The Statistics of the diocese have been very imperfectly kept. There are more converts than is generally believed. He is opposed to publishing the popular guess-work statistics. On both sides, his family is descended from old colonial families. His father's came from Norfolkshire in England about 1690 and settled in west Chester County, New York. His mother's came from Holland in 1643 to New Amsterdam. His grandfather Dr. Richmond Bayley 's life is in Thatcher's Medical Biography with some inaccuracies. He was staff surgeon to the British Commander-in-chief during the American Revolution and was the particular friend of Sir Guy Carleton, afterwards Lord Dorchester, after whom the Archbishop's father, Guy Carleton Bayley, was named. In Dr. White's "Life of Mother Seton" can be found some of the particulars. His father was a physician and for some time had charge of the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum. Bayley studied for the Episcopal Church, to which both of his parents belonged, under Dr. Samuel Farmar Jarvis of that Church, who had a large and well chosen library which was the means of his conversion to the Catholic Church. Bayley has always been an advocate of Catholic schools. Dr. Jarvis' library included the best editions of the Fathers. In writing an essay on the Apostolic Canons which obliged Bayley to study the ancient councils, he became convinced that the Pope had more to do with the government of the Church than they were willing to allow. :: I-1-d A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.