Birth: April 1886 Shamley Green, Wonersh, Surrey, UK
Father: Maurice Moorey (Morrey) Baker 1852-1922
Mother: Margaret Ann Hayward 1854-1908
Christening: 11 April 1886 Shamley Place, Wonersh, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 21 April 1915 Shamley Green, Wonersh, Surrey, UK
Husband: Charles John Cyril Girling 1889-1949
Death: July-September 1958 Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Maurice Jack Hayward Girling 1917-2000
Birth of Laurie Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1886 in Hambledon (2a 145) which included Shamley Green.
Christening of Laurie Baker in the IGI on 11 April 1886 at Shamley Place, Surrey, parents Maurice Moorey and Margaret Baker.
In the 1891 census as Laurie Baker aged 5, born in Shamley Green, and living with her parents (Maurice M and Margaret A), two brothers (Maurice and Herbert), sister (Edith), two aunts (Ellen and Kate A Baker), two servants (Horace Humphrey aged 20 and Welshey Humphrey aged 16, both born in Cowfold, Sussex, single and grocer's assistants) and a general servant (Kate Upfold aged 16 and born in Shamley Green) at Surrey House, Shamley Green, Wonersh, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Sawrie (sic - in the index, Laurie on the original) Baker aged 15, born in Shamley Green, and living with her parents (Maurice M and Margaret A), sister (Edith), three servants (Albert Browley aged 23 and born in Guildford, Benjamin Browley aged 19 and born in Compton, Surrey, and Alfred Streatfield aged 19 and born in East Grinstead, Surrey, all single and drapers (could be grocer's) assistants) and a domestic servant (Kate Hughes aged 16 and born in Shamley Green) at Surrey House, Shamley Green, Wonersh, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Laurie Baker aged 25, born in Shamley Green and living in Brentford, Middlesex.
Marriage of Laurie Baker and Charles/Cyril J C Girling (two entries on typed original) in FreeBMD in April-June 1915 in Hambledon (2a 497).
In her husband's Amy Service Records under the name Charles Cyril Girling it states Laurie Baker, a spinster, married on 21 April 1915 in Surrey, vicar Edwin A Ferguson, witnessed by M M Baker (father?) and H Baker (brother?). Her address was Surrey House, Chelworth, Surrey, and her son was born on 2 May 1917 at Cranleigh.
Her husband died in Barton, Lancashire in 1949.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Laurie Girling in July-September 1958 aged 72 in Worthing (5h 628).
Bakers of Headley states Laurie was a daughter of Maurice Moorey Baker and Margaret Ann Hayward.
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Laurie Baker, daughter of Maurice Moorey Baker and Margaret Ann Hayward), married to Cyril John Charles Girling in 1915, a son Maurice Jack Hayward Girling, and her death in 1949 (this was the year of her husband's death).
Laurie Baker was my half second cousin twice removed.
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