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The Island House on Plymouth's Barbican is said to date from between 1572 and 1600 and is reputed to be one of the houses where a group of English Puritans since known as the Pilgrim Fathers were entertained ashore prior to their final departure for America on the 6th of September 1620 in the "Mayflower." It may not have been known as the Island House at that time but it is certainly so-named on the earliest surviving deeds of 1718. Robert Bayly of Poole in Dorset married Miss Hannah Brabant of Plymouth, whose family leased the Island House from Sir William Molesworth. They had a son, John, who in 1737 moved to Plymouth to join Captain Brabant in his merchants and ship-owning business. When the Captain died in 1752, he left the house and business to John.
The Island House on Plymouth's Barbican. The family gave up the House at some time, possibly when they moved further along the Barbican to the red-bricked, Queen Anne, property at No. 12 or it may have been as late as 1812 when the family started to move ever further from the centre of Town. The House did not return to the family until the late 1920s when Miss Mary Bayly bought it and gave it to her nephew, John. It has been in the family ever since. Island House was damaged in an air raid on the night of January 13th/14th 1941.
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