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Victor Baynes
(1924 - 2015)

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Name: Mr Victor Baynes
Nick Name: Vic
Gender: Male
Age: 90 years old
Lived: Tuesday, 22 July 1924 - Monday, 16 February 2015

My Story

22 July - One sunny Tuesday in 1924 a precious blue eyed boy was born to proud parents, Thomas Farrer (who we know as Clive) and Cinette Baynes. The young parents met in Pretoria at Savelcoles, a factory that produced army clothing, where they both worked - Cinette being a seamstress and Thomas a cutter. They fell in love, married and moved to Pilgrim’s Rest, Mpumalanga, for Thomas to work in the reduction plant of the TGME gold mine and to settle as a family. This is where their first born, little Victor Clive Baynes was born and then baptised a month later at the Methodist Church in Pilgrims on the 7th of September 1924. 

Victors great grandfather Richard Baynes was the progenitor of our family to South Africa in the 1850’s, along with his wife Mary Wilson from Lancaster, UK. Great Grandpa Richard is listed as a pioneer of the Transvaal Goldfields 1886. Richard and Mary had a son, Thomas Farrer Baynes who married Mable Mathilda Dewrance at St Johns Pinetown on the 2nd of April 1892. They were parents to Victors father, Thomas Farrer nickname Sonny. 

As a young man Victor completed his apprenticeship in Pilgrims and started his first job in Pretoria at the PWD Post Office. He then continued on in his adventures to the Cullinan Diamond Mine and then owning a Saw Mill in Sabie and then to work with his father in Roodepoort. 

All these relocations finally led Victor to Allenridge in the OVS, near Odendaalrus where he met and fell in love with our beloved Betsy Baynes nee. Dietrich. (That story merits its own article on another post.) 

Other working highlights include being sent to the UK in the November of 1964 – he took the whole family with - Betsy and the kids. They stayed at Earls Court in London, which was organized by good friend Chone Drezden. Chone went on to start the Overseas Visitors Club in London. Before returning to SA, Vic took the family to Rome and Switzerland.

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Biography

Fathers Name: Thomas Farrer (Clive)
Mothers Name: Cinette Baynes
Spouse's Name: Betsy Baynes nee. Dietrich
Children's Names: Vincent Baynes, Bernadine Roselt & Desiree Whitehead
Siblings Names: to Mavis, Doreen, Gladys and Tommy as well as youngest siblings, sister Sybil and brother George
Country of Birth: South Africa
Country of Residence: South Africa
City of Residence: Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumalanga
Occupation: Trades & Services
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Other Christian

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Place of Passing: Johannesburg, Gaiteng
Date of Passing: 16 February 2015
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