Urina Ann Baynham (1854-1937)
Born: 1854 at West Bromwich
Parents: Jeremiah Baynham and Caroline Evans
Died: 1937 in Queensland, Australia
Urina Ann was born at West Bromwich, Staffordshire in 1854.
She married Jess Andrews and had two children: Agnes in 1895 and Charlotte Jessie in 1896. Jesse died in 1926.
Urina died in Queensland, Australia in 1937, aged 82.
Urina Ann was born at West Bromwich on 20th November 1854 and was baptised, together with her younger brother Arthur William, at Christ Church, West Bromwich on 13th July 1856.
By 1861 she is 6 years old and living at 76 Union Street with her parents Jeremiah and Caroline, elder sister Louisa (7) and younger siblings Arthur William (5), George (4) and Agnes (8 months); also living with them is her great-uncle William Symonds from Upton Bishop.
Another three brothers were born soon after: Andrew in 1862, but sadly he died in 1863; Albert in 1868 and Thomas in 1870.
But during this period Urina has already left home. In the census of 1871, she is shown aged 16 and working as a live-in general servant (domestic) at a school for girls at Barton In The Beans, Leicestershire – and she is now calling herself Ann.
In 1878, aged 23, presumably prior to (and as a condition of?) starting her next employment, she was ‘conditionally baptised’ at Cowley St. John’s church on 22nd June 1878 as Urania Anne Mary
So in 1881, aged 26, she is recorded working as a live-in general domestic servant at a “middle class school for girls” at 26-28 Iffley Road, Oxford where the governess, two annuitants and 5 teenage girls also lived in; this appears to have been Cowley St John’s Middle Class Girls School in Marston Street (off Iffley Road).
Some time before the birth of her first child Agnes in 1895 she has moved to Australia and married Jesse Andrews (1850-1926). Her second child Charlotte Jessie was born in 1896.
She died in Queensland on 1st August 1937, aged 83