Nicholas Baker (1607-1660)
Dates
Birth: 1607 Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: John Baker 1559-1633
Mother: Unknown
Christening: 21 June 1607 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Jane Jackson 1614-1642
Marriage: After 1642
Wife: Kathleen/Kathrine ? b1645-a1660
Death: January 1660 Headley, Hampshire, UK
Burial: 18 January 1660 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Children
By Jane Jackson:
Elisebeth Baker [Bookham] 1632-a1660
John Baker 1634-1676
Jane Baker 1636-b1658
Nicholas Baker 1640-1686
Notes
Entry in the IGI for the christening of Nicholas Baker on 21 June 1607 in Headley, Hampshire, father John Baker. The same information is in Headley Baptisms adding he was born in Hatch (there are two Hatch Farms today in Lindford and Standford).
Only the father's name is given for the christenings of Elisebeth and John, Jane is mentioned in the christenings of Jane and Nicholas. There is an entry in Headley Burials for Jane Baker wife of Nicholas on 17 October 1642. The surname Jackson comes from Bakers of Headley. However the will gives Nicholas's wife as Kath???? so I assume he remarried.
There is an entry for Nicholas Baker senior in Headley Burials on 18 January 1660.
There is an entry in Headley Wills for Nicholas Baker senior, yeoman buried on 18 January 1660 proved on 19 April 1660.
Entry in Ancestry England Parish and Probate Records - Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1657-1660 for Baker, Nicholas, yeo., Headley als. Heathly, Southants. 1660 23
This will made on 21 April 1658 references a wife Katherine, two sons John (sole executor) and Nicholas, and two daughters Elizabeth who was married to John Bookham, and Jane, and refers to land near Barford and Wishanger. The following is an incomplete transcription:
In the name of God Amen A Nicholas Baker of Headley alias Heathly in the County of South'ton, yeoman being sick in body but in ? memory A give thanks for Almighty God Creator of me and all mankind? ? ? make and ? this my last will and testamont in manner and form following, ffirst to committ my soul unto the Hand of Jesus Christ by whose death and passion A hopi for salvation And my body to the Earth whereof it was formed And for my Temporall Estate as following first A give and bequiath unto my wife Kath?????? the bedd and bedstidd and all there unto belonging in the Chamber whereon we usually lodge; and our ? ? trunk and our Box in the same Chamber A give and bequiath unto my daughter Elizabeth the wife of John Bookham twenty shillings of lawful English money to be paid her within six months next after my Deceass. I give and bequarth unto my Daughter Jane One Hundred & Fifty Pounds of Lawfull money of England to be paid her when she attains to the age of six and twenty years. I give and bequartth unto my son Nicholas Baker All that my ? ? in severall furlongs of Land amounting by after? two and twenty Acres oo more ? ? lying and ajoining altogether in the parish of the abovesaid Headdley ajoining and abutting on a lane called Barr Lane and on part of Wishanger Farm Land ? of the said ? ? upon part of out of the ? of the said Wishanger Farm. My will and meaning is that her shall haus the said family when her ? to the Age of one and Twenty years my sonn John to hold it till that tyme finding and allowing to his said ? Brother Nicholas sufficient maintenance as ? drink and ? apparell and all other things in sufficient and good manner And this my afrementioned Sonn Nicholas to ? all the aforesaid Nyne Furlongs of land for him and his heirs for ever. My will and meaning is my Executors shall all the deeds and ? for this land given to my sonn Nicholas unto him with the ? at the age of one and twenty years as aforesaid. I give unto my son John Baker All that my house and buildings whatsoever where I dwell and all my other Land whatsoever with which A have not about ? and bequiathed to him and his heirs for ever. Also A give to the poorrs of the said Headley Twenty Shillings. Also ? ? make my sonn John Baker my sole ? Executor of this my last will and testerment And all my goods and chattels whatsoever I give my Sonn John my Said Executor the which are not given not bequiathd ? my funeral expenses and all my debts ? ? ? ? whereof A setting my hand out the One and Twentieth Day of April In this yeare of our Lord God according to our English ? One Thousand, Six Hundred Fifty and Eight Sealed and Delivered in the presence of ? Clarles King the marks of William Huntingford.
This will was proved att London before the judges for probate of Wills and granting of ? lawfully authorised the nineteenth Day of april in the year of our Lord God One Thosand Six Hundred and Sixty by the oath of John Baker the sonne and Executor of all the goods, chattells and ? of the said ? to whom was ? ? ? being first swoene truly to ?
The following is from Bakers of Headley: This John married Elizabeth Harding (born in about 1585) in Headley on 3 September 1605, and they had at least two sons: Christopher (birth-date unknown) and Nicholas, baptized on 21 June 1607. Nicholas married Jane Jackson, and they had a son, another Nicholas, on 6 July 1640. I believe this entry to be refering to the wrong John Baker.
Relationship
Nicholas Baker was my eighth great grandfather.
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