Birth: 1837 Churt, Surrey, UK
Father: Thomas Baker 1797-1870
Mother: Sarah Levitt (Levett) [Colyer (Collyer)] 1800-1877
Christening: 29 March 1837 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: April-June 1866 Chelsea, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Rogers 1833-1885
Death: July-September 1873 Reading, Berkshire, UK
Elizabeth Fanny Baker 1867-a1881
William Baker c1869-a1881
Christening of William Baker in the IGI on 29 March 1837 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Thomas and Sarah Baker.
In the 1841 census as William Baker aged 4, born in Surrey and living with Thomas and Sarah (parents?), George, Richard and Thomas (bothers?), and Fanny and Hannah (sisters?) at Elstead, Surrey.
In the 1851 census as William Baker aged 16, born in Frensham, Surrey, employed as an assistant (grocer), and living with his brother Thomas, sister-in-law (Susan), nephew (Joseph), and a servant (Ann Watts aged 16 and born in Odiham) in the High Street, Odiham, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as William Baker aged 24, burn in Furnham, Surrey, unmarried, employed as an assistant baker and gocer, and living with Henry Fuller (aged 49, born in Grazeley, Berkshire and employed as a grocer and draper and also a baptist minister), his wife (Harriett M aged 54 and born in Reading), a family of visitors (Edward E Target aged 29, born in Sindlesham, Berkshire, and employed as a grocer and farmer, his wife Mary aged 27 and born in Ashampstead, their three children Edward F aged 7 months, Hariet aged 2 and John C aged 3 all born in Sindlesham), two other visitors (Carol Leach aged 14 and born in Caversham, Oxfordshire and Elizabeth White aged 15 and born in Sindlesham, both employed as nursemaids), an apprentice grocer and baker (George Ridge aged 17 and born in Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire) and a general house servant (Jane Wigley aged 19, born in Burghfield, Berkshire and single) in Ashampstead Street, Ashampstead, Berkshire.
Marriage of William Baker and Elizabeth Rogers in FreeBMD in April-June 1866 in Chelsea (1a 487).
Both children were born in Reading.
In the 1871 census as William Baker aged 34, born in Churt, Surrey, employed as a grocer and baker, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (William), daughter (Elizabeth F), two assistants (Fredrick Baker aged 20, born in Ilstead (sic - in the index, Elstead on the original - this was his nephew), Surrey, single and a baker and George Smith aged 18, Ashampstead, Berkshire, single and a grocer) and a general servant (Esther Bizzell aged 23, born in Aldworth, Berkshire, and single) at 28 Albion Street, St Giles, Reading.
Death of William Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1873 aged 36 in Reading (2c 210).
David Pink has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Baker born on 29 March 1837 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Thomas Baker and Susan Levett. Ron Baker has an entry fior his baptism on 29 March 1837, parents Thomas Baker and Susan Levett, and the 1841 and 1851 census entries.
William Baker was my half first cousin three times removed.
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