FROM THE FAMILY ALBUM

I had hoped that by now I would have been able to post my article on Stanley Bayliss, the youngest of Herbert Bayliss's children with his wife Esther. Unfortunately  although I had facts and dates the promised personal recollections which I felt were so important did not arrive and during the wait I became distracted by another project. I am, however going to begin by posting items from my personal collection of family photographs. Some of these may have been seen before but in each case the picture will have a new caption. Photographs will be from all branches of the family and will include some from my paternal line which will be unfamiliar for the most part to those reading this blog who are descended from the Bayliss line.

My first choice is a picture which, when I first saw it, I instantly recognised as the above mentioned Stanley Bayliss. When I first showed the picture to Stanley's daughters I was shocked that they did not believe it was their father because I had no doubts whatsoever and the identity had been confirmed to me by my mother, Stanley's sister. So here is the disputed picture.

As far as I am concerned this is a picture of the young Stanley Bayliss (1918-2002). I have not clue as to the identity of the young woman. Neither am I sure of the location although my thoughts are that it might be the garden of  Stanley's mother's bungalow on Canvey Island which would be right for the period which I judge to be the late 1930's'