I am the great grandson of Robert Quayle (m. Annie Watt) of Foxdale . Their daughter Mary Grace Quayle (d. 1925) was my grandmother, she marr. George Reginald Bailey of Liverpool, and they had two sons George Eric (b. 1917) & Gordon Quayle (b.1921)

George Eric Bailey is my father (marr Hilda May Goodwin) and he still lives at Nunthorpe, nr. Middlesbrough, Cleveland. UK., aged 95. I was born in 1947. Would very much like to know more about my Quayle relatives, as I grew up as an 'only child' with both maternal g/parents dying before I was born and my paternal g/father George Reginald Bailey spending his years after retirement, leaving Liverpool and living back in the IOM with his 2nd wife at Castletown.( I met him about 4 times in all) I believe that he treated his 1st wife Mary Grace Quayle very badly, prior to her untimely death and as a result Robert Quayle instructed his family to, ' never to mention his name again in my presence' . My father was shipped off to his paternal grandmothers home ( a widow of 75) at The Hope, Ballacraine after his mothers death, aged just 7 years old and attended school at St Johns. His brother Gordon, was sent to Robert & Annie's home at Foxdale. After 4 years, his father George Reginald then summoned both back to Liverpool, where they found that their father had remarried (just 6-months after Mary Grace's death) and they now had a new baby brother, Alan. All of Mary Grace's effects and photographs had by then been removed from the house.

If anything comes close to reprieving my George Reginald Bailey's reputation, it is the fact that he was the only serving Liverpool Policeman ever to receive 2no. Silver-Medal Awards for Bravery, from the 'Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society'