b'5Ex 1Scrimshaw and Maritime1 needed and Baylys 1st Garrison battalion was disbanded. For THE STORY OF BENJAMIN BAYLY (1797-1850),over four years, Bayly was on half pay. In April 1821, some First Lieutenant, 21st Regiment of Foot, Van Diemens Landseven years after he was stood down, Bayly joined the 21st and resident of Runnymede, north-east of Hobart. Royal North British Fusilier Regiment of Foot as a second A remarkable group of five original vellum documentslieutenant (recorded in the first document above). From 1819 recording Baylys service career: to 1827 the 21st Foot served in the West Indies and British Guiana, most notably quelling an insurrection in Demerara. 1:October 1821 appointment of Bayly to the rank of SecondIn December 1824 Benjamin was promoted by purchase Lieutenant in the 21st Regiment of Foot for Royal Northto First lieutenant. (Document 2). On 2 December 1826 in British Fuzileers; Kingstown, the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, he 2:December 1824 appointment of Bayly to the rank of Firstmarried Mary Ann Cameron Wylly (18111892), daughter of Lieutenant in the Company; with the original signature ofWilliam Wylly, the Chief Justice of St Vincent. In October 1828 KING GEORGE IV; the 21st Foot, now returned to England from the West Indies, 3:December 1830 re-appointment of Bayly to the rank ofmoved from Bath to Fermoy, Ireland. In June 1829 it was First Lieutenant in the Company he had rejoined; with thestationed at Mullingar and in 1830 in Kilkenny. In September original signature of KING WILLIAM IV; 1831 the regiment moved from Dublin to Warrington, 4:April 1834 fully hand-written document appointing BaylyLancashire. Following this, the regiment was posted to Van (of Richmond, Van Diemens Land) as a Justice of theDiemens Land (Tasmania), arriving in stages from 1832 to Peace; with the original signature of GEORGE ARTHUR,1833, to be put in charge of convicts. During the years from Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemens Land; 1834 to 1838, the Fusiliers were employed throughout the 5:April 1839 appointment of Bayly to the rank of Captain ofisland of Tasmania, and at Perth, Port Phillip, Swan River, and the 21st Regiment of Foot; with the original signature ofWestern Australia, on detachment duty in charge of various QUEEN VICTORIA. convict stations, and parties on public works ; only two Benjamin Bayly was born on 5 November 1797 in Nenagh,companies, with band and staff, remaining at headquarters. In Tipperary, the son of the Reverend Henry ONeale Bayley1838 Lieutenant Bayly, 21st Fusiliers, was appointed Assistant (17571826) and Anna Penelope (Grueber) Bayly (1764 Police Magistrate at Waterloo Point. From 1839 the 21st was 1837). He had joined the 1st Garrison Battalion as an ensigntransferred to Calcutta, sailing from Hobart Town in February on 25 June 1816. Garrison Battalions were reserve troops1839. Rather than leave Tasmania, Bayly, now with the rank of concerned with maintaining defence and good order inCaptain (Document 5) sold his commission and retired.troublesome territory. Baylys Garrison Battalion, formed in 1805, was stationed in Ireland from 1807. With NapoleonsPROVENANCEsurrender in April 1814, Garrison battalions were no longerBayly family by descent.$3,0005,000'