Agnes was born the forth child of William and Agnes. Her siblings were Robert (1844), Margaret (1847), Janet (1849), Jane (1854), William (1857), Mary (1859), Isabella (1861), Thomas Baird (1863) and John Cooper (1867).
She is listed in the 1861 Census as living with her parents in Douglas Street, Kilmarnock as a nine year old daughter born in Kilmarnock.
She married Patrick Foley on the 13th of January 1872 at St Johns Chapel, Portugal Road, Hutchesontown Glasgow “after Banns according to the Forms of the Roman Catholic Church”. She was nineteen years of age, and gave her occupation as “woollen powerloom weaver”.
Patrick, the son of James and Bridget Foley, was aged 21 and gave his occupation as “ironwork labourer”. Neither Agnes or Patrick could sign their name.
Several children to this marriage have been identified in the public records. James was born in 1872 at Martha Street, Glasgow. William was born 1874 in Gorbals, Glasgow. Mary was born 1878 at 20 Rose Street, Glasgow. Daughter Margaret, was born 1881 in Eglinton Street, Glasgow. Another daughter, Agnes, also appears as the witness to her father’s death, but has not so far been identified.
There is a possibility that Agnes and her family migrated to Australia briefly between 1881 and 1884, as her brother Thomas listed her as present in the colony on his immigration papers in 1883. Supporting this possibility is the difficulty in finding the family in the 1881 Scottish census. No other evidence has been found to support this possibility. If indeed they did migrate, then they did so apparently as unassisted migrants, and must have left fairly soon after Thomas’s arrival, as their last child Jane-Hannah was born 1884 in Commerce Street, Glasgow.
Daughter Jane married Angus McNeil on the 29th of April 1904.
Patrick died on the 20th of November 1918. The cause of death was stated as “bronchis pneumonia”.
Agnes died of senile debility (dementia) on the 15th of January 1919 in Rutherglen Road, Glasgow. Her death registration was witnessed by her daughter Jane (Jessie) McNeil.
