The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards of Lackham
have been an illegitimate son; the Bristol Apprentice Book for 1623
records
16 th day of June Robert Baynard son of Robert Baynard
of Lackham in the Parish of Lacock in the County of Wilts,
knight, became apprentice to Gregory Parphy, Mercr
[Mercer or Merchant] and Mary his wife, for the term of
eight years. 4s 6d in silver given and liberty of the city of
Bristol granted, with two sets of apparel &c
There are no other records of this Robert, son of Robert. It is
interesting; this was in the same year that Ursula died. As she died
after this record it probably doesn’t suggest Robert was helping his
illegitimate son now that his wife was dead.
Another illegitimate child may be suggested; the Inquisition held
after Robert’s death 322 , gives details of an annuity Robert made in
1629. On the 16 th February of that year he gave an annuity of £10 -
issuing out of the pasture called Arnolds, then in the tenure of Sibyl
Whood, widow 323 - to one Anne Fisher daughter of Joan Fisher,
spinster of Lacock. This was a considerable amount of money,
unfortunately it is not recorded why the annuity was made. Kite, and
others who follow him, state that Anne was his housekeeper and it
may have been for good service. However the only Anne Fisher born
to a Joan Fisher anywhere near this time is recorded in the Lacock
Register of Births for 1628 as
17 Feb Anne baseborn d(aughter) Joane
322 Fry, GS & Fry, EA Wiltshire Inquisitions Post Mortem Temp Charles I
British Record Society vol XXIII pp330 - 331. The Inquisition was held in
Marlborough on 6 th October, 1636. It records that Robert“was seised of the
Manor of Lackham, in the Parish of Laycocke in the fields, parishes and hamlets
of Laycocke, Lackham, Notton, Bewley, Reybridge, Chipenham and Bowde” It
should be noted that the Inquisition was held some six months after Robert’s
death on 14 th April 1636
323 Fry, GS & Fry, EA ibid
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