Bayly was born in Market Lavington in 1816, the daughter of Mary (née Box) and Amram Saunders.
[4] She married in Bath at the Argyle Congregational Chapel to George Bayly who was a master mariner.
[1] Bayly wanted women to concentrate on making their husband's homes comfortable and to avoid going out to work.
She proposed that men should do the washing in machines so that women could stay at the fireside and avoid going to work in laundries where they too might take to drink.
[1] In 1861 Samuel Gurney and Archibald Campbell Tait (the Bishop of London) attended the opening of her Workmen's Temperance Hall where working men could meet and drink coffee and have a bath.