Miss Adeline Ayles, aged about 5

Charles Ayles, the children’s father was born at Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, where his father, Henry Ayles, ran a bakery and grocery shop. As a youth Charles worked as a ‘Shopman’ in the family business (1861 census). By 1871 he had moved to London as a commercial traveller and was then boarding with Henry Reeves, a grocer in Mile End. Shortly afterwards he married Louisa Spicer.

In 1891 Adeline Ayles was 8, the sixth eldest of the Ayles children.