Virginia was born to John Baynham (Labourer) and his wife Eliza (nee Day) in Much Marcle in 1863. At some point in the 1870s she went out to service in Hereford, but by 1891 she was living with her parents in Tupsely, Hereford making a living as a plain sewer. By 1901 both her parents had died, and Virginia moved in with her brother, a town postman, and his family, and carried on a trade as a dressmaker. In 1921 she was living with her brother at 9, Park St., Hereford, still a needlewoman, now employed by the Working Boys Industrial Home a few streets away. In 1939 she was still living with her brother's family, after her brother's death, as an Old Age Pensioner. She died in 1941.
She never married. In 1909 she gave Ella Leather one song, a version of Seven Nights Drunk, which was recorded and sent to Vaughan Williams for transcription.