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)

All births at Brisbane

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

All births at Brisbane

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

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

All births at Bundaberg

[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

All births at Brisbane

[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

All births at Brisbane

[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

All births at Bundaberg

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