Ditton and Bailey Family Tree

Ditton / Bailey Family Tree

Welcome! Content is due to hours of research by close and distant relatives. Many thanks to HJF for comprehensive information on family Wenck, Pauline Sims for research on Ditton and Settertree families of Woodchurch, Kent, UK, Bronwyn Smalley for her Smith family research and Christine Potter for her Wimble family research. Information on families Josefski, Kaminski, Kutzke, Brause sourced from John Josefski's book Poland Origins - Josefski, Scislowski. Names of living family members excluded. Ditton is an Old English place name changed from Deighton (a town with a dike/ditch round) as a consequence of the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror - Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames by Basil Cottle. Bailey 1. The name given to the courts of a castle formed by the space between the circuits of walls or defences which surround the keep. 2. Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower a name of office; a corruption of Bailiff, which is derived from the French bailler, to deliver. Click on thumbnail images below to enlarge and access that person's pedigree. Refer also to Links to relevant sites. Last update: 12 September 2025.


William Edward Norris WWI AIF digger and Elsie Maud Stagg on their wedding day 1919 in Birmingham, England UK. Parents of Hamel Elsie, Joyce and Clarice (Jacqui) Norris.	Nora Frawley, spouse of George Alfred Bailey, daughter of John Frawley and Margaret Cantwell. Mother of Charles Edward Bailey. c 1945.	Reimer Wenck, spouse of Trincke Paysen, parents of Theodor Bernhardt Julius Wenck - 1894. Source: J. Crockett Colston-Wenck Family Website.	Abraham Ditton, spouse of Marian Stevenson and Sarah Jane Barron, father of Robert Albert Ditton. Source: State Library of Queensland.	Charles Edward Bailey son of George Alfred Bailey and Nora Frawley, spouse of Mavis Sheila Smith. c 1993.	Leslie Robert Ditton and his spouse Hamel Elsie Norris with their first child in Laidley Queensland, Australia. c 1942.	Mavis Sheila Smith, daughter of Christina Violet Louisa Hamann and Ambrose William Gordon Smith. c 1950.	Florence Christine Wenck, spouse of Robert Albert Ditton with their son Leslie Robert and their daughter Jocelyn. c 1924.	Sarah Jane Barron, second spouse of Abraham Ditton, daughter of James Barron and Annie Laurie. Source D. Haack.	Mavis Shiela Smith with her mother Christina (nee Hamann) and her father Ambrose. Sydney, Australia. c 1930.

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