Albert Benjamin Bayes, the son of William Bayes, was born in Lumbutts & baptised at Cross Stone, Todmorden [1835].
He was a member of the Calder Valley Poets He became a Quaker. He lived in Bradford, Todmorden and Brighouse.
In 1861, he and Walker Waddington bought Samuel Ward Walton's business in Todmorden.
He was schoolmaster's assistant his parents' school [1851] / teaching at his parents' school [1856] / a shopman (stationer) [1871] / printer, stationer and advertising agent at Briggate, Brighouse [1874] / a member of the Brighouse Monthly Meeting [1874] / a letterpress printer & stationer employing 3 men & 6 boys [1881] / a newspaper publisher & proprietor, letterpress printer, stationer, bookseller [1891].
He published the Bayes's Almanac, Brighouse & Elland Express / Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette, and Fox's Almanac from the Gazette Office in Briggate.
He printed Horsfall Turner's edition of The Rev Oliver Heywood BA 1630-1702.
In February 1899, he appears to have got into financial difficulties.
In May 1899, he proposed to visit America for about 6 months.
In 1869, he married Margaret Ellen [1842-1912] daughter of Elizabeth & Robert Foxcroft [1807-18??], from Erringden, in Bolton.
Children:
They lived at
In 1911, Albert Benjamin (formerly general stationer) was living with his daughter Annie Alice (confectioner) at 5 Byron Street, Bradford.
Margaret Ellen was buried at the Friends' Burial Ground, York [1912].
Albert Benjamin's death was registered in Leeds [1916].
See
R. H. Ashworth
This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley, Linda Briggs, Emily Kearns & Alan Longbottom
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