Notes A birth registration was found for Elsie Bailey: Year of Registration: 1895; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Chippenham; County: Wiltshire; Volume: 5a; Page: 68. (Parents: William J. and Mary Jane Bailey).
In 1901, Elsie Bailey, 5 years of age, was an inmate of Dr Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst, Kent, England, along with her siblings, Hilda Bailey (her twin), 5 years of age; and Arthur Bailey, 4 years of age. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 777; Folio: 88; Page: 3.)
In 1906, Elsie Bailey, 10 (along with siblings, Hilda Bailey, 10, and Arthur Bailey, 9) arrived in Quebec, Canada, with a group of 379 children en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In 1911, Elsie Bailey, 15, is shown as a servant for Thomas Bell and family in Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada. Her date of birth is shown as July 1895 and her immigration year as 1905.
On March 14, 1923, in the Caledon, Peel, Ontario, a marriage was registered between Elsie Bailey, 26, servant, born in England, daughter of William J. and Margaret J. (maiden name unknown) Bailey; and James Allison Pinkey, 42, farmer, born in the Township of Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada, son of James Pinkey and Margaret Lefler. Her employers, Thomas C. and Elma Bell, Cataract, Ontario, Canada, witnessed the marriage.