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

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[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)

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[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

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[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 ( ?? )