Birth: 18 July 1887 Upper Highfield Farm Thursley, Surrey, UK
Father: Edward Baker 1842-1935
Mother: Maria Keen 1849-1940
Christening: 28 August 1887 St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 5 December 1921 St John, Forton, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Ethel Chivers 1898-1980
Death: 29 August 1976 Toadstools, Sandy Lane, Tilford, Surrey, UK
Audrey Ethel Baker [Gardner] 1922-2006
Jeffrey Thomas Baker 1923-2012
Birth of Thomas Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1887 in Hambledon (2a 134).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Thomas Baker baptised on 28 August 1887 in Thursley, Surrey, parents Edward and Maria Baker.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Thomas Baker on 28 August 1887 at Thursley, St Michael and All Angels, parents Edward and Maria Baker. "Page 95 Baptisms in the Parish of Thursley in the County of Surrey in the Year 1887 1887 Sug 28 No. 753 Thomas [parents] Edward [a] Farmer & Maria Baker [of] Upper Highfield Thursley".
In the 1891 census as Thomas Baker aged 3, born in Thursley, and living with his parents (Edward and Marian), brother (Edward) and seven sisters (Annie, Elizabeth, Emily, Fanny, Louisa, Maria and Sarah) at Upper Highfield Farm, Thursley, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Thomas Baker aged 13, born in Thursley and living with his parents (Edward and Maria), two brothers (Edward and John), and two sisters (Armie and Louisa) at Upper Highfield Farm, Thursley, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Thomas Baker aged 23, born at Highfield Farm, Thursley, Surrey, single, a farm hand, and living with his parents (Edward and Maria), brother (John) and two sisters (Annie and Louisa) in six rooms at Upper Highfield Farm, Thursley, Godalming, Surrey.
Two entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Thomas Baker address Highfield Farm, Thursley, Guildford in 1919 and 1920, other occupants John Baker (brother?), and Edward and Maria Baker (parents?) in 1920.
In the 1921 census as Thomas Baker born in Thursley, Surrey in 1888 and living in Thursley, Hambledon, Surrey.
Marriage of Thomas Baker and Ethel Chivers in FreeBMD in October-December 1921 in Alverstoke (2b 1415).
His daughter was born in Alverstoke in 1922 and son in Farnham in 1923.
Fourteen entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Thomas Baker addresses Highfield Farm, Thursley, Guildford in 1922 and 1924, other occupants Edward and Maria Baker (parents?) and John Baker (brother?), Highfield (note this is a different location to that up to 1924), Beacon Hill Road, Hindhead, Frensham to 1932, Hindhead and Churt from 1933, Farnham from 1927 to 1939, other occupant Ethel Baker (wife?) from 1928.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Thomas Baker born 18 July 1887, married, and a dairyman living with Ethel Baker (wife?), Jeffery F Baker (son?) and Emma Chivers (mother-in-law?) at Highfield Dairy, Beacon Hill Road, Haslemere, Surrey.
Fourteen entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Thomas Baker addresses Highfield Dairy, Beacon Hill Road, Hindhead and Churt Farnham from 1945 to 1948, other occupant Ethel Baker (wife?), and Toadstools, Sandy Lane, Tilford, Rushmoor, Frensham, Farnham from 1950 to 1962, other occupant Ethel Baker (wife?).
Death of Thomas Baker born on 18 July 1887, in FreeBMD in July-September 1976 in Surrey SW (17 1084).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Thomas Baker died 29 August 1976 in Tilford, Farnham, Surrey probate Winchester 6 October 1976. "Baker, Thomas of Toadstools Sandy La Tilford Farnham Sy died 29 August 1976 Probate Winchester 6 October £22430".
Georgina Mousdale has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Thomas (Tom) Baker born on 18 July 1887 at Upper Highfield Farm, Thursley, Surrey, parents Edward Baker and Maria Keen, a farmer in 1921 and dairyman in 1946, married to Ethel Chivers on 5 December 1921 at St. John's Church, Forton, Hampshire, two children and his death on 29 August 1976.
There are sixty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Thomas Baker. Jackie Baker has a photo of a delivery van painted with "Thomas Baker/Dairyman/Thursley" on the side.
The Forton where he married is part of Gosport, and not the Forton near Andover.
Thomas Baker was my half second cousin twice removed.
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