Records of George Cayley on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of George 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 George 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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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Cayley Family Tree Databases

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Some Famous People called George Cayley

George Cayley (cricketer)

Sir George Allanson Cayley, 8th Baronet (31 December 1831 – 10 October 1895) was a first-class cricketer for Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club.

Cayley was born at Brompton, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where his family had lived and held a baronetcy since the 17th century. His grandfather, the 6th baronet – also named George Cayley (1773–1857) – was among other things an early pioneer of aeronautics. George Allanson Cayley was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1859 he married his first cousin, Catherine Louisa, daughter of Sir William Worsley, 1st Baronet, of Hovingham, 25 miles from Brompton. At some point he was an officer in the Yorkshire Hussars but only achieved the rank of Lieutenant. He stood for Parliament in the Ripon constituency in the 1868 general election but was defeated by the sitting MP, Lord John Hay. He was Registrar of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire 1872–95. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, the 7th baronet, in 1883. He died at Port Said, Egypt, in 1895.

Source: George Cayley (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cayley

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