alice eliza mallindine + henry william joseph bayliss
Alice Eliza was born on Hackney Road in Bethnal Green on 4 November 1883, the daughter of Joseph Mallindine and his wife Alice Manhood. Several years later, her parents and maternal grandparents moved out of the East End and settled in Essex living first in Plaistow and later in neighbouring Canning Town. When she was fourteen, her father died of tuberculosis leaving the family with no means of support. Alice and her brother Joseph left home to work as their mother could no longer afford to support them and their three siblings.
In 1901, Alice was boarding with the Waller family on Ley Street in Ilford and working as a laundry maid. James Waller was working as a laundry van man and may have been working at the same laundry as Alice. Four years later, Alice married Henry Bayliss on 18 June 1905 at the parish church in Ilford. Henry’s birth record has not been found but later census returns list his birth as 1885 in Eastbourne, Sussex.
Their first daughter, Alice Charlotte, was born in West Ham only six months after their wedding. Ivy Ada was born in 1907 and their first son, Henry William Joseph, was born two years later. In 1911, the family was living at 12a Fifth Avenue in Manor Park, a borough between Stratford and Ilford, and Henry was working as a coal porter.
Charles Alfred Stephen was born just after the census was taken followed by Stephen George in 1914. These two sons appear to have been named after Alice’s two younger brothers, Alfred and Stephen George, who were sent to Canada under the Barnardo’s child migration scheme. It is believed that Stephen made contact with his family around 1913 which fits the timing of the naming of the Bayliss boys.
Lily Rose was born in West Ham in 1917, Ronald William in 1920 and Albert Frank in 1925. Their six-year old son Stephen George died in 1921 and the eldest daughter, Alice Charlotte, died in the spring of 1927, aged only 22 years.
Alice Eliza died in Ilford on 30 December 1955. Other than marriage records for some of their children, no other information regarding Alice and Henry have been located.