Birth: 1838 Churt, Surrey, UK
Father: Edward Baker 1805-1884
Mother: Hester (Esther) Hall 1814-1857
Marriage: Not married
Death: After 1891
None known
Christening of Alfred Baker in IGI on 25 March 1838 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Edward and Hester Baker. The same information is in the West Surrey Family History Society Frensham Baptisms except his mother's name is spelt Esther. The birth does not appear to have been registered.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Alfred Baker baptised on 25 March 1838 in Frensham, parents Edward and Ethel (sic - in the idex, original almost illegible) Baker. "Baptisms in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1838 [...] March 25th No. 1003 Alfred Baker, parents George, a labourer, and Esther Baker of Frensham".
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Alfred Baker Alfred Baker baptised on 25 March 1838 in Frensham St Mary, parents Edward and Esther Baker. "Baptisms in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1838 [...] March 25th No. 1003 Alfred Baker, parents George, a labourer, and Esther Baker of Frensham". Note this is a different original to the one above.
In the 1841 census as Alfred Baker, aged 3, born in Surrey and living with Edward and Esther (parents?), Edwin (brother?) and Elizabeth (sister?) in Lower Churt (next property is in Cross Water), Farnham, Surrey.
In the 1851 census as Andrew Baker (sic - on the original) aged 13, born in Frensham and living with his parents (Edward and Esther), brother (Albert (sic - should be Andrew), two sisters (Ann and Esther (sic - should be Elizabeth)) at Lower Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
His mother died in 1857.
In the 1861 census as Alfred Baker aged 22, born in Frensham, employed as an agricultural labourer, single, and living with his widowed father (Edward) and brother (Andrew) in Churt, Frensham.
In the 1871 census as Alfred Baker aged 32, born in Chuton (sic - in the index, Churt on the original), single, employed as a labourer, and living with his widowed father (Edward) at Red Herne, Churt.
In the 1881 census as Alfred Baker aged 42, born in Churt, usingle, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his widowed father (Edward) at Red Herne, Frensham (actually in Churt).
In the 1891 census as Alfred Baker aged 52, born in Churt, single, employed as an agricultual labourer, and living with an Elizabeth Baker at Red Hearn Green, Churt. Elizabeth is apparently unrelated, aged 51, born in Farnham, single, and employed as a housekeeper.
I cannot find any later information for him.
In The Bakers of Headley it states that Edward’s third child, Alfred, was born on 25 March 1838. In 1881 he was still unmarried, living at Red Herne in Frensham with his father and working as an agricultural labourer.
Ther are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Alfred Baker born in 1838 in Churt/Frensham, Surrey, parents Edward Baker and Heater (Esther Hall) and his death in 1892 in Churt/Frensham, Surrey. Note that the Index of Wills shows that the Alfred Baker who died in 1892 was a different person who lived in Downing Street, Farnham and was married and a pork butcher.
Alfred Baker was my great granduncle.
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