Birth: 1813 Simmondstone, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: Richard Baker 1777-1849
Mother: Frances Keen 1781-1859
Christening: 11 April 1813 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: 19 November 1840 St Mary, Bryanston Square, Marylebone, Middleseex, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Holmes 1801-1876
Death: January-March 1888 Kensington, Middlesex, UK
None known
Christening of George Baker in the IGI on 11 April 1813 in Headley, Hampshire, parents Richard and Frances Baker. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
The same information is in Headley Baptisms adding his father was a farmer at Simmonstone.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917 for George Baker baptised 11 April 1813 at Headley, All Saints, parents Richard and Frances Baker. "Page 2 Baptisms solemnized in the Parifh of Headley in the County of Hants in the Year 1813 [...] 11th April George Son of Richard [a] Farmer & Frances Baker [of] Simmon's Stone".
His sister was also born in Simmonstone in 1814, but the other siblings were born in Frensham/Churt in 1817 to 1823.
Marriage of George Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1940 in Marylebone (1 209) - his wife is on (1 209) - the original handwritten entries have been retyped and I assume this is where the error was made.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the marriage of George Baker, father Robert Baker, and Elizabeth Holmes on 19 November 1840 at St Mary, Bryanston Square, Westminster. "Page 66 1840 Marriage solemnized at St Mary's Church in the Parish of St Marylebone in the County of Middlesex [No.] 131 November 19th George Baker [of] full age, [a] Bachelor [and[ Flour Factor [of] 29 Nutford Place, [father] Richard Baker [a] Farmer, [and] Elizabeth Holmes [of] full age [a] Spinster [of] 29 Nutford Place [father] George Robert Holmes [a] Gent. Married in the above Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us George Robert Holmes [and] Ann Robson".
In the 1841 census as George Baker aged 25, born in Surrey, a bakers J(ourneyman?), and lodging with Solaman Batson aged 30, not born in Surrey and a carpenter, his wife? (Elizabeth Batson aged 25 and not born in Surrey), and Jonathan Payne aged 17, born in Surrey and a baker's J(ourneyman?) at 5 Lower George Street, Richmond, Surrey. A Thomas Wells, a baker and his family lived at the same address. I cannot locate his wife.
In the 1851 census as George Baker aged 38, born in Henley, Hampshire, a master baker, and visiting with his wife (Betsey) George Robson (aged 47, born in Lynn, Norfolk and a master mariner), his wife (Ann aged 47 and born in Bow, Middlesex - his sister-in-law) and a servant (Elizabeth Cox aged 17 and born in Hackley Road, Huntingdonshire) at 3 Watney Street, St Paul, St George in the East, Middlesex.
In the 1861 census as George Baker aged 48, born in Headly, Hampshire, an unemployed baker, and living with his wife (Elizabeth) in Church Street, Twickenham, Middlesex.
In the 1871 census as George Baker aged 58, born in Headley, Hampshire, a retired baker, and lodging with his wife (Elizabeth) at Mulberry Tree Farm, Richmond Road, Twickenham, Middlesex.
His wife died in Brentford in 1876.
In the 1881 census as George Baker aged 68, born in Headley, Hampshire, widowed, a retired baker, and lodging with Francis Dunthorne Holmes (aged 45, born in Twickenham, Middlesex, single, and a builder and undertaker) at 14 Church Street, Twickenham, Middlesex.
Death of George Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1888 aged 74 in Kensington (1a 88).
There are eleven entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for George Baker.
George Baker was my fourth cousin once removed.
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