• Name: Hayley, Mary (neé Welford)
• Gender: Female
• Birth Date: 1781
• Death Date: 11848

In March 1809, the poet William Hayley married his second wife, Mary Welford (1781–1848), daughter of a retired merchant of Blackheath. He was nearly sixty-four, she was twenty-eight years old. By 1812 they had separated. Godwin visits them (technically, he visits the poet, an increasing recluse, on a trip in August 1811. He did not take to Hayley, but is fulsome in his praise for Hayley's wife in a letter to Mary Jane. He describes her as a pleasant, unaffected animated girl

• MS. Abinger c. 42, fols. 65-6: 31 Aug. 1811

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