Mary Maud (Dane) Baily     1846 - 1901

 

Mary Maud (Dane) Baily's family:
left to right: Maud or Emma, Henry Earnest, Mary Maud, Arthur or Alfred, young Francis Arthur, Francis Arthur, Arthur or Alfred, Maud or Emma, Frederick William

Photo [circa 1894] Shared by Barbara Malcolmson-Baily.  It came to her courtesy of Judy Baily, one of Frank Baily’s grand daughters. 

 

Born: October 11, 1846 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died: September 2, 1901 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

Spouse:  Francis Arthur Baily, m. August 13, 1869, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.                   

Children:       Maud Frances (Baily) Turner

Emma Florence (Baily) Darling

Arthur Benoit Baily

                    Francis “Frank” A. Baily

                    Alfred Percival Baily

                    Henry Oscar Baily

Mary Elizabeth “Mamie” Baily

Frederick William Baily

                    Henry Ernest Baily

                   

Father’s name:  Thomas Dane                                    Birth place:  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Mother’s name:  Elizabeth Frances (Locke) Dane         Birth place:  Lockeport, Nova Scotia

Siblings:        Frances “Fannie” Locke (Dane) Fletcher

                    Atilla Dane

                    James Locke Dane

Leona Suberville (Dane) Briggs

Peter Eugene Dane

Frederick Tompkins Dane

                    Ina (Dane) Hawthorne 

Zerviah (Dane) Benoit

 

 

The following details regarding Mary Maud and the Baily family were generously shared with me by Barbara Malcolmson-Baily, including the church record image below. 

 

Although husband Francis claimed on every census that he was from England, he was born in Clonmel, Ireland on September 18, 1843.  The Baily family fled Ireland to Manchester, England circa 1848 and thence to Scotland by 1856 (see Scotland census 1861). It is possible that Francis A. stayed in Manchester (in 1856 he would have been 13 years old).  The England 1861 Census shows him in Salford, Manchester, England and lists his age as 18, he is a lodger and working in a woolen mill while the younger members of his family were with his parents in Aberdeen.  By 1865 Francis Baily sailed from Manchester to Boston; then went from Boston to Yarmouth, Canada to avoid conscription into the American Civil War.  While in Yarmouth, he is admitted to Scotia Mason Lodge #31 on June 13, 1865; entered apprenticeship July 11, 1865; became Fellow Craftsman July 11, 1865; became Master Mason August 22, 1865 (all at Trinity Church).  We are not certain that Francis actually ever moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, where he met Mary Maud and they were married in 1869.  Most likely he went there on a business trip or a series of business trips.  The Outagamie Marriage Record in Appleton notes that Groom Francis Baily is a Dry Goods Merchant. 

 

[Mary Maud’s brother Peter Dane, who had emigrated from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Appleton, WI in 1859, was involved in a retail store in Appleton that would have sold such items.  Since Peter still had family back in Yarmouth, it is reasonable to assume he also maintained business contacts there.  Did Peter invite Francis to Appleton for business reasons?  This could have led to Francis meeting Peter’s sister Mary Maud.] 

By 1871, Francis and Mary Maud have settled in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  That year’s census shows them there with baby Maud, 10 months old.  According to his grandchildren's reports, his father-in-law gave him a piece of the family's successful textile business. In 1877 he is listed as a partner in "dry goods" with James H. Cann; in 1879 Mr. Cann died, and Baily established a partnership with William D. Killam.  They are still in Yarmouth for the 1881 census, now with 6 children.  The partnership with Killam was dissolved on May 5, 1884 and the business was taken over by Cook and Stoneman.  Allegedly Francis went bankrupt.  In 1885, Francis and Mary Maud move to Montreal and stayed there.  The 1891 census has the couple there with 7 children, and the 1901 census shows the family continuing to stay in Montreal.  While there, Francis became the Canadian agent for Henry Campbell & Co., a linen thread manufacturer in Belfast, Ireland and also for John Dewhurst & Sons, sewing cotton manufacturers or Yorkshire, England.

 

[The “father-in-law” and textile business that Barbara refers to is most likely T.B. Dane & Sons, headed by Thomas B. Dane, who is actually Mary Maud’s Grandfather’s son through a second marriage.  Thomas B. Dane was married to Jane Stoneman and is likely related to the referred to Cook and Stoneman business.]

Ad from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Town Directory for 1890, Publ. by The Yarmouth Times, 1890.

1864 ad from Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Provincial Directory


Francis Arthur Baily died April 15, 1917 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  He is buried by other family members in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal.  His parents were John Arthur Baily  (abt1819-1888) and Johana Mary Nolan (b. December 16, 1824, d. May 9, 1902, buried in Manhatten, NY). 

 

Church record of Mary Maud’s passing and burial. 

 

Barbara adds that Francis Arthur Baily is related to Francis Arthur Baily, the astronomer, and also to Sir Walter Baily, Physician-in-ordinary to Queen Elizabeth I.  Francis Arthur Baily, the astronomer, had no children and was one of 8 children of Richard Baily or Bayley, alias Clark, and Sarah (Head) Baily.  No one seems to know for sure how the family name “Clarke” became associated with the Bailys.  The speculation is that a wealthy and childless Clarke, probably related to one of the Baily wives, left the family a considerable amount of money with the proviso that the Clarke name be adopted.  (It was abandoned by Richard’s children after 5 generations had used both surnames.)  Our Francis Arthur Baily descended from a younger brother to the astronomer, Henry Baily.  Henry had left and went off to Ireland to become a brewer and distiller.  This is how the family came to be in Ireland when our Francis Arthur Baily was born.   

 

Leon Baily, younger brother of Francis family immigrated to New York continued to live there and is buried there.  Leon did visit his brother in Montreal.  (James Alfred Baily can remember Uncle Leon visiting his father Alfred.)

 

Barbara Malcolmson-Baily shares these details regarding Francis and Mary Maud’s children:

Maud Frances Baily

Birth:    24 May 1870, Nova Scotia

My father remembers Aunt Maud's birthday by the rhyme:
“The 24th of May is the Queen’s birthday,
“If we don’t get a holiday, we’ll all run away.”

Religion:    Church of England

Census:    1891—Occupation: clerk

Spouse:    Jack Turner

Birth:    abt 1870, in Canada

Children:       Mildred Maude Turner (married Edgar A. Wray)

Dorothy Dane Turner (married J. Ferguson)

Emma Florence Baily

Birth:    3 Sep 1872, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Death:    1965

Religion:    Church of England

Spouse:    James Darling

Birth:    3 Aug 1871, Quebec

Father:    Andrew Darling  (1831-1917)

Mother:    Margaret Barr (1833-1890)

Children:    Douglas Darling (Jan 1904-3 Feb 1962) married Jessie Whishart Donald (30 May 1914-16 Apr 2000)

 

Arthur Benoit Baily

Birth:    28 Jan 1873, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Census:    Single, 26 years old, and living with Mum and Dad in Montreal (Saint-Louis Ward B-45, family 120).

Death:    28 Mar 1967

Burial:    Mount Royal Cemetery

Religion:    Church of England

Spouse:    Lily Julia Hamburg

Children:       Albert Baily (1904-2 Jan 1986) married Virginia Helen Hume

Stanley Dane (1 Oct 1907-13 Nov 1997) married Vera Ruth Sheffiel

[Notice that Arthur’s middle name “Benoit” likely comes from Mary Maud’s sister Zerviah’s husband, Louis Benoit’s, surname.]


Francis “Frank” Arthur Baily

Birth:    26 Jun 1876, Nova Scotia, Canada (listed elsewhere as 24 June 1877)

Censuses:    1881, 1891, 1901 (In all censuses, living with father and mother)

Death:    2 Nov 1956, Sweetsburg, Cowansville, Quebec

Burial:    Mount Royal Cemetery

Religion:    Church of England

Spouse:    Harriet Greenslade Warren

Birth:    22 Jul 1876, Montreal, Canada

Death:    2 Jun 1925, Montreal, Canada

Father:    George Talbot Warren  (1851-1925)

Mother:    Mary Ann McNulty (1851-1938)

Marriage:    21 Jun 1904, Montreal

Children:       Francis (Frank) Warren Baily (29 Jun 1905-1 Aug 1982) married Patricia Jeffreys (19 Mar 1909- 17 Mar 5 Jan 1979)

George Talbot Baily (18 Mar 1908-3 Apr 1997) married Nancy Miller

                    Arthur Henry Baily (27 May 1910-12 Jan 1996) married Edna Rose Wallace

Walter Frederick Baily (16 Jul 1912-15 Oct 1969) married Beatrice McIvor MacKay

Other spouses:    Daisy May Cornick (d. 10 Oct 1938)


Alfred Percival Baily

Birth:    May 1879, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Religion:    Church of England

1st Spouse:   Llaura Frances Young in 1903, likely died

2nd Spouse:   Florence Jean or Jane Meeham

Children:       James Alfred Baily (26 Aug 1917-2009, buried in Mount Royal Cemetery)

Mary Florence Ethel (Baily) Weise (1923-2009)

 

Henry Oscar Baily

Birth:    1882

Death:    1883

 

Mary Elizabeth “Mamie” Baily

Birth:    1884, Nova Scotia?

Death:    1890

 

Frederick William Baily

Birth:    28 Oct 1886, Quebec, Canada

Death:    24 Jun 1973, Pointe-Claire, Montreal, Quebec

Burial:    Mount Royal Cemetery, Outrement, Mtl, Quebec

Religion:    Church of England

Fred never married.

 

Henry Ernest Baily

Mabel Baily, his daughter-in-law, always called Henry one of the last “gentle men”: courteous, courtly, soft-spoken, he loved his children and grandchildren.

Henry said of genealogical research into our family, “It will cost you $500 to find out, and $1000 to keep it quiet.”

His company sold the canvas for the Schooner Bluenose (Also pictured on the Canadian dime.)

    

Historic schooner Bluenose in 1922 using Henry’s canvas and the reverse side of the Canadian dime.

Watch rare footage of Bluenose racing found on YouTube.

 

Birth:    1 Jan 1888, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Death:    31 Jan 1956, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Burial:    Mount Royal Cemetery

Religion:    Church of England

Spouse:    May Georgena Martin

Birth:    23 Dec 1889, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Death:    27 Feb 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marriage:    3 Jun 1914, Methodist Church, Sweetsburg, Quebec

Children:       Francis Martin Baily (28 Jul 1915-23 May 1991) married Isobel Thompson Munro

Beverly Dane Baily (22 May 1921-living)

 

And I [Barbara] am Beverly Dane Baily's daughter.

 

[Thank you Barbara!]

         

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