Priscilla Baker (1840-1935)


Dates

Birth: January 1840 Churt, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: John Baker 1793-1879
Mother: Mary Moorey 1807-1869

Christening: 12 January 1840 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK

Marriage: Not married

Death: October-December 1935 Croydon, Surrey, UK

Notes

There are two entries in FreeBMD for the birth of Priscilla Baker in January-March 1840 in Farnham (4 ? and 4 125).

Christening of Priscilla Baker in the IGI on 12 January 1840 in Frensham, Surrey, parents John and Mary Baker.

In the 1841 census as Priscilla Baker aged 1, born in Surrey, and living with John and Mary (parents?), John, Joseph, and Stephen (brothers?), Angelina, Ellen, Emily and Maria (sisters?), two male servants (William Backurst aged 15 and born in Surrey and Richard Marshall aged 15 and not born in Surrey) and two female sevants (Ann Cole aged 14 and born in Surrey and Charlotte Marshall aged 20 and not born in Surrey) and Mary Cook (aged 55 and born in Surrey) in Lower Churt, Farnham, Surrey.

In the 1851 census as Priscille (sic - on the original) Baker aged 11, born in Frensham, Surrey and living with her parents (John and Mary), four brothers (Albert, Joseph, Seller and Stephen), and six sisters (Clara, Ellen, Emley, Kate A, Maria and Matilda), a visitor (Angelina Mary aged 19, born in Richmond, Surrey, single and no stated employment) and a servant (George Glaysher aged 22, born in Headley, Hampshire, single and an agricultural labourer) in Lower Churt, Frensham, Surrey.

In the 1861 census as Prisille (sic - on the original) Baker aged 21, born in Frensham, Surrey, single, a dress maker and living with her parents (John and Mary), five brothers (Albert, Joseph , Maurice, Selbe and Stephen), and three sisters (Clare, Kate and Metilda) in Churt, Frensham, Surrey.

In the 1871 census as Pricilla (sic - in the index, Priscilla on the original) Baker (aged 33, born in Chute, Surrey, single, and a nurse), and living with Allan Wiggett (aged 36, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and a magistrate), his wife (Caroline F Wiggett aged 33 and born in Belgrave, London), son (Henry Edward Alan aged 2 and born in Binfield), two daughters (Mary Caroline aged 7 and Glad Henrietta aged 5, both born in Binfield), and four other servants ( Lucy Wakefield, aged 29, born in Beedon, Berkshire and a cook, Eliza Elliott aged 26, born in Newbury, Berkshire and a housemaid, Mary Ann Weston aged 19, born in Glympton, Oxfordshire and an undernurse, and William Baker aged 21, born in Aston, Oxfordshire and a footman, all single) at the Wigwam (private house), Binfield, Berkshire.

In the 1881 census as Priscilla Baker aged 39, born in Churt, Surrey, single, a housekeeper and a visitor with Albert Smith (her brother-in-law), Matilda M (sister), nephew (George), and neice (Kate) at the Grocer's Shop, Seale, Surrey.

In the 1891 census as P (sic - on the original) Baker aged 49, born in Frensham, Surrey, single, a ladies maid, and living with James A Wiggett (aged 56, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and living on his own means) his wife (C F aged 53 and born in London), son (M E aged 22, born in Binfield, single and an electrical engineer), daughter (Mary C aged 27, born in Binfield, single and no stated employment), a visitor (Z Wiggett aged 65, born in Rottingdean, Sussex, single and no stated employment) and six other servants (Mary Williams aged 44, born in Gloucestershire and a cook, Harriett Burnett aged 24, born in Bristol and a palour maid, S Roy aged 22, born in Hurstbourne, Hampshire and a house maid, E Harris aged 21, born in Englefield, Berkshire and a house maid, J Mathews aged 17, born in Bracknell, Berkshire and a kitchen maid, and Alice Lucas aged 34, born in D'Byley, France and a ladies maid, all single) at Allanbay Park, Binfield, Berkshire.

In the 1901 census as Princella Bake (sic - in the index, Priscella Baker on the original) aged 59, born in Frensham, Hampshire, single, a ladies maid, and living with James A Wiggett (aged 67, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and a land owner), his wife (Caroline F aged 62 and born in London), daughter (Mary C aged 35, born in Binfield, single and no stated employment), and five other servants (Mary Woodman aged 38, born in Binfield and a cook, Ellen Smith aged 30, born in Silelerton, Berkshire and a palour maid, Annie Smith aged 27, born in London and a house maid, Kate West aged 18, born in Chelsea, Berkshire and a house maid, Mona Hollway aged 16, born in Bracknell, Berkshire and a kitchen maid, all single) at Allanbay, Binfield, Berkshire.

In the 1911 census as Priscilla Bake (sic) aged 70, born in Surrey and living in Easthampstead, Berkshire (note this included Binfield).

Death of Priscilla Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1935 aged 95 in Croydon (2a 621).

In Bakers of Headley it states John’s seventh child, Priscilla, was born in Churt in about 1841. In 1881 she was recorded as unmarried, visiting the Smith family, grocers in Seale; her occupation was ‘housekeeper’.

Susan F Belsey has an entry for Priscilla Baker, baptised in January 1840, daughter of John Baker and Mary Moorey, who died in 1915.

Relationship

Priscilla Baker was my half first cousin three times removed.

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