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Family of Alfred Walter Bayes and Emily Annie Fielden

Husband: Alfred Walter Bayes

  • Name:

  • Alfred Walter Bayes

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • William Bayes (1799-1851)

  • Mother:

  • Hannah Uttley (c. 1789-1855)

  • Note 1:

  • A "painter in oil colours", etcher and engraver. Attended Heatherleys Art School, paying his way doing illustrations notably for the Dalziel brothers to engrave. He produced 290 drawings for the Complete Illustrated Stories of Hans Christian Anderson.

    Exhibited in Royal Academy 1858-1863 and British Institution 1859-1867. In 1900 he was elected as a Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

    New house commissioned by AWB 1882-3, 82 Fellows Road, London NW3. Still living at 82 Fellows Road in 1891.

    Lost all his savings in the collapse of Liberater Building Society in the 1890's and forced to rent out his studio.

    Thanks to Jack Bayes for the above information. An example of the work of Alfred Walter Bayes is illustrated on Jack's website:

    http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

  • Note 2:

  • BAYES Alfred Walter of 82 Fellowes Road Hampstead Middlesex died 26 June 1909 at King's College Hospital Portugal Street Middlesex; probate London 10 September to Emmeline Bayes spinster and Gilbert William Bayes sculptor. Effects £1646 8s.

  • Birth:

  • c. 1832

  • Langfield, Todmorden, Yorks

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 8-9)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 18-19)

  • Schoolmaster, living with mother

  • Census (3):

  • 1861 (age 28-29)

  • Artist (oil painting), living with aunt, Mary Sutcliffe, 16 Mount Pleasant, Todmorden

  • Census (4):

  • 1871 (age 38-39)

  • Artist, wood draughtsman, 6 Oval Road, St Pancras

  • Census (5):

  • 1881 (age 48-49)

  • Artist in oil colours, 21 Adelaide Road, Hampstead, London

  • Census (6):

  • 1891 (age 58-59)

  • Artist, painter, 82 Fellows Road, London NW3

  • Census (7):

  • 1901 (age 68-69)

  • Artist, 82 Fellows Road, Hampstead

  • Death fact:

  • 1909 (age 76-77)

  • 1909 Sep Qtr, Strand, 1b/249 (aged 77)

  • Death:

  • 26 Jun 1909 (age 76-77)

  • King's College Hospital, Portugal Street, London

Wife: Emily Annie Fielden

  • Name:

  • Emily Annie Fielden

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1837

  • Todmorden, Lancashire

  • Birth fact:

  • 1837 (age 0)

  • GRO Reference: 1837 S Quarter in TODMORDEN Volume 21 Page 483

Additional Information

  • Birth fact:

  • Mother's maiden name = Sutcliffe

Child 1: Emmeline Bayes

  • Name:

  • Emmeline Bayes

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • John Stacy Aumonier (1874-1963)

  • Note:

  • AUMONIER Emmeline of 4a Greville Place Hampstead London (wife of John Stacy Aumonier) died 4 December 1957 at Whittington Hospital London N.19. Probate London 22 May 1958 to the said John Stacy Aumonier retired civil servant and Geoffrey Gilbert Bayes chartered electrical engineer. Effects £516 12s. 6d.

  • Birth:

  • 1867

  • St Pancras, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1867 (age 0)

  • 1867 Dec Qtr, Pancras, 1b/16

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 3-4)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1881 (age 13-14)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (3):

  • 1891 (age 23-24)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (4):

  • 1901 (age 33-34)

  • Dress maker, living with parents

  • Death fact:

  • 1957 (age 89-90)

  • 1957 Dec Q, Pancras, 5d/540 (aged 90)

  • Death:

  • 4 Dec 1957 (age 89-90)

  • Whittington Hospital, London N.19

Child 2: Walter John Bayes

  • Name:

  • Walter John Bayes

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Catherine Alice Telfer (1886-1981)

  • Note:

  • A painter, etcher, illustrator, theatrical scenery designer and also a lecturer and writer on artistic subjects. He studied in the evenings at the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury 1886-1900 and then at Westminster School of Art, 1900-2.

    He taught at the City & Guilds Institute, at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, he was a highly regarded teacher as the Headmaster of Westminster School of Art (1918-1934) and Lecturer on perspective to the Royal Academy and Slade School and Director of Painting at Lancaster School of Arts and Crafts 1944-49. Walter Bayes wrote several books on art and was Art Critic of the Athenæum magazine (1906-1916) and contributed to the Outlook, the Saturday Review and the Weekend Revie

    He was a founder member of Walter Sickert's "Camden Town Group" (1911) and of the London Group of Artists in 1913.

    Born in London, he married his model, Catharine (Kate or Kitty) Telfer in 1904.

    With thanks to Jack Bayes (and see his web site for examples of the work of Walter John Bayes:

    http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

    See also obituary in The Times, 23.1.1956

  • Birth:

  • 31 May 1869

  • St Pancras, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1869 (age 0)

  • 1869 Sep Qtr, Pancras, 1b/1

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 1-2)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 21-22)

  • Art student, living with parents

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 31-32)

  • Artist, painter, living with parents

  • Census (4):

  • 1911 (age 41-42)

  • Artist Teacher And Writer On Art, 203a Adelaide Road, Hampstead

  • Occupation:

  • 1939 (age 69-70)

  • Artist, 5 Parkhill Road, Belsize Park, Hampstead

  • Death fact:

  • 1956 (age 86-87)

  • 1956 Mar Qtr, Hampstead, 5c/1076 (aged 88)

  • Death:

  • 21 Jan 1956 (age 86)

  • Hampstead, Middlesex

Child 3: Gilbert William Bayes

  • Name:

  • Gilbert William Bayes

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Gertrude Smith ( - )

  • Note 1:

  • A sculptor in Bronze and an architectural and monumental designer, Gilbert William Bayes studied at the City and Guilds College, Finsbury, and at the RA Schools, 1896-9. After winning the Gold Medal and Travelling Scholarship, 1899, he studied in Paris and exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universale.

    His fine art work was often inspired by the classics and Wagner's operas, but his architectural and public sculpture was more conventional in subject and style. Gilbert Bayes designed many medals and trophies, including the Great Seal of King George V and the Seagrave Trophy. He sculpted the figures of Sir Charles Barry and Sir William Chambers which are on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Also the Rood at St. Mary's Church, Primrose Hill, London (c.1914) and the Great Clock at Selfridges Department Store in London (c.1925).

    His work includes friezes for the BBC, on the Saville Theatre and in 1939 at Royal Doulton House on the Albert Embankment, London. The house was demolished in 1978, but Bayes' frieze was saved and is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. There is now a Sculpture Gallery in the V&A named after Gilbert Bayes. He also produced the stone relief of sporting figures (1934) outside Lord's Cricket ground and various War Memorials including figures for the memorial at his parent's home town of Todmorden.

    He wrote 'Modelling for Sculpture: A Book for the Beginner' (1930). He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (HRI) in 1918, and was awarded the RBS medal in 1935. From 1939 until 1944, he served as President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and also 1939-44, was elected Vice President of the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors.

    The above information, as well as a number of examples of the work of Gilbert Bayes, can be found on Jack Bayes's web site:

    http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

  • Note 2:

  • BAYES Gilbert William of 4 Greville Place St Johns Wood London died 10 July 1953 at Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth Marylebone. Probate London 6 October to Eleanor Jean Bayes spinster and Geoffrey Gilbert Bayes chartered electrical engineer. Effects £9976 3s. 9d.

  • Birth:

  • 4 Apr 1872

  • St Pancras, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1872 (age 0)

  • 1872 Jun Qtr, Pancras, 1b/19

  • Census (1):

  • 1881 (age 8-9)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 18-19)

  • Warehouseman, living with parents

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 28-29)

  • Artist, sculptor, living with parents (recorded as Albert)

  • Occupation:

  • 1935 (age 62-63)

  • -; Sculptor, 4 Greville Place, London NW6 (Phone book)

  • Death:

  • 10 Jul 1953 (age 81)

  • Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, Marylebone, Middlesex

Child 4: Jessie Bayes

  • Name:

  • Jessie Bayes

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Note 1:

  • A modern English Miniaturist Painter and designer in the Arts and Crafts style, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1908.

    She was made a full member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculpters and Gravers (RMS) in 1906 and was on the Council of the Society from 1925 until 1935. She was also a member of the Church Crafts League.

    The above information, and a number of beautiful examples of Jessie Bayes's church art, can be found on Jack Bayes's web site:

    http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

  • Note 2:

  • BAYES Jessie of 4b Greville Pl Hampstead London died 31 March 1970. Probate London 9 June. £7142.

  • Birth:

  • 18 Nov 1876

  • Hampstead, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1876 (age 0)

  • 1876 Dec Qtr, Hampstead, 1a/648

  • Census (1):

  • 1881 (age 4-5)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 14-15)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 24-25)

  • Decorative artist, living with parents

  • Death fact:

  • 1970 (age 93-94)

  • 1970 Jun Qtr, Paddington, 5d/1223

  • Death:

  • 31 Mar 1970 (age 93)

  • Paddington, Middlesex

Note on Husband: Alfred Walter Bayes (1)

A "painter in oil colours", etcher and engraver. Attended Heatherleys Art School, paying his way doing illustrations notably for the Dalziel brothers to engrave. He produced 290 drawings for the Complete Illustrated Stories of Hans Christian Anderson.

Exhibited in Royal Academy 1858-1863 and British Institution 1859-1867. In 1900 he was elected as a Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

New house commissioned by AWB 1882-3, 82 Fellows Road, London NW3. Still living at 82 Fellows Road in 1891.

Lost all his savings in the collapse of Liberater Building Society in the 1890's and forced to rent out his studio.

Thanks to Jack Bayes for the above information. An example of the work of Alfred Walter Bayes is illustrated on Jack's website:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

Note on Husband: Alfred Walter Bayes (2)

BAYES Alfred Walter of 82 Fellowes Road Hampstead Middlesex died 26 June 1909 at King's College Hospital Portugal Street Middlesex; probate London 10 September to Emmeline Bayes spinster and Gilbert William Bayes sculptor. Effects £1646 8s.

Note on Child 1: Emmeline Bayes

AUMONIER Emmeline of 4a Greville Place Hampstead London (wife of John Stacy Aumonier) died 4 December 1957 at Whittington Hospital London N.19. Probate London 22 May 1958 to the said John Stacy Aumonier retired civil servant and Geoffrey Gilbert Bayes chartered electrical engineer. Effects £516 12s. 6d.

Note on Child 2: Walter John Bayes

A painter, etcher, illustrator, theatrical scenery designer and also a lecturer and writer on artistic subjects. He studied in the evenings at the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury 1886-1900 and then at Westminster School of Art, 1900-2.

He taught at the City & Guilds Institute, at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, he was a highly regarded teacher as the Headmaster of Westminster School of Art (1918-1934) and Lecturer on perspective to the Royal Academy and Slade School and Director of Painting at Lancaster School of Arts and Crafts 1944-49. Walter Bayes wrote several books on art and was Art Critic of the Athenæum magazine (1906-1916) and contributed to the Outlook, the Saturday Review and the Weekend Revie

He was a founder member of Walter Sickert's "Camden Town Group" (1911) and of the London Group of Artists in 1913.

Born in London, he married his model, Catharine (Kate or Kitty) Telfer in 1904.

With thanks to Jack Bayes (and see his web site for examples of the work of Walter John Bayes:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

See also obituary in The Times, 23.1.1956

Note on Child 3: Gilbert William Bayes (1)

A sculptor in Bronze and an architectural and monumental designer, Gilbert William Bayes studied at the City and Guilds College, Finsbury, and at the RA Schools, 1896-9. After winning the Gold Medal and Travelling Scholarship, 1899, he studied in Paris and exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universale.

His fine art work was often inspired by the classics and Wagner's operas, but his architectural and public sculpture was more conventional in subject and style. Gilbert Bayes designed many medals and trophies, including the Great Seal of King George V and the Seagrave Trophy. He sculpted the figures of Sir Charles Barry and Sir William Chambers which are on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Also the Rood at St. Mary's Church, Primrose Hill, London (c.1914) and the Great Clock at Selfridges Department Store in London (c.1925).

His work includes friezes for the BBC, on the Saville Theatre and in 1939 at Royal Doulton House on the Albert Embankment, London. The house was demolished in 1978, but Bayes' frieze was saved and is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. There is now a Sculpture Gallery in the V&A named after Gilbert Bayes. He also produced the stone relief of sporting figures (1934) outside Lord's Cricket ground and various War Memorials including figures for the memorial at his parent's home town of Todmorden.

He wrote 'Modelling for Sculpture: A Book for the Beginner' (1930). He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (HRI) in 1918, and was awarded the RBS medal in 1935. From 1939 until 1944, he served as President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and also 1939-44, was elected Vice President of the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors.

The above information, as well as a number of examples of the work of Gilbert Bayes, can be found on Jack Bayes's web site:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

Note on Child 3: Gilbert William Bayes (2)

BAYES Gilbert William of 4 Greville Place St Johns Wood London died 10 July 1953 at Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth Marylebone. Probate London 6 October to Eleanor Jean Bayes spinster and Geoffrey Gilbert Bayes chartered electrical engineer. Effects £9976 3s. 9d.

Note on Child 4: Jessie Bayes (1)

A modern English Miniaturist Painter and designer in the Arts and Crafts style, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1908.

She was made a full member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculpters and Gravers (RMS) in 1906 and was on the Council of the Society from 1925 until 1935. She was also a member of the Church Crafts League.

The above information, and a number of beautiful examples of Jessie Bayes's church art, can be found on Jack Bayes's web site:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~johnfred/index.html

Note on Child 4: Jessie Bayes (2)

BAYES Jessie of 4b Greville Pl Hampstead London died 31 March 1970. Probate London 9 June. £7142.