Birth: April-May 1841 Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: William (Wm) Baker 1816-1892
Mother: Anne (Ann) Philps c1816-1842
Christening: 23 May 1841 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 24 September 1868 St John the Evangelist, Hale, Surrey, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Combes 1846-1926
Death: January-March 1929 Steyning, Sussex, UK
Alice Edith (Edith Alice) Baker 1869-1887
Hector Combes Baker 1871-1896
Birth of Albert Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1841 in Farnham (4 143).
There is an entry for the christening of Albert Baker in the IGI on 23 May 1841 in Frensham, Surrey, but the parents are given as John and Ann Baker although there is no record of John marrying Ann. The following census entries do not clarify the relationship.
The same information is in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Albert Baker on 23 May 1841 at Frensham St Mary, parents John and Ann Baker. "Page 145 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1841 [...] May 23 No. 1155 John (William crossed out), a Farmer, and Ann Baker of Frensham." It was performed by the Curate of Churt. All the entries, regardless of who officiated, are in the same hand so this has been copied after the event.
In the 1841 census as Albert Baker aged 2 months, born in Hampshire, and living with William and Ann (parents?) at Barford, Headley, Hampshire. The census was held on 6 June.
His mother was buried on 25 April 1842 at All Saints, Headley.
In the 1851 census as Albert Baker aged 9, born in Headley, and living his widowed father (George - his grandfather?), two brothers (Henry and William - his father?), sister (Sarah - aunt?), a visitor (John Baker aged 40, born in Headley, single and a farmer of 49 acres employing three labourers), and two servants (William Mills aged 23, unmarried and employed as an agricultural labourer and Martha Shrube (sic - Shrub on the original) aged 16 and born in Headley - my great grandmother) at Simmondstone, Headley. George's wife would have been too old for Albert to have been her son, and I assume William was his father as implied in the 1841 census.
In the 1861 census as Albert Baker aged 19, born in Headley, Hampshire, and living with his uncle (William - father?), uncle (Henry), Aunt (Marry), and two servants (Mark Barrnett aged 18 and Agmes Hunt aged 19, both born in Headley, Hampshire) in Headley, Hampshire.
Marriage of Albert Baker and Elizabeth Combes in FreeBMD in July-September 1868 in Farnham (2A 125).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Albert Baker, farher William Baker, and Elizabeth Combes on 24 September 1867 (sic) in Hale, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for Albert Baker aged 27, father William Baker, and Elizabeth Combes aged 22, father James Combes, on 24 September 1868 at Hale, St John the Evangelist. "1868. Marriage solemnized at the District Church in the District Hale in the County of Surrey. [No.] 245 Sept 24 Albert Baker [aged] 27 [a] Bachelor [and] Farmer [of] Hale [father] William Baker [a] Farmer, [and] Elizabeth Combes [aged] 22 [a] Spinster [of] Runfold [father] James Combes deceased. Married in the District Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church [...] in the Presence of us George A Deaton and Sarah Combes".
His daughter was registered in July-September 1869 in Farnham and baptised on 7 November 1869 at St Peter, Wrecclesham when he was a farmer living in Wrecclesham.
His son was born in February-March, and registered in April-June 1871 in Farnham.
In the 1871 census as Albert Baker aged 29, born in Headley, Surrey, a farmer of 70 acres employing three men and one boy, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (Hester), daughter (Alice Edith), a nurse (Elizabeth Plasters aged 51, born in Barnstaple, Devon and widowed), a carter (Joseph Wooder aged 17 and born in Frensham, Surrey), and a servant (Mary Milam aged 15 and born in Binsted, Hampshire) in Wrecclesham Street, Wrecclesham, Surrey.
His son was baptised on 7 May 1871 at St Peter, Wrecclesham when he was a farmer living in Wrecclesham.
There are seven entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1945 for Albert Baker address Wrecclesham, Farnham from 1870 to 1876, adding from 1871 "House and land as tenant and occupier at yearly rental of £50".
In the 1881 census as Albert Baker aged 39, born in Headley, Hampshire, a farmer and visiting with his wife (Elizabeth) James Curtis (aged 56, born in Bramshott, Hampshire and a grocer) and his wife (Jane aged 58 and born in Petersfield, Hampshire) at The Oaks, Headley, Hampshire. His two children were living with his widowed father in Farringdon, Hampshire.
In the 1891 census as Albert Baker aged 46, born in Hadley (sic - in the index), Hampshire, a farmer but not employed or an employer, and living with his wife (Elizabeth) and son (Hector C) in Vine Cottage, Bentley, Hampshire.
In the 1901 census as Albert Baker aged 54, born in Headley, Hampshire, a domestic gardener, and living with his wife (Elizabeth) at Buxted Lodge, Hadlow Down, Mayfield, East Sussex.
In the 1911 census as Albert Baker aged 69, born in Hadley (sic - in the index, Headley on the original), Hampshire, a gardener working on his own account, and living with his wife (Elizabeth) and a boarder (Arthur Victor Dunnaway aged 20, born in Chichester, Sussex, single and a coachman) in four rooms at Alpha Cottages, Felpham Street, Felpham, Bognor, Sussex.
I cannot locate the family in the 1921 census.
His wife died in January-March 1926 in Steyning.
Death of Albert Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1929 in Steyning (2B 629).
There are four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Albert Baker.
Albert Baker was my second cousin three times removed.
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