Birth: January-March 1869 Bailiff's Cottage, Aldershot Park, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
Father: Henry Baker 1819-1887
Mother: Priscilla Ann Waterman [Poulton] 1828-1912
Christening: 7 February 1869 St Michael the Archangel, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: Not married
Death: 27 March 1940 Lower Stone Acres, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Buried: St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
None known
Birth of Male Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1869 in Farnham (2a 82).
Christening of Harry John Baker in the IGI on 7 February 1869 at Saint Michael, Aldershot, Hampshire, parents Henry and Priscilla Baker.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Harry John Baker on 7 February 1869 at Aldershot, St Michael the Archangel, parents Henry and Priscilla Baker. "Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Aldershot in the County of Southampton in the Year 1869 [...] 1869 February 7th No.413 Harry John, parents Henry, a steward, and Priscilla Baker of Aldershot Place."
In the 1871 census as Harry J Baker aged 2, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, and living with his parents (Henry and Priscilla), and (half)sister (Alice Poutta) at Bailiffs Cottage, Aldershot Park, Aldershot, Hampshire.
The family moved to Frensham soon after the census from the birth of his sister in April 1872.
In the 1881 census as Harry J Baker aged 19 in the index, 12 on the original, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, and living with his parents (Henry and Priscilla A), sister (Helen M), half-sister (Kate Poulton) , and a visitor (Mary Nash aged 75, born in London, Middlesex, widowed and an annuitant) at Elm Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.
His father died in Frensham in 1887.
In the 1891 census as Harry S (sic) Baker aged 22, born in Aldershot Place, Hampshire, single, an assistant surveyor on the highway board, and living with his widowed mother (Priscilla), (half)sister (Kate Baker in the index, Poulton on the original), at Elm Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as John Harry Baker aged 31, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, single and a surveyor and an employer (of his sister), and living with his widowed mother (Priscilla), sister (Mary Helen), (half)sister (Kate Poulton), nephew (Charles John Leslie - I am not sure of the relationship as his sister was single), and a servant (Minnie Mullard aged 15 and born in Churt, Surrey) at Elm Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Harry John Baker aged 41, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, single, Surveyor As Overseer, Land Agent, Farmer and living with his widowed mother (Priscilla), sister (Mary Helen), and three servants (Joyce David aged 23, born in Erchfont, Wiltshire, single and a farm assistant, Annie Harris aged 22, born in Frensham, Surrey, single and a domestic servant, and Arthur Privett aged 18, born in Alton, Hampshire, single and a cowman) in ten rooms in Crosslane, Frensham, Farnham.
His mother died at Cross Lane, Frensham on 12 February 1912 and left effects of £912 4s 4d. to Harry John Baker Surveyor and Jesse Colman out of business.
There are thirty five entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1918-1945 for Harry John Baker address The Red Cottage, Frensham, Farnham, in 1919 to Spring 1925, other occupant Mary Ellen Baker (sister?), Mackenzies, Tilford, Farnham from Autumn 1925 to 1928, Fifield Cottage, Frensham, Farnham in 1929 to 1934, and Lower Stone Acres, Frensham, Farnham in 1935 to 1939, other occupant Mary Helen Baker (sister?) in 1925 to 1939.
Death of Harry J Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1940 aged 70 in Surrey SW (2a 1298).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Harry John Baker died on 27 March 1940 in Surrey, Probate 10 May 1940 London. "Baker Harry John of Lower Stone Acre Frensham, Surrey died 27 March 1940 Probate London 10 May to Ernest Frederic Crundwell solicitor. Effects £21460 4s 8d." This must have been left to his sister Mary Helen.
Entry in FindaGrave for Harry John Baker died March 27 and buried at Frensham St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Frensham, Waverley Borough, Surrey. The entry is on the same stone as his parents "Harry John/Baker/Died/March 27 1940/Aged 70"
Bakers of Headley states Henry’s first child, Harry John, was born in about 1862. In 1881 he was living with his family at Elan Cottage in Frensham. He married Kate Poulton (born in 1871), and is remembered as the author of “Frensham: Then & Now”. (The birth date is take from the IGI index of the 1881 census - the original has 12. The marriage to Kate Poulton is also taken from this index - it is wrong as she was his half sister, never married and died in 1943. He was a co-author of Frensham Then and Now 1938, 2nd Ed 1948, the other being H C Minchin MA).
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Harry John Baker, son of Henry and Priscilla Ann Baker, born about 1870, his marriage to Kate Poulton, and his death on 27 March 1940.
Harry John Baker was my second cousin three times removed.
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