Birth: 25 November 1875 Elton, Lancashire, UK
Father: Edward Henry Baker 1837-1924
Mother: Hannah Watson 1848-1888
Christening: 7 April 1876 All Saints, Elton, Lancashire, UK
Marriage: 27 September 1896 St Michael, Fobbing, Essex, UK
Wife: Lily Ann Wilkin (Wilkins) 1877-1961
Death: 1 April 1931 The Retreat, Billericay Infirmary, Billericay, Essex, UK
Buried: Plot 27, St Michael, Pitsea, Essex, UK
Lily Ann Baker [Rogers] 1898-1979
Edward Baker 1900-a1911
Abert Baker 1902-a1911
Violet Ann Baker 1904-a1911
Frederick Baker 1906-1983
Dorothy Baker [Smith] 1908-1989
Ethel Baker [Reeve] 1910-1998
Margaret Ellen Baker [Campbell] 1916-1998
Gladys Clara Baker [Layzell] 1921-2001
Birth of Edward Henry Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1875 in Bury (8C 510).
Entry in Ancestry Manchester, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for Gdward (sic) Henry Baker born 25 November 1875 baptised 7 April 1876 at Elton, All Saints, Lancashire, parents Edward Henry and Hannah Baker. "Page 405 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Elton, All Saints Church in the County of Lancaster in the Year 1876 1876 April 7 Born Nov.25 1875 No. 3233 Edward Henry [parents] Edward Henry [a] Labourer and Hannah Baker [of] Elton". Note the E does look like a G.
His sister was registered in Milton, Kent in 1879.
In the 1881 census as Edward Baker aged 5, born in Bury, Lancashire, and living with his parents (Edward and Hannah), brother (William) and sister (Mary A) at 2 White Wash Alley, High Street, Milton, Kent.
His mother died in Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent in January-March 1888.
In the 1891 census as Edward Kaker (sic - in the index, Baker on the original) aged 15, born in Bury, Lancashire, a general labourer and living with his father (Edward - single), brother (William) and two sisters (Mary A and Harriett A) in Hunts Passage (between 85 & 87), High Street, Milton, Kent.
Marriage of Edward Henry Baker and Lily Ann Wilkin in FreeBMD in October-December 1896 in Orsett (4 659).
Entry in Ancestry Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Edward Henry Baker aged 20, father Edward Henry Baker, and Lily Ann Wilkin on 27 September 1896 at Fobbing, St Michael.
His daughter was born in Fobbing in 1898 and son in Vange in 1900.
In the 1901 census as Edward Baker aged 25, born in Lancashire, a moulder brickmaker, and living with his wife (Lily A), son (Edward), daughter (Lily A) and a boarder (Henry Pearson aged 48, born in Romford, Essex, single and a brickmaker) in Wharf Road, Fobbing, Essex.
In the 1911 census as Edward Baker aged 35, born in Lancashire, a cordite packer at an explosive factory, and living with his wife (Lily), three sons (Abert, Edward and Frederick), four daughters (Dorothy, Ethel, Lily and Violet) and father-in-law (Frederick Wilkin) in four rooms at N 1 Mountfetchet Cottages, Vange, Pitsea, Essex.
In the 1921 census as Henry Edward Baker born in Bury, Lancashire in 1875 and living in Great Burstead, Billericay, Essex.
His daughter was baptised in Pitsea, St Michael (later St Gabriel), on 22 May 1921.
Death of Edward H Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1931 aged 55 in Billericay (4A 559).
There are thirty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Edward Henry Baker adding his death on 1 April 1931 at The Retreat, Billericay Infirmary from ascending degeneration of the spinal cord following an accident at Pitsea Docks, and buried in Plot 27, St Micheal, Pitsea.
Elton is a mile west of Bury.
Edward Henry Baker was the father of Margaret Ellen Baker, wife of Thomas Frederick Campbell, grandson of Charlotte Sophia Frankis, wife of William Charles Winn, husband of Emily Dutton, first cousin of Joseph Garibaldi Dutton, husband of Mary Ann Payne, my great aunt.
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