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Samuel BAILEY
1895 - 1917 (~ 22 years)
Has 199 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Samuel BAILEY Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Sep Q 1895 Station Town, Co. Durham, England 
- GRO ref: Bailey, Samuel q3 1895 Easington RD 10a 486; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Robinson
Baptised 28 Aug 1895 Holy Trinity Church, Wingate Grange, Co. Durham, England - From Durham Records Online
Shows Samuel Bailey, of Station Town, son of Henry and Dorothy Bailey
Gender Male Occupation 1911 Marsden, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England Coal miner - driver - Living in Marsden, I imagine working in the mine there.
Occupation From 1912 to 1914 Dawdon, Seaham, Co. Durham, England Coal miner - The family seem to have moved from Marsden to Dawdon between the birth of Samuel's brother Will in April 1911 and the death of his sister Edith in August 1913.
As Samuel joined up at Seaham Harbour and was commemorated in Dawdon Miner's Lodge I think he must have moved to Dawdon with his parents and worked in Dawdon Colliery before joining up.
Military Service to 20 Sep 1917 Yorkshire Regiment in WW1 - Samuel was in the Yorkshire Regiment, known as the Green Howards, in WW1. Information about them can be found on the Green Howards wesbite, on the Long, Long Trail website and in Wikipedia.
Samuel was commemorated on a memorial plaque, now lost, in Dawdon Miners' Lodge - see photos on the North East War Memorials Project website.
There is also a photo on this website (7th memorial shown). His brother-in-law Simon Preston was also commemorated on this memorial.
In addition, a screen was erected and an altar installed in St. Hild and St. Helen's Church, Dawdon with a list of those of the parish who lost their lives on the screen - including Samuel. Pictures / information on the same website - this page on the NE War Memorials Project site, the 8th memorial shown on the East Durham website.
(Sadly the church became redundant in 2008 so it is too late for me to visit and take a photo - I don't know if the screen has been kept).
War Memorial Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Died 20 Sep 1917 Ypres Salient, Belgium 
Buried [Unknown] - remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial to The Missing
Siblings5 brothers and 6 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
William BAILEY, b. Abt 1724, (probably in or near), Kingsteignton, Devon, England, d. Jul 1817, Teigngrace, Devon, England (Age ~ 93 years) (3 x Great Grandfather) 
Barbara HUTCHINSON, b. Abt 1782, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, d. 12 Feb 1858, Smith’s Court, Prudhoe Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England (Age ~ 76 years) (2 x Great Grandmother) Person ID I286 All | henryAdorbailey Last Modified 10 Jun 2019
Father Henry BAILEY, b. 16 Apr 1866, Zoar, St. Budeaux, Devon, England , d. 3 Sep 1946, The Royal Infirmary, Sunderland, Co. Durham, England (Age 80 years) Mother Dorothy ROBINSON, b. 14 Mar 1870, 68, Washington New Row, Usworth, Co. Durham, England , d. 23 Jan 1963, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England (Age 92 years) Married 5 May 1888 Whitburn Parish Church, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England - GRO ref: BAILEY, Henry to ROBINSON, Dorothy q2 1888 South Shields RD 10a 957
Certificate for the marriage of Henry Bailey to Dorothy Robinson Children How many did Henry and Dorothy have? - According to a newspaper cutting for Henry and Dorothy's Golden Wedding, they had had 7 sons and 6 daughters (4 and 3 then living) - the figures for those still living is right, but I only know of 6 sons.
Another newspaper cutting says they had 14 children, another only 12!
By the time of the 1911 census they had had 12 children born alive, of whom 3 had died. Edith was still living then, who would subsequently die in infancy, and William had not been born. I think this is more likely to be accurate than the much later newspaper reports, which would suggest they did have at least 13 children, and if there was a 14th he or she was born after 1911.
So who was the 13th? Granddad thought that a child named after each of them had died; whilst I can find the earlier Henry I have not found any evidence of a Dorothy. Possibly a child was born before they married and their birth registered as a Robinson. No likely Dorothy found - if there was a daughter Dorothy she would have made the total sons / daughters in the Golden Wedding report the wrong way around - far from impossible, in a local newspaper!
It seems strange to me that the number of children should be quoted variably. Two possible explanations, apart from errors by newspaper jounalists or typos, could be:
1. that they had had children still born or had miscarriages OR
2. that Dorothy had had one or 2 children before she married Henry. Especially given the good age she lived to, I find it hard to imagine she could have kept this a secret - especially when then counting them at times.
But a late miscarriage or especially a still-birth I think could quite likely be counted as having a child at times, and yet not at others. (The 1911 census, though, did clearly say they had had 12 children born alive, which suggests I may be missing one who was not a still-birth / late miscarriage).
With names as common as Bailey and Robinson it is not easy to be certain, without the expense of purchasing a lot of certificates.
Wedding Anniversary 5 May 1938 Garden Street, Houghall, Co. Durham, England Golden Photos 
Bailey brothers and sisters
Taken at the wedding of Dorothy Simpson.
Six of the seven children of Henry Bailey (b 1866) and Dorothy nee Robinson (b 1870) still living in 1966, viz.
(back row) Will, Henry, John
(front row) Emily, Doris, Rob
(Flo is the one still living but not present)
Documents Newspaper notice of the death of Samuel Bailey Family ID F98 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Born - Sep Q 1895 - Station Town, Co. Durham, England 
Baptised - 28 Aug 1895 - Holy Trinity Church, Wingate Grange, Co. Durham, England 
Occupation - Coal miner - driver - 1911 - Marsden, Whitburn, Co. Durham, England 
Occupation - Coal miner - From 1912 to 1914 - Dawdon, Seaham, Co. Durham, England 
War Memorial - - Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 
Died - 20 Sep 1917 - Ypres Salient, Belgium = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
