Birth: 1817 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: John Baker 1760-1836
Mother: Sarah Craft 1777-1848
Christening: 6 April 1817 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 1 June 1844 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Wife: Harriet (Harriett, Harriott) Kercher (Kircher) 1822-1853
Death: October 1865 Bramley, Surrey, UK
Burial: 14 October 1865 Holy Trinity, Bramley, Surrey, UK
Harriett (Harriet, Harriott) Baker 1844-a1851
George Baker 1849-1857
Christening of James Baker in the IGI on 6 April 1817 in Frensham, Surrey, parents John and Sarah Baker. Entry in the West Surrey Family History Society Frensham Baptisms for James Baker, son of James and Sarah on 6 April 1817. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for James Baker, son of James and Sarah on 6 April 1817 at Frensham, St Mary. "Page 19 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1817 [...] April the 6th No. 146 James Son of John, a Labourer, and Sarah Baker of Frensham".
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 for James Baker, son of James and Sarah on 6 April 1817 at Frensham, St Mary the Virgin. "Page 19 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and seventeen [...] April 6th No. 146 James Son of John, a Labourer, and Sarah Baker of Frensham".
In the 1841 census as James Bakes (sic - in the index, Baker on the original) aged 25 (this is about 2 years too old - I suspect his age was rounded up instead of down to a multiple of 5), born in Surrey, a male servant, and living with Sarah Keese (aged 80, not born in Surrey and of independent means), Mary Bakes (his first cousin once removed, daughter of Richard Baker, and two other male servants (George Hammons aged 14 and Fredrick Smith aged 12, both born in Surrey) at Upper West End, Frensham, Surrey.
Marriage of James Baher (sic - on the typed original) and Harriett Kercher in FreeBMD in April-June 1844 in Farnham (4 111).
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for James Baker and Harriett Kercher on 1 June 1844 in Frensham, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for James Baker of full age, father John Baker, and Harriett Kercher of full age, father Samuel Kercher, on 1 June 1844 at Frensham, St Mary. "Page 51 [...] Marriage solemnized by Banns in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey No. 102 June 1st James Baker of full age, a Bachelor and Labourer of Frensham, father John Baker, a Farmer, and Harriett Kercher of full age, a Spinster of Frensham, father Samuel Kercher, a Labourer. Married in the Church of Frensham according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England [...] in the Presence of us Andrew Baker [made his mark] and Caroline Baker." Harriett made her mark.
His two children were born in Frensham in 1844 and 1849.
In the 1851 census as James Baker aged 32, born in Frensham, Surrey, an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Harriett), son (George) and daughter (Harriett) in Frensham, Surrey.
His wife died in Frensham in 1853.
In the 1861 census as James Baker aged 47, born in Frensham, Surrey, widowed, an agricultural labourer, and lodging with William Beagley (aged 65, born in Compton, Surrey and a cordwainer), his wife (Mary aged 41 and born in Ockham, Surrey), two sons (James Beagley aged 14 and an agricultural labourer, and William A Beagley aged one month in the index, two months on the original, both born in Ockham, Surrey), and two other lodgers (Charles Plumbridge aged 25, born in Ockham, Surrey, and Charles Renment aged 17, born in Frensham, Surrey, both single and agricultural labourers) in Heathside, Ockham, Surrey.
Death of James Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1865 in Hambledon (2a 69).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for James Baker buried on 14 October 1865 at Bramley, Holy Trinity. "Page 101 Burials in the Parish of Bramley in the County of Surrey in the Year 1865 [...] D1 No, 16 James Baker No. 605 of Bramley on October 14 aged 47".
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Baker baptised in Frensham, St Mary the Virgin, Surrey on 6 April 1817, three adding his parents as John Baker and Sarah Craft, his marriage to Harriett Kercher on 1 June 1944 at St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, and his two children.
James Baker was my second great granduncle.
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