Arthur entered Gray's Inn, London on 12 June 1674.[1][5] He was an alderman of Scarborough, Yorkshire in 1684.[6]
On 28 May 1699 Arthur married Everilda Thornhill.[1] The licence for their marriage gives the marriage place as Overton, Yorkshire and her age as 19.[7] Clay's edition of Dugdale's Yorkshire Visitation states that they married at Overton.[2] They had four children:
William,[2] baptised at St Michael le Belfrey, York on 12 May 1700.[8][9]
Mary,[2] baptised at Brompton by Sawdon, Yorkshire on 18 March 1704.[10]
George,[1][2] baptised at Brompton by Sawdon, Yorkshire on 4 September 1707.[11]
Arthur,[2] baptised at Brompton by Sawdon, Yorkshire on 29 May 1710.[12]
In 1708 Arthur inherited the Cayley baronetcy on the death of his father.[1]
Arthur died on 19 May 1727.[1][2] He was buried at Brompton by Sawdon, Yorkshire on 21 May 1727.[13]
↑ "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BN-YWD2 : 23 February 2022), Arthur Cayley, 1653 - gives the year as 1653: the image of the parish register on FindMyPast shows it was 1653/4
↑ Yorkshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked image of parish register
↑ Joseph Foster. The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889, Hansatd Publish Union, 1889, p. 319, Internet Archive
↑ James Digby Legard. The Legards of Anlaby and Ganton, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1926, p. 38
↑Paver's Marriage Licences, Vol. III, p. 103, FindMyPast
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