This Page is dedicated to Sarah Ann van Overdijk [ nee Bailey ].

Sarah Ann Bailey was born on the 29th November in 1884. Her address was given as 8 Wesley street in St Marylebone. Her fathers name was Thomas George Bailey and her mother was Susan Hannah Bailey [nee McGuiness]. She married Petrus Henricus van Overdijk on Dec 25th 1904 in St Marys church Paddington when she was tweny years old. The marriage only lasted a few years as described on page one, Petrus kept the three children Peter, Susie and Ann. I understand she was not allowed to see the children at all. She then disappeared for many years and I first saw her in about 1937 the year Petrus died, when she and her new daughter Joan came to stay with our family at Christmas. Up until that time we the three children of Thomas and Susie Townsend had never seen our grandmother, or knew she had another daughter.

We always know her daughter as Joan Street although our Nans name at the that time and for many years later was Sarah Marsh??. The photo above is of a beautiful Nan with a man we believe to be Jack Street.

As you can tell from the events described above there are several years of my Nans life that we know very little. One of the reasons for this page is to hopefully attract other family members who might be able to fill in the blanks, in particular any members of the Street family. These five  photograph's are part of the mystery, they were part of daughter Joan's effects presumably passed down from her mother! Some if not all could be family members, any suggestions anyone??. This memoir was put together by Peter Townsend grandson of Sarah van Overdijk.

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