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Dismissing all former accounts and guesses, the origin of the 
family may be given and all doubt settled. The carpenter then came 
from Badminton and he brought with him three children, Thomas, 
Isabella, and William. To clear the way somewhat, Isabella the 
daughter of William and Maria Lingley, as the name is spelled in 
the register, was baptized at Badminton 9th October, 1737. 
She married in the Abbey church, Bath, one Richard Philpot, 
17th October, 1764. 
William, the youngest of the three, son of William and Maria 
Linley, spelled now without the g, was baptized at Badminton 
2gth July, 1744. Nothing more can be told of him. As this 
youngest child was baptized at Badminton in 1744 it would have 
been soon after that date that Linley the father, the carpenter, 
moved to Bath, just when by reason of much building there 
must have been a great demand for mechanics of all sorts. 
He continued his business at Bath and was alive there in 
1770 with a somewhat improved status. In 1772, 26th 
November, an advertisement relating to St. Margaret’s chapel 
announced that a plan of the pews in the new chapel being 
- now settled and the prices thereof, those disposed to take 
seats should apply to Mr. William Linley, Clerk of the Works at 
the chapel, or at his house in the Market Place.“ He is found 
as a ratepayer for some years after this. In 1773 he purchased 
and was living in his own house in Belmont Row, rated at £70 
per annum,t and in 1779 and until 1792 he paid poor rate for the 
same house. He was buried at Walcot 26th October, 1792, 
and was soon followed by Mrs. Maria Linley, who was buried in 
_ the same grave 22nd December, 1792. 
There now remains the eldest of the three children, Thomas 
_ our musician, who was baptized at Badminton, the son of William 
and Maria Lingley, with the g, 2oth January, 1733. 
Thus he would be at the time his father probably came to Bath 
* Bath Chronicle, p. 1, col. 3. + Water Rents. 
