BAYLEY, Florence Kate
Florence Kate Bayley was born at Ipswich on 26 January 1864, eldest of the three daughters of James Rogers Bayley, ship owner, and his wife Catherine née Ridley (1838-27 January 1870), daughter of Frederick Ridley, currier, who married at Turret Green Chapel, Ipswich on 15 January 1863. Florence studied at the Ipswich School of Science & Art and in 1880 gained a certificate in freehand drawing. In 1881, a 16-year-old, living at Oakland House, Broughton Road, Ipswich with her 55-year-old father James, born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and two sibling sisters, Ada Mary (1866-1961) and Edith Annie (1868-1896), both born at Ipswich, and they were still living there in 1891. Florence married at Ipswich in 1897, Clarkson Piper (1854-1938), and in 1901 a 36-year-old living at 1 Clarkson Street, Ipswich with her 46-year-old husband, Clarkson, a retired woollen draper, and their son Douglas Norman Clarkson 1, and they retained two indoor servants. In 1939, a widow living at 3 Warrington Road, Ipswich with her second son William Bayley Piper (12 December 1901-13 December 1966), a motor engineer & garage proprietor. Florence Kate Piper died at 3 Warrington Road, Ipswich on 23 November 1948.