BYASS FAMILY HISTORY
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FATHER

Robert Nicholl Byass, son of  Robert Blake Byass
Born 28/12/1834 Mecklenburgh Square, Finchley, London
Wine merchant & etc.
J.P. Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Died 4/5/1928 at Berry Court, St.Peter's Road, Bournemouth
Biographical details

MARRIAGE (1)


30/6/1857 at St Mary and All Saints, Checkley, Staffordshire
Mary Hutchinson,
daughter of Rev.William Hutchinson and Sarah Mitchell
Born Chester 28/5/1835
Died at Daylesford 10/7/1879

CHILDREN

Rose Nicholl
Born 1859 in Reigate, Surrey
Married 1881 Robert William Kennard ('Kennard of the Haining')(he died 1929)
    and had children:
    Maurice Nicholl Kennard (1883, died 1916)
    Howard John Kennard (?, died after 1921)
    Gwendoline Mary Kennard (Mrs Ellerton)
    Dorothy Evelyn Kennard (Mrs Adams)

Robert William
Born 1/10/1860 at Wray Park, Reigate, Surrey
Baptised 10/11/1860 in Reigate
Wine Merchant
Died 22/8/1958 in London

Sidney Hutchinson
Born 24/7/1862 in Reigate
Baptised 10/10/1962 in Reigate (IGI records 28/8/1862)
Died 1929

Harry Nicholl
Born 2/12/1863
Army Officer
Died 1956

Reginald George
Born 1865 in Reigate
Died 1869

Leonard
Born 1869
Died 1956




MARRIAGE (2)

In 1884 in Warwickshire
Mary Agnes Dalgleish

Robert Nicholl Byass....




and his first wife,
Mary (Hutchinson)

Chronology
Date Event
28 Dec 1834Born at Mecklenburg Square, Finchley, London
1848-1851Educated at Radley College, Berkshire
One of the first boys at the school, and one of the first prefects
1853Oriel College, Oxford
30 Jun 1857Married to Mary Hutchinson
1872Quarry Hill, Reigate, Surrey
1860-c.1883Daylesford, Worcestershire (now Gloucestershire)
10 Jul 1879Wife Mary dies
c.1883Wyck Hill
1884Married Mary Agnes Dalgleish in Warwickshire
1888Rowsham, Oxford
4 Apr 1928Died in Bournemouth (Berrycourt, St Peter's Road)



Daylesford

Daylesford is an attractive country house standing in its own estate of some 1000 acres, three miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. It was built for Warren Hastings; was later held by the Grisewood family (amongst whom Freddie Grisewood was a well-known BBC commentator) and by Baron Thyssen, a German industrialist; and is currently owned by Sir Anthony Bamford. The estate is NOT open to visitors.



Daylesford


At the date of the 1881 Census, Robert Nicholl Byass and his daughter Rose (soon to be married to Robert Kennard, whose sister Ellen was a guest in the house) were living in some style at Daylesford. The Census records show that they were attended by:

1 housekeeper
2 butlers
3 footmen
1 nurse
1 lady's maid
2 housemaids
1 kitchen maid
1 scullery maid
1 dairy maid
1 stillroom maid
1 launderess
2 laundry maids
7 gardeners
1 stud groom/coachman
4 grooms
and on the estate
1 farm steward
15 agricultural labourers

We could find no mention of a cook - perhaps Robert and his daughter preferred to do their own cooking?

At the time, eldest son Robert William is thought to have been visiting a mahogany forest in Honduras owned by the family (and subsequently presented by him to the British Government), and sons Sidney and Harry were at Radley College in Berkshire. Leonard does not appear on the 1881 Census.



Wyck Hill




His first wife having died, Robert Nicholl wished to re-marry; but (family tradition has it) his eldest son Robert William objected to his father bringing a new wife into Daylesford which had been his mother's home. If this was really the reason for Robert Nicholl's move in about 1883 from Daylesford to the comparatively gloomy Wyck Hill, the other side of Stow-on-the-wold, it makes him seem rather meek.

Some parts of the house as it would have been in Robert Nicholl's time have, we believe, been pulled down. The rest is now a country hotel.



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