Colonel William Burrell Hayley

William married Clare Marie Louise Murphy in Mar 1920 in Kensington, Middlesex. Clare was born on 27 Apr 1894 in Montevideo, Uruguay; died on 17 Jun 1957 in Flat 6, 49 Drayton Gardens, London SW10. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lieut. Timothy Burrell Hayley was born in 1922 in London; died on 27 May 1944 in Italy; was buried in Cassino, Provincia di Frosinone, Lazio, Italy.
2. Mary Clare Annette Meredith Hayley was born on 2 Feb 1926; died on 22 Feb 1982 in Manor House, Barford St John, Oxfordshire.

Andrew married Maud Hobson. Maud died in 1913. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Actress

Notes:

‘Miss Maud Hobson, the premier Gaiety girl, has not yet decided whether she will accept the offer of M. Marchand, the proprietor of the Folies Bergere, Paris, to perform a real Honolulu dance, supported by native women. Miss Hobson was married to the late Captain Haley of the hussars, and went with him to Honolulu, where he became commander in chief and prime minister, and she acted in the capacity of lady in waiting to the queen. Consequently Miss Hobson has had every opportunity of studying the Hawaiian dances. She wishes to give one of them at the Princes of Wales’ theatre, but George Edwardes would not give her the necessary permission, saying that, although he was not prudish, he must draw the line at Hawaii.’
(The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, 11 August 1894, p.8c)


Pretty Miss Maud Hobson, the actress, has enjoyed an experience such as not given to all women to have. She had hardly been on the stage a year when Captain W.B.Hayley, of the 11th Hussars, asked her to be his wife. they were married and went together to the Sandwich Isles, and Captain Hayley became Vice-Chamberlain to King Lalakum, wile Miss Hobson was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen. She was there five or six years. Of course she wore the native dress, and adorned herself with flowers. She lived on native dishes, such as dog backed under the ground, raw fish etc., and rode on horseback astride. However she is not sorry to be coming back to her old love, the English stage,
Chilian Times

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1843 - 1880, Catsfield, Sussex; Rector

Burrel married Maria Georgiana Pilkington on 18 Jul 1848 in Trinity Ch, St Marylebone, London. Maria (daughter of Lieut. General Sir Andrew Pilkington and Maria Elizabeth Gibbs) was born on 23 Jun 1822 in Little Sambourne, Hampshire; died on 12 Aug 1922 in Catsfield, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She sold Catsfield Place, subject to her life interest. They had three sons, viz., Andrew Burrell Hayley b. 1854, John Newton Hayleyb. 1856, and William Hayley who d. unmarried; and six daughters. For some of their descendants see 'Follett of Culm Davy' and 'Neeve of Mill Park' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'.

Notes:

PILKINGTON, Sir ANDREW (1767?–1853), general, born about 1767, obtained his first commission in the army on 7 March 1783, and was promoted lieutenant 24 Jan. 1791, captain 2 March 1795, major 31 March 1804, lieutenant-colonel 5 Oct. 1809, colonel 12 Aug. 1819, major-general 22 July 1830, lieutenant-general 23 Nov. 1841.

Pilkington saw much and varied service. With the Channel fleet in 1793–4 he commanded a company of the Queen's Royals on board the Royal George on ‘the glorious first of June’ 1794, when Lord Howe defeated the French off Ushant. Pilkington received two splinter wounds. He was next employed in the West Indies, and was present at the capture of Trinidad, 1795–7. He served in Ireland in the suppression of the rebellion in 1798, and was with the expeditions to the Helder in 1799 and 1805. He was severely wounded in the defence of the Kent, East Indiaman, against a large French privateer in 1800, on his passage to India. He served on the staff at the Horse Guards in 1807–8, and in Nova Scotia from 1809 to 1815. During the latter period he commanded several successful expeditions. He reduced the islands in Passamaquody Bay, between New Brunswick and Maine, U.S. He was created K.C.B. on 19 July 1838. He died on 23 Feb. 1853 at his residence, Catsfield Place, Battle, Sussex, which he had purchased from James Eversfield, esq.

Sir Andrew married at Hayes, on 9 May 1808, Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Vicary Gibbs [q. v.], who survived him, with two daughters, Maria Georgina, married to Burrell Hayley, rector of Catsfield in Sussex, on 18 July 1848, and Louisa Elizabeth, married on 1 Sept. 1853 to Richard Thomas Lee.

Andrew married Maria Elizabeth Gibbs on 9 May 1808 in Hayes, Kent. Maria (daughter of Right Hon. Vicary Gibbs, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lady Frances Cerjat Kenneth Mackenzie) was born on 16 Nov 1785 in Red Lion Sq, Holborn, London; died on 25 Jul 1879 in Catsfield, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Catsfield, Sussex
• Residence: 1861, Catsfield, Sussex
• Residence: 1871, Catsfield, Sussex

Notes:

Lady Maria Elizabeth Pilkington on marriage.

On marriage she and her husband lived first in Bedford Place, but later in the same year she returned to her parents' house, till 1820 when they were reunited. Portraits: Pastel head by Mrs. Hoare of Bath and drawing by J. Gilbert (1862) in possession of her family (copy of former in possession of Lord Aldenham) in 1932.