From Little Dean to Enoggera

Compiled by Joy Whaite

Walter and Lily Bailey - taken at Enoggera about 1923

Dedicated to all of Walter Bailey's descendents in the hope that this book may be of some use, when they too start on the trail to trace their family history.

Further copies of this book are available from Mrs. J.L. Whaite Bajoloma 293 Cowal Creek Rd, Bellangry 2446 NSW Australia for $A 25 posted, $A 30 Overseas

Copyright (C) Joy Whaite NSW 1994

ISBN 0.646.21385.7

Photocopied by Copy Quik Canberra ACT

Published by Joy Whaite Bellangry 2446 NSW Australia

Soon after I started collecting material about Walter and his family, I obtained a copy of The Family Saga by Marie Lawry. It was published on the occasion of a Bailey family reunion held at Templeton, South Island of New Zealand on 3-4 December 1988 to celebrate 125th anniversary of the arrival of Walter's uncle Samuel and family at Christchurch in the Brothers' Pride in December 1863.

This book is, in a sense, complementary to that one and includes a lot of information from it - because of migration between Australia and New Zealand, some people are mentioned in both books.

In also calling my book a Saga i.e. tales of legendary exploits, I have deliberately followed the lead of the earlier one in order to add some colour to a mere recital of births, marriages and deaths but the interpretations of some of the records are entirely my own.

The book is a compilation of all the material given to me about the Baileys and I do not claim the version here given is the final or correct one and any corrections or additions for a future up-date would be most welcome.

It would not have been possible to publish this book without a great deal of help from all of the people below to whom I give my thanks for their patience and co-operation, as well as my apologies for anyone inadvertently omitted.

In Queensland: Cliff Bailey, Edward and the late Beryl Bailey, the late Georgena Bailey, Gladys Bailey, Levene Bailey, Lou Bailey, Maurice Bailey, Fanny Bell-Booth, Alfred Gordon and Ann Phillips.

In ACT: Peter Bailey, Pam Biddle and Mary Gillard.

In NSW: Joyce Dando.

In New Zealand: Fanny Fritz, Alison and Ross Martin, Betty McCormack, Phyllis McNair, Ruth Tipping, Heather Watson and Gladys Woodside.

In England: Pam Daw, Debbie Hopton, Ann Lloyd Anne Martin and Robin Roberts.

Mrs J.V.Thorpe Archivist at Gloucestershire Record Office in England has been most helpful in searching original Parish Records for family members in that County, whilst the Secretary of Gloucester Family History Society has located a number of elusive records in their indexes.

Special thanks must be given to Alison Martin for her extensive researches into English records at Takapuna Family History Centre near Auckland NZ and to Jean McNally from Traralgon Vic for making available many of her records of our English relatives, gathered over the past 10 years.

As well, research at John Oxley Library in Brisbane Qld, J.S.Battye Library in Perth WA, National Library of Australia in Canberra ACT and Wauchope Library in NSW helped fill many gaps about Walter's family and their times.

My daughter, Lorraine Gratton provided the cover and title page.

Last but not least, my daughter Cathy Miller provided computer and printing facilities for the many drafts of chapters in the book and Richard Upton put the whole book into order.

2.l ? William BAILEY bp ? c 1511 ?? Elmore

Chapter 2 married Johan Evans

? son

2.2 John BAILEY bp 1554 Wheatenhurst

Chapter 2 married Ann (??)

? Eldest son

2.5 Anselm BAILEY bp 1573 Wheatenhurst d pre 1646

Chapter 2 married Joyce(??)

Eldest son

2.6 John BAILEY bp 1602 Wheatenhurst d 1689

Chapter 2 married ??

? son

2.16 Anselm BAILEY bp ? 1623 Elmore d 1689 bu Wheatenhurst

Chapter 2 married Sarah ??

Third son

2.23 John BAILEY bp 1678 Whitminster d 1741 Standish

Chapter 2 married Edith Whitthorn

Eldest son

2.38 Anselm BAILEY b 1705 Standish d 1769 Longney

Chapter 2 married Sarah Jones

Second son

2.59 Anselm BAILEY b 1759 Longney d 1790 Longney

Chapter 2 married Mary Fowle

Elder son

3/2.105 William Fowle BAILEY b 1788 Blaisdon d 1862 Little Dean

Chapter 3 married Elizabeth Hill

Fourth son

4/3.5 Henry BAILEY b 1827 Little Dean d 1869 Newnham

Chapter 4 married Elizabeth Ann James

Second son

4.2 Walter BAILEY b 1853 Little Dean d 1936 Brisbane Qld

Chapter 5,6,17 married 1. Mary Ann James

Chapter 6,8,17 married 2. Lily Lewis

PAGE No.CHAPTER ONENAMES AND RECORDS 1CHAPTER TWOWALTER'S ENGLISH CONNECTIONS 4CHAPTER THREEWALTER'S GRANDFATHER: WILLIAM FOWLE BAILEY 25CHAPTER FOURWALTER'S FATHER: HENRY BAILEY34CHAPTER FIVEWALTER IN ENGLAND AND SOUTH AMERICA41CHAPTER SIXWALTER IN SOUTH AFRICA43CHAPTER SEVENWALTER'S WORKSHOPS AND PATENTS45CHAPTER EIGHTFAMILY LIFE AROUND BRISBANE48CHAPTER NINEWALTER HENRY51CHAPTER TENALBERT WILLIAM55CHAPTER ELEVENJOHN ERNEST59CHAPTER TWELVEMARY ELLEN64CHAPTER THIRTEENALFRED CHARLES68CHAPTER FOURTEENWALTER'S DANIEL171CHAPTER FIFTEENFANNY ROSE75CHAPTER SIXTEENEDWARD ANSELM77CHAPTER SEVENTEENCHILDREN WITHOUT ISSUE81MARRIAGE INDEXES85SPOUSES FAMILIES INDEX101SELECTED PUBLISHED SOURCES103APPENDIX I -.WILLS104

ACT Australian Capital Territory

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bu buried - English records prior to 1 July 1837 show this date not date of death

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crem cremated

Dbys Derbyshire England

d died

div divorced

Eng England

Glam Glamorganshire Wales

Gls Gloucestershire England

Hrt Hertfordshire England

IGI International Genealogical Index - a world index up to about 1875 of births and marriages compiled by the Mormons

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MA Marriage Allegation

Mass State of Massachusetts USA

MGF Maternal Grandfather in Spouses Families only

MGM Maternal Grandmother in Spouses Families only

Msx County of Middlesex England

NSW State of New South Wales Australia

NZ New Zealand

NT Northern Territory Australia

Occ Occupation

PR Parish Records

PGF Paternal Grandfather in Spouses Families only

PGM Paternal Grandmother in Spouses Families only

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PMB Pietermaritzburg Natal South Africa

Qld State of Queensland Australia

SA State of South Australia

Scot Scotland

Som County of Somerset England

Staffs Staffordshire England

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Vic State of Victoria Australia

WA State of Western Australia

Worcs Worcestershire England

Wyo State of Wyoming USA

X his/her mark and used in place of a signature by people who could not sign their names

(??) Record not found

? Record not proven

Further abbreviations are shown under individual genealogies.

All county areas in England and Wales are those applying before 1974.

The genealogy of each family is shown at the end of the relevant chapter. It commences with full details about the parents and their children are recorded in order of birth as First Generation. The Second Generation contains all of the grandchildren, following the order of the preceding generation, whilst Third Generation shows the great grandchildren and so on.

Descendents are numbered in sequence from the beginning of each new chapter and this number remains the same throughout. The initial number/s do not refer to generations, but to the chapter/s in which an entry is recorded and square brackets refer back to an earlier entry.

Female surnames are in lower case enclosed in brackets and males are in capitals and identify the surname of the children that follow.

Surnames are only mentioned in the heading 'Family of' and the first name is always that of a Bailey family member.

While collecting various records of family members, a lot of detail was found about their spouses families and this is recorded as Spouses Families for which an index is provided.

The genealogies are compilations of various records so far found of each family and additions and corrections would be welcomed. An information sheet for this purpose is provided at the end of the book.

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To people of European culture, their family surname handed down by a father to his children is the most important part of their personal identity, but families have not always had surnames.

In the times of Roman Empire a trinomial system was in use whereby a child had a given name, a clan name and a family name (surname), but this system fell into disuse after the break up of the Empire around 6th century.

Noble families in northern Italy first started to use surnames in late 10th century, though in the next two centuries the practice had not been widely adopted.

It was the returning Crusaders who brought the Italian custom back to western Europe, and here too, at first it was only the wealthy nobles who used a hereditary family name and its use only gradually spread to the rest of the population.

After the Norman Conquest of England, noble families and the well-to-do in that country began using family names. At first the system was only used in London and other developed parts but it slowly worked outwards, though the use of family names was by no means the norm, even by 1500. Even as late as 18th century, the use of family names had still not spread to all the outlying parts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

It may come as a surprise to some that our family surname in all its variations is really quite a common one, making it difficult to be sure just where our origins lie, especially as our antecedents have only been traced back to the comparatively recent year of 1546. There are several variations in its spelling in 17th and 18th century records from BAYLY to BAYLIS and it seems that the present version became final about 1840, after William Fowle Bailey's marriage to Charlotte Underwood, where he spelt and signed his name BAILEY, as it has been ever since.

Throughout this book, all surnames have been transcribed as BAILEY, regardless of their original spelling, except for those in wills in Appendix I.

All the variations of the surname BAILEY are, according to some dictionaries of surnames, derived from 3 basic sources.

The first and most common form is from the occupational name for a steward or official (or occasionally perhaps an ironic nickname for an officious person) from Middle English bail(l)i originally derived via Old French and Late Latin from baillus a carrier or porter, but later used for a manager or administrator. In the form bailiff it was used in 1297 for chief officer of a Hundred (part of a County); an officer of justice under a sheriff; a warrant officer; a catchpoll (one who arrests debtors); one who serves writs and summons and ensures court orders are carried out or even a pursuivant (an attendant, especially for a herald). In Scotland the name still survives as a bail(l)ie and is used for chief magistrate of a barony, or part of a County or a sheriff

Early examples are: Roger le BAYLLY 1230 Sussex, Richard le BAILLIF 1242 Herefordshire, John BALY 1274 Yorkshire, Gilbert le BALIF 1280 Somerset, John at BAYLIE 1317 Kent, Thomas le BALY 1327 Sussex, Thomas BAILIEL 1327 Suffolk and William de BAILLI 1311 from Scotland. Some present day names are BAILLIE (chiefly Scots) BAILIE (chiefly North Irish) BAILY BAYL(E)Y BAYLAY BAIL(L)I(F)F BAYLIFF(E) BAYLIS(S) BAYLESS. In France, the forms used are BAILLY BAILLI(F) LEBAILLY and LEBAILLIF, in Switzerland BALLY in Italy BAGLI(V)O and BAILO in Spain BAILE and in Catalan BATTLE'.

The second form is a topographical name for someone who lived in a district by the outermost wall of a castle from Middle English bail(l)y, baile - apparently from Old French bail(l)e enclosure, a derivative of bailer to enclose of unknown origin. This name, originally denoting the wall of the outer court of a feudal castle, about 1200 became used for the courts themselves e.g. Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city. Some early examples are Richard del BAILLE c 1190 London, Eudo del BAYLE 1301 Yorkshire, John BAYL 1382 Sussex, Dyonsia en la BAILLYE 1319 London, who owned shops and houses in the Old Bailey, Thomas BALE 1524 Suffolk, William a BAYLES 1537 Huntingdon Shire, Zararias BAILES 1629 Yorkshire. The modern equivalents are BAIL(E)(S) BALE(S) BAYL(E)(S) and the French forms BAIL(L)(E) LEBAIL BAYLE and BEYLE.

The third form is a habitation name from Bailey in Lancashire from Old English beg (berry) plus leah (wood or clearing). Names derived from this source occur in the surrounding area from 13th century onwards e.g. Ralph de BAYLEGH 1246 Bailey, Lancashire.

The question of whether or not our branch of the Bailey family is entitled to bear arms must be left until our origins are traced much further back than they have been at present. Various genealogical firms produce a sort of "generic" coat of arms for many surnames, combining elements from legitimate coats of arms that bear that name, but they are at best regarded as decorative features that may possibly contain some elements of truth about the family to which the buyers belong.

The Christian name of Anselm, which occurs so frequently in our English ancestors from 16th century onwards is derived from ansa (god) and helma (helmet) and, befitting its origin, it was a prominent Anselm, who in 1093 was consecrated the second Archbishop of Canterbury. This Anselm was a learned theologian, who was abbot of the monastery of Bec in Normandy, and through the benefactions of William the Conqueror, his monastery received lands in England. Anselm (later St. Anselm) made 3 visits to oversee the English properties and he died in France in 1109. Anselm was canonised and a shrine to his memory was erected in Canterbury Cathedral, and his feast day is April 21. It was therefore natural that English families would wish to honour him by bestowing his name upon their children.

In chapters 2 and 3, all variations in 16th to 18th century records such as Auncell, Annsell, Ancelne Auselme etc have been shown as Anselm.

In the late 16th to 18th centuries our branch of the widespread Bailey family lived in the county of Gloucestershire, mostly on the eastern side of Britain's longest river, the Severn. The earliest records are from Wheatenhurst (nowadays called Whitminster) and Elmore and spread to nearby parishes such as Standish, Haresfield, Longney, Moreton Valence and some others. Quite a few ancestors went to the nearest large town Gloucester to be married, and there they mostly chose the church of St. Mary de Lode.

These are all rural parishes, and in keeping with their location, Bailey men up to end of 19th century were mostly yeomen, blacksmiths, millwrights, and wheelwrights with an occasional carpenter.

Since time immemorial, families have kept records about events such as births, marriages and deaths in their own and related family groups. In those times when few people could read and write, the well-to-do paid scribes to keep these records, while the rest of the people passed down these details orally. Most of the land in England after William's conquest in 1066 was owned by the Church or some noble lord and clerks were employed by the lord of the manor to keep records about those under his jurisdiction.

As part of Henry VIII's policy to make Church of England the Established Church, he had commissioned the printing, in Paris, of the most sumptuous edition until then of the English Bible. In September 1538, Henry directed that every parish must purchase one of these volumes, to be set up in the church, so that parishioners could have read to them or could read for themselves, this new Bible.

Some were probably also bought for display and a family record kept in them, either by the owners themselves, or failing that, some scribe who could read and write.

In 1611, James I ordered the Kings Printers to publish the Authorised Version of the Bible and as it could be bought for as little as five shillings, many more family record books came into use, and these treasured possessions were passed down from one generation to the next.

In the same year that the Paris Bibles were printed, Henry's Chief Minister, Thomas Cromwell issued instructions that each church parish must keep a register of all baptisms, weddings and burials. Cromwell probably got this idea from the parish of Castille in Spain, which was the first to start recording baptisms in 1497. Though church parishes had been set up in England as early as 9th century, there had never been any organised system of record keeping.

Each parish was to provide a coffer (chest for storing valuables) fitted with 2 locks and every Sunday, in the presence of the churchwardens, the vicar was to write in a book the records of all the baptisms, marriages and burials of the preceding week. Each year, a copy of these Parish Records, known as Bishop's Transcripts, was to be made and then sent to the bishop of the diocese to which that parish belonged.

Many parishes, especially those in the country ignored Cromwell's instructions, even though in 1597 special parchment volumes were provided, so all previous entries could be copied and all new entries made, into these long lasting books.

It was not until 1733 that the various registers had to be written in English. Before that, the well educated clergy wrote their entries in classical Latin, while others made do with a simpler form of that language. Sometimes they even made up Latin words, or else wrote their entries in the English of the period.

By early 17th century most parishes had started keeping records, and in the early years, baptisms, marriages and deaths were mostly kept in the one register. Details were few, often only a name and date - only baptisms sometimes showed parents' names and then usually that of the child's father. Marriages in the Registers gave only the names of brides and grooms and whether or not they came from another parish, while burial records were very sparse, usually lacking any details of age, place or date of death. As no certificates were issued, it is often quite difficult to prove a line of descent, especially as families tended to use the same limited number of Christian names over several generations.

Most people were married after Banns were read over three Sundays from the pulpit of their parish church, and it was not until Banns Books were started about 1800, that any details such as age and occupation were available. In lieu of calling Banns, the well-to-do and those in a hurry, could obtain a Marriage Licence from the bishop of their parish. However this was very costly, as a bondsman must be found to give surety for the payment of the Bond (sometimes as much as five hundred pounds) which was to be forfeited to the bishop, should the marriage not take place. Part of the licence was an "Allegation" detailing ages and status of the bride and groom and the parish they came from. The ages given were not always accurate, sometimes being adjusted to suit circumstances or because in those days, many people were not sure of their birth date. The church where the marriage was to take place "between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon" was sometimes specified, though sometimes the space was left blank and people took their certificate to another parish church and got married there.

The records that survive are not always complete because many were destroyed or not even kept during the Civil War from 1642 - 1660 and in some parishes, for many years after. In 1694 a Parish Register Tax was imposed and as it cost two shillings for each birth, four shillings for each burial and two shillings and sixpence for each marriage, many of these events were simply not registered. Between 1783 and 1793, threepence stamp duty was levied on each entry in the register, so more events went unreported.

Throughout chapter 2, no attempt has been to alter dates in records prior to 1752 when the Julian calendar was used, to the present Gregorian one. In the former, the year started on March 25, which was called Lady Day and though the months had the same names and were in the same order, the notation was different so that 10br for example stood for December, not October.

Though many other countries, including Scotland, had long since been using the Gregorian calendar, England did not do so officially until 1752. To bring the old calendar into line with the new one, eleven days were dropped completely between 3 and 14 September. Some people had begun to use the new calendar many years earlier, and English records at times give both years e.g. 1711/12, where the first year refers to the Julian calendar.

For at least two and in some cases, nearly three centuries, Parish Registers, Bishop's Transcripts and Marriage Licences were usually the main genealogical records available, but they relate only to each parish and county. As time went on, the Registers contained a lot more detail, but it was not until 1837 that a certificate was made out for each event.

On 1 July 1837 in England and Wales and on 1 January 1855 in Scotland a certificate of birth, marriage or death could be issued locally, with a copy being sent to a central registry in London or Edinburgh. For the first time, it became possible to trace genealogical records for the whole of the country at the one place.

Wills in England could be made by anyone, male or female, who had assets to the value of five pounds or more. If they are available, they can help to confirm family relationships, especially when they contain details of land and household goods passed down over several generations. The few that still exist are detailed in Appendix I.

In England in 16th to mid 18th centuries, our branch of the Bailey family mostly lived in the area around Wheatenhurst, a village some eight miles SSW of the city of Gloucester and on the eastern side of the river Severn, in the county of Gloucestershire. The village was part of the manorial estate of Wheatenhurst (nowadays called Whitminster).

Just when the Baileys first lived there has not been established, though they are not mentioned on the Subsidy Roll of 1327 in the reign of Edward II. During the time of Richard II there is a report in 1479 of a John Bailey as a tenant at Wheatenhurst and in 1483, Richard III undertook to grant that estate together with other properties to Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham, but the grant lapsed on Stafford's execution in November of that year. Later on it became part of the estates of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The earliest will from our family in Wheatenhurst is that of Anselm made in 1645 and he was baptised there in 1573, his father being named as John.

The only John who could have been Anselm's father was the one baptised in October 1554, but there is no record of his parents.

Two men named Thomas Bailey were married at Wheatenhurst around 1550, but as that name does not appear in our next generations, these men have not been further researched, though they may be related.

The most likely parents of John baptised in 1554 were William Bailey and Johan Evans, who were married in 1548 and William may have been the one reported as a churchwarden at Wheatenhurst in 1545 in the reign of Edward VI.

This William may also have been the one from Wheatenhurst who bought Badnams mill at Elkstone, north east of Painswick in 1549. When it was sold by a John Bailey in 1570 there were actually two mills, one being for crushing corn and the other a fulling mill used for compacting or felting cloth to make it thicker.

Records in a collection of documents known as Hockaday Abstracts name a William Bailey who in 1551 took out a case of defamation against Richard Shepherd. William alleged that the latter had "on the way to Church on the Sonnedaye before Michaelmas (September 25) last past" declared in front of witnesses that William and Margaret Blake (wife of John Blake) "doo lyve naughtilie togeyther.....in the grove."

In the defamation papers, William stated he had been born in 1511, though he had not come to live in Wheatenhurst until 153l. Maybe he was born in Elmore and a relation of William who died there in 1579 who had a son named Anselm. Perhaps this was the reason that William's grandson born in Wheatenhurst was given the name of Anselm, the first of that name to be recorded in that village.

There is a record of a William Bailey being buried in March 1557, and he may have been John's father, and if so his spouse Johan and daughter Margaret had died only six months earlier, but unfortunately William left no will.

On the other hand, this burial may refer to another William Bailey, mentioned in Hockaday Abstracts, with a wife Elizabeth and natural son John. His estate had been proved and a proclamation issued on 15 April 1558 for his goods to be sold to pay his creditors.

The years after l554, when John was baptised were turbulent ones in England. Edward VI had died early in 1553 and was succeeded for a few months by Lady Jane Grey. The next ruler in that year was Edward's half sister Mary I who made her own religion, Catholicism, that of the State. Mary died in 1558 and having no heir, Mary's half sister Elizbeth I came to the throne and England once again became a Protestant nation, as it had been under her father, Henry VIII.

From burial records it would seem that John had married his wife Anne sometime before 1572 and that they had a daughter Dorathy baptised in 1572 and a son Anselm, baptised one year later. Both these children were left twelve pence in the 1577 will of Elizabeth Bailey a widow of Wheatenhurst. She had made bequests to numerous relatives and in the same group with Anselm and Dorothy, mention is made of William, Richard and John Bailey. No detail was given to show whether or not these were siblings or other relatives and so they have not been entered in the genealogy.

John may have been the one who in 1583, took over the lease of Wheatenhurst from Robert Hayes, to whom it had been assigned by the Duchy of Lancaster, after Wheatenhurst had been separated from the larger Whitminster estate.

Sometime before 1602, Anselm baptised in 1573 married for the first time and his son John was the first of five children. Young John was only seven months old, when the long Elizabethan era came to an end and the new ruler of England was Elizabeth's cousin, James I. As James VI, he had been King of Scotland and belonged to the Stuart line, which had ruled that country since 1371.

In 1604 Wheatenhurst was sold to two London merchants and they in turn sold it to a William Bailey of Cherington some ten miles to the south east. Whether John was related to this William Bailey is not known, nor whether he stayed on as a tenant and unfortunately he left no will.

Around 1600 Wheatenhurst had a fulling mill, and Anselm was recorded as a clothier (one who makes cloth or clothes) in a case at a court sitting at Withington some seventeen miles away. It seems he was one of four partners who owned 40 acres of arable land, meadows and pastures in that area. The land was leased out, but when the original tenant died, his wife remarried and stayed on the property. The partners said the lease had been broken and they and Anselm were charged with wrongfully entering the premises to demand repayment, but there is no report of the outcome.

Anselm was also recorded as a clothier (one of the two in Wheatenhurst) in a muster of men able to bear arms, taken in 1608 in Gloucestershire. The records for Wheatenhurst state that William Bailey Gent was Lord, whilst Anselm clothier of middle stature age 20-40 years, was a trained soldier with a servant Henry Thomas who had been baptised in Wheatenhurst in 1572. His father John (now 54) was not recorded in detail, though he had furnished one cozlett i.e. a suit of light body armour.

According to burial records, it would seem that Anselm's first wife was Joyce and she died in 1610, only six weeks after the birth of her fourth daughter, Jane baptised in July. Anselm must have remarried soon after and his new wife Dorathy bore a son William baptised in 1611/12, with the last of their five children being baptised in 1621.

Four years later, in March 1625, James I died and was succeeded by his son Charles I, who like his father, believed that the King, not Parliament, should prevail in matters of State.

In January 1642 Charles went to Westminster with his Cavaliers to arrest 5 members of Parliament, but they were not there, having been forewarned by their friends. This incident so provoked the citizens of London, that Charles was forced to flee to Hampton Court and then to York, to rally his sympathisers. Charles wanted to join up with his Welsh supporters, but could not do so by land, so the alternative was to take control of the river Severn, when his men and supplies could be taken by barge and land in Wales. To this end, Charles attacked the city of Gloucester in January 1643, but was defeated by Cromwell and his Roundheads and had to retire to Oxfordshire.

Anselm died some time before December 1646, his second wife Dorathy having predeceased him in 1637/8. His will, made on 4 July 1645 left to his son John the remainder of the term of the lease of his house in Wheatenhurst. After all Anselm's debts were paid, his sons Anselm and William shared with their younger sister Mary the remainder of his estate and his freelands or the "overplus" of the money made from it. All of Anselm's other daughters, except Elizabeth, to whom he left ten shillings, seem to have died prior to 1645.

To his three Merry grandchildren he left the sum of ten pounds, to be divided between them when they were 2l. They were the family of his daughter Hannah who had died in 1640. She had married Thomas Merry in 1632 and he may be related to a William Merry, who had sold 120 acres of land at Cherington to the William Bailey who had bought Wheatenhurst.

An inventory of household goods made after Anselm's death gave their value as one hundred pounds and they included 11 great pieces of pewter and 4 pewter dishes. These latter may have been the ones mentioned in later Bailey wills.

In 1648 Charles I forces had been defeated all over England and eventually in 1649 the victorious Cromwell had him executed. The Protectorate under Cromwell and his son Richard lasted until 1660, when Charles II one of the Stuarts was restored to the throne, this time under Parliament's terms.

With most of England affected by Civil War, many parish records have not survived, particularly those for Wheatenhurst and details about the children of Anselm who died in 1646 are incomplete.

No further record has been found of Anselm's elder son John until his death in 1689 but the will of an Anselm Bailey made in June 1689 which appointed his father (unnamed) as overseer of the will implies that John was still alive then. In fact, he survived his son Anselm by about 10 days and Anselm's death was recorded on his headstone as 11 December 1689, whilst John was buried on 21 December, both at Wheatenhurst.

The only surviving record of the baptism of an Anselm is at nearby Elmore in 1623, but there his father was named as Anselm. However records are not always accurate, so there is a possibility that the father of this Anselm was actually John ? the one born 1602 and that this Anselm was the one who died in 1689.

Records of his childrens' baptisms show their mother as Sarah, who on Anselm's headstone, was shown as being born about 1638. This fifteen years difference in their age may partly account for the fact that Sarah survived Anselm by over thirty years.

There are no records in Wheatenhurst that show the marriage nor the children of Anselm's second son William born in 1611/12. However there is a William Bailey in nearby Elmore who had 6 children there between 1642 and 1654, including a son Anselm, who died as an infant. It is possible he was John's brother and his descendents are recorded with the Elmore Baileys.

Anselm and Dorathy's second son and namesake did not marry until he was 45, according to a Marriage Allegation found in Hockaday Abstracts. His wife was a widow named Mary Dawby and so far, there are no records of any children, and Mary was buried in 1677. Perhaps Mary was a relative of Giles or Elizabeth Dawby mentioned in wills made at Wheatenhurst by Alice and Richard Bailey made in 1580 and 1595.

Charles II died suddenly in 1685 and his brother James II succeeded him. James and his Queen were both Catholics and appointed many of that faith to important posts. In 1688, Queen Mary gave birth to a son, ensuring a Papist succession and this was the last straw for Parliament. They offered the throne to James' nephew, William of Orange and his wife Mary, a descendent of Charles II and by the end of 1688 William III and Mary II were ruling England and James II had been allowed to escape to the Continent.

In Anselm's 1689 will, there are records of 3 of his and Sarah's children, born at Wheatenhurst between 1670/2 and 1678, but the baptism of their second child Anselm has yet to be found.

Their elder daughter, Sarah, was not married when her father's will was made, so she was left a sizeable dowry of one hundred pounds, to be paid when she was 23 i.e. in 1693 or 95. The money for this was to come from the sale of Anselm's stock, but there was a mortgage to be paid first. Should there be no dowry Sarah was to get an acre of arable land at Broadfield in parish of Hardwicke. There are 2 marriage records that may relate to Sarah, but it is not certain which one, if any, is correct.

Anselm and Sarah's second son was Anselm and according to his headstone he was a yeoman and born about 1673 and he died in 1743. His father had left him several pieces of land and property, but he was not to have these until his mother Sarah died in 1722. Unfortunately he left no will, so there are no details of any legacy he received. In 1699 he married at nearby Haresfield, Ann Whitterne, who may be a connection of his brother John's wife, Edith Whitthorn. Edith's father, Richard Whitthorn in his will of 1709, surrendered land to pay his debts to Thomas Humphries, Edith's brother in law and to an Anselm Bailey, probably Ann's husband.

Anselm and Ann's children were Edith, Anne, an Anselm who lived only three years and the last child another Anselm who was born in 1719.

During this period William and Mary died and they were succeeded by Queen Anne and after her death, George I.

It is thought that Anselm and Ann's second daughter Anne married Daniel Wilkins who died in 1742 and he was buried at Wheatenhurst in the grave of her grandfather Anselm. In his will, Daniel had left Anne a life interest in 3 acres of land at Hammadgefield (Hamage) which was to revert to their son James. This was probably adjacent to or perhaps a consolidation of the three separate parcels of one acre that Anne's grandfather Anselm had in 1690 left to Anne's father and his two brothers.

The Anselm born in 1719 went to Oxford and graduated from Exeter College in 1740 and before 1772 became a Doctor in Civil Law. He was ordained into the Church of England and on 22 January 174l was appointed a lay vicar of Westminster Abbey. On l3 March 1744 he was made a priest of the Chapel Royal and in October 1746 he was married at St. Georges Bloomsbury (in London) to Jinnet Yates. In 1751, Anselm was made Vicar of Tottenham, near London and in 1758 published an attempt to rationalise English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew grammars "An Introduction to Language". In 1764 Anselm was appointed sub dean of the Chapel Royal, as well as being a minor canon of St. Pauls Cathedral but despite these duties, he continued his theological writings and those on language. While he was living at James Street, Westminster, he wrote in 1772 "A Plain and Complete Grammar" dedicated to George, Prince of Wales including a separate section "The English Accidence" dedicated to Right Hon Lady Charlotte Finch Governess to Their Royal Highnesses the Young Princes. The next year saw the publication of "A Plain and Complete Grammar of the Hebrew Language" and his wife Jinnet died in 1775 and was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. After her death Anselm re-married, and having studied medicine, patented in 1787 an invention to prevent and relieve rupture.He wrote about religion and the study of music, as well as having works published in 1771 and 1789 about musical prosody. His work on "The Alliance of Musick Poetry and Oratory" was published in 1789 and he had written at least twelve books before he died he died in November 1794.

Anselm's brother William had married Elizabeth Daw at Gloucester, in the same church and only a month after his younger brother John. He too, was left land and property in his father's will and under the same terms, but when he died in 1754 he left no will. After his death, he was buried, together with Elizabeth who had predeceased him by 10 years, in his parents' grave at Wheatenhurst.

It was Anselm and Sarah's third son, John, who carried down the line of our Bailey descent and he was born in 1678 at Wheatenhurst and in 1705 he was married at Gloucester to Edith Whitthorn.

The Baileys and Whitthorns are both recorded in Edith's birthplace, Charlton Kings, in 16th and 17th centuries, while Whitthorns are listed on Subsidy roll at Wheatenhurst in 1327.

The newly wed couple went to live at Standish, where their eldest son Anselm was born in the same year. Their second son was John born in 1706, then in 1708 Richard (possibly named after Edith's father) who lived only a year.

Their first daughter Sarah, born in 1711 was named maybe after her paternal grandmother while another son William, born in 1712 and a daughter Edith born in 1714 completed John and Edith's family. John died at the age of 63 in 174l and as Edith is not mentioned in his will dated 1736, she had probably died earlier.

John left his eldest son Anselm the land at Puckpitt and Hinton Haling which he had inherited from his own father, and in an addition made only 3 days before his death, all his free land in Wheatenhurst, with the responsibility for paying the mortgage on it and in addition, "the largest pewter dish marked AB". He was also appointed one of the two trustees of his father's will.

John and Edith's second son and namesake had married Mary Birt, who came from nearby Moreton Valence. Perhaps it was because his father did not approve of his bride, that all John was left in Anselm's will was five shillings.

Their elder daughter and third child was Sarah and when she was 20, she married John Eagles. He may have some connection with the Eagles who in 18th century were a prominent merchant family involved in the sugar trade at nearby Bristol. Possibly because she was already married, Sarah only had ten pounds from her father Anselm's will, to be paid by her brother Anselm, a year after her father's death. Sarah and John lived at Longney, where they raised their 6 children, and Sarah was a witness to her brother Anselm's will, made in 1768.

In 1727, four years before Sarah and John were married, George I had died and George II came to the throne of England, where he reigned for the next twenty three years.

John's third son William was left the rest of the inherited land at Hamage, plus half an acre of land at Broadfield in Parish of Hardwicke. William's grandfather Anselm had in 1690 left this land originally comprising one acre, not to William's father John, but to his sister Sarah or to his brother Anselm, depending upon circumstances when his estate was settled. As Anselm who died in 1690 also left a mortgage on his estate, perhaps John received one half of the land at Broadfield, in return for paying off part of his father's debts.

The younger daughter Edith had 30 pounds from John's will, as well as half of the household goods not already bequeathed and her brother Anselm was to pay her ten pounds a year after her father died. It was almost a year after his death, and in 1742 that she married James Wilkins of Haresfield, who was but 19 years old. Probably because James was a minor, it was a Roger Rapier of Wheatenhurst who applied for their marriage licence, with Edith's age being given as 25 years. Her husband may have been the James Wilkins Snr, one of the trustees of the will of Edith's brother Anselm made at Longney in 1768.

It is through John and Edith's eldest son Anselm who was Walter Bailey's great great grandfather that our line of descent continues. When Anselm was 46, in 1751 he applied in Longney, for a marriage Licence to wed Sarah Jones of Mitcheldean, said to be 29 years old and his brother William was bondsman for an amount of two hundred pounds. On the licence, Anselm's age was given as 28, whether from desire to appear nearer to his bride's age, or from a clerical error is not known and this made tracing Anselm's baptism very difficult. It is because of the similarity of the signatures on the Licence and on Anselm's 1768 will and of his age, given on his headstone as 63, that we know that the age of 28 mentioned on the Licence is false. Though the licence was written at Longney and repeated as such in IGI the actual marriage, found only by chance, took place at Mitcheldean, the bride's birthplace, only a few days later. The newly wed couple returned to Longney to live, and here all their six children were born.

It was in 1760 during the infancy of Anselm and Sarah's second son Anselm that George II died and the sixty year reign of George III began.

When his youngest child William was only 6 years old, Anselm died, having made his will in January 1768, nearly two years earlier.

In it, all the land he had inherited was gone possibly in payment of the mortgage on his father's Wheatenhurst land, or maybe because it had been acquired by a large landholder under one of the Enclosures Acts. Strangely enough, he had managed to acquire a half acre of the Broadfield land, but whether this was the half acre that had been left to his brother William or the other half acre of the original one acre mentioned in his grandfather's will is not known - there are no other wills available to show what had happened in the meantime. His wife Sarah was Executrix and none of the children's bequests were valid until she died or remarried.

It was only 3 years after Anselm's death that his widow Sarah married James Harper of Longney, with James' brother Thomas as bondsman for the sum of five hundred pounds. Their Marriage Allegation was made in June 1773 and in it Sarah who was by then 55 gave her age as '40 and upwards', while James said he was '28 and upwards' and according to Parish records, they were not married until December that year.

The first child that Anselm and Sarah had was a daughter also named Sarah, baptised in 1754, who was left thirty pounds and half the household goods, under her father's will. In 1774, she married her cousin Samuel Eagles and their Marriage Allegation mentions one John Bagnall Watchmaker of the City of Gloucester, who stood surety for five hundred pounds. They had 8 children, who were mostly born at Longney.

The record of another daughter, Elizabeth in June 1753 has only been found in IGI was a duplication and another Elizabeth baptised in May 1758 at the Gloucester City church of St. Mary de Lode and of whom there is no further record is an equal mystery and she is not mentioned in her father Anselm's will.

The next daughter Edith, baptised in 1754 was also left thirty pounds and half the household goods in Anselm's will. There is a computer listing of her marriage to Thomas Whittel at Langton Herring in Dorset, in 1799 and there they had 8 children, but this has not been checked.

Anselm and Sarah's eldest son John baptised in 1756 married Dianah Merrett in 1783 in Longney and they had 2 children. In his father's will, he was left the Broadfield land, plus 2 large pewter dishes and fifty pounds.

Our descent is through the second of Anselm and Sarah's sons, another Anselm baptised in 1759, and in his father's will, he too was left fifty pounds, as well as 2 large pewter dishes marked AB. He married Mary Fowle in October 1787 at Blaisdon, where Anselm's brother William also lived.

Though she was born at Huntley, Mary Fowle lived at Little Dean at the time of marriage and perhaps it was because of his mother's connections, that her son, William Fowle, returned there to live sometime before 1827. Anselm is said to have been a carpenter and wheelwright and was only 31 when he died, but as death certificates were not introduced until 1837, there is no record of the cause of his death - he may perhaps have been killed in an accident.

Anselm and Mary had 2 children, who were both born at Blaisdon and details of their elder son William Fowle through whom our line of descent passes down, are provided in chapter three.

Anselm and Mary's younger son, also Anselm was born in 1790, four months after his father died and when he got married he chose the parish church of St. Mary de Lode in Gloucester City for the wedding. His bride Ann Smith came from Rudford a hamlet about 4 miles north west of Gloucester and they had 3 children, all born in Huntley between 1816 and 1818, but none of them left any issue. By the time of 1851 census, on March 31, all their children were dead and in it, Anselm was recorded as a Master Wheelwright, employing one man and besides Ann the only other person in the household was a widow, Hannah Marshall. Ann who was nearly 20 years older than Anselm, died in 1860 and Anselm survived her by only 4 years and they were both buried at Huntley.

Anselm and Sarah's youngest son William was baptised in 1764 and he had fifty pounds and 3 large pewter dishes from his father in his will. He was married at Blaisdon, and his bride Ann Hyett came from that village. Though their Marriage Allegation was dated 15 September 1790, they were not actually married until three months later, on 29 December of that year. Their first child Ann was born at Blaisdon and the second William at Westbury on Severn both before 1794, while their third child called Anselm was born in Flaxley in 1797.

Sometime after that the family moved to Little London, near Longhope and there Ann died in 1831 and William in May 1840, though they were both buried back at Blaisdon. William had made his will in 1827, well before his death, leaving Ann a life interest in his estate (though she had died before his will came into effect) and judging by its contents he must have been a prosperous man.

William and Ann's daughter Ann was living at Brockworth, about 4 miles south east of Gloucester when in March 1819 she married John Sterry a Stone Mason from Huntley.

A year later in 1820, the people of England had a new king, George IV, who reigned only 10 years, before he was succeeded by William IV.

Ann and John Sterry were living at Little London in 1847, having by this time had 8 children and at their births John was recorded as a Shopkeeper and Miller and in 1838 as a Publican. When her father died in 1840, Ann had been left twenty pounds, to be paid to her by her brother William and land at Notwood Garden in Blaisdon. Perhaps she had sold this land to John's uncle Abraham, because property of that name which then included a dwelling was left in his 1843 will to Abraham's nephew and John's cousin Samuel Sterry. In the same will, Ann's husband John was left one hundred pounds.

Ann died sometime before 1851 and in that year her family was living at Huntley, where John's household included his elder daughter Ann, who was running the household and her base born son John, then one year old. By 1871, John was back in Little London and the only other person in his household was Elizabeth, recorded as his (second) wife.

William and Ann Hyett's son William went to live in Cheltenham, where he was a carpenter. In 1827 at Gloucester he married Hannah Powell and their daughter Ann Susannah was born the next year.

When his father died in 1840, William was one of his executors of the will and he was left the house at Little London where his father lived as well as a barrel and hogshead of cider.

In March 1851 Census they were living at 18 Fairview Street, Cheltenham, whilst Anne, who was a schoolmistress, was visiting an Elizabeth Lloyd at Gloucester Place in the same town - she was most likely Anne's future mother-in-law. When William her father died in 1870 he left a will made at his solicitors in Cheltenham dated 30 Jan 1864, leaving his estate to his wife Hannah and their daughter Ann Susannah wife of Edwin Lloyd and all her children. So far, no record of their marriage nor of their children has been found - most likely they lived in another county.

William and Ann Hyett's younger son Anselm was christened at Flaxley and was nearly 40 when in 1836 at Flaxley, he married Susannah Sims who was living at that village, although she had been born at Longney in 1803.

It was only a year later that William IV died and the long reign of Queen Victoria began.

Anselm and Susannah spent the rest of their lives near Westbury on Severn, as Anselm had in 1839 leased Boseley Mill, on the lower reaches of Westbury Brook from the Crawley Boeveys who owned it. The mill was used to grind corn and had been recorded as early as 1607 when it was originally called Cut Mill, though in 1717 it was occupied by the heirs of William Phillips and was then called Phillips Mill. Anselm and his family worked the mill until 1890's when it apparently closed down and it was finally disbanded about 1930.

In July 1840, Anselm then called a Mealman (Miller) proved his father William's will at Westbury on Severn. In it he was left land in Huntley known as Nursery or Huntley Wood Garden, all the money deposited in his father's savings account, twenty pounds to be paid to him by his brother William as well as cider. He was 73 when he died in 1874, having made his own will only 2 years earlier and his estate was left to all of his family.

Anselm and Susannah's first son William born in 1838, survived only 6 months and their first daughter Susannah with the unusual second name of Albinia died about 6 months after her 21st birthday. Another William with the second name of Hyett was born in 1841 and he was one of the executors of his uncle William's will, made at Cheltenham and proved at Gloucester in 1870. In 1881, he was recorded as a Miller and Farmer, unmarried and living at Horsmans Bridge, near Westbury on Severn.

The second daughter Harriett was born in 1842 and was not married when she was a witness at her sister Mary Elizabeth's wedding in 1869. By the time her father William made his will in 1872, she had married James Hall, who according to 1881 census was 30 years older than his wife. In 1881 the family was living at The Malt House, Westbury on Severn and they had 3 children, including a daughter, Anselena, probably a female version of her grandfather's name.

The baby of the family Mary Elizabeth born in 1844 was married in 1869 at Westbury on Severn, due east across the Severn to Edward Hawkes, who was a baker, like his father. In 1881 Census Edward is shown as a Farmer and they were living at Highcliffe Farm, Quedgeley which was a property of 90 acres and they had 6 children.

Contemporary with 16th century Bailey families at Wheatenhurst, another less numerous family was also recorded from Elmore a parish about 5 miles to the north and also on the eastern side of the river Severn. It is separated from Wheatenhurst by the parishes of Moreton Valence and Hardwicke.

The first Anselm recorded there was baptised in l560, but his parents were not named. It seems his father was William Bailey who died in 1579 and his mother was probably Johane Jenyng, who William married four months after Anselm was born.

William was a husbandman (farmer) and Anselm is the only child mentioned in his will made only ten days before he was buried. At that time Anselm was just 19, so his father appointed as overseers Jhon Newman and Thomas Wiman, who were to have the 'guiding oversight and use' of Anselm for the next three years and for this task they were to have two shillings each.

The will mentioned clothes for William's brother John, as well as several small legacies of money and stock, including two shillings to an Agnes Wymane. Her father was most likely Thomas, appointed overseer in William's will and she and Anselm were married nine months later. Anselm Bailey is mentioned in 1608 muster of Men and Armour as being a yeoman of tallest stature and about forty years of age. There is no record of any of his children, at least not in Elmore and Agnes died in 1619.

Two children whose father was recorded as Anselm were baptised in Elmore - William in 1621 and Anselm in 1623 and they may have been from a second marriage of Anselm soon after his wife Agnes died in 1619. No record has been found of this marriage, nor of any will when Anselm died in 1634.

It is possible that William baptised in 1621 may have died unrecorded as an infant or he may be the father of six children baptised in Elmore between 1642 and 1654. There is no record of his marriage, nor did he leave a will.

One of the six children was John who was baptised in 1643 and he was most likely the father of an Anselm Bailey who was married in 1710 at North Nibley but whose children were all born at Wheatenhurst. His line of descent has been traced by Robin Roberts of Cannock in Staffordshire, whose research provided the basic genealogy of the Elmore Baileys to which has been added a compilation of records from various sources.

The father of the six Elmore children may not however have been William born in 1621, but another William whose father was also Anselm who was baptised in 1611/2 at Wheatenhurst and details about him are in the previous section. As the names of the male children suggest both possibilities, they are cross referenced in both genealogies.

Further details about Anselm baptised in 1623 at Elmore being the person who died in 1689 at Wheatenhurst have been previously presented and these too have been cross referenced.

A Nathaniel Bailey who was baptised at Eastington was the brother of Anselm married in 1710 and all of his children were born at Wheatenhurst. When Nathaniel died there in 1734, he was buried in the same grave as Anselm who died in 1689 and his wife Sarah who died in 1722, suggesting that he was related to that family.

Though named as Elmore Baileys, it was only William's family who lived there and succeeding generations went to live in other parishes including Wheatenhurst.

It is because of these relationships, the coincidence of the children's names and possible earlier connections not yet found that both Wheatenhurst and Elmore genealogies are shown in the one chapter, with the Elmore records being given the descendent code of 2e.

All the places in the two genealogies that follow, unless otherwise noted, are in Gloucestershire, England.

2.1 William bp c 1511 ? Elmore m 28 Jan 1548 Wheatenhurst (Wheat) Johan (Evans) bu 17 Sep 1556 Wheat

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.2] Family of John BAILEY and Anne(??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.5.1] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Joyce (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.5.2] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Dorathy (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.6] Family of John BAILEY and (??)

[2.8] Family of Hannah (Bailey) and Thomas MERRY

All baptisms at Frampton

[2.16\2e.4] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Sarah (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2.17] Family of Anselme MERRY and Ester (Knight)

All baptisms at Frampton

[2.19] Family of Dorothy Merry and William ROGERS

all baptisms at Frampton

[2.21] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Anne (Whitterne)

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.22] Family of William BAILEY and Elizabeth (Daw)

[2.23] Family of John BAILEY and Edith (Whitthorn)

All baptisms at Standish

[2.28] Family of Edith (Bailey) and Henry WESTBURY

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.29] Family of Anne (Bailey) and Daniel WILKINS

2.46a William bp 1 May 1726 Fretherne MA 6 June 1747 Wheat/Glos St. Peters Hester (Bailey) of Wheat ?2e.40

2.46b Daniel bp 5 May 1728 Wheat ? bu pre 1729 Wheat in grave of Anselm Bailey [2.16] NO ISSUE

2.46c Ann bp 5 May 1728 Wheat ? twin of above m 30 Aug 1749 Glos St. Peters Charles POWELL

2.46d Daniel bp 20 Jan 1729 Wheat

2.46e John bp 21 Nov 1731 Wheat bu pre 1737 Wheat in grave of Anselm Bailey [2.16] NO ISSUE

2.46f Elizabeth bp 17 Jun 1733 Wheat

2.46g John bp 22 Aug 1737 Wheat d as infant Wheat bu in grave of Anselm Bailey [2.16] NO ISSUE

[2.31] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Jinnet (Yates)

[2.34] Family of Eliz (Bailey) and Robert TRIGG

All baptisms at Churcham

[2.38] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Sarah (Jones)

[2.39] Family of John BAILEY and Mary (Birt)

[2.41] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and John EAGLES

[2.42.1] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (James)

All baptisms at Standish

[2.42.2] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (Millard)

All baptisms at Standish

[2.43] Family of Edith (Bailey) and James WILKINS

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.49] Family of William EAGLES and Sarah (Wellington)

[2.51] Family of Thomas TRIGG and Sarah (Smith)

[2.53] Family of Robert TRIGG and Elizabeth (Church)

[2.54] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and Samuel EAGLES

All baptisms at Longney

[2.56] Family of Edith (Bailey) and Thomas WHITTEL

All baptisms at Langton Herring Dorset

[2.57] Family of Dianah Merrett

[2.57] Family of John BAILEY and Dianah (Merrett)

All baptisms at Longney

[2.59] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Mary (Fowle)

[2.60] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (Hyett)

[2.61] Family of John BAILEY and Ann Hitch

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2.66] Family of Richard EAGLES and Mary (Wintle)

All baptisms at Longney

[2.69] Family of William EAGLES and Esther (Greening)

[2.72] Children of John BAILEY and Sarah (Clark)

All baptisms at Moreton Valence

[2.73] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (Merrett)

All baptisms at Haresfield

[2.76] Family of Richard BAILEY and Elizabeth (Thomas)

[2.78] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Elizabeth (Dutton)

All baptisms at Minchinhampton

[2.79] Family of Edith (Bailey) and William LEECH

All baptisms at Quedgeley

[2.106] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Ann (Smith)

All baptisms at Huntley

[2.107] Family of Ann (Bailey) and John STERRY

All baptisms at Longhope

[2.108] Family of William BAILEY and Hannah (Powell)

[2.109] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Susanna (Sims)

All baptisms at Westbury on Severn

[2.137] Family of Ann Sterry

[2.138] Family of John STERRY and Emma (??)

[2.149] Family of Harriet Ann (Bailey) and James HALL

All baptisms at Westbury on Severn

[2.150] Family of Mary Elizabeth (Bailey) and Edward HAWKES

All baptisms at Quedgeley

[2.8] Thomas MERRY

Father John MERRY

[2.19] Anne (Whitterne)

bp 1675 Father William WHITTERNE

bp 1682 Father John WHITTERNE Sibling Richard bp 15 Aug 1680 Glos St Nicholas

[2.22] Elizabeth (Daw)

Father James DAW of Putley Standish

Mother Elizabeth (??)

Pam Daw member of GFHS has further details of this family

[2.23] Edith (Whitthorn)

Father Richard WHITTHORN bu 7 Nov 1706 CK but will 1712/323 dated 1709 PGF Richard WHITTHORN (F William WHITTERNE /WHITTHORN) bu 8 Mar 1689/90 will 1680/119 PGM Ann bu 8 Apr 1680 CK

m 2 Oct 1672 Standish

Mother Elizabeth (Reefe) bu 24 Dec 1712 will 1712/342

Siblings All bp Charlton Kings: Elizabeth bp 9 Nov 1676 m 9 Feb 1697 Glos St Mary de Lode Thomas HUMPHRIES - mentioned will 1712/323, Richard bp 18 Aug 1678, Sarah bp 11 Mar 1682, Margaret bp 6 Sep 1685 ? m 21 Nov 1707 William BLAKE, Walter bp 24 Jun 1688 bu 30 May 1701 NO ISSUE, Samuel bp 4 Nov 1689/90 executor will 1712/ 342 and John bp 19 Nov 1693 mentioned will 1712/342

Curtis Talbot has further details of this family

[2.31] Jinnet (Yates) Father Thomas YATES Doctor of Divinity of Charlton upon Utmoor, West Oxford

[2.34] Sarah (Jones)

Father John JONES

? m 18 Jul 1699 Newland

Mother Susan (Nelmes)

[2.39] Mary (Birt)

Father James BIRT bu 12 Jun 1732 MV Mother Elizabeth (??) bu 26 Apr 1732/3 MV

[2.41] John EAGLES

Father ? John EAGLES m 25 Jul 1697 Standish Mother Sarah (?Curles/Curtis)

[2.57] Dianah (Merrett)

Father William MERRETT Mother Anne (??)

[2.59] Mary (Fowle)

Father Josiah FOWLE

m 11 Feb 1760 Ruardean

Mother Sarah (Bennett) bp 18 Sept 1837 Ruardean

MGF Joseph BENNETT (F Emmanuel BENNET M Isabell (??))

MGM Elizabeth (Dew) (F George DEW M Elizabeth (Goodwin))

Curtis Talbot has further details of this family also

[2.60] Ann (Hyett)

Father John HYETT Mother Ann (??)

[2.79] William LEECH

Father Samuel LEECH PGF Richard LEECH of Boddington PGM Sarah (??)

m 8 Mar 1760 Quedgeley

Mother Mary (Clutterbuck)

Pam Daw has further details of this family also

[2.107] John STERRY

Father John STERRY bp 28 Nov 1756 Blaisdon bu 13 May 1829 Huntley PGF John STERRY bp c 1728

m 4 Feb 1752 Newnham PGM Mary (Robbins) of WOS bp c 1727

m 7 Dec 1776 Longhope

Mother Mary (Bullock) bp c 1756 d post 1841

Siblings: Joseph bp c 1774, Sarah bp 12 Jan 1777 Huntley, Samuel bp 19 May 1782 Huntley

Debbie Hopton and Anne Martin, members GFHS have further details of this family

[2.108] Hannah (Powell)

Father John POWELL

m after Banns 26 Feb 1797 Newent (Witnesses:Elizabeth Goode,Jonathon Powell)

Mother Susannah (Phillips)

[2.109] Susanna (Sims)

Father William SIMS of Longney

m by Licence 16 Oct 1800 Frampton (Witnesses: William Longney,Mary Smith)

Mother Mary (Longney)

[2.138] Elizabeth (Daunce) formerly (Edwards)

Father William EDWARDS Occ Gamekeeper

[2.139] Mary Ann (Ballinger) formerly (Bullock)

Father Benjamin BALLINGER Occ Farmer

[2.145] Edwin LLOYD

Mother ? Elizabeth (??) b c 1795 Stow

[2.150] Edward HAWKES

Father Samuel HAWKES Occ Baker bp c 1804 d 19 Jan 1870 Quedgeley

Mother Sarah (??) bp c 1802 d 26 Apr 1879 Quedgeley

2e.1 William BAILEY bu 28 Mar 1579 (will 1579/206) m 11 Jul 1560 Johane (Jenyng) bu June 1571 Elmore

[2e.2.2?] Family of Anselm BAILEY and (??)

[2e.3]/[2.11] Family of William BAILEY and (??)

All baptisms Elmore

[2e.6] Family of John BAILEY and Franc (Collett)

[2e.8] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Budden)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.10.1] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Jane (Pinchin)

All baptisms Painswick

[2e.10.2] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Hannah (Tailer)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.13] Family of Anselm BAILEY and (?Elizabeth) (Boon)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.14] Family of Nathaniel BAILEY and Elizabeth (??)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.16] Family of John BAILEY and Ann (Millard)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.18] Family of William BAILEY and Francis (Holdey)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.29] Family of John BAILEY and Sarah (Clark)

All baptisms Wheatenhurst

[2e.30] Family of Francis (Bailey) and Samuel COLEMAN

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.33] Family of William BAILEY and Hannah (Wilkins)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.37] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Ovens/Owens)

[2e.40] Family of Hester (Esther) (Bailey) and Richard BAILEY

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.42] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Bailey)

[2e.43] Family of John BAILEY and Hannah (Cook/Parker)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.45] Family of John BAILEY and Mary (Gayner)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.46] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Mary (Baglin)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.47] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Ann (White)

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.48] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and James CLUTTERBUCK

All baptisms at Wheatenhurst

[2e.50] Family of James BAILEY and Mary (Clutterbuck)

All baptisms Wheatenhurst

[2e.60] Family of William BAILEY and Jane (Underwood)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.79] Family of King BAILEY and Damaris (Wait/e)

All baptisms at Awre with Blakeney

[2e.80] Family of John BAILEY and Mary (Beach)

All baptisms at Quedgeley

[2e.81] Family of Mary (Bailey) and William YEATES

[2e.83] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Sarah (Eagles)

All baptisms at Frocester

[2e.92] Family of John BAILEY and Anne (Williams)

All baptisms at Awre with Blakeney

[2e.93] Family of William BAILEY and Hannah (Horsham)

[2e.97] Family of George BAILEY and Betty (Elizabeth) (Knight)

All baptisms at Eastington and Alkerton

[2e.98] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Dun/n)

[2e.99] Family of Sarah (Bailey) and Samuel Bishop ALDER

Robin Roberts member GFHS has further details about this family

[2e.105] Family of John BAILEY and (Mary) Anne (Smith)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.108] Family of Richard BAILEY and Hannah (Brown)

[2e.112] Family of Thomas (Waite) BAILEY and Matilda (Balinger)

All baptisms at Awre with Blakeney

[2e.113] Family of John BAILEY and Jane (Hogg)

All baptisms at Painswick

[2e.120] Family of William BAILEY and Mary (Latham)

All baptisms at Minchinhampton

[2e.124] Family of Thomas BAILEY and Ann (Crook)

[2e.131] Family of George BAILEY and Sarah (Price)

All baptisms at Berkeley

[2e.132] Family of Edmund BAILEY and Lucy Ann (Hogg)

All baptisms at Frampton

[2e.137] Family of Anselm BAILEY and Alice (Smith)

[2e.139] Family of George BAILEY and Mercy (Gough)

All baptisms at Hardwicke

[2e.144] Family of Anselm/Hansell BAILEY and Sarah (Roff)

Colin Williams of The Gap near Brisbane Qld who is a direct descendent of Alithea has the full story of this family and has provided all the above details

[2e.145] Family of Henry BAILEY and Hannah (Daw)

[2e.174] Family of Nathaniel Browning BAILEY and Jane ?? (Parker)

All baptisms Berkeley

[2e.194] Family of Alithea (Bailey) and John Edward HOWES

All above left England 9 September 1884 on "Duke of Argyll" arriving Brisbane 11 November 1884

[2e.200] Family of Charles Henry HOWES and Annie F (Godber)

[2e.201] Family of Ellen Gertrude (Howes) and Henry Augustus Blagrove COOLING

[2e.202] Family of Annie Louisa (Howes) and Frederick John Wesley WILLIAMS

[2e.204 Family of John Edward HOWES and Emily Dublie (May)

[2e.2] Agnes (Wyman)

Father Thomas WYMAN

[2e.29] Sarah (Clark/e)

Father Thomas CLARKE bp 1 Feb 1668 Wheat

PGF William CLARKE bp 19 Oct 1651 Leonard Stanley m 27 Apr 1682 Wheat

PGM Elizabeth (Allin/Allen)

Mother Sarah (??)

Robin Roberts member of GFHS has further details of this family

[2e.48] James CLUTTERBUCK

Father John CLUTTERBUCK Mother Mary (Gibbons)

[2e.50] Mary (Clutterbuck)

Father John CLUTTERBUCK Mother Mary (Gibbons)

[2e.85] John HAWKINS

Father Henry HAWKINS Mother Eleanor (??)

[2e.98] Mary (Dun/n]

Father William DUNN

? Sibling: Sarah witness marr 1804

[2e.99] Samuel Bishop ALDER

Father James ALDER/ALDAY Occ Cloth Worker/Labourer

Mother Mary (Burford)

Robin Roberts has further details of this family also

[2e.132.2] Lucy Ann (Hogg)

Father William HOGG Mother Hannah (??)

[2e.144] Sarah [Roff]

Father Robert ROFF

m 1797

Mother Elizabeth (??)

Siblings all bp Stow on the Wold: 1. Ann bp 21 Apr 1799 2. Robert bp 30 Mar 1800 Farmer Cs 1851 living Lower Swell Baptist Minister Cs 1861 Stow m pre 1834 Ann (??) d pre Cs 1861 Issue: a. Sarah b c 1834 b. Martha b c 1838 Housekeeper Cs 1861 c. Charles b c 1839 Plumber Cs1861 3. Eliza bp 22 Aug 1802 4. Henry bp 2 Dec 1804 Builder Cs 1851 Stow Grocer Cs 1871 m pre 1846 Caroline?? (possibly Chambers) b c 1821 Issue: a. Robert b c 1846 b. Jabez b c 1847 Coal & Corn Merchant Cs 1891 m pre 1884 Mary (??) b c 1851 Issue: Jabez b c 1884

[2e.197] John Edward "HOWES"/TAYLOR

Father Unknown TAYLOR

Mother Elizabeth (Acott) b c 1829 Cirencester Cs 1851 both living Cheltenham with Elizabeth's uncle Robert Howes

MGF possibly Samuel ACCOTT bp c 1798 Mason Cs 1851 living Cirencester

MGM Mary (??) bp c 1803 Cs 1851 living Cirencester

It was in the reign of King George III, when the French Revolution was just a year away, that in 1788 Anselm and Mary Bailey attended the christening at Blaisdon of their first child William Fowle. Though his father was a millwright, when William grew up, he learnt the trade of blacksmithing - he was the first of many family members to do so.

In l8l5 at Flaxley he married Elizabeth Hill who came from Westbury on Severn. She was the youngest of her family and they may have been in straitened circumstances and supported by the Parish, as she was registered as Poor.

After their marriage the couple went to live at Newent, where William had been working and when their first child Charles was born in August 18l6, they were living at Littleford House, Compton Tything. In those days a Tything was a group of about 10 houses who formed a sort of self-contained community which was responsible for the behaviour and actions of each member of that community. Perhaps there was no more work for William so the family moved about ten miles away to Hartpury before the birth of Eliza in 1820 the year that King George III died and whilst they lived there two more children, William and George were born.

Once again the family shifted house, this time about 8 miles to the southwest to Little Dean before May 1827, where Henry was born and the last three children Samuel, Elizabeth and Edwin were christened there between 1829 and 1834 during the years when King George IV died and was succeeded by his brother William IV.

The first record of Baileys in Little Dean is in 1562 when the will of a Thomas Bailey was proved on 15 July. He was a labourer, his wife being Joane and they had 2 daughters Mary and Margaret and 2 sons George and Thomas. As well as legacies of stock and money, Thomas left debts amounting to over four pounds, including two shillings to Edward Afowle for 'techyng'. A John Bailey baptised in 1620, whose father was Richard may have been a relation, as well as the Thomas who was mentioned in 1608 muster with the curious occupation of Radlecaryer. A Rad(d)le is variously a hurdle or lath, part of a weaving loom or a red powder used to mark sheep. This latter may perhaps relate to the powdery red iron ore mined around this time in the Forest of Dean.

It is possible these families may be related to the Wheatenhurst ones, contemporary with our own, but whether they lived at Little Dean prior to the birth of William Fowle's son Henry in 1827 has not been researched.

The house the Baileys are said to have lived in was not in Little Dean but in Temple Lane about 2 miles south west of that village and it was on 'extra parochial land' and may have been built in 17th century. For many centuries almost all the land in England was owned by the Church or some noble lord, but here and there were small pockets that belonged to neither.

It had become the custom that any person who could build the walls of a house and put on the roof in one day between sunset and sunrise would be given the right to occupy the land it stood on. Over the years, groups of people banded together to build houses, one at a time and the house at Little Dean was probably built, bit by bit in this fashion. The walls and later the floor were built of a local dark grey stone, with low ceilings hardly more than five feet high and probably with a roof of thatch. By having the stone slabs cut and stacked on site and bundles of thatch partly assembled, many hands working together made sure the house was finished in time and so another small piece of land came into the possession of the villagers.

The area where the house stood was known to the locals as Blaise Bailey, from the wood of that name, Blaise being a corruption of Blyth, the family who lived at Culver House, near Newnham, who also had woodwardship rights over that piece of forest. When this land was tithed in 1836, William owned and occupied a piece of pasture just over one acre, called Homepiece, which perhaps included the area on which his house stood.

In l836, two years after Edwin's birth, his mother Elizabeth died, when she was only 44 years old and she was buried at St. Ethelberts Church in Little Dean. William was left with 8 children, whose ages ranged from 20 years to young Edwin, scarcely 2, so for a while their care probably fell to the elder daughter, Eliza.

Before William had married again, King William IV's niece Queen Victoria had succeeded to the English throne and she ruled until 1901.

In 1839 Eliza Bailey married William Ferris and as William's second wife Charlotte was a witness to the wedding perhaps she had been looking after the family for some time. It was only a week later, at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham that Charlotte and William were married and they came back to live at Little Dean. In June 1841 on census night, four of William's boys were either away from home for the night or had left the family to be apprenticed. We know that William then aged 19 was working as a policeman at Hewelsfield near Coleford, but perhaps George, who was a tailor may have gone to London to learn that trade, while Samuel and Henry may have been apprenticed to a blacksmith nearby. Still at home were Charles 20, Elizabeth l2 and Edwin 7, as well as Emmanuel Underwood an agricultural labourer, who may have been a child or relative of Charlotte's, having been born in the same parish, Eastington.

As well in the same house were Elizabeth Ferris and her husband George together with baby George, then 8 months old. They were probably waiting to go into another house in Temple Lane, mentioned in a later census.

By the time of the next census on 31 March 1851, young Edwin was dead and only Samuel was at Little Dean. He was shown as a journeyman blacksmith i.e. one in the last year of his apprenticeship and was most likely the one man working for William.

It may have been sometime before April 1861 that William sold or disposed of Homepiece, because at that date, he and Charlotte were living with or visiting his second son William and his family at Lydney. The only Baileys at Little Dean were Eliza and her husband William Ferris and some of their children and it may be that William was with them when he died at Little Dean in February 1862 and a few days later, he was buried in the graveyard of St. Ethelberts Church.

William had not made a will, so Letters of Administration were granted to Charlotte on 11 September 1862, but all that was mentioned was Effects under two hundred pounds, which went to his second wife - there was no mention of any of his children. So far we have found no more details about Charlotte, nor when or where she died.

Various members of William's son Samuel's family from New Zealand have returned to visit Little Dean over the years and they report that the Bailey house is still standing. About 1966, it was bought by a young Welsh couple Mr and Mrs L Daniels with the intention of enlarging it somewhat and restoring its 17th century features. Later visitors in 1987 mention the restoration of the original hand hewn exposed oak rafters and mantel pieces and a bakers oven for breadmaking. Outside a large circular stone has been lifted into place to complete the cider press as cider making was a big industry in William's day. In the yard is a well 26 feet deep, lined with slabs of hand hewn stone, fitted together without mortar which is unique in that part of England and often inspected by those interested in old wells. The original smithy has had its stone walls heightened and is now a garage for the Daniels' cars.

In May 1993, Ted Bailey and his grand daughter Kerry Ann Munko visited Blaise Bailey and they report there are no less than four houses that locals now call 'Bailey' houses. The most prominent is the Daniel's house, which is said to have been made from 2 smaller houses plus William Fowle's house. The old nail factory is now completely covered by a house belonging to Henry Baker, who gave Ted one of the old moulds, into which red hot iron was poured to make nails in Samuel's time. A beautiful 2 storey stone house, down from Daniel's, belongs now to Bill Davis, while another smaller house, close to the nail factory, is probably nearer to the size of an original house.

Between this house and Davis' is an oak tree, similar to the one under which the Bailey children played in 19th century. The nearby Forest of Dean still contains many similar oak trees, but many thousands have been cut down over the years as fuel for the numerous iron forges around the forest, as well as many large ones which were used in Henry VIII's time, to build fighting ships for the British Navy.

William and Elizabeth's eldest son Charles was a witness at his sister's wedding in l839 and he could only sign his name with a cross. In England, it was not until 1880 that schooling was compulsory, but there were private schools in Newnham as early as 1818, but perhaps William could not afford the fees. The other boys in the family could all read and write, so perhaps they had been educated at a Dames School in Little Dean. There are details on the Benefactions Board at St. Ethelberts Church there of provision made for a 'School Dame for teaching 10 Poor children to read and the sum of four guineas yearly to be paid a guinea quarterly' plus 'books for the use of the school a half guinea'. Other donations listed include money for Sermons on Good Friday and New Years Day with Penny Loaves for the Poor in Church that day, Linen for the Poor, Green Coats for Old Men and Women, and Bibles for the Poor. The latter would have only been for display, as very few of the Poor could even sign their names, let alone read a book.

Charles was still living with his family in 1841, but sometime after that he went to live in Gloucester or Newnham where he may have been a coach driver or owner, his occupation on his marriage to Eliza Hill in l845 being given as 'Omnibus Proprietor'. They were married in the Gloucester City Parish Church of St. Mary de Lode and the register says they both lived in that parish and that Eliza's father Joseph was also an omnibus proprietor. Perhaps Charles owned or drove the local coach between Newnham and Gloucester City, because he and Eliza went back to Newnham where their first child Joseph was born at the end of December. Between 1847 and 1851 Eliza had three more children Ann, Charles and Emma but in 1851 the railway station at Newnham was opened, probably putting the coach service out of business. In the birth records of Fanny Jane in 1855 and Elizabeth in 1859 Charles is shown as a Coal Merchant, but we are not sure whether the family were living at the corner of Station Road and High Street, Newnham , which was later the site of Bailey grocery store. It was not until the births of the twins John and Ellen in l863 that Charles was shown as a Grocer, which in those days meant any kind of a Storekeeper. In The Gloucester Journal for 1873 there is a report about an important Newnham identity who was declared bankrupt and Charles was listed with other tradespeople whose large bills had not been paid.

Charles and Eliza’s daughter Fanny, havinmg spent her life helping in the family grocery store died unmarried and their other four children Charles, Emma, Jane and Ellen all died in infancy.

In the last years of his life Charles and Eliza went to live with his son Joseph at Evesham, where he died in 1893 though he was brought back to Newnham for burial and there Eliza was also buried in 1911.

Charles' eldest son Joseph had married in 1868 and gone to live in Evesham, where he was involved in the timber trade.After his grandfather Charles died in 1893, Joseph"s son Joseph Edward came back to Newnham to live, but it was Fanny who ran the shop until she died in 1939. Joseph Edward had a carrying business, but his wife Ellen at times helped in the shop. For a while their son, Joseph Ancell and his wife Phyllis lived over the shop and Phyllis also lent a hand. Joseph Ancell’s sister Gwen also worked in the shop, helping her mother Ellen. In 1946 she married William Stayt and after her parents died, Gwen ran the store until her husband died. She still owns the store and lives above it, but these days it is leased out to other people.

It was a son of Joseph at Evesham, Harry Leonard, who went to USA to work, and when he came back to visit his family there, he met a local girl Emily Hartwood, whose father had emigrated to West Sutton in 1882. When Harry Leonard returned to USA, he courted Emily by mail and they were married at West Sutton in 1906. Emily hated her given name and was always called "Dorothy" by the family. Harry Leonard had a daughter Marion and she married Lawrence Talbot and they had a son Curtis, who is a member of the priesthood of the Church of Latter Day Saints ('Mormons'). Curtis has spent a great amount of time investigating his English ancestors and has passed on all the details to people in Australia and New Zealand, so they could publish them in The Family Saga. Curtis has is a geologist and works for an energy company and he and his wife, Varian live in Worland Wyoming USA.

Charles and Eliza's eldest daughter Ann was 34 when she married Thomas Campbell in Bristol in 1881. They had 14 children and their daughter Norah born in 1883 was very delicate so she went to live with her grandparents in Newnham before going to work in Bristol. When she was 77 years of age she came out to New Zealand to live.

Another daughter Fanny born in 1855 married Austen Joyce in 1907 and in 1924 they also came out to New Zealand with their 2 surviving children. You can read both their stories of life in that country in The Family Saga.

The second son of William Fowle - his namesake William, left home before 1841 when at l9 he was working as a policeman at Hewelsfield near Coleford. It may have been while living there that he met his wife Ann, who came from Redbrook only a couple of miles away. Their first child Eliza was born in 1846 at Lydney and by 1851 William was working as a blacksmith at Newerne near Lydney living with his wife and Eliza and 2 more children Richard and William.

In 1861, when his parents were staying with him, William had a new wife called Francis, who came from Somerset and his nephew Charles, third son of Samuel was there also. William's business must have really prospered for in 1871, 10 years later he was employing 4 men and he had acquired another new wife, Mary Ann from nearby Awre. There were also 3 nieces staying at the house including his sister Eliza's daughter Elizabeth Ferris. William died sometime before 1891, as in the census for that year, his third wife, Mary Ann, was working as a sick nurse, visiting Purlieu Farm in the Lydney area.

William and Elizabeth's third son, George then 27 was recorded in 1851 census as a Master Tailor, employing 2 men and living with his wife Mary at Newerne near Lydney. For a long time that is all that was known of him, but a chance meeting in a Gloucester library between Ann Lloyd of Newnham and one of his descendents, Alex Pope of Cinderford has revealed details of the somewhat tragic story of George's son and namesake.

This son was born on 23 May 1851, only 3 days after George himself was buried. His widow later remarried and George's stepfather was Alfred Pope of Lydney, who was also a Master Tailor.

After his mother's remarriage, George called himself George Bailey Pope and in 1877, he had a job as Chief Clerk with The Western Gazette a paper published in Yeovil, a town about 35 miles south of Bristol. By a coincidence, a George Augustus Pope (no relation) also joined the paper as Chief Printer and the two became close friends. In March 1879, George Bailey Pope married Emma Fisher, whose parents came from Lydney and they were very happy together until about 1881 when Emma, then about 31 died while expecting their first child and this event had a devastating effect on the rest of George's life. George and Emma had lived in Yeovil and their next door neighbour was a Mrs. Charles, who often had as visitors her three nieces Julia, Alice and Kate Kennerell, who came from Hertford, some 20 miles north of London. George became very friendly with the three girls and he introduced George Augustus to them. This led to the latter's marriage in June 1883 with one of the sisters - Alice.

Still unsettled after Emma's death, George resigned from the paper in Yeovil and returned to Lydney, where in 1885 he was given the post of Assistant Overseer to the Lydney Parish. Early in that year, Mrs Charles and George Augustus had come to visit George and his mother Mary and stepfather Alfred and while they were there George had suffered a very strange breakdown. He was still grieving over the loss of Emma and the death of his mother in August of 1885 added to his sorrow. Later on, George renewed his acquaintance with Kate Kennerell, and though he was 35 and she was 13 years younger, they were married in April 1886 and had 2 daughters, Ethel in 1887 and Dorothy in 1890. However serious problems had arisen with the account books of the Parish and the day after his daughter Dorothy's first birthday, George left Lydney, taking the account books with him. Next day, his colleagues in Lydney received letters apologising for the muddle he had got into with his book-keeping and hoping to put things right in due course. He also apologised for their distress he was causing them and his wife and family and though the letters had been posted in London, there was no clue as to the address where he was staying. Despite extensive enquiries, nothing further was ever heard again of George Bailey Pope after May 1, 1894.

Our line of descent passes down through William and Elizabeth's fourth son Henry and the details of his life and family are in the next chapter.

The fifth son, Samuel trained as a blacksmith and by 1851 returned to work for his father at Little Dean probably having just completed his seven year apprenticeship, being recorded as a journeyman blacksmith in the March census. Later that year he married Sarah Kear a school mistress from English Bicknor a small town to the west of Little Dean. Samuel may have spent the next few years working with his father, to complete the extra three years training needed before he could be called a Master Blacksmith as he was in 1861 census, when he and Sarah and their family lived at Hendon Lane, Little Dean. Up to 1859 Samuel and Sarah had seven children, and in 1860 Sarah had twins, Joseph and Mary, but their first daughter Mary died three months later. Prospects in England in 1860s were very poor, so Samuel decided to emigrate to New Zealand, but first he and Sarah had to wait until their next child George was born, in 1852. After his birth, the whole family started packing up to go to New Zealand and the local carpenter, Jacob Rillon made all the chests and cases the family needed, while Samuel made all the nails, locks and hinges. The family still has one of these cases, 120 years later. When everything was packed, the family are said to have gone to stay with Samuel's brother Charles at the Bailey grocery store in Newnham while they were waiting to go to London to join the barque Brothers' Pride. In those days the building that housed the grocery store was three stories high, so there was plenty of room for everyone, but one storey was removed later on, when it became dangerous.

It cost 66 pounds 10 shillings for Samuel and the family to go by ship to New Zealand, and after deducting the immigration subsidy of 24 pounds, the balance was, according to his grand daughter, Gwen Stayt, paid by Charles who felt rather let down when he never heard from Samuel again.

There is quite a mystery about the sale of the nail factory back at Temple Lane by Samuel. Visitors to England in 1978 report that it had been turned to a cosy cottage owned by the Bakers and they were shown the parchment deed dated l863 and signed by Samuel, selling it to their forebears for 45 pounds. It may have been to work at the nail factory that William came to Little Dean before 1827 when Henry was born, as his occupation was shown as Nailer. How Samuel came to own this building is not known, unless William gave the deeds to him. But if Samuel had the proceeds from its sale, why did he need to ask Charles for the passage money?. Perhaps he kept the whole thing secret, so as to have a little nest egg to set himself up in New Zealand after the family arrived in December 1863.

Sadly, the baby of the family was lost on the voyage out to New Zealand on the Brothers' Pride, but by February 1864 there was another Joseph in the family, followed by James, Isabella and Arthur. You can follow the lives of Samuel and Sarah and those of their families in the chapters of The Family Saga. In the Cyclopaedia of New Zealand there is a Canterbury section, in which there are reports of Templeton featuring Samuel as an "Old Colonist", whilst his second son, William is mentioned as a "Farmer".

Back in England, William and Eliza's younger daughter, Elizabeth had left home and by end of March 1851 was working as a servant with Mary Ann and her brother Alfred Barnard in a grocers shop at Newnham (High) Street, Newnham. Could it have been this shop that was bought later on by her brother Charles and became the Bailey grocery store. Elizabeth left the store and married John Jordon who was a Forgeman and they went to live at Lydney where in 1861 their child, Elinor was born. So far, no record of their marriage, nor any other children has been found.

In the genealogy below all places mentioned are, unless otherwise stated, in Gloucestershire, England.

[3/2.105 ] William Fowle BAILEY bp 23 Oct 1788 Blaisdon d 23 Feb bu 27 Feb 1862 Little Dean (LD)

[3.1] Family of Charles BAILEY and Eliza (Hill )

All births at Newnham

[3.2] Family of Eliza (Bailey ) and William FERRIS

All births at Little Dean

[3.3] Family of William BAILEY and Ann (?? )

All births at Lydney

[3.4] Family of George BAILEY and Mary (Saunders)

[3.6] Family of Samuel BAILEY and (Sarah) Ann (Kear)

[3.7] Family of Elizabeth (Bailey) and John JORDON

[3.9] Family of Joseph BAILEY and Elizabeth (Gardiner)

All births at Evesham Worcs

[3.16] Family of John BAILEY and Mary Ann (Walker) 1891 Cs may be incomplete

[3.18] Family of George FERRIS and Emma (??)

[3.19] Family of William FERRIS and Hester (??)

3.55 Albert b Dec 1870 WOS

[3.27] Family of Richard BAILEY and Ellen (??) living Berkeley 1881 Census

[3.29.2] Family of George Bailey POPE and Martha Kate (Kennerall)

All births at Lydney

[3.47] Family of Joseph Edward BAILEY and Ellen (Chapman)

All births at Newnham

[3.49] Family of Harry Leonard BAILEY and Emily Kate (Harwood)

[3.68] Family of Joseph Ancell BAILEY and Phyllis Ruth (Vearncombe)

[3.70] Family of Harold Frederick BAILEY and Marjorie Louise (Foss)

Al births at Mass

[3.72] Family of Marion Evelyn (Bailey) and Lawrence Ernest TALBOT

All births at Waltham Mass

[3.73] Family of Robin BAILEY and (??)

[3.74] Family of Glenys (Bailey) and Ben PATTMAN

[3.79] Family of Curtis Lawrence TALBOT and Varian (Despain)

[3.80] Family of Glen Bailey TALBOT and Jan (Thall)

[3/2.105.1] Elizabeth (Hill)

[3/2.105.2] Charlotte (Underwood)

[3.6] (Sarah) Ann (Kear)

Father John KEAR Occ Labourer

[3.9] Elizabeth (Gardiner)

Father John GARDINER

Mother Patience (White)

Curtis Talbot has further details of this family

[3.19] William FERRIS

Father William FERRIS Occ Labourer bp 2 Apr 1775 Newnham bu 12 June 1839

Mother Sarah (Selwyn) bp 1774 East Dean

Ann Lloyd has further details of this family

[3.29] Emma (Fisher)

Father Thomas FISHER Mother Elizabeth (??)

[3.49] Emily Kate (Harwood)

[3.71] Ione Mary (Miles) Previous Marriage 8 June 1935 to William E Graham d c 1950

[3.72] Lawrence Ernest TALBOT

Father Louis Benjamin TALBOT Occ Watchmaker

PGF Louis Benjamin II PGM Josephine Augusta (Ogden)

Mother Nettie Louise (Sweetsir)

MGF Seth F SWEETSIR MGM Marcia Grosvenor (Cobb)

[3.79] Varian (Despain)

Father Gordon DESPAIN

PGF Robert Henry DESPAIN m Salt Lake City Utah PGM Julia (Thomas)

m Salt Lake City Utah

Mother Lillian (Gardner)

MGF Frank Richards GARDNER m Salt Lake City Utah MGM Leone Angela (Rich)

By June 1841 on Census night only his eldest son Charles, then 24, his daughter Elizabeth and young son Edwin were with William and his second wife, Charlotte at Little Dean. Perhaps his stepmother could not cope with Henry and the three elder boys William George and Samuel, so they were staying with relatives or even working as apprentices. The next record of Henry is of his marriage in July 1850 at Parish Church Cheltenham - a large town some 12 miles north east of Little Dean, when he gave his occupation as blacksmith.

His bride Elizabeth Ann James was born at North Petherton in Somerset, to the south west of the town of Bristol. She is said to have been a great beauty with glorious titian hair, who took the eye of a famous London portrait painter. He was very anxious for her to sit for him to paint a portrait, but as the family did not approve of her being alone with the artist for the many hours needed to finish the work, the whole idea came to nothing.

Though Elizabeth Ann's father, Daniel was shown as a mariner on her marriage certificate, when Daniel himself was married in May 1826 at North Petherton, his occupation was given as sojourner i.e. someone who comes into a village and stays longer than 12 months.

It is not known how Elizabeth and Henry met but perhaps it was through Henry's cousin William and wife Hannah who lived about this time in Cheltenham, or maybe Henry had been doing some work on the steam machinery at one of the spas there.

At the time of her marriage Elizabeth Ann was said to be living at 12 Royal Parade Cheltenham and in the early 1800s this was an area where many wealthy people had their houses. Some were permanent homes and others rented out to people who were 'taking the waters' in one of the nearby mineral springs for which the town was famous - in more recent times these large houses have been turned into flats and apartments. The Cheltenham hot springs had been found as early as 1716, but came into fame with a visit of George III in 1788. The original spa at Old Well had been built about 1738 and Montpelier Spa about 30 years later, while the one at Pittville was developed around a lake and large gardens about 1830.

Barely nine months after their marriage, by the end of March 185l, Henry was working as a policeman at Barton Terrace, in the city of Gloucester, whilst his wife was living at Broad Street, Little Dean, having lost her first baby little Henry when he was ll days old about two weeks earlier. Her sole companion at that time seems to have been a visitor one Esther Curran only 14 years old.

Sometime before 1853, when their second son Walter, the central figure of this book, was born, Henry had come back to Little Dean, to resume his trade as a blacksmith. It was another two years before his first daughter Dinah was born, and there is one family story that, after her birth, Henry took the family to Cardiff and set up business there. He is said to have been a renowned farrier and horses were brought from all over England to his smithy to be shod. There was even said to have been one special room in the house, where food was always available for customers who had brought their horses from far away.

Sometime before 1860, Henry brought his family to live at Newnham, about 4 miles from Little Dean, on the banks of the river Severn. Here their third son, Daniel was born in September 1860, followed in November 1863 by their youngest son Anselm.

It may have been about this time that Henry bought a property in High Street, Newnham, on the same side but a little higher up than the Bailey grocery store. For some reason or other, Henry's name is not on the list of ratepayers for 1864 or 65, but he is recorded as a blacksmith in an 1868 Trades Directory. His property was probably previously the site of the Lamb and Flag Inn, which was a common name for inns in England - they all had for their signs a Crusader in armour bearing the flag of St. George together with a lamb. In Victoria History of Counties of England the site is recorded as "the Gable House and Tower Cottage (which) together form another timber framed house with an altered gable front" and in late 1993 the house bore the nameplate "Flag House". Where the money came from for this purchase can only be guessed at, but as Henry's father William had died in 1862, supposedly leaving only effects to his second wife, it is tempting to wonder if William had earlier disposed of his property Homepiece in such a manner as to avoid paying any death duties, whilst ensuring that some of his sons reaped the benefits. Of course, the money may just as well have been made by Henry from his farrier business in Cardiff.

On the site of Lamb and Flag Inn stood a shop, a house and yard and outhouses which had been earlier rented out to the local butcher, Henry Stinson. Henry gave him notice to quit all but the shop, but when Henry went to build a forge for his blacksmith shop, he found all the timber he had intended to use had vanished, so he charged Henry Stinson with stealing it. The report in The Gloucester Journal says the local magistrate sent the case on to the local Assizes for trial in July and August 1864, but there was no joy for Henry. His case was dismissed as not being a felony, but a domestic dispute, with the rider that as both men appeared to have money, let Henry use some of his to take the matter to the County Court. Only a month later, Henry was back in court, charging Stinson's wife Hannah with malicious damage to Henry's windows, but again Henry lost his case and was not even awarded costs.

It was in April 1866 that Elizabeth Ann had her second daughter and namesake Elizabeth and quite suddenly in January 1869, Henry caught a severe chill and was dead within 2 or 3 days. Henry died in Elizabeth's presence and the death certificate mentioned phthisis, as pulmonary consumption (tuberculosis) was called in those days. Henry did not leave a will, but one family story says that before his death, he had almost perfected a formula for tempering steel - a process that makes it soft and elastic. Unluckily, the formula died with Henry, but had it been patented, it would really have made millions for his family.

Elizabeth Ann was pregnant and her last recorded child Mary Jane was born in October 1869. Henry's business kept operating and a few months later in February 1870, Elizabeth Ann remarried. Her second husband was Thomas Lewis, who though recorded as a blacksmith on their marriage certificate, seems to have been Henry's book-keeper. However whatever funds Henry had left, so the story goes, soon vanished because of Thomas' drinking habits or some financial disaster and all attempts to find any trace of Thomas Lewis, Elizabeth Ann and her daughter Elizabeth Bailey have so far been in vain - unless they emigrated, it is possible that records of them may be found somewhere in England or Wales, but who knows where?

Even though she was barely six, there is no mention of the elder daughter Dinah at the time of April 186l census -perhaps she had been left behind with friends or relatives in Cardiff. The next record found about Dinah is in Swansea in Wales in 1875 at the time of her marriage at St Peter's Chapel of Wase to Jenkin Phillips who was a joiner.

It was over thirty years later that she went to stay with her brother Daniel in Edinburgh when his wife Annie, was dangerously ill. With her came a son Idris about 8 and it seems an older son who was an ambulance driver together with his wife and their young baby. The latter came down with diphtheria and the whole house was swathed in sheets drenched with antiseptic and placed in quarantine, until the baby recovered.

Dinah was evidently in touch with Walter in Brisbane, because my father Daniel reported visiting her in Cardiff at the beginning of 1918, before he was sent to France, but nothing further is known of her life or family.

Henry and Elizabeth Ann's third son, Daniel seems to have been very determined, even as a child. The story is told about him feeling very sad after his father died and deciding to run away from his Newnham home. With his favourite hen tucked under his arm, nine year old Daniel trudged the four miles, mostly uphill, to Little Dean and he arrived at his aunt (Eliza Ferris)'s house, stating quite firmly that he had come there to live.

Daniel is recorded in 1871 as being a scholar at Westbury Union Poorhouse at Newnham, where there was a workhouse as early as l675, when the church house had been divided into tenements for the poor. In 1789 a three storey workhouse was built and in 1795, a Gloucester firm of pin makers had contracted to employ the paupers in the workhouse for 7 years. In later years, there are reports of spinning and weaving being done there. However in Daniel's time , it is said that the inmates were "farmed out" to work for various local people, their wages being paid directly to the workhouse overseer.

An advertisement placed in The Gloucester Journal for 3 March 1860 by Westbury Union calling for tradesmen to provide samples and tender for best "Seconds" of Flour, Meat, Bacon Cheese etc reflects only too well the attitude of the community at that time to those unfortunates who had no where else to live.

There are no records to show the date Daniel left the workhouse, but one family story has it that Daniel worked for a while as a forester in the nearby Forest of Dean. Another report has it that it was possibly as early as 1872 that he may have gone to work in a coal mine - quite legal at that time. When work at the coal mine slackened off, Daniel went to work at a wire factory, but at the time of his marriage in 1880, he was working as a railway signalman in Porthcawl in Wales.

His bride Anne Fletcher came from Swadlincote in Derbyshire and she and Daniel eloped and were married in Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Burton on Trent on the border of that shire and Staffordshire.

Anne went home for the birth of her first child Lucy in 1881, but the births of both Minnie in 1883 and Annie in 1886 were registered at Brigend near Porthcawl.

It was around this time that Daniel learned shorthand and added to his income by working as a casual reporter for The Brigend Chronicle. After a serious accident on the railway, in which he nearly lost his life Daniel decided, when he recovered to pursue a safer occupation, so he took up a trade and in a short time became foreman in a branch workshop that built railway wagons. However this extra responsibility took such a toll on his mental health, that Daniel left the railway and got a job in a clerical capacity at a colliery at Church Gresley close to Swadlincote and here Henry was born in 1891.

Daniel took up his reporting work again, this time for The Burton Chronicle and as well, started work part time as an agent for an assurance company similar to British Homes. There were glowing reports of the amount of new business he wrote for that company, but he decided British Homes offered better prospects, and in August 1895 he became their first full time agent for the Midlands, with Ashby de la Zouch as his base and here Elsie was born in 1896. Once again Daniel was very successful in attracting new funds, so he was appointed district manager for Leicester, and by 1897 he was overseeing the work of 400 agents, who wrote a record amount of new business valued at over one hundred and twenty thousand pounds. Sometime before 1899 Daniel was promoted to be manager for Scotland and the family moved to Edinburgh and set up house at 17 Duddington Park Road and here Walter was born in 1899 and the last child Gladys in 1900. Although brought up in the Church of England Daniel joined the Wesleyan Methodists in Edinburgh and gained somewhat of a reputation in that area as a preacher.

It was only a year after Gladys was born that Queen Victoria's long reign came to an end, and she was succeeded by her son, Edward VII.

In 1908 tragedy struck Daniel and the family - their mother Ann's appendix burst and in the days before antibiotics, such peritonitis was almost always fatal. She became ill one Tuesday and despite day and night care by her nurses, Ann died on Friday 13 November and was buried at Portobello Cemetery.

This was the same year that Edward VII died from peritonitis also and his son George V came to the throne.

Daniel was heartbroken and very lonely and in May 1910, he remarried, his wife being Margaret Brakey, known as "Meg", who was a very good friend of his eldest daughter, Lucy. They had 2 children Katherine "Kitty" who married William Peters who had spent many years with British Diplomatic Service and they now live in Deal, while Daniel and Meg's son Leslie "Sonny" emigrated to South Africa.

Around August 1920, Daniel retired so he and Meg decided to emigrate to New Zealand. They came out in October of that year and bought a small house at Oxford, near where some of their family lived. Daniel’s brother Anselm came to live with them and at the end of April 1921, they were joined by Daniel's daughter, Elsie Lilly and her 6 weeks old baby Heather. Elsie was recuperating after a bout of scarlet fever and the house was far too small for all of them, so Daniel bought a larger one and the first house was rented out.

Meg was not very happy in New Zealand - she did not approve of 'colonial standards' and could not get any properly trained household help. It was the last straw when Daniel was bitten on the right hand by a Katipo - a New Zealand spider similar to the Australian Red Back. Daniel almost lost the use of his hand, owing he said to inefficient hospital treatment and as he and Meg were rather homesick, they decided to give Elsie's husband Walter power of attorney to sell the houses at Oxford and to return to Scotland.

They went home via Australia in February and March 1922, but after a short time in Scotland, they began to regret they had not stayed on in New Zealand to enjoy the sunshine. However, Daniel who was a diabetic was not well enough to undertake the long journey back, so they remained in Scotland where Daniel died at the end of 1928, being buried at Portobello Cemetery on 2 January 1929, while Meg lived on until 1948.

Daniel and Ann's eldest child Lucy never married but she trained as a nurse and served with Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Service during World War I. About 1922 she went to USA and then joined her sister Minnie and husband John in Detroit. During the later years of Prohibition, Lucy's job became increasingly dangerous, so all three packed up and moved across the border to nearby Windsor, in Ontario, Canada where Lucy eventually died.

The second daughter Minnie had the unusual second name of Ferris probably from the married name of Daniel's aunt Eliza. About 1907 she married John Simpson, who came from Musselbrough, near Portobello. John was a cabinet maker, but could not get work in Scotland, so they emigrated to Detroit USA. There they had their two children, but later they moved to Canada with Lucy. Apart from a visit Minnie made in 1909 to see her family, they never returned to Scotland and they died in Canada.

William was the eldest son, who trained as a jeweller, watchmaker and optician in Edinburgh and he was a partner in a jeweller's shop in Goatbride in Scotland. He was very upset when his father remarried, so he decided to emigrate to New Zealand and in 1912 on the boat going out he met Edith Pryce who was the daughter of a Barnado Homes director. She was going to New Zealand to visit her widowed mother for six months, but she stayed on and got a job at Riverton Hospital.

When World War I started, William joined NZ Expeditionary Force and served in France and Egypt and he took the opportunity to visit his family in Edinburgh when on leave. He was wounded in France and finally sent back to New Zealand to Dunedin Hospital, where he spent three years having plastic surgery on his badly damaged face.

After he was discharged he bought a soldier settlement farm at Warkworth, north of Auckland and at long last he and Edith were married in October 1920 and you can read their story in The Family Saga.

The second son Henry "Harry" became an insurance manager, and he also dealt on the London stock market. During World War I he was commissioned on 29 June 1915 as a Second Lieutenant in Special Reserve in Royal Field Artillery and promoted to Lieutenant on 1 July 1917. Harry served in Mesopotamia and India, and after being wounded, he was invalided out of his regiment, probably in 1919.

When Harry proposed to Daisy Horne, he offered her an enormous ring, which covered a third of her finger and had cost fifty pounds - a lot of money in those days. As the story goes, Daisy said she would wait until he had earned another fifty pounds, so as not to dip into his savings. To Daisy's surprise, Harry returned with the money half a day later, having just made a successful deal on the Stock Exchange.

They were married in 1920 near London where Daisy's father was managing director of another insurance firm. Because of his war time injuries, the doctors advised Harry to migrate to a warmer climate and Harry and Daisy arrived in Sydney at the end of 1920 or early 1921.

Their first child, Gladwyn, named in part after Daisy's sister Winifred, was born in Bathurst NSW in 1922 and they stayed there for a couple more years. Their home for the next 4 years was in Adelaide, where their only son Darry was born in 1929.

Later they moved to Yanchep, north of Perth where Harry was Postmaster and Superintendent of Yanchep Caves. Harry died from cancer in 1977 but Daisy survived him for 5 years and after a heart attack, she was in Claremont Hospital where she died in January 1982.

Harry and Daisy's daughter Gladwyn married a Traralgon policeman Harry Murfett at Flemington Vic in 1944 and they had 3 children. The eldest child Jean married Kenneth McNally a painter at Presbyterian Church at Traralgon in 1964 and they too have three children. Jean has kept in touch with Curtis Talbot in Salt Lake City and supplied many details about the Gloucestershire Baileys.

The third son in Daniel's family was Ernest and he must have joined 4th Royal Scots Regiment at an early age. He went to Gallipoli where he was reported 'presumed dead' on 8 June 1915 and this was confirmed as 'killed in action' on 28 June 1915, which would have been his 21st birthday.

Elsie was the fourth girl born to Daniel and Annie and when she grew up, she worked for a time in the insurance office as Daniel's private secretary. Her cousin in New Zealand, Walter Lilly, son of Daniel's baby sister Mary Jane, had enlisted on the outbreak of World War I and while he was on leave from France, he decided to visit his uncle Daniel and family in Edinburgh. He was very taken with Elsie and she followed him out to New Zealand when the war was over, travelling with her sister Gladys. She and Walter married in 1920 and you can follow their story in The Family Saga. Walter died in 1969, but Elsie lived at Holdsworth House a home for the elderly in Christchurch until she died in September 1993, in her 98th year.

Walter George was the academic in the family and he obtained his degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts at Edinburgh University and was manager for ICI in Glasgow. Walter was a witness at his brother Harry's wedding in 1920 and he married Jean Jack and they had 2 children. Their daughter Marion was a schoolteacher, while their son was a doctor and he went to Canada, where he died after a heart attack. Walter died on Isle of Wight about 1960.

The baby of the family was Gladys and when she grew up she too did secretarial work, having trained as a shorthand typist. Walter Lilly's brother George "Les" also enlisted in World War I and was given leave in Britain, so he too paid a visit to his uncle Dan in Edinburgh and Gladys was the one who took his eye. After Gladys came out to New Zealand she and Les were married at Oxford just 19 days after Elsie and Walter and you can read their story also in The Family Saga. Les died in 1959 and eight years later Gladys married an old friend from her Edinburgh days, James Woodside, but he died 10 years later so Gladys is once more a widow and she lives in Auckland.

It was not until ten years later that there were any records of Anselm and Mary Jane - Anselm in April 1881 was unmarried, a blacksmith and boarding with Thomas and Eliza Belcher at Stockwell Green, near Cinderford. After he arrived in New Zealand, Anselm wrote Thomas and Eliza a letter of thanks reporting his safe arrival and his grand daughter Betty Cooper still has the letter that the Belchers wrote in reply. Though not shown in the genealogy, Betty is a daughter of Anselm's eldest son, Andrew John "Jack" Bailey.

Later that year, Anselm got a job as a carpenter in the Waggon Shop at Llwynpia Colliery at New Pontypridd in Rhondda Valley in Wales. Here he met his future wife Ann Parry and in August 1882 they were married there in the Wesley Chapel.

Mary Jane had been recorded (as Mary Ann) in 1881 as a Pauper back at Westbury Union Poorhouse, where Daniel had stayed ten years earlier. When Anselm decided he too would emigrate to New Zealand, it was resolved that he would take Mary Jane with him, and that she would live with Anselm's uncle Samuel and his wife. Samuel sent the eight pounds needed to pay for the emigration and outfitting costs of Anselm, his wife Ann and Mary Jane and they left England in November 1883 on the steamship Bombay arriving in Lyttleton New Zealand in January 1884.

Elizabeth Ann had given two of her treasures to Anselm to mind for Mary Jane until she was old enough. They included her harp and a beautiful box inlaid with mother of pearl as well as the family Bible. However, when Mary Jane asked about these items, she found that Anselm had already disposed of the first two items, without telling her, though Anselm's grand daughter Betty Cooper still has the Family Bible. Mary Jane's grand daughter Phyllis McNair is very sad about the loss of these items of such sentimental value. The stories of Anselm and Mary Jane's families and their lives can be read in the various chapters of The Family Saga.

All the places in this genealogy are, unless otherwise mentioned, in Gloucestershire England.

4/[3.5] Henry BAILEY chr l3 May 1827 Little Dean d 20 Jan 1869 Newnham bu 22 Jan Little Dean m 6 July 1850 Cheltenham Elizabeth Ann (James) chr 30 Nov 1828 North Petherton Som d c ? 1877. Elizabeth Ann (Bailey) m 24 Feb 1870 Newnham Thomas LEWIS NO ISSUE

[4.3] Family of Dinah (Bailey) and Jenkin PHILLIPS

[4.4.1] Family of Daniel BAILEY and Ann (Fletcher)

[4.4.2] Family of Daniel BAILEY and Margaret (Brakey)

[4.5] Family of Anselm (Henry) BAILEY and Ann (Parry)

[4.7] Family of Mary Jane (Bailey) and Reuben LILLY

[4.11] Family of Minnie Ferris (Bailey) and JOHN Simpson

[4.12] Family of Annie Elizabeth (Bailey) and John YOUNG

[4.13] Family of William Percy BAILEY and Edith Annie (Pryce)

All births at Warkworth NZ

[4.l4] Family of Henry Edwin BAILEY and Daisy Gladys (Horne)

[4.16] Family of Elsie May (Bailey) and Walter Herbert Thomas LILLY

[4.17] Family of Walter George BAILEY and Jean (Jack)

[4.18] Family of Gladys Muriel (Bailey) and George Leslie LILLY

[4.39] Family of Gladwyn Fletcher (Bailey) and Henry Esmond Allan MURFETT

[4.48] Family of Margaret Jean (Murfett) and Kenneth Robert MCNALLY

All births at Traralgon Vic

4/[3.5] Elizabeth Ann (James)

Father Daniel JAMES Occ Sojourner/Labourer

m 8 May 1826 North Petherton Som

Mother Ann (Bird/Burd) bp 26 July 1807 North Petherton

MGF John BIRD m 31 Mar 1793 North Petherton MGM Ann (Shipton)

Other siblings: Eliza bp 4 Mar 1827, Martha bp 4 May 1834

Jean McNally and Alison Martin have further details of this family

4/[3.5] Thomas LEWIS

Father: Evan LEWIS Occ Labourer

[4.3] Jenkin PHILLIPS

Father: John PHILLIPS Occ Master Mariner

[4.4.1)] Ann (Fletcher)

[4.5] Ann (Parry)

Father John PARRY Mother Ann (Griffiths)

[4.14] Daisy Gladys (Horne)

Father Harry HORNE Mother Mary Emma (Hedges)

[4.25] George Leslie LILLY

Father: Reuben LILLY Mother Mary Jane (Bailey) see 4.7

[4.27] Walter Herbert Thomas LILLY

Father Reuben LILLY Mother Mary Jane (Bailey) see 4.7

[4.39] Henry Esmond Allan MURFETT

Father John MURFETT Occ Farmer Mother Julia (Piera)

Jean McNally has further details of this family

[4.48] Kenneth Robert MC NALLY

Like all children in those days, he would have been quite young when he was put to work helping Henry in the blacksmith shop and according to family stories, Walter was only 13 when he was a fully trained blacksmith. Henry kept him working hard and also trained him as a pattern maker for coffins and as well taught him to be fitter. A basic part of this training is said to have been to take a piece of round steel, then file it by hand to a square shape, then to a hexagon and then back to round.

After his father's death early in 1869 Walter had to help out with the family finances by working in the nearby coal mines, probably in the Forest of Dean. According to the census on the night of April 3 1871 Walter was living at the lower end of High Street Newnham, unmarried, occupation wheelwright, being a lodger in the house of Edwin Shermer. At that time, his younger brother Daniel was in Westbury Union workhouse but perhaps an 18 year old youth was not considered to be a suitable guardian.

Though his father Henry had been a follower of the Church of England, Walter became a lifetime adherent of the Christadelphian faith, sometimes called Thomasites. The sect had been founded by John Thomas in USA about 1844 and he had coined the name which means "brothers of Christ". The name was adopted during the American Civil War, when the sect had to organise formally in order to justify its objection to military service. Besides refusing to bear arms, Christadelphians did not take part in public affairs and therefore did not vote, nor enter the service of government, nor join trade unions.

In England, the main group (Ecclesia) was at Birmingham in Warwickshire about 60 miles to the north of Newnham and it was here that Walter was baptised into the faith in 1872. There is a record in May 1871 of Walter ordering a suit from the town's tailor, John Palmer and this was most likely to have been his 'Sunday best' one, to be worn when attending meetings though possibly there was another Christadelphian group closer than Birmingham.

The next record of Walter comes from Llanelli in Wales, where on 27 October 1872 he married Mary James, but the wedding took place at Holy Trinity Calvanist Methodist Chapel. Both bride and groom were residing at Penyfon Street, Llanelli, so there is no clue as to where Mary came from, nor where they met. Perhaps she was a relative of his mother Elizabeth Ann, but as she was never a Christadelphian, Walter did not meet her through that church.According to one of his grandsons, Walter was penniless at the time, nor did he have any prospects.

There were copper and lead smelting works at Llanelli, so perhaps Walter found a job there, either in the works or because it was the owners of the smelter who had given him a contract to go out to Peru and open up a silver/lead mine in the Andes mountains above Lima.

Working conditions in England around the time of Walter's marriage had hardly altered since his uncle Samuel had, nearly ten years earlier, emigrated to New Zealand to improve his position in life.

In South America, the Brazilian authorities were keen to get people to open up new territories outside of the cities and they had appointed one William Yeates as a paid emigration agent to recruit English workers for them. Yeates, a Gloucester mechanic, was an organiser for England's first union of agricultural workers - the National Agricultural Labourers Union.

One of the men he recruited after much persuasion was Thomas Baylis (probably not a Bailey relation) who as a blacksmith in the smithing shop of Great Western Railway was earning a mere 28 shillings a week.

On their arrival in Rio Janiero in July 1872, the English settlers were sent up country to a colony at Cananea in the province of Sao Paulo. However, the humid weather, coupled with the appalling living conditions, had devastated the newcomers and within a few weeks, 15 of them had died from fever.

One of the unlucky ones was Thomas Baylis and he left a widow and 5 children. It was only with government assistance that the family was able to return to England, where they arrived in February 1873.

Even while reports about the Brazilian conditions from Baylis' widow and other disgruntled settlers were being circulated in English newspapers and questioned by public figures, Yeates was still trying to recruit new settlers to go to Brazil. In the end, and not before time, public outcry became too much and the Brazilian emigration scheme ended.

It was doubtless for similar reasons, that Walter decided to go to Peru to make his fortune. When he left, Mary who was pregnant, stayed behind in Llanelli and arrangements were made for Walter to get thirty shillings a week and Mary twenty five, rising to thirty when the baby was born. It seems that Walter went away late in 1872 or early 1873 and as the Panama Canal was not opened until 1919, it would have taken a long time to get to his destination - the port of Lima. There he was to buy the mining machinery for the mine and to treat an existing spoil heap and take it up to the actual site on mule back, or perhaps on llamas - one of his grandchildren was told how he hated them, because they spat at him. The mine only lasted a few months and then went broke and so by the terms of his contract it now belonged to Walter. He had great difficulty in selling the mine in Peru and with very little money, made his way to Valparaiso in Chile. There he managed to get a job as an engineer on a Spanish man of war and eventually returned home, probably late l874 or early 1875.

Meanwhile, back in Wales, Mary had her child either in Llanelli or Swansea but she was very fond of a glass of wine or two, and soon after it was born (we do not know its sex or name) she rolled onto it in her sleep and it died. Not wanting to forego the extra money, Mary found another child, said to be the daughter of a sea captain named Lewis who arranged all the adoption papers.

When Walter got home, he found Mary with a daughter of a fair age, and it seems that the birth had never been registered. (Walter did not know about the adoption until May l894 on Mary's death). Perhaps because he did not want to pay the fine for an unregistered child, Walter at the end of June 1875 went to the Swansea registry office and reported the birth of a girl, said to have been on 26 May 1875 at 4 Lower Oxford Street, Swansea whose name was to be "Daisy Elizabeth".

Mary's next child Walter Henry was born in 1878 at Aberystwyth a town on the north west coast of Wales - perhaps Walter had got a job in the coal mines there. Whether it was because of hard times, or because as one of his sons said, he had a falling out with the elders of his faith, Walter decided to emigrate and perhaps he chose South Africa because there was a Christadelphian group already formed in Pietermaritzburg, where his sponsor S.Bayley lived.

He and the family would have had to go to London to join their ship and records show the family comprised Walter and his wife Mary, D. Bailey a child of 5 (wrongly shown as a male) and W. Bailey aged l, while Walter's occupation was given as Carpenter. They travelled as Free Settlers on the Conway Castle and arrived at Durban on 20th September 1879.

All the places in this genealogy are, unless otherwise noted, in England and Wales.

5/[4.2.1] Walter BAILEY b 27 Oct 1853 bp 26 Nov 1853 Little Dean Gls m 1. 27 Oct 1872 Llanelli Glam Mary (James) b c 1852 ? Aberystwyth Cardiganshire Wales

5/[4.2.1] Mary (James)

Father Thomas JAMES Occ Coachman Mother Mary (??)

After arriving in Durban, Walter eventually took his family up in the hills to Pietermaritzburg 70 miles inland . The railway was not opened until 1880, so they probably took a coach to their destination. Pietermaritzburg, simply known as Maritzburg by the English settlers was founded by Dutch voortrekkers in 1835 and had been annexed by the British about l840. It was a busy place being the seat of Lieutenant Governor of Natal and home to a British Regiment and the ideal area to set up a blacksmithing and engineering business.

Walter advertised his business called Pietermaritzburg Engineering Works in David's Natal Almanac of 1880 and it was in the rear of Mr. J.T.Button's Produce Sale Rooms in Henrietta Street. By 1882, the works had moved to the Market Square at 28 Loop Street, while the family lived at 49 Burgher Street Pietermaritzburg.

There were no entries in Natal Almanac from 1883 to 1887, so maybe the family were living at Lot 476 Town Lands on Town Bush Valley Road. This land, some 4 acres l rood and 18 perches in extent was registered in Mary's name by right of 'post nuptial contract'. There is a family story that it was Mary who had all the money in the family and it is tempting to speculate that it may have come from Daisy Elizabeth's sea captain father to pay for her upbringing. Mary's father is said to have been a coachman and it was hardly likely that he could have given his daughter such a substantial dowry.

When the family moved to Town Bush Valley Road, one of their first jobs was, according to Ted Bailey, to plant aloes all around the land to mark its boundaries. As was the custom of the time Walter employed the local Kaffir men to do most of the hard work in his business while the local women helped around the house and looked after the children. Walter was a large framed and very powerful man and according to Daniel could easily discipline any Kaffir men who displeased him by knocking them out cold with his fists, despite their very thick skulls.

Besides doing general engineering work and blacksmithing, it seems that Walter also built up a good trade in repairing brickmaking machinery. In the entry for 1888 in the Natal Almanac, Walter is shown as having a business called Safety Wind Engineering Works at Town Bush Valley Road. This suggests that he was now making winding machinery, possibly for the gold mines at Johannesburg, which were not that far away.

While Walter's businesses had fine sounding names, they probably did not make enough profit to feed his growing family. To supplement the family finances, they raised pigs, goats and chickens which were killed and dressed and once a week, were delivered to Pietermaritzburg.

There were five children born while they were at Town Bush Valley Road - Albert in l880, John in l882, James in l885 and their first daughter Mary Ellen in l887. After the birth of Alfred in l889, Mary's health rapidly deteriorated, as she often indulged herself with a bottle of wine. It seems that the supervision of the household and of the new baby and the rest of the children fell onto the shoulders of the eldest girl, Daisy Elizabeth, called by the family "Lil".

Apparently, the family also kept a boarding house at Town Bush Valley Road, and on 24 November l890 Lil had a daughter Dinah Maria, said to have been by a Portuguese boarder, who had taken advantage of her while the rest of the family were away.

Mary finally succumbed to 'liver atrophy' on 20 April l894, leaving an estate of eight hundred pounds - a tidy sum in those days. It was made up of an insurance policy worth two hundred pounds together with the property at Town Bush Valley Road valued at another six hundred pounds.

On her death bed, Mary had astounded Walter by declaring that "Lil" was not his daughter, but a child she had adopted about l873, after the death of her own baby. She is said to have had all the papers to prove these facts - if only we had them today!

After Mary's death, Daisy Elizabeth became Walter's wife, giving her first name as Lily (from the name she was always known in the family) and the surname of Lewis, taken from the adoption papers. They may have been married later on in Aden, Arabia, as shown on their childrens' birth certificates, and we are still trying to locate these records.

Their first child Jane was born on l8 May l895 and even then conflicts were beginning in South Africa between the British and the Dutch. With the discovery of gold near Johannesburg in 1886, thousands of people of all nationalities poured into the area, which was not that far from Pietermaritzburg, but the Dutch who ruled over the gold areas, would not let these foreigners have any say in the government. Early in 1895 there was a raid led by a Dr. Jamieson (at the instigation of Cecil Rhodes) which tried to start a rebellion, but even though the raid failed, it triggered off many arguments between the Dutch and British which eventually led to the Boer War. The Christadelphian faith was strongly pacifist and so Walter decided to leave South Africa lest any of his sons be conscripted to fight in the coming conflict. Why he finally went to Queensland, or even Australia, we have no idea.

The family's first attempt to leave the country in the middle of l896 was a failure. According to one story, Walter had booked a passage for the family on a boat returning to England and they had gone down to Capetown to catch it. They were late arriving at the wharf, and only saw their ship way out on the horizon, because it had left without them. They did not realise at the time just how lucky they were, as after their original boat (said to be the Drummond Castle) left Capetown, it was wrecked on 16 June 1896 on Ushant Island at the entrance to the English Channel on the last day of its journey and out of 245 passengers, there were only three survivors!.

Next it seems, Walter and the family went east across the Cape to Port Elizabeth, and probably caught a series of local boats up the east coast of South Africa to the British Protectorate of Aden, to join up with the steamship Darmstadt on which they travelled to Australia. This ship was one of several belonging to North German Lloyd Line, which had started a shipping service to Australia in 1886 and its voyage had started at Bremen , with calls at Antwerp, Southampton and Genoa, where it picked up a number of passengers of Italian origin, coming to Australia as labourers and domestic servants. It then sailed through Suez Canal to Aden, where it picked up Walter and his family and possibly other passengers. It cannot have been a pleasant trip for Lily, who was carrying Daniel at that time and having no help with baby Jane - let's hope none of the children were sea sick. Walter probably spent most of his time down in the engine room with the four older boys, initiating them into the mysteries of his life long passion - steam machinery.

After calling in at Colombo in Ceylon to fill the coal bunkers, the Darmstadt began the long hot 3,000 mile journey across the Indian Ocean with a land fall on the coast of West Australia.

Because it was not until l90l that steamships could berth at Fremantle, their journey continued southward and around Cape Leeuwin and the Darmstadt finally docked at its first Australian port - Albany. The ship stayed there from ll pm on 20 April, l897 until noon on 21st, but the passengers probably had to stay on board. They then set sail for Melbourne, across the sometimes stormy Great Australian Bight and the Darmstadt left that port about 29 April, finally arriving in Sydney on l May, 1897.

All places in the genealogy that follows are, unless otherwise noted, in Pietermaritzburg Natal South Africa (PMB)

6/[4.2.1] Walter BAILEY b 27 Oct 1853 Little Dean Gls m 1. 27 Oct 1872 Llanelli Glam Mary (James) ? b c 1852 Aberystwyth Wales

All births at PMB

6/[5.1] Family of Lily (Lewis)

6/[4.2.2] Walter BAILEY m ? 1897 ? Aden, Arabia " Daisy Elizabeth " [5.1] Lily (Lewis)

It is not known why Walter, after landing in Sydney decided to take his family to Brisbane - perhaps he thought Brisbane might have better prospects or maybe he had made arrangements to get a job there or to go into business. Eventually he rented a workshop at what was then known as Five Ways Albion, which was actually on the corner of Bimbil Street and Abbotsford Road, where the present day Sandgate Road and Collingwood Street meet. After Walter left, it was once occupied by a firm making taps, but in 1990, it had returned to its former use, being the premises of Brisbane Lace and Gates, who make reproduction iron lace work and gates, though these days they are cast in aluminium.

Walter's first trade advertisement appears in Pugh's Almanac for 1899 where Walter is shown under the listing of "Engineers, Machinists, Wheelwrights, Boilermakers and Mechanical Manufacturers". In 1900 there is a listing as well in Queensland Post Office Directory and the first mention of Motor Car Manufacturer as well as Boilermaker and Ornamental Ironworker. It was probably at Albion that the gates still in front of Department of Agriculture in William Street Brisbane and stamped BAILEY PATENT ALBION were made.

Some time about 1905 Walter moved to a much larger site in Montpelier Road Bowen Hills (sometimes called Valley in Walter's ads) which was called Bailey's Engineering Coy and was backed by a steep cliff. Walter's main offsider at that time was Albert, who used to go out and measure up the gates etc, and help Walter make them and then he and Walter would go out and install them. Perhaps the gates made for the then Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, named Duhig and installed at his residence were made at Bowen Hills. They were originally painted green, with red rosettes and white arum lilies with yellow centres, but when the residence became Canossa Private Hospital, the gates were donated to All Hallows Convent (now St. Ambrose) in Newmarket Road and they were repainted, much to their detriment. There is also an old photo, taken about 1906 at Montpelier Road, of a magnificent pair of display gates emblazoned BAILEYS, with Walter and Albert on each side, completely dwarfed by their great height and in the background are various garden seats and sample fences and other products Walter made.

One of the garden seats is still in the family, having been given to Alfred’s son Maurice by his mother in law Maud Watson. It was not until Maurice was giving the rusty arms a good clean up prior to painting them, that he found they were stamped with the name BAILEYS

It seems that the name of Bailey is also associated with gates in England and it has been reported that one pair, made by "Messrs Bailey" were first shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and then installed at Brookwood Necropolis Station, near Westminster Bridge. The Great Exhibition was devised by Prince Albert and 14,OOO exhibits from all over the world (half of them British) were housed in a huge 'Crystal Palace' or glass house erected in Hyde Park London which covered 19 acres.

At one time there was also a set of Walter's gates at Marchant Park Kedron at the entrance to the land that had been donated to the community by George Marchant, from whom Walter had an order for Steam Trucks. Perhaps the gates were a sort of quid pro quo, but unfortunately they have been replaced by modern ones.

At the Old Museum, on corner of Gregory Terrace and Bowen Bridge Road, it is thought that the sign itself and the surrounding fence were both made by Walter and these are still standing. This fence is made of alternating square and round vertical bars, set into horizontal ones and locked in by a system of alternating pins. Ted Bailey says that first the knobs on tops of the vertical bars would be made in the forge and then a series of holes would be drilled in the horizontal bars, using Walter's steam operated drilling machine, or if there was no steam it would be turned by hand. The bars were heated until they were red hot and the holes then enlarged by driving in a special tool with a sledge hammer. This was repeated until the holes were the right shape and the vertical bars were then inserted and locked into place with the pins.

The great obsession of Walter's life, to which he devoted so much time and money was steam power. Even when Ted was still a child, Walter used to demonstrate the basic principles of steam to the family at mealtimes, using cutlery, bottles and anything else on the table to explain how they worked.

Towards the end of 1700s steam began to be used to power all types of machines and it was later extended to drive all sorts of vehicles. Starting with James Watt's Steam Carriage in 1769, there are numerous examples of Steam Coaches in England and America. A Steam Coach built in England in 1829 by James Anderson, which was the first to carry paying passengers and to make ten miles per hour and a Steam Wagon built by John Yule in 1875, were but two of the many vehicles driven by steam that were put into operation. In America in 1897, the Stanley brothers had already produced their famous "Stanley Steamer", which in 1906 broke a world speed record by travelling at 127 miles per hour.

Walter mentions a Steam Motor Car in a display ad in 1905 Post Office Directory, though of course it was not an original idea and no mention of a Steam Car patented by Walter Bailey could be found in Australian Patent Office records.

Like many of the Bailey men, Walter could be a very persuasive talker and about 1908 got together a company or syndicate which was called Bailey Motor Manufacturing & Carrying Co with himself as Managing Director and its Registered Office at 343 Queen Street Brisbane where Company Secretary David W I Anderson was in business. One of the company's main backers was George Marchant, whom Walter may have met because of their common interest in the Temperance movement. Marchant had started off as a soft drink carrier, but went on to invent bottling machinery which was used all over the world. Other subscribers are said to have been Charles Bernays (Walter's patent attorney), a Major Bland/Blunt, a Mr. Bushell and James Traction Co. According to Jane, there were also a lot of small subscribers who paid for their shares in sixpenny instalments, collected by Walter doing his rounds on a bicycle. Although the Steam Car was supposed to run on oil or coke, the small subscribers were to supply wattle logs for its fuel and make a return on their investment, but perhaps the logs were to be used to make charcoal as an alternative fuel.

The four Steam Trucks Walter was to build for Marchant were to take empty bottles up to Ipswich, where the water from Helidon spa (which was a vital constituent of the famous "New Drink") was bottled in Marchant's factory and on the return journey, the trucks would take the filled ones back to Brisbane from where they would be distributed all over Queensland. To seal the bottles, Marchant is said to have designed a special ebony stopper, but Ted believes the design was Walter's - a fact that Marchant never acknowledged.

Even had the trucks ever been finished, they would have been very expensive to run up to Ipswich. Like many other Governments, the one in Queensland had passed a regulation requiring steam vehicles travelling within 4 miles of Post Office of any large town to be preceded by a man carrying a red flag and ringing a bell and be in possession of a permit which was to cost one hundred pounds.

Despite all the stories of a Steam Car and the order for Steam Trucks, what Walter actually started to build at Montpelier Road was a Steam Bus - the fuel was to be wood and it was to run from Brisbane to Redcliffe via Petrie and return, with the passengers having to pay two shillings and six pence for the whole journey. There was, in the beginning enough money to employ two helpers, one of whom is said to have been an Alf Foulkes of Hamilton. There is even a photo, taken about this time showing Walter at the forge, with his helpers in the background with a big flat bed lathe used during its construction. In the end, not even the engine was ever finished as there were problems with faulty cylinders and gear castings that broke when being machined and the whole project collapsed. It is said that Secretary Anderson sold up the Company without even consulting Walter and perhaps even took the Steam Car patent to America, but there are no records to prove whether this was true or not. When the family moved to Enoggera, Walter took some of the Steam Bus parts with him and Ted says he remembers that some of the brass bevel gears were still around when he was a boy.

Walter had, as his patent attorney, one Charles Bernays, who according to the full page advert in Pugh's Almanac for 1904 was a Consulting Engineer - this ad also mentioned "Patents Applied For in Any Country. Inventions Examined and Reported Upon. Oppositions Prosecuted and Defended." At a time when workers, under the Harvester judgment, were paid forty two shillings for a six day week, the fee for a Provisional Patent, lasting for six months was five pounds. After this, the patentee had to apply for a full patent, which cost twenty pounds and lasted for twenty years. When the cost of Bernay's services was added to these fees, it was no wonder Walter had very little money left for the family's living expenses.

In his listing in Post Office Directory for 1908, Walter states "Proprietor of the following Patents viz Steam Motor Cars (Oil or Coke fuel), Ornamental Iron Gates & Water Tube Boilers, Wrought Iron Wheels for all Purposes &". The latter was the only full patent Walter ever held - it was for the wheels with S-shaped spokes and was probably the one registered in the name of Bailey Motor Manufacturing & Carrying Co in 1910 No. l5578.

In 1928 there was a Provisional Patent accepted and issued as l4934/28 for a Grass Cutter, but because a full patent was never taken out, the document and drawings are not available to the public.

The Grass Cutter was actually a new type of lawn mower, which instead of using knives around a cylinder, cut the grass by means of knives attached to 2 revolving plates. It seems to have been on the lines of an early "Victa" mower, but instead of having a motor, the power was provided by the operator. According to Ted, it had an eighteen inch cut and was operated by turning a handle attached to a wire rope which passed around grooved pulleys, thus rotating the wheels and spinning the cutting knives - as well there was a lever on the handles to disengage the clutch and stop the mower. The framework was made of one inch by quarter inch mild steel bar and the shafting of half inch steel pipe and the mower was light enough to be picked up by one man. A site was booked at the Brisbane Agricultural Show about 1928 so the new machine could be demonstrated and it was to cost five pounds. The "grass" was the stems of some weed Ted gathered daily on a vacant block near home and the stems were pushed into rows of holes drilled into a set of boards made for the occasion. There would be demonstrations on the hour and as Walter worked the mower, Ted would hand out business cards, take any orders and when the demo was over, refill the boards ready for the next time. However, no one ever got a chance to buy the mower, because the provisional patent lapsed and the story goes that it fell into the hands of company secretary Anderson, so Walter could not manufacture any more machines.

Walter's next invention, provisionally patented in 1929 No. 24263 was for a Wire Strainer, which he sold out to the engineering firm of Lysaghts, but nothing ever came of this invention either.

The only patent that ever made any money for Walter was for his wheels in eight, ten and twelve inch sizes, made entirely by family labour. According to Ted, Walter only charged eight shillings for his eight inch wheels, which seems little enough, seeing the steel alone at that time cost five shillings. No account seems to have been taken of all the special machinery Walter built to bend the spokes and make various other parts, and whatever small profit was made on the wheels was put into buying more machinery or registering new patents, so in the end there was no capital left. The wheels would be delivered around Brisbane by horse and sulky, but sometimes a full load of wheels and the axles to go with them would be picked up by the local fuel merchant on his model T Ford and taken to Brisbane to be put on the train to go to places like Rockhampton.

As Ted grew up, the Depression deepened and it was very hard to sell anything for cash, so he and Joe would each take a pair of wheels to Brisbane to try to sell them for four shillings. The bus fare to Brisbane was more than a quarter of that, but if they sold any wheels the boys would use the balance of the money to buy some more steel to make another pair. After Walter died and Jane had to leave because she could not pay the overdue rates, she and Peter took some of the machinery with them, but no one knows where it is today - probably sold long ago for scrap or maybe rusting quietly away in the grass in some forgotten paddock. Like Walter's hopes of making his fortune, all that effort was for nought.

Walter had no option but to land in Sydney after the journey from South Africa, because that was where the Darmstadt's voyage finished. However, just when he and the family arrived in Brisbane is not known, nor how they got there. The rail connection had been finished in 1889 and there were plenty of coastal steamers on the Sydney to Brisbane route. In any event, by the time Daniel was born in October 1897, the family were settled in their first rented house in Albion. Though Daniel's birth certificate gave their address as Stoneleigh Street (it was first 10, but is now 36), by 1900, Post Office Directory called it Grove Street (said to be 7, but now 45). It seems the land, which was near Bridge Street, had a frontage to both streets and it was barely a mile from Five Ways workshop.

By quite a coincidence, it was the family of Georgena Hermann who came to live in the former Bailey house, when they moved to Brisbane from Ballina about 1952 and it was in 1963 that Georgena became Alfred Charles' second wife.

Five Ways was given as the family address at the time of Walter Henry's marriage and Benjamin's birth, both in 1899, but it is not known whether the family actually lived there. The present day block appears to be rather too small to have room for a house, but perhaps in those times, it was much larger. About 1904 the family may have lived at Lucy Street Albion for a while, but the Walter Bailey recorded at that address may have been Walter Henry.

The next year's Directory shows the family living at Montpelier Road Bowen Hills next to a Mrs. Alice M. Weston, who lived at "Woollahra" and made straw hats. Robert Sumner's Packing House was on the other side and this was on the corner of what was then Little Albert Street (now Dukinfield Street). Across that road was the site of Bailey Engineering Coy and Iron Works, on a big block on the corner of Breakfast Creek Road. By this time Walter Henry and Mary Ellen were married and so was Albert, though he may have still been working with Walter. John Ernest had probably found employment on the tramway and also maybe James George, but they may still have been living at Montpelier Road, together with Alfred, Dinah, Jane and Daniel, as well as young Samuel, born at Nundah in 1902 and the latest baby Joseph born at Montpelier Road in 1906.

Though he still had the workshop at Bowen Hills, about 1908 Walter moved the family out to a place in Chermside, off Gympie Road. In subsequent years, this address became known as off Richmond Street and later King Street in the new suburb of Kedron. On modern maps the workshop was about 4 miles from Kedron, so perhaps Walter travelled to and from work by horse and sulky or even rode a bicycle. While they lived at Kedron, Lily had 3 more children - Violet in 1908, Fanny Rose in 1910 and lastly Reuben Sam in 1913, but nothing at all is known about the house they lived in, nor even its exact location.

Around 1915, Walter took the family to a block of land out in the bush at what was then Bunyah Park Road Everton Park, later called Enoggera. There is one story that says that Walter simply squatted on the land to get away from the factory inspectors around Brisbane. After Queensland Factory and Shops Act was passed in 1896, inspectors were allowed to check working conditions and wages paid to employees. Of course Walter had no records to prove what wages he paid, because he did not pay any to his children, but in the eyes of the law, they were still his employees.

Though Walter may have been there illegally, the owners, when they found out, may simply have let him stay on the condition that he paid the rates. This practice was quite common before and during the Depression of 1930s, as it saved the owners having to pay them.

The block was originally part of a subdivision of lll acres made in 1901 and split up into nearly 400 blocks. Because of various later subdivisions, it is hard to sure exactly which block or blocks the family lived on. One block whose title was first registered in the name of Peter Fahey, passed to his widow and then to Queensland Trustees in 1943, being bought by Mr. and Mrs. Carter and is now known as 812 South Pine Road, Everton Park. About 1990, two houses were built on it, one of which is "Aviemore", whose owners provided the details, so that the original titles could be traced. The block next door was first registered in 1922 by Queensland Trustees and remained in their possession until September 1943, when title passed to Brisbane City Council. About 1956 the Council leased a small part of it to Boy Scouts Association to build a hall for Everton Park Group, and this hall is still on the block.

As was the custom of his time, Walter told his children absolutely nothing about his affairs and when he died, it must have been quite a shock to Jane to find out about the arrears in rates and worse still, that the land did not even belong to her father. Similar problems arose in Samuel's family in New Zealand with his grandson Francis who had helped out for many years on his father's farm without pay. He had been given a farm of his own and told "I'll see you right", but when his father died, he found the farm had been mortgaged in the latter’s name, and with no money to pay it off, he had to walk away and leave everything behind.

In 1916, while Walter is listed as a Mechanical Engineer in Pugh's Almanac, from 1917 to 1919 the listing in Post Office Directory is for a William Bailey Plumber - perhaps this was an initial wrong entry that was never corrected.

According to Fanny, the family had 2 acres of land - one acre for the forge and works and one for a vege garden and the cow. Maybe there was a rough shack on the land, or Walter gradually built one for the family which now consisted of Walter, Lily, Jane, Joseph and Fanny, with baby Edward arriving in 1916, although Daniel lived there briefly until he enlisted in 1917. Though there was a creek of sorts near the land, all the household water was carted in large drums from a public standpipe in Southpine Road by a cart drawn by the family's succession of wether goats.

In his workshop Walter was making his patent wheels and smaller items while Lily's job was at the drilling machine and making things like pot plant stands. Although there were family stories of Jane, who was a big woman lining up with the boys to wield the striker's hammer whilst Walter held the red hot steel, by the time Ted remembers, Jane looked after the house, assisted by Fanny. Ted says that sometimes Walter would get asthma, and he would heat the forge until glowing hot and then lean over and take deep breaths to inhale the fumes - he always said it made him feel much better!!. Like so many families at that time, there was not much cash available so they grew most of their vegetables, had the cow for milk and perhaps butter, kept fowls for eggs and the occasional treat of roast chicken and probably did quite a lot of bartering.

As time went on and money became even tighter, Joe and Ted did odd jobs for a mere pittance and such food as could be got cheaply would be added to the family menu. There would be kerosene tins full of sun scorched tomatoes holding about four gallons each and they could be had for sixpence. Then there was the local pineapple grower who would let the children have the crow picked pineapples as a treat - with the help of a twig, it was easy to make a nice ripe pineapple "crow picked", but Ted wasn't game to do this more than a couple of times running, in case he got caught. Perhaps the family went fishing or else someone gave them a big batch of fish, because Dan told the story that when the family couldn't manage to eat them all, the fish were boiled up heads, guts and all to make a sort of fish paste. However something went terribly wrong and all the family were violently ill, so much so that Daniel never ate fish again for the rest of his life.

The children had no pocket money but in those days, there was a deposit of twopence on Tazewells Tomato Sauce bottles, so Fanny and Ted would take it in turns each month to get the deposit and sometimes they would get 24 aniseed balls for a halfpenny, and would make them last for the four weeks.

Just occasionally, the children would have a great treat and catch the train to Sandgate, taking with them some Dolly Varden chocolates and a pound of dates to last the whole day.

Despite their problems, which were shared by many others at that time, they were a loving close knit family, who then and in later life always kept in touch and gave each other support and comfort whenever it was needed.

Walter had never belonged to any organised Christadelphian Ecclesia, but had his own congregation at home. He had baptised Lily and Jane and the whole of Sunday afternoon was devoted to religious matters. Dinner was eaten at noon and after the washing up was finished, Walter would start the meeting about 1 p.m. - Jane would read the lesson from the Bible and the family would join in, singing the hymns. Walter is said to have had a tenor voice, Lily to have had a beautiful Welsh one, while Ted was still a boy soprano. Next Walter would deliver a lengthy exhortation, sometimes lasting nearly two hours and then there would be more hymns. The family's dogs used to join in and howl while the singing continued, and their nearest neighbours only half a mile away became quite used to the Bailey's Sunday afternoons and knew it was no use visiting them then. Sometimes during the week, Walter who liked a good argument would go and visit a Mr. Hillman, the local Baptist minister and spend an afternoon discussing religious matters.

Around 1933, Walter became very ill with a strangulated hernia and was taken off to Brisbane General Hospital. He was the first person in Queensland to have a spinal anaesthesia for an operation as well as, when he had recovered a little, one of the first to try out the newly installed radio headphones.

Lily Lewis, as well as bearing 12 children, had spent the whole of her life doing hard physical work, especially after the family moved to Enoggera. Beside her work in the forge, it was Lily, like so many other women, who chopped up all the wood to keep the fuel stove going. Ted would drag a big log up to the wood heap and then Lily would split it up to fit in the stove. One time Ted found his mother almost bent double with the pain in her side (perhaps from the chronic myocarditis mentioned on her death certificate) but she still toiled away for another couple of hours till all the wood had been chopped.

About 1922, Ted remembers a visit from a man called Captain Lewis and dressed as a sea captain, who it seems was Lily's father. They had a long talk and he called Ted's mother "Lil" and though Ted and Fanny, who were sent outside, tried to listen at the window, they could hear nothing of their conversation - what a marvellous opportunity missed, to find out the real story of Walter's second wife!

During the last few years of her life, Lily was often in hospital after she had bouts of influenza and on the final occasion in June 1934, she did not return home - worn out by a lifetime of hard work, she died in her sleep on the last day of that month when her heart gave out. After this Jane took over the household, but less than two years later, in March 1936 Walter died also from heart troubles and he was buried with Lily in Lutwyche Cemetery.

All places in the genealogy that follows are, unless otherwise mentioned, near Brisbane Queensland.

8/[4.2.2] Walter BAILEY b 28 Oct 1853 Little Dean Gls Eng d 5 Mar 1936 Bris m ?1897 Aden Arabia Lily (Lewis) b ?1873 Swansea Glam Wales d 30 Jun 1934 Bris

Walter and Mary's first born son was Walter Henry - born in 1878 in Aberystwyth in Wales the home town of his mother Mary James - his second name was probably after his grandfather Henry. In the family, he was always known as "Harry" and he was barely 18 months old when the family went out to South Africa and settled in Pietermaritzburg in the then British colony of Natal. There he spent his childhood, went to school and as he grew older helped his father in his engineering business.

When they came to Brisbane and Walter set up his engineering business at Old Sandgate Road Albion, Harry worked with him for some time possibly until he was married and perhaps for a short while after. His wife was an English lass named Esther Elsie Clark "Elsie" and they were wed in September 1899 at Paddington Registry Office, with Walter's brother Albert William as witness, as well as the bride's sister Katie who later became Albert's wife. The bride was living at Red Hill at this time, so perhaps they lived in that area for a few years.

In early Brisbane Post Office Directories, there are records showing a Walter H. Bailey living in Fernberg Road, Rosalie in 1901, and this may be where his first son Thomas may have been born late in 1900 - he was most likely named after his maternal grandfather. There is a record in 1904 at Bridge Street Red Hill and later that year Harry seems to have bought the dairy at Boundary Road Paddington and here the twins Mabel and Frederick were born in July 1905. Besides the dairy, there was also a milk run, so it must have been a busy life - milking the cows twice a day then harnessing up the horse into the sulky and making deliveries to surrounding areas. Five years later, Harry and Elsie's last daughter Fanny was born, most likely named after her maternal grandmother whilst Elsie was her mother's second name. Family sources have it that Walter's Fanny Rose born six months later was named after Fanny Elsie but Fanny Rose herself says she was named after Walter's cousin in England.

By the end of 1926 in December, Thomas had left home to marry Sarah Weldon and in October 1929 Mabel married Stanley Gallier. Her twin Frederick got married to Isobel Adams in December 1937, while barely three months later Fanny left the family home to marry Claude Bell-Booth.

Elsie passed away in September 1957 and two and a half years later Harry died in June 1960.

As well as the dairy at Paddington, Harry had three milk runs to cope with, so it must have been a busy life - milking the cows twice a day then harnessing up the horses into the sulky and making deliveries to surrounding areas. While Harry did one milk run, the boys Tom and Fred managed the other two.

For some reason or other, Harry and Elsie separated around 1924 and Elsie and the children stayed at Paddington until January 1926 when they moved to Red Hill, near Kate and Albert who lived in Kenwyn Street. After the separation, Elsie's brother in law Albert and a helper had built a house for the family so they would have somewhere to live after the farm at Paddington was sold.

Tom became an owner-driver, with a one ton "T" model Ford truck, delivering sawn timber around Brisbane for Richmond River Timber company, who went out of business during the Depression. After several difficult years around the greater Brisbane area, Tom moved to Nanango about 1933 and took up share farming. The family moved around a lot, but finally settled on a mixed farm at Upper Yarraman, where they stayed until 1951, when Tom's wife Maud died. All the family had left home by this, except ten year old Auriel, who stayed for 3 1/2 years with her sister Beris and brother in law Jack Barrett in Yarraman. Tom went to live with Fred and Isobel at Ashgrove, where he met and married Gladys Phillips about 1954 and Auriel went with them when they moved to Nundah, until Tom had a stroke and died in 1974, while Gladys stayed there until her death in 1980

After the Paddington dairy was sold, Fred still kept up his milk run, getting supplies from Rob Low who had a dairy at The Gap.Later he sold bottled milk until sometime in 1940's, when he sold out and started an office cleaning business which he carried on until his death in 1961. Fanny lost her husband in 1973 and now in her 87th year lives in a retirement home in Kallangur. Her son Trevor Lives in Adelaide, where he has a radiator repair business.

All places in the genealogy that follows are, unless otherwise noted, in Brisbane (Bris) or other places in Queensland

9/[5.2] Walter Henry BAILEY b 24 Feb 1878 Aberystwyth Cardiganshire Wales d 16 Jun 1960 Bris m 4 Sep 1899 Paddington Esther Elsie (Clark) b 4 Jan 1877 South Norwood Surrey Eng d 8 Sep 1957 Bris

[9.1] Family of Thomas Walter BAILEY and Maud Sarah (Weldon)

[9.2] Family of Mabel Ivy (Bailey) and Stanley Arthur James GALLIER

All births at Brisbane

[9.3] Family of Frederick Henry BAILEY and Isobel (Adams)

All births at Brisbane

[9.4] Family of Fanny Elsie (Bailey) and Claude Charlton BELL-BOOTH

[9.5] Family of Ronald Thomas BAILEY and Joan (Phillips) - live at Maryborough Vic

[9.6] Family of Beris Maud (Bailey) and John BARRETT - live at Yarraman near Kingaroy

9.19 Beris Annette b 8 Oct 1950 Kingaroy m 15 Jan 1977 William DAVIES b 8 Mar 1939

[9.7] Family of Auriel Majorie (Bailey) and Lawrence DAY

9.21 Leanne m Anthony DURHAM

[9.8] Family of Thelma Mabel (Gallier) and Leslie STEELE

- live at Lismore NSW.

[9.9.1] Family of Merle Ivy (Gallier) and Keith PHILLIPS

[9.10] Family of Betty Mavis (Gallier) and Clifford MURFIN

[9.13] Family of Russell Frederick BAILEY and Nancy (Fotheringham) - live in Adelaide SA

[9.15(1)] Family of Trevor BELL- BOOTH and Gail (Sherman)

[9.15.2] Family of Trevor BELL-BOOTH and Pamela (Wright) - live in Adelaide SA

[9.17] Family of Lesleigh (Bailey) and Klaas WOLTHZUIZEN

[9.18] Family of Deslyn (Bailey) and Graham DWYER

[9.19] Family of Annette (Barrett) and William DAVIES

[9.20] Family of Darryl BARRETT and Robin (Edmonds)

[9.21] Family of Leanne (Day) and Anthony DURHAM

[9.23] Family of Neil DAY and Therese (Briggs)

[9.25] Family of Janelle (Steele) and Allan Brian SMITH

[9.26] Family of Paul STEELE and Wendy (Hermann)

[9.27] Family of Rowan STEELE and Judith (Michan/Mickan)

[9.28.1/2] Family of Deleina (Phillips) and Tony BARTON/Graeme PRICE

[9.29] Family of Belinda (Phillips) and Adrian HIGGIN

[9.30] Family of Averil (Murfin) and Clive VENN

[9.31] Family of Bonnie (Murfin) and Raymond WHEELER

9/[5.2] Esther Elsie (Clark)

Father Thomas John Bestland CLARK Occ Boot Finisher Mother Fanny (Hack)

This family were living in South Norwood Surrey Eng in 1877 and then came to Australia and in 1882 were living near Sydney NSW - later they went to live in Brisbane.

Just a year after the family arrived in South Africa Mary had a second son Albert William born in 1880 in Pietermaritzburg - Albert is the first one of that name in our family group but his second name may have been after his grandfather William Fowle Bailey. All the boys when old enough had to help after school preparing the chickens etc. for delivery to the shops in town and the family had two donkeys Salt and Pepper who used to pull the delivery cart. Somehow poor Albert got in their way and one of the donkeys trod on his toes which were permanently damaged and stayed crooked for the rest of his life.

Even though Walter employed Kaffir men to do the heavy work, Albert probably learnt a good deal about Walter's business while he was in South Africa and this stood him in good stead when Walter set up his workshop at Five Ways, where Albert was his main assistant.

We do not know just when Albert stopped working for Walter, but for a while he turned his hand to carpentry and to painting for various builders.

On Christmas Eve 1903 while he was living with his brother Harry at Bridge Street Red Hill he was married to Katie Clark at her home in Wellington Road Red Hill by a Presbyterian minister Robert Roberts, with Harry as one of the witnesses. It may have been about this time that Albert joined the tramways as a conductor, being attached to Paddington depot and there is a photo taken in 1909 of a Toowong tram with John Bailey as motorman and his brother Albert as conductor. Records in Post Office Directories show there was an Albert W Bailey living at Mornington Street Red Hill in 1905 and this may be where his first daughter Beatrice "Ivy" was born early in 1906. In 1907 the family lived at River Road Milton and from 1908 until 1911 at Cairns Street Red Hill.

While they were living here, they bought a large block of land in Kenwyn Street, which already had a house at the bottom of the block. They decided to build a new house on Kenwyn Street frontage and got Sam Hawkins to do this for them. Before he started building however poor Sam had to go through the collection of nails Albert had amassed while working as a carpenter and straighten all the bent ones to be re-used and carefully put aside those with leaden heads so that Albert could sell them later for scrap.

Katie had her second daughter Doris in 1913 and the first boy Frank arrived in 1915. The second son Albert who was born in 1919 lived only for nine months and the last child Clifford was born in 1921. Even when the new house at Kenwyn Street was finished, Albert and Katie kept the house in Cairns Street, but a long time later, they sold it off. Albert had not joined in 1912 tramway strike and kept on working and about 1927 he was promoted to ticket inspector, after 21 years service as a conductor. After a further 22 years duty as a ticket inspector, he eventually retired from the tramways well past the usual retiring age because of the shortage of labour, after the end of World War II.

All his life Albert kept fowls, and the nickname given to him by his fellow workers was "Chooky" Bailey. One time when he was building a new fowl house, Albert found himself short of enough material to finish the job. Not to be daunted Albert simply removed some panels from the back of the house and used them. It was quite a while later and only after some strong words from Katie, that Albert eventually got around to buying some more material and replacing the panels he had taken off.

Albert and Katie separated in 1941 - she took the house fronting on Kenwyn Street, while Albert lived in the one at the bottom of the block. For a few months in 1947 it seems, Ted and Beryl and their family lived with him, before moving to Belmont.

Towards the end of his father's life, Cliff and Jean cared for Albert, doing his washing and looking to his meals but a few weeks before he died, he suddenly became senile so Cliff had him admitted to Brisbane General Hospital. Later he was transferred to Goodna Asylum where he died on the first day of October 1956. He is buried at Toowong Cemetery only a few graves away from Ivy's husband George Watson, who had died in 1953. Only five weeks earlier, Cliff and the other children had lost their mother Katie, who had died on 24 August in that same year.

Ivy, the eldest of Albert and Katie's children is still alive, almost 91, but sadly she now has Alzheimer's disease. Ivy and George had three children - Alan, Joyce and Ray. Alan, the eldest, was in the electrical trade, and established his own business repairing electronic musical instruments, in which his wife Edith and three of their sons Graham, Lindsay and Darryl now work. Bradley, another son is a horticulturist, and Dudley has his own cabinet making business. Alan died in 1994.

Ivy and George's other children are Joyce and Ray. Joyce worked in the office of Queensland Institute of Technology, and at the time of her retirement, was personal assistant to the Deputy Vice Chancellor. Ray runs his own cabinet making business at Newmarket, with his wife, Joy as his full time furniture assistant. His two sons Glenn and Paul learnt the trade with Ray, and since 1993 they have their own business. It is Paul,[10.27] a great grandson of Albert William Bailey who is married to Alison Hermann [?13.13a ] a great granddaughter of Alfred Charles Bailey

Albert and Katie's youngest son Clifford "Cliff" has had a varied career and like his father worked in the tramways from 1947 to 1958 as a motorman at the Paddington depot.

In October 1941 Cliff had enlisted in the Army while Jean Ashford had joined AWAS in November 1942. They met when Cliff was sent to Lady Bowen Hospital canteen as a sweets cook and Jean was working there as a waitress. Jean left AWAS in January 1944 and Cliff and Jean were married in Maryborough in June. After their marriage, they moved to Bardon near Red Hill, where Cliff was in charge of an Army bakery a couple of miles away, until he was discharged in November 1945.

Their first child Robert was born in July 1945, Rodney in 1947 and the youngest Garry in 1952. At one time or the other Cliff has tried his hand in the engineering trade, worked as a pastry cook truck driver taxi driver and hardware salesman while at one stage he was a "spec" builder. At present he and Jean live at Kipparing but they own a block of flats at Redcliffe, where they used to live. Cliff has been restoring vintage cars for many years and his cabinet making skills are put to good use when remaking the wooden frames around which the car bodies are built. So far Cliff has finished 2 of these cars and has given one to Rodney, and kept one for himself, and is still working on the third.

Walter's great grand children from Albert's line have taken to working with wood rather than metal. Cliff's eldest son Robert has a factory making reproduction furniture at Northgate, employing 20 men and Robert's son works there as a French polisher. As well, Doris has a son who is working in the cabinet making trade, as are three of Ivy's grandsons. The second son Rodney does not have the best of health and has four taxi licenses which he leases out and he has now retired. Only Cliff's youngest son Garry works in the metal trade - he is a mechanic who has lived in Perth about 16 years, but is now in Brisbane so Cliff and Jean will have the chance to see their two grandsons more often.

All places in the genealogy that follows are, unless otherwise noted, in and around Brisbane (Bris) Queensland.

10/[6.1] Albert William BAILEY b 29 Oct 1880 PMB d 1 Oct 1956 Bris m 24 Dec 1903 Bris Katie Ruth (Clark) b July 1882 St Peters NSW d 24 Aug 1956 Bris

All births at Brisbane

[10.1] Family of Beatrice Ivy (Bailey) and George Archibald WATSON

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[10.2] Family of Doris Fanny (Bailey) and Keith Thomas Maxwell JONES

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[10.2] Family of Doris Fanny (Bailey) and Isaac John TURNER

[10.3] Family of Frank Clark BAILEY and Sylvia May (Collick)

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[10.5] Family of Clifford Arthur BAILEY and Jean Elizabeth (Ashford)

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[10.6] Family of Alan George WATSON and Edith Mavis (Caddick)

[10.8] Family of Ray Donald WATSON and Joyce Noela (Steele)

[10.9] Family of Donald John JONES and Annette (Atkinson)

All births at Brisbane

[10.10] Family of Kay Jeanette (Jones) and Brian George ARMOUR

All births Brisbane

[10.11] Family of Margaret Dawn (Jones) and Peter James MOORE

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[10.12] Family of Glenda Ruth (Turner) and Michael Geoffrey JUDSON

All births Brisbane

[10.13] Family of Nola Ann (Bailey) and Trevor Leslie HEIN

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[10.14] Family of Joan Lynette (Bailey) and Tal Varis KUGIS

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[10.15] Family of Colin John BAILEY and Patricia Gail (Naylor)

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[10.16] Family of Robert Clifford BAILEY and Susan Dale (Hilton)

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[10.17] Family of Rodney Arthur BAILEY and Helen Marion (Gilvear)

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[10.18] Family of Garry John BAILEY and Jenny (Smith)

[10.19] Family of Graham Alan WATSON and Marilyn (Dodd)

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[10.21] Family of Dudley Maurice WATSON and Eileen Jane (Nibloe)

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[10.22] Family of Lindsay David WATSON and Carol Jean (Collins)

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[10.24] Family of Jennifer Rita (Watson) and David Ian THURLOW

[10.25] Family of Glen Richard WATSON and Susan (Boyd)

[10.26] Family of Leanne - Joy (Watson) and Paul Robert HICKS

[10.27] Family of Paul Raymond WATSON and Alison Anne (Hermann)

10/[6.1] Katie Ruth (Clark)

Father Thomas John Bestland CLARK Occ Boot Finisher

Mother Fanny (Hack)

This family were living at South Norwood Surrey Eng in 1877 but came to Australia before Katie's birth in 1882. At one time they lived at Barrengarry south of Moss Vale NSW, where Katie's father and brother were working in the boot trade

[10.1] George Archibald WATSON

Father Archibald WATSON Mother Mary ( Clark ) see also 13.4

[10.5] Jean Elizabeth (Ashford)

Father Cyril ASHFORD Mother Kathleen (Maguire)

[10.49] Sonia Marie (Schoeter)

Father Michael SCHOETER Mother Diane ( ?? )

As a child, he probably helped out with family finances by dressing fowls etc for the local market, and when he was big enough, taking his turn as a striker at his father's forge. When the family settled in Brisbane John was l5 but he is said to have got a job with the tramways as soon as he could and at the date of his marriage was listed as a motorman.

He met his wife, Emily Blake, when she was taken to a Christadelphian meeting by her friend Etta Giblin, who also belonged to that faith. Emily was an English girl, who had come out with her family to Brisbane about 1894 and their marriage took place in September 1907 at Ellen Street Albion the home of the bride's parents. The Baptist minister from Albion, William Higlett officiated with Emily's sister Daisy Blake and Albert William as witnesses.

The Post Office records show they were at Thomas Street Red Hill by 1908 and Emily stayed on there after John's death in 1953. Emily (or "Em" as everyone called her) took the Bailey family under her wing after her marriage - she would put them up if they needed to stay in Brisbane and Ted stayed there many times, while his sister Dinah Maria was there when she married William Buchanan in 1918.

After we arrived in Sydney, my father Daniel took his family by train to visit Brisbane every year and we mostly stayed at Thomas Street. Their Queensland style house was fascinating to a 6 year old though it was rather a nuisance to have to go down the stairs and under the house every time my mother made me wash my face and hands. It was there I first saw a mango tree and paw paws growing and the garden had numerous aviaries filled with birds, but my fondest memories were of walking up a very steep hill to the shop at the tram stop to buy delicious home made milk ices full of real paw paw and mango. Whenever we came, Emily ransacked her cupboards for metho and bicarb soda to soothe our sunburn, as our tender English skins had not become used to the Australian sunlight. One remedy we tried - slightly beaten egg white was very painful when it dried and made our skins worse than ever.

Uncle John had a car and he took us around to visit his family and to the beach at Sandgate - if only I had been interested in family history then!!!

John had been promoted to an inspector with the tramways and he was attached to Paddington Road depot where his fellow workers called him "Pidgie" because at one time he kept pigeons. He was another Bailey who worked throughout the bitter strike from January to March 1912 which started in the tramways over the wearing of union badges and then escalated into a general strike. John retired about 1946, after 4O years service with the tramways.

He was a keen breeder of Old English bantams, and when he was appointed a poultry judge at Royal Sydney Show about 1946, he came and stayed with Daniel and his family at Panania. He was on a very strict diet because he had the family problem with diabetes, but when he died in 1953, it was from stomach cancer.

Emily lived for another 12 years, but she too had cancer, and though she had an operation about 2 years before she died, the illness recurred and her health deteriorated badly, so she went to live with Alf and Lou. Len's wife Levene used to come down to Brisbane from Bundaberg each year to look after Em so Alf and Lou could have a holiday. Em died in February 1965 at Princess Alexandra Hospital and was cremated at Mt. Thompson near Brisbane.

John and Emily's eldest son Bertie was born in 1909 and was trained as a plumber. At one time he was with the police force and worked with Water Police and later with Railway Police. While serving with them, he was travelling on a train as a "hobo" to try to catch a thief when he fell off and broke a lot of bones, so that was the end of his police career.

During World War II he served with AIF and was sent to Thursday Island. When he came home after the war he became an instructor at Townsville Technical College and about l950 married Jean Law, and they had 2 children. For some reason or another Jean and Bertie separated and Levene Bailey used to have the children in the school holidays, so Bertie could go to Brisbane to see Emily.

It was found that Bertie had diabetes, which led to the loss of his legs and in September 1976 he died at Rosemount Repatriation Hospital. Jean, his separated wife was alive in Townsville in 1971, but we know nothing further about her life.

John and Emily's second son, Jack born in 1912 trained as an electrical engineer - before he married he had been a keen radio ham with the call sign V K 4 J C. Like many other young men he built himself a short wave transmitter to listen to fellow "Hams" all over Australia and the rest of the world. After learning Morse code and passing an exam, hams would be allocated a frequency and allowed to transmit on the short wave band. Reception was at its best late in the evening and to contact overseas hams, they had to transmit in the early hours of the morning, so it was no wonder that most enthusiasts, like Jack, gave up their hobby after they were married.

In 1938 he married Gladys Gillson and worked for City Electric Light (CEL) until he was sent to Ipswich as Electric Light Inspector and linesman in 1939 and he and Gladys lived in Ipswich until 1943. In that year, he came back to Brisbane, working at Doboy Power House until he left CEL in 1948 to become a teacher in Electrical Trades Section at Brisbane Central Tech College, and was promoted to Senior Instructor in 1956. After eight years, Jack was appointed Deputy Principal at the Technical College at Toowoomba , but the family stayed in Brisbane, while their father boarded in Toowoomba and came home each week end.

A promotion to Principal took Jack to Technical College at Mackay around 1965 and he stayed there for three years before moving to Bundaberg Technical College, where he stayed until 1976. Jack's last move was to New Farm Technical College in Brisbane and he stayed there until he was 65 in 1977, and he retired. Since his death in July 1989 his wife Gladys has lived in their house at Kenneth Street Ekibin, only a few streets away from her sister in law, Lou Bailey.

Jack and Glady's son Peter born in 1939 married Margaret Marron in 1969 and they now live in Canberra ACT, where Peter works as an architect with a group practice. His sister Dierdre born in 1944 still lives in Brisbane with her husband Emmanuel Anthony, who is a lecturer - they were married in 1966 at Greek Orthodox Church South Brisbane and Dierdre continues to work as a teacher.

Emily's third son Alfred was born in 1914 and trained as a bootmaker. He was production manager with Morris shoes and he used to have special size shoes made for my father Dan, when his feet grew too big for normal ones. In 1940 he married Louise Williams "Lou" at Maroochydore and they had 4 children. Alfred died in 1972, but Lou still lives in their house in Ekibin and does part time work as a chiropodist.

The baby of the family, Leonard "Len" born in 1916 was a baker and at one time worked at Goodna Asylum.

He also joined AIF and served in the Middle East and when he came back to Australia he was a platoon leader in an Anti-Aircraft unit. When he came home on leave in 1943 he married Ray Huffey at Valley Presbyterian Church and their wedding photo shows them leaving the church between a guard of honour of 10 of his fellow sergeants.

After the war they lived with John and Emily, but sadly Len lost Ray when their baby girl Lorraine was born in 1948. For a time Jack and Gladys looked after Lorraine, but eventually she was adopted by her maternal grandparents.

After Ray died, Len went to New Guinea, but eventually he came back to Australia and settled at Bundaberg, where in 1952 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church he married Levene Kettle. Their son David was born in 1953 and in 1958 they had a daughter Patricia and in 1960 another son Gerrard, who lived only for a day. Len kept on working as a master baker until about 1960 when he became very ill with pneumonia and it was found that he had diabetes - the third person in his family to have had the disease. After he had recovered some months later he worked as a greenkeeper at the local (Bargara) Golf Club and became a keen golfer being A grade Amateur Champion until he died.

In 1963 he went to work for Western Transport Company as manager of their Bundaberg office and at one time met up with Ted Bailey there when Ted was doing his sweet run. He stayed with that firm until his death in June 1971. After his death Levene who was a Registered Nurse was in charge of Bundaberg Division of Child Health Centre until she retired in February 1988.

Their son David is a boilermaker who works for Austco an engineering firm who build harvesters for cane and lately coffee beans. He is another keen golfer and also a radio man whose call sign is Koala Radio 09. In his spare time he helps out with Air Sea Rescue Service at their Burnett Heads Headquarters.

His sister Patricia was a secretary before her marriage at St Patricks Catholic Church in Bundaberg to Colin Hartnett, in a ceremony at which her uncle Father Kettle officiated. Colin is a builder and he and Patricia spent two years on Bathurst Island building the Catholic Mission there. During this time Colin who is a pilot often used to go to Darwin only 15 minutes flying time away to perform with Darwin Aerobatic Flying Squad. The family came back to Bundaberg in 1982 and started a tomato propagation nursery at Avondale about 20 miles away but sold up to move to a ten acre seedling nursery. They had to leave there when dust from a next door fibre glass factory affected Colin's health and next started up a gymnasium, but YMCA also began a similar facility, so they moved to Crook Street where they are building themselves a bush home on their 5 acre block. Colin is back with the building trade, and in his spare time is building his latest plane a "Light Wing".

All the places in the genealogy that follows are, unless otherwise noted, in Brisbane (Bris) and other parts of Queensland.

11/[6.2] John Ernest BAILEY b 3 Nov 1882 PMB d 20 Aug 1953 Bris m 18 Sep 1907 Albion Emily Elizabeth (Blake) b 17 Aug 1885 Derby Dbys d 7 Feb 1965 Bris

[11.1]Family of Bertie Ernest BAILEY and Jean Dorothy (Law)

All births at Townsville

[11.2] Family of Jack Harry BAILEY and Gladys Euphemia (Gillson)

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[11.3] Family of Alfred James BAILEY and Louise Alice Helen (Williams)

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[11.4.1] Family of Leonard Arthur BAILEY and Ray (Huffey)

[11.4.2] Family of Leonard Arthur BAILEY and Levene Mary (Kettle)

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[11.5] Family of Helen Jean Elizabeth (Bailey ) and George Dudley HAPGOOD

11.17 Gregory John b 7 Sep 1978

[11.6] Family of Miles BAILEY and Robyn (Potts)

[11.7] Family of Peter John BAILEY and Margaret (Marron)

All births at Canberra ACT

[11.9] Family of Merril Loucine (Bailey) and Clive Sydney APPLEBY

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[11.10] Family of Sharyn Rayleen (Bailey) and David Laurence HENDERSEN

[11.11] Family of Robyn Cherie (Bailey)

[11.11] Family of Robyn Cherie (Bailey) and Graydon van HOUTEN

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[11.12] Family of Gilbert Arthur BAILEY and Lorraine (Hyam)

All births at Nowra NSW

[11.13] Family of Lorraine Isobel [Huffey] and Lyn PAYNE

[11.15] Family of Patricia Elizabeth (Bailey) and Colin HARTNETT

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11/[6.2] Emily Elizabeth (Blake)

Father Harry BLAKE Occ Machinist d c Jun 1917 Mother Elizabeth Mary (Kelly)

[11.2] Gladys Euphemia (Gillson)

[11.3] Louise Alice Helen (Williams)

[11.4.2] Levene Mary (Kettle)

[11.7] Margaret (Marron)

Father Jack Edward MARRON b 9 Apr 1916 Sydney NSW d 7 May 1975 Sydney NSW

m 3 Feb 1940 Sydney NSW

Mother Myra Alma (Gleeson)b 1 Feb 1917 Sydney NSW

[11.8] Emmanuel ANTHONY - born Emmanuel Anthony DIACOMANOLIS

[11.15] Colin David HARTNETT

Father Arthur George HARTNETT b 4 Jun 1922 Warwick d 13 Oct 1988 Bundaberg

m 12 Jul 1946 Charters Towers

Mother Dorothy Emma (Bagnall) b 30 Mar 1927 Charters Towers - now lives in Bundaberg

As the eldest girl, it probably was 10 year old Mary Ellen who had to keep an eye on baby Jane on the journey to Australia on the Darmstadt in 1897. As the family was travelling steerage, conditions on the ship were probably very cramped and all the children must have been very glad when they finally got to Sydney, especially after the long hot trip through the tropics from Colombo to Albany.

Mary Ellen, mostly known as "Polly" to the family, from her habit of often singing "Polly put the kettle on" stayed only six years with the family after their arrival in Brisbane. It seems that Walter wanted her to go out to work to earn some money but instead she married a man 12 years her senior, Walter Gordon, in October 1903. The chief witness was Walter Bailey - either her father or her eldest brother Walter Henry. There is a family story that Mary Ellen ran away from home to get married, but perhaps in the end her father relented and attended the ceremony.

The wedding took place at Newstead according to the rites of Joyful News Mission and this was an independent undenominational church founded in The Valley area in 1895 whose motto was "The Living Church for the Dying World". At one time, the Mission had over 3000 members, as well as their own school, but when its following declined, the remnants of the congregation joined the Wesleyan Church in 1975.

Walter Gordon worked on the tramways for the greater part of his life. He was a signalman, who changed over the points for the trams at The Valley junction box.

About 1920, the Gordons lived at Toombul but had a sort of holiday shack at Cribb Island which at that time was a low lying area surrounded by mangroves but today it is filled in and is part of Brisbane International Airport.

Apparently Walter and Polly used to drive out in their sulky to visit the family at Enoggera and one day the two Walters had a terrible family row. Walter Gordon was told the equivalent of "never darken my doors again" and from then on there was no contact between the two families.

Polly was a tireless worker for the Red Cross and other charities, but having inherited Walter's autocratic ways, always made sure that she would be the one in charge. She was one of the early women drivers in Brisbane and was great friends with a Mrs. O'Brien whose husband was an accountant with Finneys Department Store. They had a Humber car, and Mr. O'Brien did not approve of women drivers but when he was away, Polly and his wife would often take the car out for a drive and they used to disconnect the speedo and fill up the car with petrol, so he would not find out. Mr. O'Brien could not understand why the car hardly ever needed petrol and used to boast about its phenomenally low petrol consumption. He even had it tested to prove his point, but of course the results were quite normal and apparently he never discovered what Polly and his wife had been up to.

W hile Walter was working at The Valley tram junction box, the family lived for a time in a rented house in that suburb.It was here that Polly looked after her step-mother’s youngest child Reuben Sam, until his death in 1921.One day, Walter had severe pains in his abdomen, but he stayed on duty until his shift ended. Not having the money for a taxicab, he walked all the way up a very steep hill to the nearest hospital, but by the time he got there, his appendix had burst and he died from peritonitis in his 66th year on November 1941.

About 1937 the family moved into a very old house they had bought in Union Street Toombul with its front rooms facing right onto the train line to Sandgate and after Walter’s death his widow stayed on there with her unmarried daughter Dolly. Polly worked casually as a cloak room attendant in various places including the local racecourse and they probably lived on Polly's pension.

Like other Bailey relatives, Polly had diabetes and had to give herself a daily insulin injection - as well she had complications due to poor circulation and her leg ulcers never seemed to heal. Towards the end of her life, Polly spent several periods in Brisbane General Hospital being stabilised, but in the end became senile and could not remember her injections, so she was transferred to Goodna Asylum. Her memory went completely and she could not even remember her grandchildren, and she later became bedridden and finally died in July 1961.

Walter and Mary Ellen had 5 children and the first 3 died without issue. Their first child Walter was born in 1904 and he worked as a fireman on Queensland coastal ships. He had married Muriel Chrissie and died about 1960.

Doris "Dolly" was the eldest daughter born in 1907 and she never married. Polly, remembering her childhood in South Africa with servants to do all the housework, did as little of that as possible. It was Dolly, who from an early age, was the family housekeeper, though Polly did lighten her work somewhat by sending all the washing out to the laundry. Dolly had a job as a clothing machinist, sometimes working at home when she was not well enough to go work at the factory. At times she too worked at the local racecourse, sometimes helping out in the cloakroom or making sandwiches and on these occasions, Dolly would bring home all the hambones to make up a big pot of soup. Dolly died in 1975.

The second daughter was Kathleen "Kitty" born in 1909 but she lived only until 1935.

The fourth child was George born in 1911 and he married Dorothy Duncan in 1933. George Gordon died of cancer when he was only 49 years old in 1961, in the same year as his mother, while Dorothy survived him by eight years and she died in 1969. Their first born was another George who arrived in 1934 but he never married and died in 1982. June was born in 1936 and in 1957 married David Young and they have 3 children.

Alison, George and Dorothy's third child was born in 1939 and after World War II ended, her father George built them a house in the suburb of Yeerongpilly. This was a long way from Alison's grandmother, but she used to catch a bus to visit, and Alison usually waited at the bus stop to carry the Napoleon cake Polly always bought for them.

About 1950, Alison's mother was very ill, so she and her sister spent most weekends with their grandmother. They would catch the tram from the local Fire Station at Yeronga to Clayfield terminus and walk to Union Street from there. There were cousins related to her mother living nearby and the sisters spent most of the day playing with them, only sleeping each evening at their grandmother's house. She was a kind and generous grandma, especially delighting Alison's heart with sixpences to buy lollies at the local shop.

In 1964 Alison married Ross Martin in Auckland and went to live there. Ross works for Telecom and they have 2 children. Keitha who was born in 1967, spent a working holiday in England about 1988. There she met an English artist Paul Smith and they came back to New Zealand and were married at Zion Hill Methodist Church in Birkenhead, an Auckland suburb in 1990. They have settled in Auckland near Ross and Alison, whose son Glenn born in 1970 has just finished his Science degree at Otago University.

George and Dorothy's youngest child Carole, was born in 1942 and married Ronald Paulsen in 1959. She and her sister Alison grew up and lived in Brisbane for twenty years and had never heard mention of any relatives. It was only when Carole started researching her family history before she died in 1985 and she got Walter Bailey's death certificate which showed 12 great uncles and great aunts still living that the two sisters had any idea of the size of their grandfather's family and the number of unknown relatives they had.

Ronald and Carole's eldest son Jeffrey was born in 1959 and his brother John in 1963. John's partner is Terry Mihaere from New Zealand and they have a son Teddy born in 1989. The only girl in Carole's family is Aleisha who was born in 1965 and she married David Straughan in Canberra during the Bicentennial Car Rally held in 1988.

The youngest child Walter and Mary Gordon had was Percy Alfred "Alf" born in 1917. While he was working, Alf made many improvements to his parents house at Toombul, paying out of his own pocket for all the materials needed. Alf's first job, at the age of l4, was with Jackson & Sullivan, a firm of Stationers. It was while he was working there that he built up a fabulous stamp collection, taken from the mail at the Stationers and helped by his brother George, who was employed at the Post Office. Unhappily after he enlisted in the Army, his parents put the box in which his collection was stored in a damp place under the house, and Alf was bitterly disappointed to find on his return, that his whole collection was so badly mildewed as to be useless.

Enlisting on l5 January 1941, Alf served as a corporal in the Survey Corps in New Guinea, and he was discharged on 21 December, 1945. Polly was not too pleased when Alf decided to marry Elsie Ahles, a lass of German descent in 1946 and said she would not go to the wedding. At the last moment, however, she changed her mind and in typical Polly fashion, made her entrance to the church, wearing her full length fur coat, just as the couple were about to exchange their vows.

Alf obtained a job as a State stock inspector in the abattoirs in 1946 and in 1949, joined the Commonwealth system.

Elsie had suffered a lot of ill health and by the time Alf retired in 1982 she was an invalid, so they moved to a retirement home at Robertson Park near Sunnybank. After Elsie died in 1989, Alf decided the retirement home was too restricting, so he bought a beach house at Currimundi near Caloundra, where he often has the company of his 2 grandsons in the school holidays.

Alf and Elsie had 2 children - their daughter Pamela born in 1952 and a son Kent born in 1954. Pamela married Robert Biddle in 1974 and he is attached to Australian Embassy staff. From 1985 to 1987 Robert was posted as veterinary attache to the Australian Embassy in Washington USA but he and Pamela are now back in Canberra, where Robert is with Australian Quarantine Inspection Service. Kent married an English girl Juliet Ross-Smith and they used to live in London, where Kent worked as a freelance film editor and Judith was a medical secretary. Kent and Judith and their 2 children have recently returned to Queensland having bought a block of land near Brisbane.

Unless otherwise noted, all the places in the genealogy that follows are in and around Brisbane (Bris) Queensland.

12/[6.4] Mary Ellen( Bailey) b 11 Jan 1887 PMB d 12 July 1961 Bris m 7 Oct 1903 Bris Walter John GORDON b 11 April 1875 Bris d 1 Nov 1941 Bris

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[12.4] Family of George William GORDON and Dorothy Walker (Duncan)

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[12.5] Family of Percy Alfred GORDON and Elsie (Ahles)

All births at Brisbane

[12.7] Family of June Dorothy (Gordon) and David Clelland YOUNG

All births at Brisbane

[12.8] Family of Alison Mary (Gordon) and Ross Warwick MARTIN

[12.9] Family of Carole Elizabeth (Gordon) and Ronald Walter PAULSEN

All births at Brisbane

[12.10] Family of Pamela Ann (Gordon) and Robert Richard BIDDLE

[12.11] Family of Kent GORDON and Juliet (Ross- Smith)

[12.18] Family of John Rodney PAULSEN and Hira Tangiwai (Mihaere)

[12.19] Family of Aleisha Gai (Paulsen) and David John STRAUGHAN

12/[6.4] Walter John GORDON

Father Walter GORDON bp 7 Oct 1840 Garve Rosshire Scot

Mother Eliza (Bunnett) b 6 Jan 1857 Bris

Alison Martin has further details of this family

[12.4] Dorothy Walker (Duncan)

Father Robert Walker DUNCAN b 7 Feb 1880 Bridge of Dee Aberdeenshire Scot d 21 May 1952 Bris

m 17 Mar 1908 Aberdeen Scot

Mother Eliza (Davidson) b 2 Oct 1884 Ellon Scot d 17 Aug 1965 Bris

Alison Martin has further details of this family and has traced both sides back to 18th century in Scotland

[12.5] Elsie Agnes (Ahles)

Father James Francis AHLES b 1982 Bris Occ Packer

Mother Matilda Agnes(Harris) b 1900 Nudgee

Pamela Biddle has further details about this family

[12.8] Ross Warwick MARTIN

Father Harold Langmuir MARTIN b 11 Sep 1914 Taumaranui NZ

m 23 Nov 1940 Onehunga Auckland

Mother Flora Edna (Ballard) b 5 Nov 1911 Onehunga Auckland NZ

Alison Martin has further details about this family

[12.10] Robert Richard BIDDLE

Father Richard George Henry BIDDLE b 7 May 1915 Sydney NSW

m 23 April 1948 Bris

Mother Loma Ellen (Lynham) b 17 Jan 1924 Townsville

Pamela Biddle has further details about this family

[12.15] Paul SMITH

Father Arthur SMITH b 30 Aug 1939 Liverpool England

Mother Rita (Clarke) b 6 Sep ?? Liverpool

The rented house in Stoneleigh Street Brisbane was bursting at the seams with five boys, two girls young Jane and the baby Daniel, and according to the story Ted tells, it was riddled with white ants. One day when the boys were skylarking up on the top floor, there was a terrible crash and young Alf went right through that floor and the ceiling of the floor below landing in a heap of timber and plaster on the ground floor.

According to Queensland Post Office directory, there was an Alfred Bailey living near Ipswich in 1910, so he too must have left home as soon as he could and it was probably about this time that he joined the tramways where his brother John already worked. Initially he started as a tram driver (motorman) but after some years was promoted to depot master at Ipswich Road depot despatching each tram on the first of its journeys for the day. There is a photo of him taken at this time wearing knee breeches, a peaked cap and a tunic, all adorned with shiny brass buttons. When he retired probably about 1955 he had about forty year's service in the tramways and altogether he and his two brothers, had worked a total of 12O years with the one organisation - surely some sort of record.

About 1914 Alfred married Edith Mary Brandt, a lass of German extraction from the town of Coolabunia near Kingaroy and they lived at Greenslopes, where he too kept fowls and had many bird aviaries. He grew orchids as well and won many prizes for his beautiful garden. Alfred was very careful with his money and it seems that he rarely came to see the family, unless he wanted something from them. One time when he needed one of Walter's wheels to make a barrow, he offered to swap it for six black Orpington hens, so old they were only fit for boiling.

After Edith died of cancer in 1959, Alfred married for a second time in 1963 at Coolabunia to Georgena Hermann, whose father came from Alsace Lorraine, though she herself was born in Ballina NSW. Georgena is most insistent about the "e" in her name because she says her father was sure "she" would be a boy and had decided to name "him" George and so when Georgena arrived, he simply modified the name to suit her sex. She and Alfred had no children and Alfred died in Brisbane in 1971, but Georgena lived in the house at Greenslopes until she died from cancer in February 1994. Although she was almost blind she still did her own housework and carried on with her Red Cross activities as long as she was able.

Alfred and Edith's eldest son Norman born in 1918 followed his father's hobby and bred prize winning orchids while he worked as a motor mechanic. He married Doris Guard, and in 1959 they were living in Kreutzner Street Toombul. After his wife's death in 1966, Norman married another Doris whose maiden name was Galna, and he died ten years later in 1976.

They had a daughter they called Glenice who now lives in Tasmania with her husband John Case. He is a railway worker and in their spare time their hobby is wood turning.

The second son Edwin was born in 1922 and put up his age so he could join the RAAF, when World War II broke out. He was sent to Scotland to get further experience as a navigator and was still under age when he was posted missing after a training flight there in June 1942.

Edwin and Norman came down to Sydney to stay with our family about 1932. Somehow my father, my sister and I all managed to squeeze into Norman's little Austin 7 and he took us to Jenolan Caves about 80 miles west of Sydney. It was a real thrill for Mary and I to go on such a long car trip and the caves were quite a scary experience, even with the lights on, as we had never been underground before.

Alfred and Edith's last two children were twin boys, born in 1923, Stanley Lewis and Maurice Arnold. Alfred possibly named one of the twins after his stepmother Lily Lewis, who had helped to bring him up from birth.

Stanley married Sheila Shaw in 1944 and they had 2 children. The elder son called Lindsay lives on a large sheep property at Surat, 50 miles south of Roma, whilst their daughter Judith married Gordon Hermann, who was a plumber/builder, but now teaches at TAFE. Her husband is a relative of her grandfather's second wife, Georgena. Stanley died in the prime of his life as a result of having melanoma. The doctors tried a bone marrow transplant from his identical twin, Maurice, but unfortunately it was to no avail, though had today's techniques been around in 1960 he may have survived.

Maurice married Doris Watson in 1944 and they live in Nundah. He was originally a sheet metal worker and was involved in designing a washing machine for Naco and eventually became their Australian Sales Manager. Later he joined Champion Glass as their Queensland manager and after a short time he went to work for Dorf Taps as manager for Queensland, a position he held until he retired about 1988. Maurice and Doris are very proud grandparents and they now have 16 grandchildren, spread amongst their six children.

Their eldest son Ralph married Rachael Crew in 1970 and is an architect who has his own business, while the next son Bruce works for the Gold Coast City Council and he and Janet McDonald who he married in 1972 live in Southport. Maurice and Doris' daughter Ann who was a teacher, has already spent a lot of time working on our family tree, and in 1989 married her doctor husband William Phillips and they live in Gin Gin. Her sister Jill lives in Quirindi with her husband Wayne Smith who she married in 1980 and he is a teacher, while Jill works as a teacher's aide. The youngest son, Stephen is a manual arts teacher and in 1985 he married Esther Venn, whilst the youngest girl, Sue used to work as a secretary with Queensland Railways before she married John Quixley in 1987 and they had their family.

Unless otherwise noted, all places in the genealogy below are in Queensland, the majority being in and around Brisbane (Bris)

13/[6.5] Alfred Charles BAILEY b 10 Jun 1889 PMB d 10 Feb 1971 Bris

All births at Brisbane

[13.1] Family of Norman George BAILEY and Doris (Guard)

[13.3] Family of Stanley Lewis BAILEY and Sheila (Shaw)

[13.4] Family of Maurice Arnold BAILEY and Doris Mary (Watson)

All births at Brisbane

[13.6] Family of Judith (Bailey) and Gordon HERMANN

[13.8] Family of Ralph Edward BAILEY and Rachael Mary (Crew)

All births at Brisbane

[13.9] Family of Bruce Ian BAILEY and Janet (McDonald)

All births at Southport

[13.10] Family of Ann Margaret (Bailey)

[13.10] Family of Ann Margaret (Bailey) and William James PHILLIPS

All births at Bundaberg

[13.11] Family of Jill Lorraine (Bailey) and Wayne SMITH

[13.12] Family of Stephen Stanley BAILEY and Esther Lorellye-Joy (Venn)

[13.13] Family of Sue Anne (Bailey) and John QUIXLEY

All births at Brisbane

[13.4] Doris Mary (Watson)

13/[6.5.1] Edith May (Brandt)

Father Charles BRANDT Mother Mary Helen (James)

13/[6.5.2] Georgena Florence (Hermann)

Father George HERMANN Mother Ada Florence (Helsdon)

[13.10] William James PHILLIPS

Father Lloyd Wilfred PHILLIPS b 8 Aug 1922? Bris

m 1947 Bris

Mother Eunice Irene (Tuttici) b 18 Mar ?? 1923 Barcaldine

[13.12] Esther Lorellye-Joy (Venn)

Father Donald Henry VENN b 7 Jan 1928

m 12 June 1948

Mother Ethel May (Slaughter) b 7 Oct 1927

WALTER'S DANIEL

Walter and Lily had their first Australian child barely six months after their arrival and he was named after Walter's brother Daniel who lived in Edinburgh, Scotland. The family called him "Dan" and he was born in their rented house known then as 10 Stoneleigh Street Albion, but it was probably not until the family were at Kedron that young Dan first went to Chermside State School nearby. His children still have his Sums Book with Arithmetic and several Home Exercises dated May to November 1910. One that is of special interest was an exercise to write an official letter. Daniel chose to write to Department of Lands in Brisbane to ask about taking up land for farming and grazing at Dalby, so his ambition to own a farm began at an early age.

He probably left school at the end of that year - he was by now l3 and of an age to join the family work force full time, even though he had probably been helping Walter in the forge as soon as he was old enough to pump the bellows to keep the fire going. Like many others of his time Walter did not believe in this business of his children trying for scholarships to further their education - finishing fifth class in Primary School was quite enough schooling to his mind. It was a common enough attitude in those times and it condemned many children to be employed in poorly paid jobs for their entire working lives.

When the family moved to Enoggera, Dan was still working for Walter but earning no money and Ted says one of Dan's reasons for leaving home to join the Army was to get enough money to buy a razor!. Walter was very loathe to lose the major part of his work force because if Dan went there was only Joe left, so it took a lot of persuasion and a promise from Dan to be baptised into the Christadelphian faith, before Walter would sign the enlistment papers.

Dan joined AIF in 1917, his trade being given as blacksmiths striker, and he told his children, that having rarely worn shoes he didn't fancy joining the infantry and marching in Army boots. It seems that Walter did a bit of finagling and got him posted to a regiment that used horses. All went well with feeding and grooming the animals, until the time came to actually do some riding when Dan's goose was well and truly cooked. He was sent to another section in the engineering regiment and spent about seven months in Australia, before embarking for overseas.

Poor Dan was another Bailey with 2 rows of teeth, but the Army soon fixed that - they took them all out and gave him a set of false ones.

He spent Christmas 1917 with the family of his namesake uncle Daniel in Edinburgh and one of the family Gladys, who was l7 at the time tells a story about his visit. In his honour, Gladys' mother had used all the family's butter ration to bake some shortbread, which was carefully divided, so there was a piece for everyone. Daniel, as a visitor was offered the first piece, which he soon ate, but he didn't stop there and Gladys and the other children watched their treat rapidly disappearing, but they had to be polite and make no comment - no wonder Gladys who is now 9O has never forgotten that occasion.

Early in 1918, Dan sent a postcard from Brightlingsea, Essex in England to his half-brother Alf, saying he was off to France sometime in January, mentioning that he had seen his aunt Dinah in Cardiff, Wales and asking that all his mail be sent to Edinburgh, care of his uncle. Dan found his war experiences very distressing and would never talk about them at all.

After the Armistice, together with thousands of Australian troops, he was sent back to England, until enough boats could be found to bring them all back to Australia. Many English people used to have the troops to their homes for afternoon tea and it was while Rose Painter was helping out on one of these occasions that she met Daniel. He took his discharge in England in November 1919 and at one time was a grave digger, which was very hard work in the frozen English soil. The scent of jonquils brought back memories of this unhappy time, and they were always forbidden in our house. He and Rose were married at Enfield only a few miles out of London in April 1921 and after trying various labouring jobs, Dan decided England was not for him, and got a job as a stoker on a passenger liner, plying between England and Australia. Conditions down in the stokehold of Dan's ship and the meals provided for the seamen were so bad that the initials of Shaw Savill & Albion line, who owned the vessel were said by the ship's crew to stand for Slow Starvation & Agony.

Rose lived with her mother while Dan was away on his voyages and had two children in England - Joy in 1922 and Mary in 1923.

As soon as he could Dan left his boat in Sydney and got a job in NSW Railway workshop at his old trade of blacksmiths striker and he sent for Rose and the children to come and live in Australia. They travelled on the Ballarat and arrived in Sydney in August 1926 and for a while the newly re-united family lived in a boarding house with Dan, but Rose soon found the first of many rented houses in the suburb of Oatley almost on Georges River. It was a small 4 roomed weatherboard dwelling, with a lean to nearby with a copper and the bath and Rose found conditions very trying in the hot Australian summers. Mary and I spent our days in the river below the house, teaching ourselves to swim and using an old tin bath for a boat.

It was about this time that radio broadcasts started and Dan began a life long interest in building radio sets. His first radio was a crystal set and when he had found a station using the cats whisker, he would put the headphones over our ears, so we could listen too. Later, he graduated to short wave radio and the family became used to the squeals and crackles in the evenings, as he worked his way along the short wave band.

Sometime around 1929, we moved to another suburb and into a new brick house Dan was entitled to under War Service Homes scheme on a big block with over half an acre of land. He was delighted - here was his farm at last and he could grow veges and make some money selling them to nearby residents. Despite the fact that he worked six days a week and went every Sunday to his Ecclesia in Sydney, Dan managed to dig it all over with a mattock, but the soil was a very heavy clay and he soon found it was no good for veges. A fellow immigrant on the boat was a nurseryman and he planted a hundred florist's roses on the block so Rose could sell the flowers and earn a bit of money - she used to get one shilling and sixpence for each bunch of 12 stems.

It was probably about 1927 or 8 that Dan and the family made the first of many visits to Brisbane to visit their relatives. Because Dan worked for NSW Railways, he got a yearly pass for all the family - we could never have afforded the fares if we had had to pay for them. Our first visit was to Enoggera and it must have come as quite a shock to Rose as Dan used to tell some good stories and I often wonder what yarns he had spun about his family's "farm". Reality was an iron and timber bush shanty, no running water and lots of flies and especially sandflies which brought up big lumps on our tender English skins. Lily made up a basin full of bicarb soda into a paste, which we kept dabbing on the bites. The lack of water was the worst problem and Rose hated to use the same lot of water for washing up, and then washing ones hands, before it was carefully poured onto plants in the garden. I have no clear memories of the family except for Walter, whose waist length beard fascinated me, but not when I had to kiss him, because it was not kept very clean. The main thing that stayed in my mind was watching Aunt Jane, who every evening took down the bunches of gum tips hanging from the ceiling and put them into the fire, to kill the dozens of flies that were clinging to them.

As in Queensland, by late l930, the Depression was biting hard, and with Dan working only 3 weeks out of 4, and no money coming in for the fourth week, the house payments were too much, so we had to leave and it was back to rented houses. The last of our rented houses was in Panania, which when we first arrived was in a rural area, but after 1948, a Housing Commission scheme built dozens of houses around us.

Dan and Rose eventually bought the house, to which Dan retired after leaving NSW Railways, having progressed from blacksmith striker to machinist to crane driver. He lived there only a few years longer however, as he had developed, undiagnosed since his teen years, a tumour on his pituitary gland, so the bones in his hands and feet never stopped growing. The tumour grew and Dan became almost blind and eventually had a stroke and died in Sydney Hospital in 1958. Rose stayed on in the house for a few years but eventually had to go and live in the first of several nursing homes and she died in 1979 in Braeside Nursing Home at Stanmore NSW.

I worked as a clerk in various engineering firms until I enlisted in AWAS in 1942, serving around Sydney, in Bendigo Victoria and in Lae, New Guinea. After my discharge in 1945.I took up office work again, until I married a fellow bushwalker, Thomas Whaite in 1948. Tom got a job as a soil scientist with NSW Department of Main Roads and we lived at first at Deniliquin, near Victorian border, before going to Goulburn, where we settled to educate our 4 children. Most of our weekends were spent bushwalking and caving and when Tom retired in 1980 we bought a farm west of Port Macquarie on NSW North Coast and kept cashmere goats. Tom died in 1986 and I stayed on at the farm and still have the goats.

Mary did secretarial work for a large building firm in Sydney and married Ron Gillard, a clerk in NSW Public Service in 1946. They lived in Sydney and had 2 children and when Ron first retired they went to live at Werri Beach on South Coast. Later on they moved to Canberra, where Ron died from a brain tumour in 1993. Ron had been a keen sportsman all his life and held many positions in sporting organisations, whilst Mary has been active in community clubs, including historical ones. Her special interest is in All Saints Anglican Church in the Canberra suburb of Ainslie, where she is a volunteer guide.

All the places in the genealogy below are, unless otherwise noted, in New South Wales

14/[8.1] Daniel BAILEY b 27 Oct 1897 Albion Qld d 26 Jul 1958 Sydney m 3O Apr 1921 Enfield Msx Rose Caroline (Painter) b 22 Sep 1890 Tottenham Msx d 26 Jan 1979 Stanmore

[14.1] Family of Joy Lilian (Bailey) and Thomas Maitland WHAITE

[14.2] Family of Irene Mary (Bailey) and Ronald Eric GILLARD

[14.3] Family of Peter WHAITE and Petra (Mueller)

[14.5] Family of Douglas Colin WHAITE and Deirdre Brigid (Stevens)

[14.6] Family of Catherine Helen (Whaite) and Geoffrey John MILLER

All births at Canberra ACT

[14.7]Family of Patricia Mary (Gillard) and David Moreau PALMER

[14.8] Family of Barry Ronald GILLARD and Joanne Margaret (Quinn)

All births at Nowra

14/[8.1] Rose Caroline (Painter)

Joy Whaite has further details about this family

[14.1] Thomas Maitland WHAITE

Joy Whaite has further details about this family

[14.2] Ronald Eric GILLARD

Father Ronald Mervyn Eric GILLARD b 16 Feb 1901 Cobargo d 15 April 1984 Gerringong

m 17 July 1923 St. Marys Cathedral Sydney

Mother Norah Mary Eileen (Brunton) b 4 May 1902 Bega d 19 May 1991 Gerringong

[14.3] Petra (Mueller)

Father Peter Klaus MUELLER PGF Hermann MUELLER PGM Frieda (Schultz)

Mother Renate Brigette (Engel) MGF ?? ENGEL MGM Margarete (Jakisch)

All these people are from West Berlin Federal Republic of Germany

[14.4] Kenneth Robert GRATTON

Father Valroy Keith GRATTON Mother Jessie Margaret (Wilson)

Kenneth Gratton has further details about this family

[14.5] Deirdre Brigid (Stevens)

[14.6] Geoffrey John MILLER

Father Paul Joseph MILLER Mother Rose Montague (Brassil)

[14.7] David Moreau PALMER

Father Maxwell Moreau PALMER Mother Margaret (?van Bruegen) of Belgian descent, b New Zealand

[14.8] Joanne Margaret (Quinn)

Father Thomas James QUINN b Kiama Mother Barbara (Parker) b Hay

Mary Gillard has further details about this family

While the family were living at Richmond Street Kedron, Lily had her youngest daughter, Fanny Rose in September 1910. Her first name was after Walter's cousin in England and Rose because roses were blooming in the garden. About 1916, the family moved to Bunyah Road Everton Park, about 2 miles from Enoggera Station, where they had a couple of acres of land and Fanny grew up helping in the house and driving down in the goat cart to Strathpine Road to the standpipe there, to get drums of water for the household. She left school in 1923 and at times, she was probably co-opted to help out in the forge as a blacksmith's striker for Walter.

As soon as she came of age in 1931, Fanny left home to work as a cook in Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, and at the time of her marriage was living in Amelia Street Valley. Her husband Reinhold Fritz "Rhiny" came from a family of farmers of German descent, and they were married in Brisbane in 1943 at Registry Office with her sister Jane and Emily's friend Etta Giblin as witnesses.

Afterwards they went to live on the family farm at Teviotville near Boonah south west of Brisbane. Rhiny's father had been a prosperous man and had left each of the children a farm of their own - Rhiny had the original homestead, with the proviso that if he left it would be sold and the proceeds divided amongst his brothers and sisters. My father Daniel and mother Rose went to stay with them at one time as did Ted and Beryl and family, after Ted left Mt. Morgan Mines.

Their first child Ruth was born in November 1944 and Fanny Rose sent my mother a photo with baby Ruth in one arm and a huge koala in the other, probably taken at Lone Pine Santuary. Janelle named after Fanny's sister Jane was born in 1948 and had a tragic life. When only a babe in arms, she contracted meningitis and the doctors believed it happened during a long journey on a very crowded train. She was severely mentally and physically retarded, but Fanny took care of her at home until she died in 1962.

The family left the farm and went to live in Brisbane to get medical care for Janelle and here in 1951 Bernard Daniel was born - he was named after Fanny's big brother Daniel. At one stage they lived at Beams and Mueller Road Boondal west of Sandgate and Rhiny got work with Brisbane City Council and though he left at times to work with private contractors, he usually went back to his original job.

Janelle died in 1962 and in 1965, with only Bernard then a school boy at home, Fanny got a job, helping with handicapped children. The fourteen years she had spent looking after Janelle stood her in good stead in her new career and at that time the family lived at 'Mizpah' Markwell Street Auchenflower.

Even after Rhiny died in 1971, Fanny kept on working until 1975, when she took to travelling instead, and used to visit her children in Hamilton every year until 1987, when finally she settled down in New Zealand. For a while she stayed alternatively with Ruth and Bernard and in 1990 celebrated her 80th birthday in Hamilton, but of late her health has declined and she has had to be admitted to a nursing home.

Ruth left the family at the end of 1963 and went on a working holiday to New Zealand and finally got a job in the office of Hamilton Dairy Co. Here she met Harry Tipping and came back to Brisbane to be married in September 1965 and then went back to live in Hamilton, where Harry was in business as a builder. Harry and Ruth have 6 children and they too have a Daniel in the family - Daniel James born in 1948. Their eldest daughter Sandra married Russel Brown in 1988 and Ruth and Harry now three grandchildren to love.

Bernard was always mechanically minded, like his grandfather Walter and he too ended up in New Zealand and in 1972 married a New Zealand lass, Heather Green in Wellington. Later on, he joined Harry and Ruth in Hamilton and became an A grade mechanic, working with a fork lift service and now has his own business called Fleet Hire. He and Heather have 4 children including their own Daniel - Daniel Aaron born in 1979.

All places noted in this genealogy are, unless otherwise noted, in and around Brisbane (Bris) Queensland.

15/[8.6] Fanny Rose (Bailey) b 24 Sep 1910 Bris m 27 Oct 1943 Bris Reinold Carl "Rhiny" FRITZ b 8 Aug 1902 Teviotville d 30 Apr 1971 Bris

All births at Brisbane

[15.1] Family of Ruth Elizabeth (Fritz) and Harry TIPPING

All births at Hamilton NZ

[15.3] Family of Bernard Daniel FRITZ and Heather Grace (Green)

All births at Hamilton NZ

[15.4] Family of Sandra Ruth (Tipping) and Russell Neville BROWN

[15.5] Family of Grant TIPPING and Donna Margaret (Zinsli)

[8.6] Reinold Carl FRITZ

Father August Hermann FRITZ Occ Farmer Mother Albertina (Wittenhagen)

[15.1] Harry Norman TIPPING

Father Ira Frewan Garside TIPPING b 9 Feb 1917 Opiki NZ

m 9 May 1938 Nukuhou North NZ

Mother Marjorie Alice (MacDonld) b 6 Oct 1917 Nukuhou

[15.3] Heather Grace (Green)

Father Vernon Lawrence GREEN b 30 Sep 1921 Christchurch

m 1948 Riverton NZ

Mother Shirley Vivian (Spencer)

[15.4] Russell Neville BROWN

Father Reginald Walker BROWN b 31 Oct 1921 Riverton

m 1944 Dunedin NZ

Mother Rita Gwendoline (Davies) b 18 Dec 1922 NZ

[15.5] Donna Margaret (Zinsli)

Father Dick John ZINSLI b 18 Jan 1938 Napier NZ

m 21 Dec 1968 Auckland

Mother Colleen Margaret (Moffit) b 24 May 1947 Auckland

Lily must have found it quite a luxury to have had her last baby Edward Anselm in a maternity ward, with the staff at Lady Bowen Hospital to look after her and baby Edward. His first name was after Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) and his second after Walter's brother Anselm, who lived in New Zealand. In his young days he was called "Eddie" and later "Ted" and he is the last of a line of family members bearing the name of Anselm. They have been traced back to the Gloucestershire parish of Wheatenhurst in 1573, though there are records as early as 1560 of an Auncell Bayly in the nearby parish of Elmore who was probably a relation, though so far the connection has not been found.

After his brother Dan enlisted there was no one left to help Walter and Lily in the workshop so Ted was probably shown how to blow the bellows for the forge at a very early age. The family finances were always in quite a perilous state, so he and Joe had to earn a few shillings wherever and whenever they could. The local school used to publish the Enoggera News which sold for a penny a copy and Ted and the other pupils would get one penny for each dozen copies they managed to sell.

Weeding carrots for a local farmer was another source of income and Ted would collect all the ones with broken tops, until he had a sackful, and sell them at the local market for two shillings. Once when a nearby bridge was flooded, Ted dashed into the water and collected a great heap of watermelons that had been washed down the creek and keeping a few for the family, sold off all the good ones. As he grew older he would fill his billy cart with split firewood, which took all his spare time for the week and sell it to the local fuel merchant for a couple of shillings - Ted suspected that the latter resold it for at least twice what he paid Ted. When there were no other chores to be done, Ted would go around scrounging anything he could pick up to feed the wether goats the family kept to bring back their household water and their tethers had to be changed often, so they would not get into the vege garden.

When Ted was actually attending school was probably the only time he ever had to himself. Even after school, he would come home and lend a hand in the workshop turning out the axles for Walter's wheels and if there was no money to buy petrol to run the machines, they all had to be turned by hand. Often it was 8.30 p.m. before he had finished and then he had to go inside to have his tea and try to get his homework done before he went to bed.

Sometime around 1923 Jane bought Ted a box Brownie camera for eleven shillings and threepence, and with it he took a lot of family photos and many more when his nieces Joy and Mary visited the family at Enoggera with their mother and father around 1928. He was still at school then and delighted in playing practical jokes. One that Mary remembers we did not like at all - Ted had made up a set of wires, so he could connect them to a battery and in all innocence Mary and I held them tight in our hands. As soon as Ted made the connection we got quite a physical and electrical shock, which made us very wary of our uncle for the rest of our visit.

Much to Ted's regret, Walter insisted that he leave school when he was l4, so he could take over production of the wheels and as the Depression deepened, Ted and sometimes Joe had to try to sell them in Brisbane. Eventually in 1923 when he was 17 Ted managed to get a job as a labourer washing milk bottles at Metro Milk Supply at South Brisbane for twenty eight shillings and three pence per week. From his wages, Ted paid one penny for income tax, five shillings for his tram fare and twenty shillings a week to Jane for his board, leaving Ted the princely sum of three shillings and two pence to keep for himself. In February 1934, when Ted turned 18, Metro Milk would have had to pay him thirty shillings and one penny per week, so, to save an extra one shilling and tendance per week, they dismissed Ted and employed another younger man.

When the job finished, there was not enough money to keep Ted at home, so around l934 like hundreds of others, he left home and started humping his bluey. Ted says that on the track he met solicitors, bank tellers, doctors, dentists engineers and many other professional people and tradesmen - they were all in the same boat. At one time he even spent some time with a nephew of George Henry Porter who was Registrar General of Queensland at that time. Whilst looking for work, all the men received six shillings a week in the form of a ration ticket, which could be presented at a grocery store and exchanged for food. No one was allowed to stay more than two weeks in the one place to try to get work and they had to move somewhere else before getting their next ticket.

Ted came back to Brisbane in mid 1934 and found Lily in Brisbane General Hospital after another bout of influenza. He went to see her and they shared a pawpaw (which was Lily's favourite fruit) before he said goodbye. Ted went to stay overnight with a friend before he used his pass to go to Caboolture and start in his new job at five shillings per week but had only just got there when he received a telegram to say that Lily had died in her sleep on the last day of June.

Sometimes when he was in Brisbane,Ted stayed at Polly and Walter Gordon's holiday shack at Cribb Island, but later Ted went back on the track. Just occasionally, he would get a job on a dairy farm for ten shillings a week, plus keep, going back on the dole when each job ran out. Ted came home for Christmas 1935 and on into New Year, but he left Brisbane again and it was not until he returned late in 1936 and arrived at Thomas Street that he heard from Emily of his father's death in March of that year.

After staying with John and Emily for a while it was back on the track again and up to northern Queensland, where he got a job on a farm owned by his future wife's uncle at Gracemere near Rockhampton.

Ted first met Beryl in 1936 and they were married at Mackay, in 1938 with Ted still on the dole. Their first daughter Joyce was born in Rockhampton in 1939 and a son Walter in 1941, just before Ted got a job with the mines at Mt Morgan, driving a steam shovel. While he was working there, Ted got his Steam and Electrical Crane Drivers tickets and then went on to get five more tickets during his working years. Janet was born in 1943 and about 1945 the family went to live with Fanny and Rhiny on their farm at Teviotville. For a short time in 1946 the family lived at Goodna and then Gumdale where Desmond was born. Ted had a job with Brisbane City Council but he had problems with worn out shoulder sockets from shovelling coal at Mt Morgan so he had to leave after three months. Some time in 1947 the family were living with Albert in his house at Kenwyn Street Red Hill but in 1948 they were back at Gumdale. In 195O Ted and Beryl moved to Boondall where Beryl had Elaine and her last child Heather in 1952.

A year later they moved to Zillmere just a few miles away and sometime in 1954 the family took up dairying at Redbank Plains, west of Goodna. After the bad drought in 1960, the dairy went broke, so the family had to leave and moved closer to Brisbane to a house in Graceville Avenue Graceville in 1961 and Ted got various jobs around Brisbane for the next few years.

About 1967 Ted bought a wholesale sweet and novelty business travelling all up and down the Queensland coast, but in 1970 the business failed and the only job he could find was as a Crane Driver for the construction firm of Hornibrooks, who were building a big jetty at Kieta on the Pacific island of Bougainville in preparation for the opening of a big copper mine there- while he was away the family lived at Graceville. With all their children married Ted and Beryl went to live at Holland Park until 1977, when Ted got a job as a boiler attendant at Rockhampton abattoirs. While they were there Ted built a caravan on the back of a Toyota diesel truck. When Ted retired in 1981, they drove down to the farm at Flagstone Park, where Janet and Alan lived, towing another caravan, which was left behind when they started travelling around Australia.

It was while they were at Adelaide that they heard indirectly about the whereabouts of one of their nieces, which led, early in 1984 to their re-union with Daniel's branch of the family, with whom the people in Brisbane had lost touch many years before. It was this reunion and the many stories Ted told about his early life that led to the writing of this book.

Around Christmas 1985 Ted fell and hurt his shoulder, and he could no longer drive, so he and Beryl moved back to Brisbane to live. They had the ground floor flat in a large house at Auchenflower, near the railway station. Ted maintains the grounds of the house and does the cleaning in nearby units and in between he grows all the veges he needs for his diet. Beryl had always been the photographer of the family and there is a big collection of albums holding the photos she had taken of family and friends over many years. Sadly, after being in poor health and having had heart problems for the last few years Beryl had a heart attack and died on 23 January, 1993.

Joyce their eldest daughter started her education at Mt Morgan which was the first of many schools she attended as the family moved around. The next school was at Teviotville, then Goodna, Gumdale, Ithaca and Gannon Hill ending with three years back at Goodna. Joyce left school in 1952 when she was 13 to help Beryl, and in 1953 got a job with a florist, and then went back to help with the dairy, before starting her nursing career in 1958. Moving to Sydney, she met Ross Dando and in 1962 they were married at Leura NSW Blue Mountains by a marriage celebrant at Ross's family home at Megalong Street, Leura. Ross has worked for Telecom for many years and they have their home at Lawson where they had 2 children and now they have four grandchildren. Their daughter Nora and her husband who is an air conditioning and refrigeration electrician have just built a new house at Hazelbrook near Joyce and Ross.

In the same year l962, in May, Joyce's sister Janet married Alan Stocker, who was working with Brisbane City Council. At the end of 1963 they bought a farm at Flagstone Creek, near Toowoomba and went there to live. They have five children and two grandchildren and in later years, they subdivided the farm, keeping a small block for themselves. Sadly Janet now has problems with her back, so Alan has given up farming to look after her.

September of 1962 saw the eldest son Walter married to Ann Walsh in Brisbane, where Walter works with Brisbane City Council driving all types of earthmoving equipment. They have 3 children and their son Darrell's wedding to Roslyn Smith in November 1990 at Christadelphian meeting house at Cooperoo was the latest in the family.

It was in January 1968 that Elaine left the family to marry Peter Munko in Brisbane. Peter was an electrician and they went to live at Stacks Creek where they had three children. Sadly Ted and Beryl suddenly lost their daughter and grandson Thor in 1982. Their car ran off the road only a mile from home when returning from a Christmas party and both occupants were killed. Peter has since re-married.

Desmond married Barbara Mercuri in March 1969 and they have two children. He finished his apprenticeship at Evans Deakin workshop as a fitter and turner and is now designing laboratory equipment for CSIRO and the family live at Tanah Mera near Slacks Creek.

Ted and Beryl's youngest daughter Heather went to work in Sydney and there she met Neil Swinbourne who was a cartographer with NSW Lands Department. They were married in Brisbane in December 1972 and they returned to Lawson, where Neil had lived. Their first child was born at Katoomba NSW and then they went to live at Forbes and Heather had their second child in Broken Hill and a third back in Brisbane. They bought one of the blocks on Janet and Alan's farm but sadly Heather lost her husband from cancer in November 1986 after an eighteen months illness. Heather now works full time in a craft shop in Toowoomba and designs specialty fabrics, while her eldest son Ian is studying at Forestry Commission at Gatton.

All places mentioned in the genealogy that follows are, unless otherwise noted, around Brisbane (Bris) or in Queensland

16/[8.8] Edward Anselm BAILEY b 4 Feb 1916 Bris m 4 Jun 1938Mackay Beryl (Johnson) b 19 Feb 1915 Rockhampton d 23 Jan 1993 Bris

[16.1] Family of Joyce Lillian Beryl (Bailey) and Ross DANDO

All births Katoomba NSW

[16.2] Family of Walter Edward Joseph BAILEY and Ann (Walsh)

All births Bris

[16.3] Family of Janet Rose (Bailey) and Alan Thomas STOCKER

[16.4] Family of Desmond Elmer BAILEY and Barbara (Mercuri)

All births Brisbane

[16.5] Family of Elaine Margaret (Bailey) and Peter MUNKO

All births Brisbane

[16.6] Family of Heather Valmai (Bailey) and Neil Robert SWINBOURNE

[16.7] Family of Edward Richard DANDO and D'anne Gay (Bateman)

[16.8] Family of Nora Joyce (Dando) and Lee William MATTHEWSON

[16.12] Family of Steven Peter STOCKER and Bronwyn (Symons)

16/[8.8] Beryl (Johnson)

Father Harry Elmer JOHNSON Mother Lily (Newman) b 3O Jun 1888 d 8 Sep 1984 Rockhampton

[16.1] Edward Ross DANDO

Father Edward DANDO Mother Nell (Gee)

[16.2] Ann (Walsh)

Father William WALSH Mother Justine (Holder)

[16.3] Alan Thomas STOCKER

Father Thomas STOCKER Mother Elsie (??)

[16.5] Peter MUNKO

Father Knud Taga MUNKO Mother Tova Krista (Hansen)

[16.6] Neil Ronald SWINBOURNE

Father Robert SWINBOURNE Mother Joyce (Galbraith)

[16.7] D'Anne Gay (Bateman)

Father Brian BATEMAN Mother Barbara (Wright)

[16.8] Lee William MATTHEWSON

Father Brian MATTHEWSON Mother Barbara (Claque)

[16.12] Bronwyn (Symons)

Father Ralph Bennet SYMONS d 23 Aug 1989 Mother Nancy Edith (Warrington-Kennedy)

The only one of Mary James' children who died without issue was James George who was according to Mary's death certificate born in Pietermaritzburg in 1885. Perhaps he was given his mother's surname as a first name, whilst his second may have been after one of Walter's uncles. Very little is known about his childhood in South Africa, but it is likely he was given some chores to do, like his brothers were. Being twelve years old when the family came to Brisbane, he probably stayed with them until he came of age. At one time he had his own small engineering business and the only machinery was a small lathe which was kept under the house Albert had at Milton. Here he is said to have made small parts for bedsteads for a company owned by some relatives.

His brothers remember that he was always playing his mouth organ and said he fancied himself very much as a ladies man. The family say he was rather a secretive man and he left a special box of his things with Alf at Greenslopes for safekeeping - it greatly intrigued Alf's sons, but they did not ever find out what was inside.

He is said to have been very keen on Emily Blake, who married his brother John in 1907 and it was after this that he left Brisbane and went to Sydney and family stories say that he met and married the owner of a boutique there.

However the records so far located show that he was not married until 1945. His wife was Eleanor Cant, who lived in Rose Street in the Sydney suburb of Auburn, where they were married in the registrar's office. George James (as he called himself then) gave his occupation as Engineer and his address as Five Islands Road Port Kembla. This is a large industrial town south of Sydney and there are engineering firms of all sizes in the town, but enquiries to the largest of all - Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd show he was not employed by them. It seems that George James was not very sure about his personal details - when he was married he gave his age as 58 (he was 60), his father as William Walter and his mother's name as Mary Ellen(she was his sister), while he guessed her surname of Williams.

His wife Eleanor had been divorced from her first husband Arthur St. Leone, who she had married when she was l8 years old, and there were no children from either marriage. On the marriage certificate, Eleanor gave the curious occupation of "Medical Eclectic" i.e. one who practises all branches of medicine.

The next record found shows that George James was living at Lake Cargellico, a NSW town near Lachlan River, between Hillston and Condobolin. His death certificate states he died there in a house in Conapaira Street in November 1956 "of natural causes to wit Pulmonary Tuberculosis" and he was buried in that town's Church of England Cemetery. Perhaps he was found dead, as there is no medical report(possibly the town did not have a doctor) and in any event, the Coroner decided not to hold an inquest. All the personal details on his death certificate were filled in by a member of the local Police Station and in the main correctly, but this time his mother's surname was given as Brown.

Whether Eleanor was actually living in Lake Cargellico is not known, but it was not until 1958 that her name is shown on the Electoral Roll, as living at Conapaira Street. She lived for some seven years after George died and at the end of March 1963, according to her death certificate died at Canley Vale, a southern Sydney suburb and was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium.

If anyone has further information about James George during his time in NSW from 1908, until his death, I would appreciate hearing of it.

Lily's first child was born in Pietermaritzburg in November l890 when Lily was only a teenager and she was probably named Dinah after Walter's eldest sister, who lived in Cardiff Wales. My mother, Rose said she had a very dark complexion (possibly from her Portuguese father) and I think I only saw her once on an outing to Sandgate with some other relatives about 1928. Her second name Maria was pronounced the old fashioned way to rhyme with "briar", but she insisted she be called "Bessie" possibly from her mother's adopted name of Elizabeth. When the family wanted to tease her, they would call her "Bessie Buck" because of her prominent front teeth - this is a family trait that has been passed on to several of Walter's family, including two of my own children. On her South African birth certificate, her mother is called Daisy Elizabeth Bailey, but on Dinah's marriage record she is shown as Lily Lewis. During the voyage to Australia, she probably had to help Mary Ellen keep an eye on Baby Jane, though perhaps travelling steerage, as the family did, there was not much chance of the toddler getting out on to the decks of the ship.

Very little is known about her childhood, but as she was about 25 by the time the family went to live at Enoggera it is very likely that she did not live with them there. Early in 1918 Dinah married a widower who was 30 years older than she was, who came from Redbank Plains. The ceremony took place at Registry Office Red Hill and the bridegroom was William Buchanan "Bill", the witnesses being her father Walter and sister Jane. Her address was shown as Thomas Street Red Hill, so she was probably staying with John and Emily. Bill gave his address as Bride Street Wynnum South so perhaps they lived here for a while before going to the farm at Christmas Creek. This was once a small farming community l6 miles south of Beaudesert on the road to Lamington.

After Bill's death in late 1920s, Dinah went back to live at Wynnum South and sometimes she would take the train to Enoggera and stay there for a few weeks with the family.

Dinah and Bill had no children of their own, but after Fanny's children were born, she occasionally took care of them. Her niece Ruth Tipping does not think she knew very much about child care - she remembers that Dinah always made their baths far too hot.

Dinah was never very sure of her age and was actually 27 not 25 at the time of her marriage. When she wanted to go on the pension, she wrote to her brother Daniel, asking if she was mentioned on his birth certificate. Although no one realised at the time, she was shown there as "David Maurice age 6" and as Walter was the informant in writing, he must have unwittingly made the error, or else his handwriting was too hard to read.

About 1955, Dinah became ill with cancer and Fanny went to see her in hospital several times, taking Ruth with her. It is thought it was about 1958 when she died and on her death, left her wedding and engagement rings to her niece, Ruth.

After Walter and Lily became man and wife, following Mary James' death in April l894, Lily had another child Jane, born in Pietermaritzburg in May 1895, who may have been named after Walter's youngest sister, Mary Jane, who emigrated to New Zealand. Like Dinah, when Jane's birth was registered in South Africa, her mother was called Daisy Elizabeth Bailey, but when Jane married in Australia, many years later, her mother, as in all Australian records, was recorded as Lily Lewis.

As a baby, she was probably cared for by one of the Kaffir women and she celebrated her second birthday only a fortnight after the family arrived in Sydney.

As Jane grew older and Lily had ever more children, Jane took on the mothering role to those who stayed at home and Jane helped Lily in the house most of the time. She was a very keen flower gardener, and on our visits to Brisbane, we brought back parcels of plants and cuttings. According to Ted, she had some sort of nervous breakdown about l922 and was given a pension or sickness benefit. Each fortnight, she would go to the doctor and get another certificate and take the horse and sulky to Valley Post Office and get her fifteen shillings benefit. It seems to have been her money that bought the family things like shoes for the boys and when she bought Ted a pair of sandshoes, he had to try to make them last two or three years.

After Lily died in 1934 she took over the reins of the household and on Walter's death in 1936, Jane found that he had not paid the rates on the Enoggera property for many years, so she started to pay off the debt.

Late in l939 Jane married Peter Eaton at Joyful News Mission Hall at The Valley, and at that time they both gave their address as New Cleveland Road Tingalpa. Peter was an orphan who had lived in children's homes for most of his life, and after his marriage he got a job at the wool scour.

Jane tried to pay more off the rates, but they were so far in arrears that about 1940, the owners took over the land and they had to move. At first, Jane and Peter went to live at Eight Mile Plains and later moved to Dairy Swamp Road Belmont, and they stayed there for some years. During World War II, I was in AWAS and whilst staging at Brisbane on my way to New Guinea, I visited Jane and Peter on their lovely bush block. It was like a return to my childhood visit to Walter and Lily in Enoggera, even to the tin bowl on a bench outside the back door containing the washing up water to be used to wash ones hands, and later to water the garden.

About 1959, Jane became very ill with cancer and she and Peter went to stay with Ted and Beryl near Toowoomba, and she died in February l960.

Though she had no children, Jane was the keeper of the family history and passed on to Ted the stories about South Africa and the early days in Brisbane, that she had heard from her older siblings. After Jane's death, Peter stayed on with Ted and Peter for a while and was quite comfortably off, as he had the dole and a horse and sulky to get around with. However, he wanted to go back to Belmont and soon after was persuaded to swap the land there for a caravan and went to live at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast. Ted's daughters went to see him there later on and found him living in very poor conditions, but he would not leave and is thought to have died there about 1963.

Joseph possibly named after one of Walter's cousins in England spent most of his life working outdoors firstly in the family vege garden and later in the nearby Chinese market garden, when the family lived at Enoggera. For the princely sum of four shillings per week, he would carry two kerosene tins on a yoke and water all the plants or carry out piles of manure or help by picking half bushel baskets of cucumbers etc when needed.

He too had the family problem with two rows of teeth and when I saw him about 1928 he still had most of his first teeth, and the second lot had grown out above the first in a another row.

He never married and made some sort of a living doing odd jobs as a gardener etc - he had the habit of talking to himself all the time as he worked. He owned a wheel barrow which had an original patent Bailey wheel which he passed on to Ted's son Walter and it is now a treasured possession.

At various times he used to stay with Ted and Beryl or Jane and Peter Eaton and when he could no longer get work, Ted found him a place at Mt. Lofty Mens Home at nearby Toowoomba While he lived he was very proud of the mug with Bailey generic coat of arms on it Ted and Beryl had given him. He was 81 years old when he died at Toowoomba in July 1987.

Lily had twelve children that we know of and like many women of her time, several did not survive much past infancy.

Two years after Daniel's birth in November 1899 Lily had another son they called Benjamin - a new name in the Bailey family. Poor Benjamin was not even a year old, when in October 1900 he succumbed to teething convulsions, which he had experienced over a period of six weeks and he was buried at Lutwyche Cemetery.

Whilst the works were still at Sandgate Road, Lily gave birth at Nundah in December 1902 to Samuel, probably named after Walter's uncle who had emigrated to New Zealand. According to family sources he became ill after eating flakes of paint and in those days it contained red lead. He is recorded on the birth certificate of his sister Violet in November 1908 but there is no mention of him at all when Fanny was born on September 1910. It seems he probably died between those dates but no official record exists and it has been suggested that he may have been buried in the family's garden - a practice that is said to have been quite common in early 1900s.

After Samuel there are no further births recorded for Walter and Lily until Joseph's in April 1906 so perhaps it was during this time that Lily had the still-born twins said to have been buried under an orange tree in the garden of their house in Montpelier Road Bowen Hills.

At the next family home off Gympie Road Kedron, Lily had a girl they called Violet Lilian born in November 1908. Perhaps Walter had heard of two of his cousin's children in New Zealand who had been given that name, but Walter's Violet lived only a year and 8 days. She contracted whooping cough, which probably led to pneumonia which was recorded as the cause of her death at Brisbane Children's Hospital in November 1909. She too was buried at Lutwyche Cemetery and her death was certified by members of Joyful News Mission, where Jane had been married.

It was just over four years later in the Kedron house (by now recorded as being in King Street) that Reuben Sam was born in February 1913. For some reason he was not living with the family at Enoggera (at least not in Ted's memory) but with Mary Ellen who already had children of her own. He was another child who is said to have eaten flakes of leaden paint and about 1920, Jane took four years old Ted over to see him for the first and last time. Soon after that he was admitted to Brisbane Childrens Hospital and spent 7 weeks there before he died in March 1921 from a heart problem and other complications. At his burial in Lutwyche cemetery, Walter's friend, Ernest E. Hillman, the Baptist minister from Enoggera officiated at the graveside.

All places in the genealogy below are, unless otherwise noted, in Queensland.

17/[4.2.1] Family of Walter BAILEY and Mary (James)

17/[5.1] Family of Lily (Lewis)

17/6/[4.2.2] Family of Walter BAILEY and Lily (Lewis)[5.1]

17/[6.3] Eleanor Violet Mary (Cant)

17/[6.6] William Andrew BUCHANAN

Father James BUCHANAN Occ Cooper Mother Catherine (Adams)

17/[6.7] Peter EATON

Father Samuel Eaton Occ Labourer Mother Jane Florence Temperance (Milne)

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13.5 CHRISSIE Muriel GORDON Walter Bailey ?? 12.1 CLARK Esther Elsie BAILEY Walter Henry 1899 9/5.2 CLARK Katie Ruth BAILEY Albert William190310/6.1 COLLICK Sylvia May BAILEY Frank Clark 1941 10.3 COLLINS Carol Jean WATSON Lindsay David 1984 10.22 COURT Anthea Jane WATSON Darryl John 1991 10.23 CREW Rachael Mary BAILEY Ralph Edward 1970 13.8 DANDOEdward RichardBATEMAND'Anne Gay198516.7 DANDO Edward Ross BAILEY Joyce L Beryl 1962 16.1 DANDO Nora Joyce MATTHEWSON Lee William 1987 16.8 DAVIES William BARRETT Annette ?? 9.19 DAVIS Shirley H Florence MURFETT Edward John19674.49 DAY Auriel Marjorie AINSWORTH Jim ?? 9.7 DAY Barry QUINN Pamela ?? 9.22 DAY Lawrence BAILEY Auriel Marjorie ?? 9.7 DAY Leanne DURHAM Anthony ?? 9.21 DAY Neil BRIGGS Therese ?? 9.23 DODD MarilynWATSONGraham Alan197810.19 DUNCAN Dorothy Walker GORDON George William 1933 12.4 DURHAM Anthony DAY Leanne ?? 9.21 DWYER Graham BAILEY Deslyn ?? 9.18 EATON Peter BAILEY Jane 1939 17/6.7 EDMONDS Robin BARRETT Darryl??9.20 ESTREICH John MURFIN Lisa-Jane ?? 9.33 FOTHERINGHAM Nancy BAILEY Russell Frederick ?? 9.13 FRITZ Reinold Carl BAILEY Fanny Rose 1943 15/8.6 FRITZ Ruth Elizabeth TIPPING Harry Norman 1965 15.1 GALLIER Betty MavisMURFINClifford??9.10 GALLIER Merle Ivy PHILLIPS Keith ?? 9.9 GALLIER Stanley A James BAILEY Mabel Ivy 1929 9.2 GALLIER Thelma Mabel STEELE Leslie ?? 9.8 GALLIER Valma Mavis HIGGS James ?? 9.14 GALNA DorisBAILEY 2Norman George??13.1.2 GIBBS Violet BAILEY Darry Fletcher 1953 4.40 GILLARD Barry Ronald QUINN Joanne 1979 14.8 GILLARD Ronald Eric BAILEY Irene Mary 1946 14.2 GILLARD Patricia PALMER David Moreau 1975 14.7 GILLSON Gladys Euphemia BAILEY Jack Harry 1938 11.2 GILVEAR Helen Marion BAILEY Rodney Arthur 1969 10.17 GORDON Carole Elizabeth PAULSEN Ronald Walter 1959 12.9 GORDON George William DUNCAN Dorothy Walker 1933 12.4 GORDON June DorothyYOUNGDavid Clelland195712.7 GORDON Kent Ronald ROSS-SMITH Juliet 1979 12.11 GORDON Pamela Ann BIDDLE Robert Richard 1974 12.10 GORDON Percy Alfred AHLES Elsie Agnes 1947 12.5 GORDON Walter John BAILEY Mary Ellen190312/6.4 GORDON Walter Bailey CHRISSIE Muriel ?? 12.1 GRATTON Kenneth Robert WHAITE Lorraine Judith 1976 14.4 GUARD Doris BAILEY Norman George ?? 13.1.1 HAPGOOD George Dudley BAILEY Helen J Elizabeth ?? 11.5 HARTNETTColin DavidBAILEYPatricia Elizabeth197911.15 HEIN Trevor Leslie BAILEY Nola Ann 1967 10.13 HENDERSEN David Laurence BAILEY Sharyn Rayleen 1966 11.10 HERMANN Georgena F BAILEY 2 Alfred Charles 1963 13/6.5.2 HERMANNGordonBAILEYJudith196813.6 HERMANN Wendy STEELE Paul ?? 9.26 HICKS Paul Robert WATSON Leanne Joy 1963 10.26 HIGGIN Adrian PHILLIPS Belinda ?? 9.29 HIGGS James GALLIER Valma Mavis ?? 9.14 HILTON Susan Dale BAILEYRobert Clifford196410.16 HUFFEY Lorraine Isobel PAYNE Lyn 1972 11.13 HUFFEY Ray (F) BAILEY Leonard Arthur 1943 11.4.1 HYAM Lorraine BAILEY Gilbert Arthur 1974 11.12 JOHNSON Beryl BAILEY Edward Anselm 1938 16/8.8 JONES Donald John ATKINSON Annette 1965 10.9 JONES 2 Doris Fanny TURNER Isaac John `1950 10.2 JONES Kay Jeanette ARMOUR Brian George 1961 10.10 JONES Margaret Dawn MOORE Peter James 1969 10.11 JONES KeithT Maxwell BAILEYDoris Fanny193910.2 JUDSON Michael Geoffrey TURNER Glenda Ruth 1972 10.12 KETTLE Levene Mary BAILEY 2 Leonard Arthur 1952 11.4.2 KUGIS Tal Varis BAILEY Joan Lynette 1966 10.14 LAW Jean Dorothy BAILEY Bertie Ernest c 195011.1 LUBAWSKI Michael James McNALLY Katherine Lea 1993 4.52 MARRON Margaret BAILEY Peter John 1969 11.7 MCDONALD Janet BAILEY Bruce Ian 1972 13.9 MCNALLY Katherine Lea LUBAWSKI Michael James 1993 4.52 MCNALLY Kenneth RobertMURFETTMargaret Jean19644.48 MEDINA Annie MUNKO 2 Peter 1990 4.48 MATTHEWSON Lee William DANDO Nora Joyce 1987 16.8 MERCURI Barbara BAILEY Desmond Elmer 1969 16.4 MICHAN/MICKAN Judith STEELE Rowan ?? 9.27 MILLERGeoffrey JohnWHAITECatherine Helen198014.6 MOORE Peter James JONES Margaret Dawn 1969 10.11 MUNKO Peter BAILEY Elaine Margaret 1968 16.5 MUNKO 2 Peter MEDINA Annie 1990 16.5 MURFETT Edward John DAVIS Shirley H Florence19674.49 MURFETT Gladwyn Fletcher ROBINS Jack Gollan 1972 4.39 MURFETT Henry E Allen BAILEY Gladwyn Fletcher 1944 4.39 MURFETT Lorna Elaine WESTERN Rex 1969 4.50 MURFETT Margaret Jean McNALLY Kenneth Robert 1964 4.48 MURFIN Averil VENN Clive ?? 9.30 MURFIN Bonnie WHEELER Raymond ?? 9.31 MURFIN Clifford GALLIER Betty Mavis ?? 9.10 MURFIN Lisa Jane ESTREICH John ?? 9.32 NAYLOR Patricia Gail BAILEY Colin John 1969 10.15 NEWCOMBEKatherine LouiseWATSONBradley Robert199010.20 NIBLOE Eileen Jane WATSON Dudley Maurice 1981 10.21 PALMER David Moreau GILLARD Patricia 1975 14.7 PAULSEN Aleisha Gai STRAUGHAN David John 1988 12.19 PAULSEN Ronald WalterGORDONCarole Elizabeth195912.9 PAYNE Lyn HUFFEY Lorraine Isobel 1972 11.13 PHILLIPS Belinda HIGGIN Adrian ?? 9.29 PHILLIPS Deleina BARTON Tony ?? 9.28 PHILLIPS Gladys BAILEY 2 Thomas Walter ?? 9.1.2 PHILLIPS JoanBAILEYRonald Thomas??9.5 PHILLIPS Keith GALLIER Merle Ivy ?? 9.9 PHILLIPS 2 Merle Ivy BUCKLAND Cyril ?? 9.9 PHILLIPS 2 Merle Ivy ROGINSON Kenneth ?? 9.9 PHILLIPS William James BAILEY Ann Margaret 1989 13.10 POTTSRobynBAILEYMiles Bertie John??11.6 PRICE Graeme BARTON 2 Deleina ?? 9.28 QUINN Joanne Margaret GILLARD Barry Ronald 1979 14.8 QUINN Pamela DAY Barry ?? 9.22 QUIXLEY John BAILEY Sue Anne 1987 13.13 ROBINS Jack GollanMURFETT 2Gladwyn Fletcher19724.39 ROGINSON Kenneth PHILLIPS 2 Merle Ivy ?? 9.9 ROSS-SMITH Juliet GORDON Kent Ronald 1979 12.11 SALTER Sydney G Walter TURNER 3 Doris Fanny 1976 10.2 SCHOETER Sonia Maria BAILEY Bradley Clifford198910.49 SHAW Sheila BAILEY Stanley Lewis 1944 13.3 SHERMAN Gail BELL-BOOTH Trevor ?? 9.15.1 SMITH Allan Brian STEELE Janelle ?? 9.25 SMITH Jenny BAILEY Gary John 1975 10.18 SMITH Roslyn BAILEY Darryl Glen199016.9 SMITH Wayne BAILEY Jill Lorraine 1980 13.11 STEELE Janelle SMITH Allan Brian ?? 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1. William Baylye [2e.1] Elmore made on 18 March 1579 proved 15 August 1579

2. Anselm Baylie [2.5] Wheatenhurst made on 4 July 1645 proved 23 December l646

3. Anselm Bayley [2e.4/2.16] Standish made on 1 June 1689 proved 10 May 1690

4. John Bayly [2.23] Standish made on 4 March 1736 proved 23 January 1741

5. Anselm Bayly [2.38] Longney made on 29 January 1768 proved on 19 December 1769

6. William Baily [2.60] Longhope made on 21 December 1827 proved 12 July 1840

7. William Bailey [2.108] Cheltenham made 30 January 1864 proved 12 May 1870

8. Anselm Bailey [2.109] Westbury on Severn made on 25 May 1872 proved 22 May 1874

Copies and precis of all wills were provided by Gloucestershire Record Office

Will 1. Precis of the will of William Baylye of Elmore husbandman made on 18 March 1579 proved 15 August 1579 (1579/206)

Bequests as follows:

1. To the "poor man's box": 12 pence

2. For the repair of Elmore Church bells: 12 pence

3. To Jhoan Pritchet his servant: One yearling heifer, one ewe and a lamb, 2 shillings in money

4. To his brother's daughter who lives with him (neither brother nor his niece are named): Two ewes, two lambs, two shillings in money

5. To his brother Jhon Bailey: Some of his clothes

6. To Agnes Wimane [2e.2]: Two shillings in money

7. To "Enery" one of his god children (surname not given): Seven pence in money

8. To Annsell Bayly [2e.2] his son: Remainder of goods and possessions

Annsell Bayly [2e.2] appointed executor

Jhon Newman and Thomas Wiman appointed as overseers and to have "the guiding, oversight and use" of the testators son for the next three years after the testators death.

Each of the overseers are to have two shillings each.

Witnesses

Robert Gostline

Thomas Snowe

Will 2. Precis of contents of will of Anselm Baylie [2.5] of Wheatenhurst yeoman made on 4 July 1645 and proved on 23 December 1646 (l646/6)

Bequests as follows:

To his eldest son John [2.6]: remainder of the term of lease on house in Whitminster in which the testator lives; the tablebord in the parlour, the best standing bedstead, cupboard and press; the inner doors and window glass

To Annsell [2.17], Anna [2.18] and Dorothie [2.19] children of Thomas Merry and Anna the testator's daughter: 10 pounds to be divided equally between them when they are 21 years old

To Elizabeth [2.7], the testator's daughter: Ten shillings

To Mary [2.15], the testator's youngest daughter: 1/2 of household goods except items bequeathed below(later crossed out) with her to have first choice

To William [2.11] and Annsell [2.14], the testator's sons: remainder of household goods, to be divided equally between them

Note: a number of individual items have been completely crossed out here

To William [2.11], Ansell [2.14] and Mary [2.15] the testators children: Remainder of the estate and his freelands or the "overplus" of the money made from it, his debts having been paid

These three were appointed as executors

Witnesses

John Halls

Sibble Hannsan/Hunman

Philip Harris

Two notes were added:

l. The testator requested that neither the rails nor gates round his house should be moved.

2. The three lines were crossed out before the will was sealed

In 1646/10 an inventory of Anselm's goods after his death was made and included was "ll great pieces of pewter" and " 4 pewter dishes", but the latter were not marked in any way. The whole inventory was valued at one hundred pounds.

Will 3. Precis of will of Anselm Bayley [2e.4/2.16] of Standish made 1 June 1689 and proved l0 May 1690(1690/106)

Bequests as follows:

To Sarah [2.20], his daughter: 100 pounds to be raised from the testator's stock and this to be paid when she is 23 years old; bed and bedding

The testator states that money raised from his stock should also be used to pay off the mortgage on his land, and that if there is not enough money to pay off the mortgage and his daughter's portion, Sarah Bailey shall have 1 acre of arable land in Broadfield. If there is enough money to pay both the mortgage and the portion, then this land is willed to Anselm Bayley, the testator's son.

To Anselm [2.21], his son: 1 messuage called Dabys howse, backsides and 1 close of pasture adjoining called the Home Close; 3 acres in the lower field; 1 acre of arable land lying in Hamage; l acre of arable land in Little Westfield ( all in Wheatenhurst ). All to pass to Anselm Bayley after the death of both the testator's father and wife (both un-named) unless she remarries

To William [2.22], his son: 1 messuage called Wildfier Howse with the garden and close adjoining; the reversion of Harris' Houle; l acre of arable land in the field called Hamage next to Anselm Bayley's acre as above; l pasture ground called Shearlock; one little meadow called the Ring (all in Wheatenhurst)

All to pass to William Bayley on the same terms as above

To John [2.23], his son: 2 acres of pasture ground called Hind Halings; 3 acres of pasture called Puckpitt l acre of arable land in Hamage (all in Wheatenhurst). All to pass to John Bayley on the same terms as above

If any of the testator's children die before they come to full age or marry, the portion of the dead child to be divided amongst the survivors.

The testator's wife and father both un-named, to have control of his estate, including the stock, paying both the mortgage and Sarah Bayley's portion as directed above. After his father's death, his wife to have control of the estate unless she remarries in which case the stock shall be equally divided between his surviving children once the portion of Sarah Bayley and the mortgage have been paid.

The testator's children, Sarah [2.20] and Anselm [2.21], are named as joint executors

The testator's father and wife named as overseers of will with full authority to sell stock to pay the portion and mortgage to best advantage.

Witnesses:

James Davies

Joseph Morse

Henry Alway

Will 4. Precis of the contents of will of John Bayly the elder [2.23] of Standish, yeoman made on 4 March 1736

and proved on 23 January 1741/2 (1741/l5)

Bequests as follows:

To his son Anselm [2.38], his heirs and assigns for ever: 2 pieces of meadow called Puckpit and Hinton Halling (both in Wheatenhurst) with a charge to pay l0 pounds each to testator's daughters Sarah Eagles [2.41] and Edith Bayly [2.43] one year after the testator's death; the bed bedstead and furnishings which he usually uses in the testator's house, largest pewter dish marked A B

To his son John [2.39]: 5 shillings

To his son William [2.42] his heirs and assigns for ever: Piece of arable land in the field called Hamage in Wheatenhurst measuring l acre; piece of arable land in Broadfield in Standish measuring l /2 acre

To Edith [2.43] his daughter: 30 pounds over and above the ten pounds to be paid a year after the testator's decease; 1/2 of the household goods not already bequeathed

To his son William [2.42]: Remainder of personal estate

William Bayly, his son, appointed as executor. The testator's brothers Anselm and William Bayly appointed as trustees of will for which they are to receive 1/2 guinea each

Witnesses

Sarah Stratford

Daniel Parry

Daniel Stratford

Addition was made on 17 August 1741

to his son Anselm [2.38]: Free land in Wheatenhurst with the responsibility for paying the mortgage on it

Witnesses

Mary Pearfield

William Bennett

Will 5. Text of the will of Anselm Bailey [2.38] of Longney made on 29 January l768 and proved on 19 December 1770 (1770/237)

In the Name of God Amen

This Twenty Ninth day of January in the Year of Our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Eight

I Anselm Bailey of the Parish of Longney and County of Gloucester Yeoman being of Perfect Mind and Memory do make and Ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. I first recommend my Soul to Almighty God that gave it hopeing thro the Mediation of our Saviour it may be re-united to the Body at the Day of Resurrection both to enjoy Eternal Felicity and as to my Worldy Goods I give bequeath and dispose of them in the following Manner

I give and bequeath unto my eldest son John Bailey [2.57] my half Acre of land in Broadfield in the Parish of Standish Adjoining unto Mr Fielder's Land or Lands.

I give unto my said son John Bailey 2 Large Pewter Dishes the largest Except those marked A B after my Wife's decease I give and bequeath unto my son John Bailey fifty pounds of Lawful English Money to be Pay'd Immediately after his Mother's Widowhood or if she do not marry not till after her decease.

I give unto my son Anselm Bailey [2.59] fifty pounds of Lawful Money to be directly paid if his Mother should Marry again and if she does not Marry it not to be paid till after her decease

I give unto my son William Bailey [2.60] fifty pounds of Lawful Money to be paid when his Mother no longer Remain Widow. If she does not Marry its to be Paid after her Decease

I give to my said Son Anselm Bailey [2.59] the two pewter dishes markt AB. I give and bequeath unto my Son William Bailey the Three Other of the rest of the Large Dishes of Pewter upon the Upper Shelf in the Hall.

I give and bequeath unto my Elder Daughter Sarah Bailey [2.54] thirty pounds of Lawful (Money) after her Mother Marry otherways after her decease.

I give and bequeath unto my Youngest Daughter Edith Bailey [ 2.56] Thirty Pounds of Lawful Money to be paid as above. I give and bequeath unto my two Daughters all the Rest or Remainder Goods Furniture Utensils and Sundrys to be Equaly Divided between the Said Sarah Bailey and Edith Bailey.

I also make my dear Wife my Executrix to this my Last Will and Testament Revoking all former Wills ? note my wife Sarah Bailey be no longer Executrix then during her Widowhood I Solicit and Nominate James Wilkins Snr. of Haresfield & William Bayley of Epney Moreton Parish to be Trustees to See this my Will Truly Executed with moderat Satisfaction for the same if Insisted On.

Unto which I have the date above Set my Hand & Seal

We have Seen the Testator

Sign and Seal the above

Daniel Mills

Sarah Eagles

Richard Grining

Anselm Bayley Seal

Will 6. Precis of Will of William Baily [2.60] of Little Lonnon (London) in the parish of Longhope, Carpenter, dated 21 December 1827

Names his wife Ann [2.60] and leaves her all his property during her life except for money deposited in the savings bank at Newnham and after her death, the rest of the estate disposed of as follows:

Leaves his daughter Ann [2.107], wife of John Sterrey Shopkeeper of Little Lonnon a parcel of land known as Notwood Garden in Blaisdon, plus 20 pounds

Leaves his son William Baily [2.108] of Cheltenham the land at Little Lonnon where the testator now lives etc and one hogshead marked W.B. and one Barrell marked W.B.

To his youngest son Anselm Baily [2.109] he leaves a parcel of land in Huntley, known as Nursery Garden or Huntley Wood Garden, one hogshead marked A.B. and one Barrell marked A.B. and all the money which was deposited in the bank at Newnham plus 20 pounds.

William [2.108] his eldest to pay the 20 pounds each to his sister Ann Sterrey and to his brother Anselm.

Sons William and Anselm were appointed as joint Executors with the proviso that the funeral expenses of the testator and his wife be shared equally between his three children, paid out of the property left to them.

All household furniture and monies (except that bequeathed to Anselm) to be equally divided between Ann Sterrey, William Baily and Anselm Baily at the discretion of the executors

Witnessess to the Will were Thomas COX, James WILLIAMS James HAMPTON X his mark

The Will was proved 17 July 1840 by Anselm Bailey [2.109] of Westbury upon Severn, Mealman. It also states that William Baily late of Little London in the parish of Longhope, Carpenter died on 26 May 1840 and that he left goods and chattels valued at under twenty pounds.

Will 7. Precis of Will of William BAILEY [2.108] Cheltenham, Carpenter dated 30 January 1864

Names as his trustees his nephew William Hyett BAILEY [2.148] Boseley Mill, Westbury on Severn Farmer and his friend John BROOM ? of Cheltenham, Builder and Undertaker

Names his wife Hannah [2.108] and their daughter Anne Susannah [2.145], wife of Edwin LLOYD and all her children

Nephew W.H. BAILEY and John BROOM? were named as executors

Witnesses to the Will were J.B.Winterbotham, Solicitor and his Clerk Henry White

The Will was proved at Gloucester 12 May 1870

William BAILEY, the Testator, was late of the parish of Cheltenham, Carpenter and died 26 January 1870 at Cheltenham

Will 8. Precis of Will of Anselm BAILEY [2.109] of Boseley Mill, Westbury, Miller dated 25 May 1872

Names his wife Susanna [2.109], son William Hyett BAILEY [2.148], his daughters Harriet Ann [2.149] the wife of James HALL and Mary Elizabeth [2.150] the wife of Edward HAWKS

The Will was proved at Gloucester 22 May 1874 Anselm BAILEY, the Testator died 13 January 1874 he was buried Westbury on Severn on 16 January 1874