Birth: 1846 Churt, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: John Baker 1793-1879
Mother: Mary Moorey 1807-1869
Christening: 12 April 1846 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 16 June 1867 St Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Wife: Mary Ann Dunce c1848-1933
Death: January-March 1926 Richmond, Surrey, UK
Angelina Baker [Cranham] 1868-1942
Edwin John Baker 1869-1907
Matilda Kate Baker 1870-a1891
Emily Baker [Sims (Syms)] 1873-1958
Ellen Baker 1874-a1901
Maurice Baker 1877-1969
Mary Anne Baker [Shipp] 1880-1965
Albert Edward Baker 1884-1951
Edith Ethel Baker [Baker] 1890-1981
Another unknown child died before 1911
I cannot find an entry for his registration of birth which is strange because his younger brother and older sister were registered.
Christening of Albert Baker in the IGI on 12 April 1846 in Frensham, Surrey, parents John and Mary Baker. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Albert Baker on 12 April 1846 at Frensham, St Mary, parents John and Mary Baker. "Page 176 Baptisms solemnized in the Parifh of Fresham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1846 [...] April 12 No. 1404 Albert, parents John, a Farmer, and Mary Baker of Churt, Frensham".
In the 1851 census as Albert Baker aged 5, born in Frensham, Surrey and living with his parents (John and Mary), three brothers (Joseph, Seller and Stephen), and seven sisters (Clara, Ellen, Emley, Kate A, Maria, Matilda and Priscille), a visitor (Angelina Mary aged 19, born in Richmond, Surrey, single and no stated employment) and a servant (George Glaysher aged 22, born in Headley, Hampshire, single and an agricultural labourer) in Lower Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1861 census as Albert Baker aged 15, born in Frensham, Surrey and living with his parents (John and Mary), four brothers (Joseph, Maurice, Selbe and Stephen), and four sisters (Clare, Kate, Metilda and Prisille) in Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
Marriage of Albert Baker and Mary Ann Dunce in FreeBMD in April-June 1867 in Guildford (2a 76).
Marriage of Albert Baker and Mary Ann Dunce in the IGI on 16 June 1867 at Saint Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Albert Baker aged 21, father John Baker, and Mary Ann Dance (sic) on 16 June 1867 at Guildford, St Nicholas. " Page 181 [...] Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St Nicholas Guilford in the County of Surrey. No. 362 June 16th Albert Baker aged 21, a Bachelor and Farmer of S. Nicholas, father John Baker, a Farmer, and Mary Ann Dunce aged 20, a Spinster of S. Nicholas, father Edward Dunce, a Miller. Married in the Parish Church after Banns according to the Rites and Ceremonies f the Church of England [...] in the Presence of usJohn ? and Ellen Dunce".
The first three children were christened in Linchmere, Sussex.
In the 1871 census as Albert Baker aged 25, born in Frensham, Surrey, a labourer, and living with his wife (Mary Ann), son (Edwin J) and two daughters (Angelina and Matilda Kate) at Clay Hill, Thursley, Surrey. This was near Haslemere railway station. Haslemere parish was extremely small and Thursley curled round it on the west.
The family lived in Shottermill until 1877 but had moved to Farnham from the birth of Mary Ann in 1880.
In the 1881 census as Albert Baker aged 35, born in Frensham, Surrey, a railway flagman and living with his wife (Mary A), two sons (Edwin J and Maurice ) and five daughters (Angelina, Ellen, Emily, Mary A and Matilda K) at 5 Blount Cottages, Union Road, Farnham, Surrey.
Albert was born in Frensham in 1884 and Ethel in Richmond in 1890.
I cannot find the family in the 1891 census.
In the 1901 census as Albert Baker, aged 55, born in Frensham, Surrey, a railway porter, and living with his wife (Mary Ann), three sons (Albert E, Edwin John and Maurue) and three daughters (Edith E, Emily and Mary Ann) at 20 Crown Terrace, Richmond, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Albert Baker aged 65, born in Fresham, Surrey, a railway porter on the L and SW Railway and an employer (sic), and living with his wife (Mary Ann) and granddaughter (Doris Syms) in five rooms at 20 Crown Terrace, Richmond, Surrey.
Death of Albert Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1926 in Richmond S (2a 671).
In Bakers of Headley it states John’s tenth child, Albert, was baptized on 12 April 1846. He married Mary A (surname unknown) by whom he had at least eight children: Angelina born in 1867/8, Edwin J in 1869/70, Matilda K in 1870/1, Emily in 1873/4, Ellen in 1874/5, Maurice in 1876/7, Mary Ann in 1880 and Edith Ethel in 1890. The first six children were born in Haslemere, but by 1880 the family had moved to Farnham, where the following year’s census recorded them at 5 Blount Cottages on Union Road: Albert was working as a “railway flagman”.
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Albert Baker born in 1846 in Frensham, son of John Baker and Mary Moorey, and died Bef. 1929, his marriage to Mary A in 1867 and eight child (excluding Albert).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Albert Baker christened on 12 April 1846 in Frensham, Surrey, his marriage to Mary Ann Dunce on 16 June (no year) at St Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey, and a railway signalman. Another entry gives the birth of Albert Baker in 1846, parents John Baker and Mary Moorey, his marriage to Mary Ann Dunce on 16 June 1867 at Guildford St Nicholas, Surrey, ten chilren (two named Matilda Kate), and his death in Richond in 1926.
Albert Baker was my half first cousin three times removed.
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