Margaret (Maggie) Pretoria Baker [Hill] (1904-1961)

Dates

Birth: 20 June 1900 Windsor, Berkshire, UK
Father: David Baker 1868-1939
Mother: Fanny Deadman 1863-1917

Marriage: July-September 1917 Fulham, London, UK
Husband: Frederick Original (Oswald) Hill 1898-1977

Death: July-September 1961 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK

Children

Rose Mary (Rosemary) Hill [Towns] 1917-1995
Cyril Hill 1920-1942
Elsie Hill [Heath] 1922-a1939
Ivy L Hill 1925
Raymond Hill 1928-1997

Notes

Birth of Margaret Pretoria Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1900 in Windsor (2c 439).

In the 1901 census as Maggie Baker aged 10 months, and living with her parents (David and Fanny), two brothers (Frank and William), and two sisters (Berdine and Elsie) in four rooms at 9 St Leonards Terrace, Bolton Road, New Windsor, Berkshire.

Her two sisters were born in St Pancras in 1904.

In the 1911 census as Margaret Baker aged 10, born in Windsor, Berkshire, and living with her parents (David and Fanny), two brothers (Frank and William) and three sisters (Beatrice, Dorothy and Gladys) in four rooms at 61 St Olafs Road, Fulham S W, London.

Marriage of Maggie Baker and Frederick O Hill in FreeBMD in July-September 1917 in Fulham (1a 895).

Her first daughter was born in Hammersmith in 1918, son and daughter in Rugby in 1920 and 1922, and daughter and son in Chesterfield in 1925 and 1928.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Margaret Hill born 23 May 1901, married, and living at 20 Racecourse Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, other occupant Frederick Hill (husband?), Raymond Hill (son?), Elsie and Rosemary Hill (daughters?), and Humphrey Hill (sic - in the index, Albert Humphreys on the original whose mother's maiden name I believe to be Baker), and one other at 20 Racecourse Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. However the birth date appears to be wrong.

Death of Margaret P Hill in FreeBMD in July-September 1961 aged 61 in Chesterfield (3a 129).

There are three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Margaret Pretoria Baker born in Windsor, Berkshire in 1901, parents David Baker and Fanny Deadman, one adding her marriage to Frederick Hill in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1917, five children, and her death in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1961.

Relationship

Margaret Pretoria Baker was the great grandneice of Harriet Dudman, wife of Charles Croucher, my second great grandfather, and first cousin once removed of Frederick George Deadman, husband of Ruth Croucher, my aunt, and of Sylvia Irene Deadman, wife of Leonard Croucher, my uncle.

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