Agnes Baynham (1860-1939)
Born: 1860 at West Bromwich
Parents: Jeremiah Baynham and Caroline Evans
Married: 1882 to William Lloyd
Died: 1939 at Brisbane, Australia
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 21 and he was 22. 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 18th August 1860, at Smethwick, West Bromwich but there is no evidence of a baptism for her.
In the following year’s census she was 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 were 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).
Two more brothers, Andrew and John, had been born in the 1860s, but had not survived for much more than a year.
Urina (16) had left home to work as a live-in domestic servant in a girls’ boarding school and William Symonds was no longer living with them.
William and George were working as ‘spare boys’ in the nearby glass works where their father Jeremiah was 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 had left home and was shown in the census aged 20 and working as a live-in domestic servant at Monks Coppenhall near Crewe in Cheshire.
Her employer was George Whale (38 and a widower) who also employed another domestic servant Elizabeth A. Wetherall (60, a widow) at his home ‘West Bank’. He was working as an electrical and mechanical engineer with London & North West Railway in Crewe.
In mid 1882 Agnes married William Lloyd. He had been born and grew up in Much Marcle where her mother Caroline was from; he was baptised Harmon William Lloyd. In the 1881 census he had been shown as William Lloyd (aged 22) lodging with Agnes’ 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, father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all from the village of Much Marcle, so presumably the Lloyd and Evans families knew each other well.
In late 1882 Agnes (21) and William (22) emigrated to Australia – they left Plymouth on 13th September 1882 on a free passage aboard the steamship R. M. S. Compta and arrived at Cooktown in Queensland on 7th November 1882.
Three years later, Agnes’ elder sister Urina Ann (28) emigrated to Australia on the same vessel.
Agnes and William, now known as Harmon, set up home in Brisbane and had four children there: 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