When the Captain and his brothers were boys, they found in the rectory a large book, such as was used for parish registers.

It was apparently unused.

They asked their father if they might have the blank pages for drawing paper, and he gave them permission.

But they found upon a single page, a few marriage entries, and one of these was the marriage of Matthew Flinders to Ann Chappell.

Captain Bayldon, a student of navigation then as he has been ever since, knew Flinders' name at once, and took the book to his father.
The marriage was celebrated at Partney, where the Tylers lived.) In a letter* written on the day of the marriage to Elizabeth Flinders the bride's fluttered and mixed emotions were apparent.