Charles Allen Du Val

William Worley 1778-1849

William Worley was born in 1778 at Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, the son of William Worley and his wife nee Mary Weedon 1755-1830. He was baptised at Chalfont St Giles on 18 May 1778.

Aged 17 years he married Lydia Bradley 1776-1865 on 25 May 1795 at Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire. They were living at Casting Place, Salt Hill in Farnham Royal (1) when the Census was taken in 1841. She was born on 19 August 1776 at Chesham in Buckinghamshire, and died in 1849 aged 73 years. He died in 1844.

They had the following children:

Samuel Worley. He was born in Chalfont St Giles on 17 May 1796, and died on 10 May 1832 at Farnham Royal.

Lucy Worley. She was born on 19 June 1802, and baptised at Chalfont St Giles on 2 September 1802. She died in 1840-41 at Salt Hill in Farnham Royal.

Amelia Worley. She was born in 1804. She was married to William Boddy 1794-1869 on 22 September 1823 at West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. He was a farmer and they lived at Seer Green in Buckinghamshire. She died in 1869.

Sophia Worley. She was born in Chalfont St Giles on 1 November 1805. She was married on 4 June 1827 to James Avis at Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire, where they were living with their children when the Census was taken in 1841.

Eliza Worley. She was born on 21 February 1808 at Seer Green in Buckinghamshire.

Peter Worley. He was born in Chalfont St Giles in 1809. He married Ann Summers on 4 July 1831 at Hanwell in Middlesex, and they had two daughters. She died in 1844, and he married Helen Clarke in 1848 at Amersham in Buckinghamshire. In 1851 they were living at Hayes in Middlesex, but when the Census was taken in 1881 they were living at 18a Katherine Street in Croydon in Surrey. He died in 1883 at Croydon aged 74 years.

Emily Worley. She was born in 1813, and baptised at Chalfont St Giles on 18 April 1813.

Kezia Worley. She was born in Chalfont St Giles in 1815.

William Worley. He was born in Seer Green in 1817. He was twice married, and died on 30 December 1883 at Love Green Farm in Iver in Buckinghamshire.

George Worley. He was born at Olney in Buckinghamshire in 1818. He married Elizabeth Heasman 1815–1864, and died on 13 June 1881 at Clunes in Victoria, Australia.

John Worley. He was born in Seer Green in 1820.

Their father William Worley died in 1849.

(1) "The parish of Farnham Royal included in 1831 the hamlets of Hedgerley Dean, Seer Green and Salt Hill. In 1847, however, Seer Green became an ecclesiastical parish, and both it and Hedgerley Dean were civil parishes in 1901. Salt Hill in 1831 was partly in Upton and is now partly in this parish and partly in Stoke Poges." Victoria County History: A History of the County of Buckingham volume 3 edited by W. Page (1925) at page 225. Farnham Royal lay partly in Eton district and partly in Amersham district, both within Buckinghamshire. Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales J.M. Wilson (1870-1872).