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| Henry BAYLIS (1826 - 1905) |
| Police magistrate of Wagga Wagga |
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| b. 17 Apr 1826 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
| m. 29 Jan 1857 Sybella MURRAY (1832 - 1891) at Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 05 Jul 1905 at Homebush, New South Wales, Australia aged 79 |
| Cause of Death: |
| Struck by train near Homebush railway station |
| Near Relatives of Henry BAYLIS (1826 - 1905) | ||||||
| Relationship | Person | Born | Birth Place | Died | Death Place | Age |
| Father in Law | James MURRAY | |||||
| Mother in Law | Wilhelmina (MURRAY) | |||||
| Father | Thomas Henry BAYLIS | 10 Apr 1792 | Walsall, Staffordshire, England | 24 Feb 1853 | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia | 60 |
| Mother | Julia Dorothea BARTELS | 07 Apr 1797 | Batavia | 02 Jun 1839 | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia | 42 |
| Self | Henry BAYLIS | 17 Apr 1826 | Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland | 05 Jul 1905 | Homebush, New South Wales, Australia | 79 |
| Wife | Sybella MURRAY | 23 Oct 1832 | Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland | 28 Mar 1891 | Armidale, New South Wales, Australia | 58 |
| Son | James John BAYLIS | 1857 | Hartley, New South Wales, Australia | 1928 | 71 | |
| Daughter | Wilhelmina (Minnie) Helen BAYLIS | 20 Jan 1859 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 05 Sep 1935 | Mosman, New South Wales, Australia | 76 |
| Son | Henry M George BAYLIS | 1861 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1918 | Ryde, New South Wales, Australia | 57 |
| Son | Harold Murray BAYLIS | 03 Jun 1862 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 06 Apr 1918 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 55 |
| Son | Robert Dawson BAYLIS | 1863 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1941 | Mosman, New South Wales, Australia | 78 |
| Son | Francis C BAYLIS | 1865 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1926 | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 61 |
| Son | Frederick Allen BAYLIS | 1867 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1940 | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 73 |
| Son | Alfred Stephen BAYLIS | 1870 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1918 | Randwick, New South Wales, Australia | 48 |
| Son | Arthur Charles Leitch BAYLIS | 1874 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 11 Nov 1950 | Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia | 76 |
| Son in Law | Broughton Clayton GARLAND | 09 Nov 1850 | Tooma, New South Wales, Australia | 11 Apr 1934 | Mosman, New South Wales, Australia | 83 |
| Daughter in Law | Elizabeth J OAKMAN | 1876 | Albury, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Daughter in Law | Alice Ann DYER | 1879 | Windsor, New South Wales, Australia | 28 Aug 1911 | Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia | 32 |
| Daughter in Law | Olive L M WHITE | |||||
| Granddaughter | Sybella Murray GARLAND | 1881 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1901 | Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia | 20 |
| Granddaughter | Helen Broughton GARLAND | 1882 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1961 | Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia | 79 |
| Granddaughter | Marian Isabel GARLAND | 1883 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1967 | Singleton, New South Wales, Australia | 84 |
| Grandson | Henry Baylis GARLAND | 1884 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1942 | Wyong, New South Wales, Australia | 58 |
| Grandson | Broughton Keith Baylis GARLAND | 1887 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 1955 | Petersham, New South Wales, Australia | 68 |
| Granddaughter | Kathleen Amy GARLAND | 1888 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Grandson | Murray Baylis GARLAND | 06 Aug 1890 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 26 Apr 1917 | France | 26 |
| Granddaughter | Adeline Jessie GARLAND | 1892 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 17 Aug 1986 | Mosman, New South Wales, Australia | 94 |
| Granddaughter | Vera D BAYLIS | 1903 | Petersham, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Granddaughter | Ena R BAYLIS | 1906 | Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Events in Henry BAYLIS (1826 - 1905)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 17 Apr 1826 | Henry BAYLIS was born | Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland | |||
| 02 Jun 1839 | 13 | Death of mother Julia Dorothea BARTELS (aged 42) | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 24 Feb 1853 | 26 | Death of father Thomas Henry BAYLIS (aged 60) | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1857 | 31 | Birth of son James John BAYLIS | Hartley, New South Wales, Australia | 7118/1857 | |
| 29 Jan 1857 | 30 | Married Sybella MURRAY (aged 24) | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia | 1304/1857 | |
| 20 Jan 1859 | 32 | Birth of daughter Wilhelmina (Minnie) Helen BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 13126/1859 | |
| 1861 | 35 | Birth of son Henry M George BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 13672/1861 | |
| 03 Jun 1862 | 36 | Birth of son Harold Murray BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 14261/1862, cemetery | |
| 1863 | 37 | Birth of son Robert Dawson BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 14295/1863 | |
| 1865 | 39 | Birth of son Francis C BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 15937/1865 | |
| 1867 | 41 | Birth of son Frederick Allen BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 17071/1867 | |
| 1870 | 44 | Birth of son Alfred Stephen BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 18073/1870 | |
| 1874 | 48 | Birth of son Arthur Charles Leitch BAYLIS | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 20567/1874 | |
| 28 Mar 1891 | 64 | Death of wife Sybella MURRAY (aged 58) | Armidale, New South Wales, Australia | 2516/1891 | |
| 05 Jul 1905 | 79 | Henry BAYLIS died | Homebush, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| Personal Notes: |
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http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/baylis-henry-2955
Henry Baylis (1826-1905), police magistrate, was born on 17 April 1826 at Edinburgh, the second son of Thomas Henry Baylis, lieutenant in the 17th Regiment, and his wife Julia Dorothea, née Bartels. On 27 June 1832 he arrived in the City of Edinburgh at Sydney where his father continued his military career. Henry was one of the earliest pupils at The King's School, Parramatta, and then trained for four years in the legal office of the Fitzhardinge family of Sydney. He worked briefly on a pastoral property near Bathurst, joined a party which overlanded horses to Adelaide in 1849 and after gold was discovered tried his luck in the Mudgee district. Baylis entered the public service as clerk of Petty Sessions at Hartley on 9 August 1852. On 1 January 1858 he became the first police magistrate at Wagga Wagga. This small village had developed by 1896 into a thriving municipality of some five thousand inhabitants, and its district, at first pastoral and sparsely populated, had become important for wheat-growing. Baylis played an important part in these developments. As magistrate he presided from 1862 in the courts at Wagga Wagga and each month and sometimes more often at Urana and Narrandera, usually travelling on horseback. Contemporary newspapers reveal the 'busyness' of the bench in those turbulent days. Of necessity Baylis was often assisted by another resident magistrate or justice of the peace, a practice which gave the police magistrate added responsibility, yet his leadership on the bench was sound. A contemporary recorded in 1888 that 'very few of his judgments have been altered on appeal, and many of those appealed against and carried to the Supreme Court have been sustained, and are published in Wilkinson's “Australian Magistrate” for the guidance of the magistrates of the Colony'. As a citizen Baylis contributed greatly to the development of Wagga Wagga as an urban centre. He was well placed, as the senior local officer, to approach the government; for example, on 2 December 1858 he wrote to the commissioners of the National Board of Education for help in establishing a National school, and was chosen by several citizens to call the public meeting of 31 March 1869 which petitioned the governor to declare Wagga Wagga a municipal borough under the 1867 Municipalities Act. He was also prominent in many civic enterprises. On 21 June 1859 he laid the foundation stone of St John's Church of England of which he was always a leading layman. He was a founder of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club in 1860 and secretary of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association, formed in 1865, until it was firmly established. His activity was vital in hospital affairs and he was a director of the Wagga Wagga Permanent Building and Investment Society, established in 1870, and shared in many other duties. In the early 1870s he was the main butt for criticism by a group led by William Willans, solicitor, and Samuel Hawkins, proprietor of the Wagga Express, partly because he was a director of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Co. whose bridge over the Murrumbidgee had been opened for traffic in 1862 and whose tolls were fiercely resented, and partly because of his commanding, direct personality. Nevertheless, he was highly respected throughout the district. Baylis had two colourful episodes in his professional life. The first began on 21 August 1863 when he was caught by the bushrangers, Dan Morgan and Clarke. After searching his valise and finding only a cheque, they let him go and suggested that the meeting be forgotten; Baylis replied that he would do his duty. A few days later, accompanied by police, he found the bushrangers' camp; the party lay in wait outside the mia-mia, but soon moved inside to shelter from the rain. After dusk stealthy footsteps were heard so Baylis went out and exchanged shots with the bushrangers. He and Clarke were wounded while Morgan was apparently unhurt. Clarke is thought to have died from the wound, for a body like his was found next year. Baylis was dangerously ill for some time, and later suffered from the effects of the injury. He was greatly attached to the bullet which he wore in a gold locket on his watch chain. In 1875 the government gave him a gold medal for his 'gallant and faithful service'. The second episode was part of the struggle between the Pastoralists' and Shearers' Unions in the late 1880s and early 1890s. At shearing in 1888 a large contingent of unionists camped on Brookong station, about fifty miles (80 km) from Wagga Wagga, and tried to prevent the owner, William Halliday, from hiring non-union labour. After some clashes, Halliday called in Baylis, who read the Riot Act; the incident closed with the conviction and imprisonment of several shearers. Baylis retired as police magistrate in July 1896 on a pension. In 1901 he became a member of the Parramatta Pensions Board. While walking across the railway tracks at Homebush station he was struck by a train and died soon afterwards on 5 July 1905. He was predeceased by his wife Sybella, née Murray, whom he had married at Warrawong, Mount Lambie, on 29 January 1857; their daughter and eight sons survived him. |
| Source References: |
| 62. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Title: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, Publ: ANU, Locn: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm |
| - Reference = https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/baylis-henry-2955 (Name, Notes) |
| - Notes: Henry Baylis (1826–1905)
Henry Baylis (1826-1905), police magistrate, was born on 17 April 1826 at Edinburgh, the second son of Thomas Henry Baylis, lieutenant in the 17th Regiment, and his wife Julia Dorothea, née Bartels. On 27 June 1832 he arrived in the City of Edinburgh at Sydney where his father continued his military career. Henry was one of the earliest pupils at The King's School, Parramatta, and then trained for four years in the legal office of the Fitzhardinge family of Sydney. He worked briefly on a pastoral property near Bathurst, joined a party which overlanded horses to Adelaide in 1849 and after gold was discovered tried his luck in the Mudgee district. Baylis entered the public service as clerk of Petty Sessions at Hartley on 9 August 1852. On 1 January 1858 he became the first police magistrate at Wagga Wagga. This small village had developed by 1896 into a thriving municipality of some five thousand inhabitants, and its district, at first pastoral and sparsely populated, had become important for wheat-growing. Baylis played an important part in these developments. As magistrate he presided from 1862 in the courts at Wagga Wagga and each month and sometimes more often at Urana and Narrandera, usually travelling on horseback. Contemporary newspapers reveal the 'busyness' of the bench in those turbulent days. Of necessity Baylis was often assisted by another resident magistrate or justice of the peace, a practice which gave the police magistrate added responsibility, yet his leadership on the bench was sound. A contemporary recorded in 1888 that 'very few of his judgments have been altered on appeal, and many of those appealed against and carried to the Supreme Court have been sustained, and are published in Wilkinson's “Australian Magistrate” for the guidance of the magistrates of the Colony'. As a citizen Baylis contributed greatly to the development of Wagga Wagga as an urban centre. He was well placed, as the senior local officer, to approach the government; for example, on 2 December 1858 he wrote to the commissioners of the National Board of Education for help in establishing a National school, and was chosen by several citizens to call the public meeting of 31 March 1869 which petitioned the governor to declare Wagga Wagga a municipal borough under the 1867 Municipalities Act. He was also prominent in many civic enterprises. On 21 June 1859 he laid the foundation stone of St John's Church of England of which he was always a leading layman. He was a founder of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club in 1860 and secretary of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association, formed in 1865, until it was firmly established. His activity was vital in hospital affairs and he was a director of the Wagga Wagga Permanent Building and Investment Society, established in 1870, and shared in many other duties. In the early 1870s he was the main butt for criticism by a group led by William Willans, solicitor, and Samuel Hawkins, proprietor of the Wagga Express, partly because he was a director of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Co. whose bridge over the Murrumbidgee had been opened for traffic in 1862 and whose tolls were fiercely resented, and partly because of his commanding, direct personality. Nevertheless, he was highly respected throughout the district. Baylis had two colourful episodes in his professional life. The first began on 21 August 1863 when he was caught by the bushrangers, Dan Morgan and Clarke. After searching his valise and finding only a cheque, they let him go and suggested that the meeting be forgotten; Baylis replied that he would do his duty. A few days later, accompanied by police, he found the bushrangers' camp; the party lay in wait outside the mia-mia, but soon moved inside to shelter from the rain. After dusk stealthy footsteps were heard so Baylis went out and exchanged shots with the bushrangers. He and Clarke were wounded while Morgan was apparently unhurt. Clarke is thought to have died from the wound, for a body like his was found next year. Baylis was dangerously ill for some time, and later suffered from the effects of the injury. He was greatly attached to the bullet which he wore in a gold locket on his watch chain. In 1875 the government gave him a gold medal for his 'gallant and faithful service'. The second episode was part of the struggle between the Pastoralists' and Shearers' Unions in the late 1880s and early 1890s. At shearing in 1888 a large contingent of unionists camped on Brookong station, about fifty miles (80 km) from Wagga Wagga, and tried to prevent the owner, William Halliday, from hiring non-union labour. After some clashes, Halliday called in Baylis, who read the Riot Act; the incident closed with the conviction and imprisonment of several shearers. Baylis retired as police magistrate in July 1896 on a pension. In 1901 he became a member of the Parramatta Pensions Board. While walking across the railway tracks at Homebush station he was struck by a train and died soon afterwards on 5 July 1905. He was predeceased by his wife Sybella, née Murray, whom he had married at Warrawong, Mount Lambie, on 29 January 1857; their daughter and eight sons survived him. |
| 76. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find a Grave, Title: Find A Grave, Locn: https://www.findagrave.com/ |
| - Reference = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144574958/henry-baylis (Name, Notes) |
| - Notes: Immigrated aboard City of Edinburgh arriving June 27, 1832 into Sydney with his parents and siblings.
Married Sybella Murray on Jan 29, 1857 at "Warrawang", Mt. Lambie, New South Wales. Father of James John Baylis, Wilhelmina Helen "Minnie" (Baylis) Garland, Henry George M Baylis, Harold Murray Baylis, Robert Dawson Baylis, Francis Cox Baylis, Frederick Allen Baylis, Alfred Stephen Baylis, and Arthur Charles Leitch Baylis. THE FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Mr. Henry Baylis took place on Saturday at Rookwood. In accordance with a wish expressed by Mr. Baylis prior to his decease, the proceedings were made as unostentatious and private as possible. Nevertheless, there was a large gathering of relatives and friends at the Necropolis. The cortege proceeded from Abbatsford, the residence of Mrs. B. C. Garland, Junction-road, Summer Hill, to the Ashfield railway station, where a train for the Necropolis, was boarded. The burial took place in the Church of England section, the service being conducted by the Rev. Canon Vaughan, of St. Andrew's, Summer Hill, who was assisted by the Rev. C. T. West. All the sons of the deceased were present with the exception of Mr. F. C. Baylis, who was prevented by illness from attending. The immediate mourners were Messrs. J. J. Baylis, of Goonahra stud farm, Narandera; M. G. Baylis, of the Dubbo Survey Office; H. M. Baylis, solicitor, of Wagga Wagga ; R. D. Baylis, of the Public Works Department; F. A. Baylis, of the Audit Department; A. F. Baylis, of the Commercial Bank branch at Delegate: and A. C. L. Baylis, of the Registrar-General's Office (sons); H. B Garland, K. B. Garland, and Trevor Murray Baylis (Grandsons); F. Murray (brother-in-law): W. J. Murray and Hector Allen Mackenzie(nephews). Others present or represented were the Rev. W. Mackenzie, the Rev. A. H. Champion (head master of the King's School), Jas. Beveridge, of Tenandra Park, H. Lumsdaine, G. P. Wilson (president of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association); C. A. Manning (hon. sec.), D. Maughan (hon. treasurer), S. G Boydell and W. A. Rand, of the King's School Old Boys' Union, J. R. Moore (Parramatta Old Age Pensions Board); J. R. Garlan, E. A. Garland, A. T. Bolton, F. T Thompson, E. Spring, S. J. Clarence, W. Gibbes, H. E. Gibbies, Edwards, J. W. Lavender, D. Sinclair; T. Fitzpatrick, ex M.L.A.; H. M. Todhunter, A. G Saddington, L. M. Addison, R. H. Reilly, W. D. Loveridge, W. G. Acocks, A. L . Powys, J. S. Campbell, C. G. Johnson, A. B. James, N. Black, W. Paige, T. E. Watt, G. Kennedy, and G. E. Brodie. Wreaths were forwarded by the Murrumbidgee, P. and A. Association, the officers of the Audit Department, the King's School Boys' Union, officers and staff of the Old-Age Pensions Board, Parramatta, and many other friends. The coffin was of plain polished cedar, with a simple silver name plate. Wagga Wagga Express NSW Tuesday 11 July 1905 p.2 |
| 90. Type: Book, Abbr: History of Wagga, Title: A History of Wagga Wagga, Auth: Keith Swan, Date: 1970 |
| - Reference = p36, 59, 66, 70, 71, 111, 112 (Name, Notes) |
| - Notes: Henry Baylis, later to be Wagga Wagga’s first police magistrate, stayed at the [Wagga Wagga] Inn in 1849 when droving horses to Adelaide
page 66 Henry Baylis, the first police magistrate, was born in 1826 in Edinburgh, the son of an English army officer, and arrived in Sydney with his family in 1831. He was educated at the King's School, Parramatta; spent some time in the Fitzhardinge's Sydney legal office; had some pastoral experience and overlanded stock to Adelaide through Wagga Wagga in 1849; tried his luck on the goldfields; and entered government service as the Clerk of Petty Sessions at Hartley in 1852. He, too, was vitally linked with the town's development from his arrival in 1858 until his retirement to Sydney in the 1890s. p111 From its beginnings, Wagga Wagga was important as a regional administrative centre in the Colony, and during the 1860s and 1870s the services provided and the number of administrators grew. Henry Baylis the police magistrate found his work in the district increasing each year, and by 1863 a CPS, James Shelley, was again appointed. Baylis rode once per month to Urana and Narrandera to preside at the Courts of Petty Sessions, and in August 1863 he had a famous encounter with Dan Morgan the bushranger and his associate Clarke. The two caught Baylis as he was riding to Urana on 21 August 1863, but after searching his valise and finding nothing but a cheque they let him go and suggested he should forget the meeting. A few days later, accompanied by a party of police and volunteers, Baylis found the bushrangers' camp not far from the present site of Lockhart, and in the ensuing encounter Baylis and Clarke were wounded, the latter fatally, while Morgan was apparently unhurt. Baylis was dangerously ill for some time, and suffered from the effects of the wound periodically until his death in 1905. p112 Henry Baylis continued in these years as a very prominent citizen of Wagga Wagga, partly because he was the senior Government official, partly because he was an enterprising man. He was a leading layman of St John's Church of England, one of the founders of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club in 1860, first secretary of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association in 1865, a director of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company, a member of the Hospital Committee and one of the foundation directors of the Wagga Wagga Permanent Building and Investment Society in 1870. Both his great involvement in local affairs and his commanding, direct personality made him at times an object for criticism. p129-30 Moreover, the two newspapers did fan the flames by publishing details of personal conflict at great length; obviously, they were not greatly concerned about the laws of libel, and it was the custom, at least in Wagga Wagga, to report in that fashion. An incident at the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association's dinner to conclude the annual show of 1876 illustrates both the directness of speech and the extent of newspaper reporting. Henry Baylis, who had been much criticized at the 1874 dinner, was invited to speak at the 1876 function, and interpreted 'the unanimous call' as indicating that members did not believe he had been rude in 1874. After referring to the rough handling the press gave him on that occasion he said what has been the class of men... employed on the Country press? They were broken-down swells, reduced by drunkenness and want of energy and industry to gain their living on the press and were to be bought body and soul for a glass of grog.' At this stage G. A. Eldred, editor of the Wagga Wagga Express, left in protest, while Baylis concluded by pointing out how he had been a successful cattle exhibitor in spite of the smallness of his herd. This comment stimulated another guest at the dinner to remark that 'Mr Baylis, thanks to his friends, had the free use of every good bull imported into the district, and he could name about a dozen or so of them. His very exhibits today were the produce of his friends' bulls. |