Alice Caroline (Dyer) Blaydes (1850 - 1925) wife of Frederick Augustus (Blaydes) Page-Turner

Alice Caroline (Dyer) Blaydes (1850 - abt. 1925)

Born 1850 in Bath, Somerset, England

 Daughter of William Dyer Esq and Charlotte (Baker) Dyer, her father, was a surgeon with the East India Company, and Sister of Robert Coates Dyer and Henry Hardwicke Dyer. Her parents; were William Dyer and Charlotte Baker, married 7 Dec 1830, in Secrole, Bengal. He was 35, she was 21 William married another scion of John Company, Miss Charlotte Baker (b 9 October 1799; d Auckland 1 February 1863), and fathered nine children, of which five survived to adulthood. 

Charlotte Baker Dyer & William Dyer, 

parents of  Alice (later Blaydes),  Robert & Henry 

The eldest of them was Robert Coates Dyer (b Berhampur 14 February 1834; d Waikato 1 August 1912) .. Alice Caroline Dyer (b Batheaton 29 September 1850; d 1925) was the youngest daughter of William Dyer, a surgeon with the East India Company, who, in that capacity, wandered somewhat and ended up with his family in New Zealand. 

     

Views of Auckland New Zealand home of the Dyer Family

Married "At Auckland (NZ), on the 19th June, Frederick Augustus, the eldest surviving son of the Rev F H Marvel Blaydes, MA, Vicar of Harringworth to Alice Caroline, youngest daughter of W Dyer, Esq, MD, HELCS." 

                                                    Dance Card Auckland 9th May 1868

Wife of Frederick Augustus Blaydes  they married 19 Jun 1874 in Auckland, New Zealand

F A Blaydes ( later Page-Turner)

Mother of Edith Marguerite Blaydes, Edward Henry M Blaydes, Maude Winifred M Blaydes, Hugh Gregory Blaydes, Dorothy Alice Blaydes, Frances Helen Blaydes, Fred Ambrose Blaydes, Margery Blaydes, Cassandra Sophia Blaydes, Muriel Agnes Blaydes, Delia Emily Louisa Blaydes and Barbara Olive Blaydes

 

F A Page-Turner 1845-1931 with his wife Alice Caroline 

and their 12 children

The couple began their family with Edith Marguerite in 1875, born in her mother's birthplace of Bath, Somerset. They then moved to Bedfordshire and, on the 1881 census, can be found in Tilsworth, with three more children: Edward Henry, Maude Winifred, and Hugh Gregory. Alice's cousin, Harriet Dyer, visits them, and they have three female servants: Sophia Pole, Mary Hornsby, and Rebecca Horne. Frederick is described as a licensed lay reader, living on his own means.  On the 1891 census, Frederick is described as a JP (Justice of the Peace), and living on his own means. The family has expanded to include more children: Dorothy Alice, Fred Ambrose, Frances Helen, Margery, Muriel Agnes, and Cassandra Sophia. Living in Bedford St Paul, the family is also attended by four female servants: Sarah Hammond, Elizabeth Minnie, Emily Wooding, and Clara Geary. 

 

The Blaydes Family at Egerton House 

Berkhamsted Herts  1899

The 1901 census was the last in which she carried the surname Blaydes. She had moved to Great Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire, with her family having grown by the addition of two more daughters: Delia Emily, and Barbara Olive. Three female servants were included in the household: Edith Holmes, Lydia Redding, and 13-year-old Lily Harris. 

 Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner, sixth Baronet, passed away childless. His estates went to Frederick Augustus (possibly his nephew), so he renounced the name of Blaydes and became Page-Turner instead. The Blaydes got the Page-Turner name and coat of arms in 1903.

 

15 Palmeira Square, Hove, Sussex

Alice, her husband, and children all appear as Page-Turner on the 1911 census of 15 Palmeira Square, Hove, Sussex, where Frederick appears as a landowner, with a cook and three housemaids: Louisa Taylor, Johanna Molle, Ada Skinner, and Bessie Ayling (and his family, of course). Alice states that twelve children were born to the marriage, and all twelve are still alive.

F A Page-Turner and his Wife Alice Caroline

In the Interior of 15 Palmeria Square, notice some of the Page-Turner 

and Blaydes family portraits on the walls 

Alice died in 1925 at about the age of 75. 

    

Alice Caroline (Dyer) Blaydes then Page-Turner's 

Grave Ambrosden Church Yard & her husband F A Page-Turner