Person:Mary Berkley (4)

Blairsville, PA. I think that daddy said that the Bayers would drive cattle from Blairsville to Pittsburgh to butcher and that their old house is now an INN or public house.

In the family bible (dated 1956) Georgia M. Bayer's handwriting spelled her name Birkley, other spellings include Burkley, Berkeley, Burclay. We will use Berkley for this family

In a family bio by Amy Louise Bayer she states:

"Someime around 1880, he (Charles F. Bayer) married a girl much younger than he, Mary Burkley. She was the daughter of George and Isabelle Burkley, a well-to-do family from Blairsville, PA. (As my grandfather says, "They owned most of Blairsville!" Mary was born sometime around 1862. (It's really hard to tell ages in the Bayer family. My grandfather's aunts were so concerned about not telling their ages that it is not impossible that when great-great grandmother Bayer died in 1947, she was really a little older than 85.) The reason for assuming the wedding was around 1880 was that Bernard J. Bayer, the fourth child, was born on Nov. 19, 1886. My grandfather thinks that there was at least two years between each of the first four children. We know that Mary L. Bayer was an active woman once she arrived in Pittsburgh. In addition to her seven children, she was long active in the Pittsburgh Republican Party and with the St. Canice Church. The church was located within an easy ten minute walk of the house. My father remembers her as a very old woman, extremely formal and always erect, whose constant companion was a parrot who couldn't be trusted. Since by grandfather was the only grandchild living close by, the contacts between my father and his great grandmother were frequent. Charles F. and Mary L. soon began their family. The first born was George (my great grandfather), followed by Lillian M., Albert, Bernard J., Bernadette, Isabelle, and Charles. When Charles F. died in 1904, he had a least seen one of this grandchildren, Elizabeth, the oldest of the eight children of his son, George.

Old notes: The Berkley farm house was changed into a retaurant, was a big stone house on Route 22 coming out of town on the right going toward Pittsburgh, this confirms with the 1867 map of the farm.

Dad siad the Bayers/Berkley's had farm in Blairsville where they raised beef and would drive them to Pittsburgh to thier slaughter house and sell them in their butcher shop.

In George Bayer SR, 2nd marriage certificate he spelled his mother's name Burkley

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623,)
   Year: 1900; Census Place: Pittsburgh Ward 27, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll:  ; Page: ; Enumeration District: .

   Birth date: Sep 1860Birth place: PennsylvaniaMarriage date: 1878Marriage place: Residence date: 1900Residence place: Pittsburgh City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania _APID: 7602::51412876

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1900usfedcen&h=51412876&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limite)
   Year: 1880; Census Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T9_1094; Family History Film: 1255094; Page: 136.2000; Enumeration District: 157; Image: 0606.

   Birth date: abt 1857Birth place: PennsylvaniaResidence date: 1880Residence place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States _APID: 6742::28650461

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=28650461&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the Unit)
   Year: 1910; Census Place: Pittsburgh Ward 17, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1305; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 506; Image: 306.

   Birth date: abt 1864Birth place: PennsylvaniaResidence date: 1910Residence place: Pittsburgh Ward 17, Allegheny, Pennsylvania _APID: 7884::23815375

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1910uscenindex&h=23815375&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt