BORN MIDDLESBROUGH, 1880. LIVED IN HULL. WIFE EDITH CONSTANCE (HOUGHTON) & FATHER JACK, BOTH RESIDED, OF 4, HAWORTH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE SON, JOHN WILLIAM, BORN ON 26/08/1914. SERVED AS A SERGEANT, IN THE THE 12TH EYR (HULL PALS). DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 16/04/1916, AGED 36. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON SUTTON VILLAGE MEMORIAL.
SGT., ALBERT BAYSTON, 12/508. Born in 1880 in Middlesbrough, Albert was one of two sons to Robert and Elizabeth Bayston of Church Street, Sutton. A Woodman by trade he married Edith Constance Houghton at Clowes Chapel on 14th May 1914 and the couple had a son, Jack, the following September. The family lived at 4 Haworth Street, Newland Ave, Hull. At least they would have had the war not intervened. Albert had served in the East Yorkshire Regiment previously and was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He enlisted in the 12th EYR, at Hull City Hall on 19th September 1914 and was torn from his newborn son. Albert was wounded in the abdomen on 16th April 1916 and died the following day in 29th Casualty Clearing Station. He is buried in Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery; he was 36 years old. His widow was given the belt of a German, that her husband had killed. His Commanding Officer, wrote, “he died in the execution of his duty, left a most ecellent record behind him and that he bore amongst his comrades, a wonderful influence of good.”
The 1881 census has Robert Bayston as farm labourer at Seaton Ross with son Albert age 4 living at Thorganby Cottage. In 1911 census, Albert is listed age 32, a traction engine driver residing at Wrixell, his father Robert still registered at Seaton Ross. Later War Record shows parents Robert and Elizabeth Bayston, of Sutton, Hull; husband of Edith C. Bayston, of 4, Haworth Street, Newland, Hull
