Transcript

of

Miss Agnes Bayly [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol.  47, (1915), p. 41.

by

Maxwell Adams (Ed.)

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1915 Exeter meeting. The Bayly’s were a family of wealthy timber merchants, their business based in Coxside. They were related to the celebrated Windeatt family by marriage. Miss Agnes Bayly the philanthropist, was sister of Mr Robert Bayly of Torr, who died in 1901 and whose obituary appears under Biography on Genuki’s Plymouth page. Fulsome obituaries for other Bayly family members may be accessed at Brian Mosely’s “Who was Who in Old Plymouth” website. The present obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Miss Agnes Bayly, who joined the Association as a life member in 1894, was the second daughter of the late Mr. John Bayly, of Plymouth, and sister of the late Mr. Robert Bayly, of Torr. Of a most sympathetic nature and philanthropic disposition, Miss Bayly was during the whole of her life a generous supporter of most of the charitable institutions of Plymouth. In particular, she was actively associated with the Devon and Cornwall Female Orphanage in Lockyer Street, and the Friendless Girls' Help Association, Portland Square. As a member of the congregation of St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, she took an active interest in the parochial work of the church, and was associated with her sister, Miss Anna Bayly, in the gift of a site for the new church at Yelverton. Both were large contributors to the building fund of the new church, and had lately given choir stalls to it. After an illness of about six weeks, Miss Agnes Bayly died on 29 July, 1915, in her 80th year, of pneumonia.