Ann Baker (1814-1874)

Dates

Birth: 1814 Simmonstone, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: Richard Baker 1777-1849
Mother: Frances Keen 1781-1859

Christening: 22 November 1814 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK

Marriage: Believed not married

Death: 6 May 1874 Bethnal House Asylum, Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, UK
Burial: 12 May 1874 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Christening of Ann Baker in the IGI on 22 November 1814 in Headley, Hampshire, parents Richard and Frances Baker. The same informmation is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.

The same information is in Headley Baptisms adding her father was a farmer living at Simmonstone.

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Ann Baker on 22 November 1814 in Headley, All Saints, Surrey, parents Richard and Frances Baker. "Page 10 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Dealey in the County of Hants in the Year 1814 [...] Npvr 22nd No. 75 Ann Daughter of Richard, a Farmer, and Frances Baker of Simmon Stone".

Her sister and two brothers were born in Frensham in 1817 to 1821, and sister in Churt in 1823.

In the 1841 census as Ann Baker aged 25 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), not born in Surrey, and living with Richard and Frances (parents?), William (brother?) and Frances and Sarah (sisters?) at Upper West End, Frensham, Surrey.

Her father died in 1849.

In the 1851 census as Ann Baker aged 36, born in Headley, Hampshire, single, a farmers daughter and living with her widowed mother (Frances), brother (James), two sisters (Frances and Sarah), a house servant (Lucy Wilkinson aged 16 and born in Farnham, Surrey), a shepherd (Stephen Croft aged 18 and born in Headley, Hampshire), and a farm Servant (George Hill aged 13 and born in Frensham, Surrey) at Speakley, Frensham, Surrey.

Her mother died in 1859.

In the 1861 census as Ann Baker aged 44, born in Frensham, Surrey, single, a farmer of 170 acres employing six men and two boys, and living with with her sister (Frances - housekeeper), and two servants (Charlotte Daws aged 15 and James Earle aged 21 and a carter, both born in Binstead, Hampshire) at Speakley Farm, Frensham, Surrey.

In the 1871 census as Ann Baker aged 56, born in Headley, Hampshire, single, an annuitant, and living in Millbridge, Frensham.

Death of Ann Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1874 in Bethnal Green ((1c 152).

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Ann Baker on 12 May 1874 (no location).

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Ann Baker on 12 May 1874 at Frensham, St Mary. "Page 6 Burials in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy four Ann Baker No. 41 of Bethlehem Asylum Middlesex on May 12th aged 59". The death was at Bethnal House Asylum.

"On 1st January 1874 there were 367 patients - 233 female (158 pauper and 75 private) and 134 male (66 pauper and 68 private). The Asylum was licensed for the reception of 410 patients, of whom 200 could be private. [...] The charge for private patients was not much more than for paupers. The medical staff consisted of a Medical Superintendent and two assistant officers, all resident. The wages of the attendants were too low to attract a suitable class of person for the work, but the Commissioners hoped this would be addressed. Night supervision was also somewhat lacking. There had been a few cases of smallpox in the Asylum, but no patient had died of it."

Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Ann Baker died 6 May 1874 in Middlesex, probate 1 June 1874 Principal Registry. "Baker Ann. Effects under £300 Resworn October 1974 under £200. 1 June. Administration of the effects of Ann Baker formerly of Frensham in the County of Surrey but late of Bethnal House Cambridge-road Bethnal Green in the County of Middlesex Spinster who died 6 May 1874 at Bethnal House was granted at the Principal Registry to Richard Baker of Richmond-road Twickenham in the County of Middlesex Gentleman the Brother and one of the Next of Kin."

Relationship

Ann Baker was my fourth cousin once removed.

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