BAYLEE, CRONE O'DELL (1849-1910)

BAYLEE, CRONE O'DELL, Anglican rector, Derby and Blackville, 1892-1902; b. "Mount Baylee," Co. Limerick, Ireland, 25 Mar 1849, s/o Maj. Thomas Henry Baylee; m. 1st, Lucy Jane - , and 2nd, 1889, at Roblin, Ont., Susan Elizabeth McGinness; d. Oxford, N.S., May 1910.

In 1871, C. O'Dell Baylee was teaching school in the Muskoka District in Ontario. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1886, and during the next six years, he had appointments at four different rural locations in southeastern Ontario. In 1892, he transferred to New Brunswick to begin what was the lengthiest assignment of his ministry, at Derby and Blackville. While he was rector, on 9 September 1900, St Agnes Church, at Gray Rapids, which had been opened in 1891 when the Rev. Robert W. Hudgell was in charge of the mission, was consecrated by the Rev. Hollingsworth Tully Kingdon, bishop of Fredericton.

During his ten-year term, Baylee and his second wife, Susan E. McGinness, had two children born at the manse at Derby. In 1902, he transferred to Nova Scotia, where he spent the last eight years of his life, as rector at Westville, and later at Pugwash and Wallace. He was survived in 1910 by his wife and three children.