FOR THOSE WHO ASKED.....

Pam Bayliss Rowe was unsure of the identity of some of the people in the picture that appears as our heading illustration so for her and for younger members of the family who don't remember those days here is the information. The picture was taken outside The Islington Registry Office in Liverpool Road, Islington. The occasion was the double wedding of my grandmother Esther Abbotts and her youngest son William Barrett.. This was her third marriage, the first being to my grandfather Herbert Bayliss, the second to Richard Barrett and this one to her childhood friend Charles FitzGibbon. Esther was 68 at the time of the wedding the year was 1952. Adults left to right are :  Esther Bayliss Slater, unknown, William Booth, Joseph Slater, Joyce Barrett Booth (carrying baby Christopher), Ethel Bayliss Harris, Florence Bayliss Abbott, Cecilia Abbott Dell, Esther Abbotts FitzGibbon, Brother of Charles FitzGibbon, Stanley Bayliss (just visible at back), Charles FitzGibbon, Mrs. Fisher, Eileen Fisher, William Barrett, Mr.Fisher, Esther Bayliss Newell. The children left to right are Ernest Harris, Susan Dell, Carol Booth and Robin Slater. I'll be writing about most of the adults in later posts on this blog.