Records of Digby Cayley on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Digby Cayley in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Digby Cayley and the Cayley Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cayley Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cayley family tree.

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Miscellaneous Cayley Databases

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Some Famous People called Digby Cayley

Digby William David Cayley

Sir Digby William David Cayley, 11th Baronet Cayley, of Brompton, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, was born on 3 June 1944.

He succeeded to the title of 11th Baronet Cayley on 27 December 1967. He is the son of Lt.-Cdr. William Arthur Seton Cayley and Natalie Maud Grey.

Educated at Malvern College, Worcestershire, and Downing College, Cambridge University, where he read Classics and graduated with a BA and master's degrees. He also gained a PGCE from Cambridge in 1968.

He was assistant master at Portsmouth Grammar School in Hampshire from 1968 to 1973 and at Stonyhurst College in Blackburn, Lancashire from 1973 to 1981.

Between 1981 and 1989, he worked as an antique dealer in Cambridge, before becoming assistant master at Marlborough College, Wiltshire in 1989. After taking a post at Abingdon School, Berkshire in 1990, he returned to Marlborough College in 1994, as assistant master in classics, and stayed until 1997.

Cayley is a descendant of Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet, a pioneer of aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering.

Source: Digby William David Cayley, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cayley

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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