Birth: April 1872 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: Henry Baker 1819-1887
Mother: Priscilla Ann Waterman [Poulton] 1828-1912
Christening: 28 April 1872 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: Not married
Death: 24 December 1953 Lavender Cottage, Rowledge, Surrey, UK
Buried: St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Believed none
Birth of Mary Helen Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1872 in Farnham (2a 105).
Christening of Mary Helen Baker in the IGI on 28 April 1872 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Henry and Priscilla Baker.
The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Mary Helen Baker on 28 April 1872 at Frensham St Mary, parents Henry and Priscilla Baker. "Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1872 [...] 1872 April 28th No.822 Mary Helen, parents Henry, a Highway Surveyor, and Priscilla Baker of Frensham".
In the 1881 census as Helen M Baker aged 9, born in Frensham, Surrey, and livng with her parents (Henry and Priscilla A), brother (Harry J), half-sister (Kate Poulton), and a visitor (Mary Nash aged 75, born in London, Middlesex, widowed and an annuitant) at Elan Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.
Her father died in 1887.
I cannot find her in the 1891 census but she was not living with her mother.
In the 1901 census as Mary Helen Baker aged 27, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, single and a surveyor employed by her brother, and living with her widowed mother (Priscilla), brother (Harry John), (half)sister (Kate Poulton), nephew (Charles John Leslie), and a servant (Minnie Mullard aged 15 and born in Churt, Surrey) at Elm Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Mary Helen Baker aged 3, single, of private means,7 and living with her widowed mother (Priscilla), brother (Harry John), (half)sister (Kate Poulton), 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.
Her mother died at Cross Lane, Frensham on 12 February 1912.
There are twelve entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1918-1945 for Mary Ellen Baker address The Red Cottage, Frensham, Farnham, in 1919 to Spring 1925, other occupant Harry John Baker (brother?), and seventeen entries for Mary Helen Baker address 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 1945, other occupant Harry John Baker (brother?) in 1925 to 1939.
I cannot find a registration for her death.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Mary Helen Baker died 24 December 1953 in Surrey, probate 24 February 1954 London. "Baker Mary Helen of Lower Stoneacres Frensham Surrey spinster died 24 December 1953 at Lavender Cottage Rowledge Surrey Probate London 24 February to Ernest Frederic Crundwell and Thomas Owen Crundwell solicitors. Effects £30474 0s 11d." I assume that most of this was left her by her brother Harry John.
Entry in FindaGrave for Mary Helen Baker died December 24 1953 and buried at Frensham St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Frensham, Waverley Borough, Surrey. "Mary Helen/Baker/Died/December 24th 1953/Aged 82."
Bakers of Headley states Henry’s second child, Helen M, was born in about 1871. In 1881 she was living with her family at Elan Cottage in Frensham. Nothing further is known of her.
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Helen M Baker, daughter of Henry and Priscilla Ann Baker, born about 1872 in Frensham, Surrey, and died after 1881.
Mary Helen Baker was my second cousin three times removed.
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