THE ALDOUS FAMILY

        Husband: Barney Samuel Sayer
           Born: 20 OCT 1865 in Lower Olland St, Bungay
        Married: 22 APR 1889 in Bungay
           Died: 23 SEP 1943 in 376 Wolverhampton Rd, Heath Town U.D.
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses: 
           Wife: Amy Watson
           Born: 17 MAY 1866 in Peasenhall / Ditchingham?
           Died: 28 NOV 1940 in 376 Wolverhampton Rd, Heath Town U.D.
         Father: Walter Clutten Watson
         Mother: Elizabeth Lydia Howard
        Spouses:
Children
01          (F): Daisy Ethel Sayer
           Born: 1889 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 1975 in Dawley
        Spouses: George Gregory
02          (F): Gladys Amy Jessavina Sayer
           Born: 30 APR 1892 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 26 OCT 1978 in Dartford, Kent
        Spouses: Frederick Joseph Haves
03          (F): Claudia Ella Sayer
           Born: 14 APR 1894 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 02 AUG 1982 in Great Yarmouth (Ivy Cotton's home)
        Spouses: >>>; >>>
04          (F): Isabelle May Sayer
           Born: 05 MAY 1895 in Lower Olland St, Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 20 JUL 1964 in 97 High St, Leiston
        Spouses: Samuel Bertie Cooper
05          (M): Walter Bernard Sayer
           Born: 1896 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 1988 in Great Yarmouth
        Spouses: Winifred Beaumont
06          (F): Marjorie Lilian Sayer
           Born: 25 MAY 1899 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 10 DEC 1987 in Wolverhampton
        Spouses: Russell Frank Lambert
07          (M): William Edward Baden Sayer
           Born: 1900 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 09 JUL 1918 in Norwood Cottage Hospital, London
        Spouses: 
08          (F): Grace Irene Sayer
           Born: 1902 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 26 MAR 1983
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09          (F): Ivy Eleanor Sayer
           Born: 16 DEC 1904 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 13 OCT 1991 in James Paget Hospital
        Spouses: Robert Cotton
10          (M): Frederick Eric Sayer
           Born: 07 JUN 1906 in Bungay, Suffolk
           Died: 30 SEP 1991
        Spouses: >>>

Additional Information

Barney Samuel Sayer:

Notes:
[Manning.FTW]

Basal pneumonia, uraemia
Amy Sayer sent a photo of herself to Barney in about 1914, when Barney's details were as follows: Private B. Sayer, 687, 62 Field Bakery AJC, British Expeditionary Force, Havre, France. From Nigel Cooper, "The Sayer family of Saxlingham...": "All the relatives I have had correspondence with or talked to say that Barney Sayer was partial to the bottle and would often come home quite drunk, and his known to have thrown cakes from the bakery shop out into the street... At times when he was really drunk when he came home, Amy would take herself and the children off to the Bungay workhouse and only come home when he had sobered up... According to Doris Lord, when her parents lived in Great Yarmouth before moving to Wolverhampton, and whilst Barney and Amy were living at 49, Olive Road, all the lads, her father, Russell Lambert and Barney would play cards. One night they were playing, and Barney who hated to lose, hit a losing streak, he decided enough was enough and he would go off to drown his sorrows!! Ten minutes later he was back and looking like a drowned rat, he'd come back for his raincoat as it was raining 'cats and dogs' outside and he'd nearly drowned himself, but not the way he thought he would when he first went out. Doris recalled in her letter to me of other tales her parents told her about Barney. Once when they were living in the bakery in Bridge Street, Bungay, Barney woke Amy one night saying there were burglars in the cellar. They both crept downstairs and Amy laughed at him when they found no-one at all in the cellar. Amy went quickly back upstairs into the house, only to hear Barney call out "Quick! Mother! They've got me!" When Amy got back down into the cellar, again she had the last laugh being greeted with the most hilarious sight. There was Barney, absolutely petrified, thinking someone had grabbed him from behind, and he dared not look round, but in fact all that had really happened was that he'd shut the tail of his night-shirt in the door he had opened! Doris' memories of her grandfather was that he was a very mean man who swore a lot. However, she adored him and could remember him buying her a box of poster paints (the only ones available in wartime) and hiding them under a cushion on her mother's chair. She said she was about 9 or 10 years at the time, and the paints were one of the best presents she had ever had, especially as they came from Barney, who never bought anyone any presents. Dad (Eric Cooper) when recalling memories of the 1940s with particular reference to Barney Sayer, his grandfather, said that in 1940 whilst he was on a course at RAF Cosford (just outside Wolverhampton) he would spend most of his weekends at his aunt Marjorie's. He added, that Barney would be on the corner of the street each Friday night, waiting for him to arrive from RAF cosford, so that they could both go into the local pub for a drink, which of course Dad bought. As he recalled, he was Barney's favourite grandson at that time!"

Amy Watson:

Notes:
[Manning.FTW]

Shock from fractures of right clavicle and ribs caused by fall
downstairs at hom
Lived at Upper Olland Street, Bungay, Suffolk in 1891 Amy died after a fall, as follows (Info from Doris Lord - Nigel Cooper, Family History vol 4, 1991) At the time of the fall there was an air raid on - Doris can remember the Ack Ack guns firing outside. Amy had been out Christmas shopping with her daughter Marjorie and when they arrived home, Barney had told her off for spending money on Christmas presents for the family. Amy went off in a mood upstairs carrying her coat upon which she tripped and had a nasty fall down the stairs.

(07) William Edward Baden Sayer:

Notes:
[Manning.FTW]

Right lobar pneumonia 10 days, toxaemia


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Compiled by Barry and Raymond Aldous

Revised: February 28, 2008
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