Birth: 1840 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: Richard Baker 1810-1886
Mother: Mary Loveland 1815-1869
Christening: 29 November 1840 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: January-March 1874 Kensington, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Emma Westby 1838-1911
Death: April-June 1887 St Saviour, Surrey, UK
George Westby Baker 1875-1894
Birth of Richard Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1840 in Farnham (4 120).
Christening of Richard Baker in the IGI on 29 November 1840 at Frensham, Surrey, parents Richard Baker and Mary. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for Richard Baker baptised on 29 November 1840 at Frensham St Mary the Virgin, Surrey, parents Richard and Mary Baker. "Page [blank] Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1840. [...] 18 Novr 29th No. Richard, [parents] Richard, [a] labourer, & Mary Baker [of] Frensham".
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Richard Baker baptised on 29 November 1841 (sic) at Frensham St Mary, parents Richard and Mary Baker. "Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1841 (sic - however the previous page which appears to be in the same year is labelled 1840) [...] Novr 29th No. 1134 Richard, son of Richard, [a] labourer, & Mary Baker [of] Frensham".
In the 1841 census as Richard Baker aged 7 months, born in Surrey, and living with Richard and Mary (parents?), Fanny and Martha (sisters?), Henry Moor aged 35 and Ann Sarley aged 15 in Lower Churt (next property is Squirrels House so it may have been Hale House), Frensham, Farnham, Surrey.
In the 1851 census as Richard Baker aged 10, born in Frensham, and living with his parents (Richard and Mary), three brothers (James, John and William), three sisters (Fanny, Jane and Martha) three servants (Hannah Court aged 23, John Moorey aged 21 and William Moorey, all born in Thursley, Surrey and single), and a visitor (Phebe Woods aged 49, born in Frensham, Surrey, and married with no stated employment) at Emley Farm (west of Rutton Hill RoadThursby (sic), Surrey.
His mother died in Shalford in 1860.
In the 1861 census as Richard Baker aged 19, born in Frenchham (sic - on the orginal), Surrey, single, a worker on the farm and living with his widowed father (Richard), four brothers (Fredrick, James, John and William), two sisters (Jane and Mary), cousin (Mary Ann Baker), aunt? (Eliza Loveland), and a servant (Mary Smithers aged 18, born in Thursley, Surrey and single) in Chinthurst Lane, Shalford, Surrey.
In the 1871 census as Richard Baker aged 31, born in Trimdon (sic - original illegible), Surrey, single, a porter and boarding with Robert Randall (aged 42, born in Islington, Middlesex and a baker) and his wife (Elizabeth aged 31 and born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire) at 38 Agnes Street, Lambeth, London.
Marriage of Richard Baker and Emma Westby in FreeBMD in January-March 1873 in Kensington (1a 129).
His son was born in St Saviour in 1875.
Entry in 1881 census for Richard Baker aged 40, born in Frincham (sic), Surrey, employed as a railway porter and living with his wife (Emma) and son (George W) at P Block, Peabody Square, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, Surrey.
Death of Richard Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1887 aged 46 in St Saviour (1d 52).
Baker's of Headley states Richard’s fourth child, Richard, was baptized in Frensham on 29 November 1840. The following year he was living with his parents and Martha & Fanny at Lower Churt, and ten years later was with the family at Emly Farm, Thursley, a ‘scholar’. In 1861 he was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as “working on the farm”. He married Emma (surname unknown); they moved to Southwark and had at least one child there: George W, born in 1874/5. In 1881 the family was living at “P Block” in Peabody Square, Blackfriars Road; Richard was working as a railway porter.
There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Richard Baker.
Richard Baker was my second cousin three times removed.
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