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Rev. Joseph Henry Baily and family

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As well as knowing from Miriam Middleton's notes (see Starting Points) that Annie worked for a 'Parson Bailey', we have the writing case shown in Annie's Records with the following note on its base ...

We cannot link Annie to a Bailey (or Baily) family in any census year, but using census and other information we can be fairly sure that it was the family of Rev. Joseph Henry Baily (note the spelling), and the A Baily was probable his daughter Ada who would have been about 15 in 1892.

The 1891 census (Barnsley CP, ED16, Folio 52, Page 11, Schedule 74) shows a Wesleyan Minister called Joseph Hy. [Henry] Bailey living at 89, Dodworth Road, Barnsley. The household included ...

Joseph Hy. Bailey, Head, Married, Male, Age 38, Wesleyan Minister, Born Wilts., Collingbourne.
Mary A. E. Bailey, Wife, Married, Female, Age 39, Born Nott., Basford.
Frank N. Bailey, Son, Male, Age 9, Scholar, Born Lincolnshire, Lincoln.

Nine years earlier they were possibly living in Lincoln, and the 1881 census shows them at 17, Orchard Street, Lincoln (Lincoln CP, ED33, Folio 89, Page 20) (Image not checked)...

Joseph H. Baily [*], Head, Married, Male, Age 38[**], Wesleyan Minister, Born Collingborrow, Middlesex.
Mary A. E. Baily, Wife, Married, Female, Age 29, Born Notts., Basford.
Ada A. E. Baily, Daughter, Female, Age 4, Born Lincoln.
Ada A. Pinder, Servant, Female, Age 16, Born Reepham Lincoln.

[* Note spelling
** Note age is same as in 1891 census - this could be an error by the enumerator or in transcription - see below re 1901.]

Here we have Ada Bail(e)y, possibly the A Baily who gave Annie the writing case in 1892 when Ada would be about 15 years old.

The same Bailey family is seen again in 1901, but now in Halifax, which fits with the Methodist practice of ministers moving to a new location every five years.

(Halifax CP, ED 56, Folio ?, Page 8, Schedule 44, 16 Skircoat Moor Road, Halifax)

Joseph H. Bailey, Head, Married, Male, Age 48, Wesleyan Minister, Born Collingborrow, Wiltshire.
Mary A. Baily, Wife, Married, Female, Age 49, Born Notts., Basford.
Ada A. Baily, Daughter, Single, Female, Age 23, Born Lincoln.
Frank V Bailey, Son, Male, Single, Age 19, Born Lincoln.

'Hill's Arrangement of Methgodist Ministers' last published in 1968 (and transcribed at the Methodist Archives and Research Centre at the John Rylands Library, Manchester) includes an entry for Joseph A Baily who entered the ministry in 1876 (when our Joseph would be ~23) and who died in 1941 (when our Joseph would be ~88). An alternative list does not include Joseph A, but does include Joseph H Baily. Note the spelling of the surname - this suggests that the inscription on the writing case is the correct spelling while the census enumerators may have assumed the alternative spelling.

A further interesting snippet about the family is found in the Marriages Index which includes Joseph Henry Baily and Mary Anne E. Elliott on the same page (and so possibly the same certificate) in the September 1880 register for Lincoln. Since Ada was born in ~1887, this could mean that Ada was born of a previous marriage - being born outside marriage would seem less likely given the father's calling! This is however pure speculation since this may not be our Joseph at all.

More research is needed to check when Joseph was located in Barnsley, but I doubt that we will be able to pin down when Annie worked for the family.

Also where was Ada for the 1891 census. There is an Ada Bailey, Born Lincoln, in London. Could she have been at school?