Unfortunately, you are going to have difficulty proving a connection in the Plymouth and Stoke Damerel areas during the 18th century.  I would certainly be cautious about making a definite identification without further evidence.  The population of Stoke Damerel expanded rapidly during the 18th century because the naval dockyards were developed and there is no certainty that someone living in Stoke Damerel in the mid 18th century was actually born there (or even in Devon).   The construction of the dockyards and the associated living accommodation to house the workers, the increased trade opportunities resulting from a larger population and servicing the Navy and the actual work in the dockyards attracted people to the town from far and near.  There were also sailors and soldiers moving in and out of the area.    The surname Bailey appears in the parishes around Plymouth and over the Tamar in Cornwall.  A Gurtrude Bayley married William Braddon at Launcells in Cornwall 14 Jul 1720.    What occupations did the family have later?  If they were seafarers, my own experience with my own ancestors is that often the men married and settled in their wife's home town and it has been impossible to track their origins with any certainty before the census and Mariners Records gave the information.   There was a John Bayly who was a merchant in Plymouth in 1767 as this record on A2A shows.  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=021-rd&cid=5-2-4-9-9&kw=bayly damerel#5-2-4-9-9 If this is John Bailey, son of Gartrud, it was a considerable achievement to rise from illegitimacy to being a merchant.  The document mentions the Presbyterian Church so this gentleman's family might not appear in the Church of England parish records.   Sorry, this doesn't really help!  Good luck anyway   Joy ________________________________ From: Graeme M Bailey <graeme@baileynet.com.au> To: devon@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 30 November 2013, 8:00 Subject: Re: [DEV] Meaning of "[et populi]" in baptism record? "My other friends who are researching the Bailey family have settled on this chappie, I'm still trying to verify if he is the only option... later, after maybe 1815, the family seems to be settled right in the centre of Plymouth in 10 Morley Lane..." ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message