💒Ivy Davies💞Albert Baggott🌸

What a lovely happy wedding photo! It was a recent addition to my collection from Paul, one of my favourite sellers on eBay. I just couldn’t resist, as the bride and groom’s names were on the back!

The bridesmaids look related to the bride, don’t they? I wonder about the best man—is he the groom’s brother?

So I started a small family tree with details of Ivy and Albert’s marriage. Ivy Brenda Dawes married Albert Frederick Baggott on the 21 July 1928 at the Holy Trinity, Parish Church of Bordesley, Birmingham, England. Albert was a Toolmaker and Ivy was an Assembler.

Here’s Ivy on the 1921 census as a Scalemaker (weighing scales) working for Rogers and Loach Ltd.

Here’s Albert on the 1921 census as an engineer’s Tool Turner working for Dunlop Rubber Manufacturers, his last job, as he was out of work at the time as were two of his siblings.

It was nice to actually see the marriage record here above on Ancestry as that confirmed their fathers’ names and enabled me to add more to the family tree.

The Dawes Family

Henry Thomas Dawes married Louisa Ward in 1880 and they had eleven children, seven still living at the time of the 1911 census. They were both born in Birmingham and Henry was a ‘Strip Castor’ (A strip caster is a metal worker who uses a strip caster machine to produce thin ribbons of metal)

Florence Rebecca b Sep 1881-Mar 1885. Thomas William b Jul 1883-Jun 1903, Ellen Elizabeth 1885-?Ada Beatrice b 15 Oct 1887-31 Oct 1970, Violet Annie b 18 Apr 1891-Oct 1973, Louisa b 1893-Dec 1893, Augustus Henry (Harry) b Jan 1895-?Leonard b 17 Sep 1897-Apr 1965, Violet b Jan 1901-Apr 1940, Ivy Brenda b 7 Nov 1902-19 Apr 1980 and Edith Marie b Jan 1905-1906.

The Baggott Family

Frederick Baggott (1877-1949) married Mary Lamb (1872-1955) on 28 May 1898. The couple had six children. Frederick was an engine fitter.

First they had three boys Albert Frederick b 15 Jan 1899-Apr 1979, Wallace b 28 Aug 1900-Apr 1977, Arthur b 8 Apr 1902-5 Aug 1969 then the couple had three girls Edith Mary b 4 Sep 1903-30 Oct 1999, Alice May b 7 Feb 1905-Oct 1990 and Beatrice Louie b 19 Mar 1908-Feb 1998.

Although I haven’t found that Albert and Ivy had any children, Albert’s siblings had 14 children between them.

Here’s the small family tree that I’ve compiled for the Baggott and Dawes family on Ancestry: Baggott/Dawes Family Tree

This is the Holy Trinity Church where Albert and Ivy were married. This photo is from an article on the Birmingham Live website dated September 2015. The Church closed for worship several years ago.

I couldn’t help but notice on this 1921 census above for the Baggott family that Father Frederick Baggott and one of Albert’s sisters, Alice, were working for the famous Chocolate Factory in Bournville, Birmingham, Cadbury’s. The family lived at 79 Henley Street, about 5 miles from the Chocolate Factory. Frederick was a fitter for the Cocoa and Chocolate Machinery and Alice was a Chocolate Maker, imagine having that job! I’m not sure I could work with Chocolate all day every day haha.

There’s some great information here on the English Heritage website: The History of Chocolate

What an astonishing picture this is below! Taken 10 years later than the 1921 census but a good indication of just how many people worked there. I found this in a Daily Mail article online dated February 2021.