offers her skill as a shorthand typist to various organisations
she is interested in such as Samaritans and the Open Home Foundation which
places foster children.
Roger Bayly arrived at Waitangi as an 18-month-old
baby. He was born in Auckland,
but his family were pioneers in Taranaki.
The family bought land
near Waitangi in 1929.
He involved himself in many community and sporting
activities. As a young man he
belonged to the Kerikeri RFC and did a lot of sailing around the waters of
the Bay of Islands.
Himself father
of a handicapped child, he headed the Lofty Blomfield Memorial Appeal in 1978
(named after the world famous wrestler who began the Intellectually Handicapped
Children's Society in Northland). The
appeal raised $170,000 for building IHC homes in Whangarei and Kaitaia.
He spent many hours travelling to promote the appeal.
He farmed some hard country near Waitangi but still
found time to represent the Bay of Islands on the Northland Harbour Board
from 1974 to 1980, three of those years as deputy chairman.
He almost doubled the size of the farm, to 900 hectares, on which he
farmed sheep and cattle.
He was on the Waimate Show Committee for many years
and helped with the Paihia Pony Club gymkhanas and other activities, and with
the Moerewa Athletic Club.
He was also a founding member of the Bay of Islands
Parks Board in 1978. He was heavily
involved in promoting development on his own farm and elsewhere in the Bay
of Islands. He was keen on developments
to help locals and tourists and was instrumental in opening islands in the
Bay to campers. The Parks Board
farms(ed?) a number of its 56 reserves and Roger Bayly's farming expertise
was greatly appreciated by them, according to the chief ranger, Michael Gardiner.
He was on the Parks Board until his death.
He died in December 1985, after an illness.
He was 56.
