The newspaper cutting showing Ernest Kirby Bacon with one of his wood carvings

MICHAEL Bacon, who lives in Germany, is trying to trace an uncle Ernest who lived in Jersey in the early 1950s.

He says that Ernest Kirby Bacon was born in 1896 and was married in the 1920s to Clare Sydney (née Edwards), who is thought to have been born in Jersey.
The couple had four children, but Michael believes that his uncle, who was a wood carver, left his family shortly before the second world war.

He has a newspaper cutting of when his uncle was interviewed in the early 1950s and it refers to Portelet Bay and a small cottage called Zarate. Some time later, his uncle had an exhibition of his wood carvings at Foyles in London.

He then took a ‘tramp steamer’ to Australia in 1953, to be followed shortly afterwards by his wife.

‘It’s an intriguing story and well in the past,’ says Michael in an email. ‘Ernest died in Sydney in 1970 and I now know that Clare died two years later. I’d just like to know a little more about what my uncle actually did.

I never met him but my father, now 95 years old, remembers him well. He regarded Ernest as a role model. Dad was born in 1915 and only met Ernest after he returned from the First World War – a brother who was 19 years older!’

Mr Bacon would be pleased to hear from anyone with information. He can be contacted by email at m.bacon@arcor.de by telephone on 0049 5331 929880 or by post at Schuetzenstrasse 10, 38304 Wolfenbuettel, Germany