Agnes Baynham (1860-1939)
Born: 1860 at West Bromwich
Parents: Jeremiah Baynham and Caroline Evans
Married: 1882 to William Lloyd
Died: 1939 at Brisbane
Agnes was born at West Bromwich in 1860.
She married William Lloyd, son of William Lloyd and Caroline Amelia Huckson in 1882, when she was 22 and he was 23. They had four children, all born in Australia: William in 1884; Arthur in 1886; Frank in 1888 and Caroline in 1891. William died at Brisbane in 1929, aged 70.
Agnes died at Brisbane, Queensland in Australia in 1939, aged 79.
Agnes was born on 8th August 1860, so in the following year’s census she is just 8 months old and living at 76 Union Street, West Bromwich with her parents Jeremiah and Caroline and her great-uncle William Symonds from Upton Bishop. All of her older siblings are at home – sisters Louisa (7) and Urina (6) and brothers Arthur William (5) and George (4).
In 1871, Agnes was 10 and still living at home with her parents, eldest sister Louisa (16), two older brothers William (14) and George (13) and now two younger brothers Albert (3) and Thomas (1).
Urina has left home to work as a live-in domestic servant in a girls boarding school and William Symonds is no longer living with them.
William and George are working as ‘spare boys’ in the nearby glass works where their father Jeremiah is also working.
Two more brothers were born in the 1870s – Peter in 1874 and Amos Joseph in 1876 – but sadly in that same year her sister Louisa Mary died, unmarried and aged just 23.
By 1881, Agnes has left home and she is shown in the census aged 20 and working as a live-in domestic servant at Monks Coppenhall near Crewe in Cheshire. Her employer is George Whale (38 and a widow) who also employs another domestic servant Elizabeth A. Wetherall (60, a widow) at his home ‘West Bank’. He is working as an electrical and mechanical engineer with London & North West Railway at Crewe.
In mid 1882 Agnes married William Lloyd in Birmingham. He was born and grew up in Much Marcle where her mother Caroline was from; in the 1881 census he was shown (aged 22) lodging with her family at 38 Corser Street in Smethwick and working as a general labourer, so had presumably moved to the Midlands in anticipation of their wedding.
William’s mother and father had been born in the village of Much Marcle, where as an adult his father had worked as a gardener [see also notes, below], and so presumably the Lloyd and Evans families knew each other well.
In late 1882 Agnes and William emigrated to Australia, arriving at Brisbane on 7th November 1882. There they had four children: William in 1884, Arthur in 1886, Frank in 1888 and Caroline in 1891.
William died at Brisbane in 1929, aged 70.
Agnes died there in 1939, aged 79.
Notes:
William Lloyd Snr. worked as a gardener in Much Marcle during the 1860s and 1870s. As a teenager he had worked at the vicarage for the family of the local vicar, Allen William Chatfield, who was also Rural Dean of Ross (1850-81); aged 15, he is shown last on the 1851 census as ‘footman’ in a household which also employed a governess, cook, and three servants. William Snr.’s father and grandfather were also born in Much Marcle.
Census extracts – www.ancestry.co.uk