GENEALOGY
Before taking on the Hownings, George's father Edward Baylis (1815-1876) had farmed at Gordon's Farm, Tibberton with his wife Sara (nee Hartwright), and prior to that at Rectory Farm, Tibberton with his elder sister Elizabeth who died there, a spinster, in 1885 aged 77.
Sara Hartwright was the daughter of John Hartwright of Ravenshill, Tibberton; Sara had a younger brother John Henry Hartwright whose grand daugher Joyce married Jack Fowler in 1939.
George's grandfather, another Edward Baylis (1775-1846) was also a farmer and tenant of the Vernon family, but at Rashwood in the Parish of Dodderhill between Droitwich and Wychbold, where the Dugard family were significant landholders.
The Dugard family trace their origins to Cathar emigres from the Languedoc persecuted by the Albigensian Crusade, arriving in Worcestershire in the 14th and 15th centuries. Henricus Dugard was one of the founders of Bromsgrove School in the early 17th century. His son John acquired Impney Farm in Dodderhill, starting the “Impney Farm Book” in 1661. Some members of the family continued to farm locally, while others became notable Midlands industrialists.
May's late mother Mary Jane “Winnie” Dugard was the daughter of Henry Dugard who farmed at Wychbold. Henry's wife Frances was a Baylis, the youngest daughter of Edward who farmed nearby at Rashwood. Frances was 41 when she married Henry Dugard ; she was therefore fortunate to bear two daughters, Frances “Fanny” born in 1858 and “Winnie”, May's mother, in 1860. Fanny married James Alfred Jackson of Porter's Mill in 1892.
Henry Dugard
Frances Dugard (nee Baylis)
May mentions other related families that feature on the (extended) family tree, including Gibbs of Little Intall Fields, Stoke Prior; and Terry, then of Hampton Lovett.
In 1849 John Gibbs married Edward Baylis' sister Sarah, whose children and grandchildren (through Harry Gibbs) May refers to as her cousins; she cycles to Kings Norton to visit Charlotte and Sarah, John Gibbs' spinster daughters; his son Philip Baylis Gibbs (married to Mary) lives at Hadzor; and Sarah Dorothy “Dolly”, Harry's daughter, is May's frequent companion.
Edward Baylis' eldest daughter Jane married William Palmer in 1877. Their daughter Elizabeth Hartwright Palmer married John Gilman Terry's son Arthur; they had two sons, Arthur “Sam” Terry and Robert “Bob” Gilman Terry of Boycott, and later the Hownings.