Birth: 31 October 1805 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: John Baker 1760-1836
Mother: Sarah Craft 1777-1848
Christening: 13 December 1805 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 11 May 1833 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Wife: Hester (Esther) Hall 1814-1857
Death: 17 April 1884 Churt, Farnham, Surrey
Buried: 22 April 1884 St John the Evangelist, Churt, Surrey, UK
Edwin Baker 1833-1898
Elizabeth Baker [Croucher] 1835-1909
Alfred Baker 1838-a1891
Anne (Ann) Baker [Bidwell] 1842-1910
Richard Baker 1844-1847
Andrew Baker 1848-1925
Entry in the West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Baptism Index Baptisms for Edward Baker on 13 December 1805 aged 3 months, son of John and Sarah Baker.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for the baptism of Edward Baker on 13 December 1805 at St Mary, Frensham, parents John and Sarah Baker. "Baptisms Continued in 1805 [...] Edward of John & Sarah Baker aged 44 Days Decr 13th".
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for the baptism of Edward Baker on 13 December 1805 at St Mary, Frensham, parents John and Sarah Baker. "Baptisms Continued in 1805 [...] Edward of John & Sarah Baker aged 44 Days Decr 13th".
Marriage of Edward Baker and Ester Hall in the IGI on 11 May 1833 in Frensham, Surrey.
Entry in West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Marriages for Edward Baker of Frensham and Ester Hall of Headley, Hampshire on 11 May 1833 at Frensham by banns.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the banns (sic) of Edward Baker and Esther Hall on 11 May 1833 in Frensham. "Page 72 Marriages solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1833 Edward Baker of this Parish Bachelor and Esther Hall of the Parish of Headley Spinster were married in this Church by Banns this eleventh day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three [... he made his mark, she signed her name] In the Presence of Wm Dutton Jane Matthews No. 216".
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the banns (sic) of Edward Baker and Esther Hall on 11 May 1833 in Frensham St Mary. "Page 72 Marriages solemnized in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1833 Edward Baker of this Parifh Bachelor and Esther Hall of the Parifh of Headley Spinster were married in this Church by Banns this eleventh day of May in the year one thoufand eight hundred and thirty three [... he made his mark, she signed her name] In the Presence of Wm Dutton Jane Matthews No. 216".
In the 1841 census as Edward Baker, aged 30 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Surrey, employed as an agricultural labourer and living with Esther (wife?), Alfred, Edwin and Elizabeth (children?) in Lower Churt (next property is in Cross Water), Farnham, Surrey.
In the 1851 census as Edward Baker aged 45, born in Frensham, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Esther), two sons (Andrew and Albert - there is confusion with names and ages, it should be Alfred and Andrew), and two daughters (Esther who should be Elizabeth and Ann) in Lower Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
His wife died in Churt on 27 July 1857.
In the 1861 census as Edward Baker aged 56, born in Frensham, widowed, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his two sons (Andrew and Alfred) in Churt, Frensham.
In the 1871 census as Edward Baker aged 65, born in Churton (sic), widowed, employed as a labourer, and living with his son (Alfred) in Red Hearn, Churt, Frensham.
In the 1881 census as Edward Baker aged 75, born in Churt, widowed, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his son (Alfred) at Red Herne, Churt, Frensham.
Death of Edward Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1884 aged 78 in Farnham (2a 78). Copy made on 16 December 2004 of the Entry of Death Number 146 in 1884 in Farnham in the counties of Surrey and Southampton gives the death of Edward Baker on 17 April 1884 at Churt, Frensham aged 78 years and employed as a labourer. The informant was his son-in-law J Croucher who was present at his death and the death was registered on 19 April 1884.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Edward Baker buried on 22 April 1884 aged 78 at Churt, St John the Evangelist, with Rushmoor. "Page 13 Burials in the Parish of Churt in the County of Surrey in the Year 1883 [...] Edward Baker No, 101 of Churt on April 22nd 1884 aged 78".
In Bakers of Headley it states John’s third child by his second marriage, Edward, was born in Frensham on 31 October 1805 and baptized there on 13 December. On 11 May 1833 he married Esther Hall, by whom he had six children: Elizabeth born in 1835, Edwin in 1836, Alfred in 1838, Anne in 1842, Richard in 1844 and Andrew in 1848. In 1881 Edward was widowed and living with his son Alfred at Red Herne, Frensham, working as an “agricultural labourer”.
There are fortyeight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edward Baker.
Edward Baker was my second great grandfather.
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