Alfred Baker (1838-1892)


Dates

Birth: 1838 Churt, Surrey, UK
Father: Edward Baker 1805-1884
Mother: Hester (Esther) Hall 1814-1857

Christening: 25 March 1838 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK

Marriage: Not married

Death: January-March 1892 Churt, Surrey, UK

Children

None

Notes

Christening of Alfred Baker in IGI on 25 March 1838 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Edward and Hester Baker. The same information is in the West Surrey Family History Society Frensham Baptisms except his mother's name is spelt Esther. The birth does not appear to have been registered.

In the 1841 census as Alfred Baker, aged 3, born in Surrey and living with Edward and Esther (parents?), Edwin (brother?) and Elizabeth (sister?) in Lower Churt (next property is in Cross Water), Farnham, Surrey.

In the 1851 census as as Andrew Baker (sic - on the original) aged 13, born in Frensham and living with his parents (Edward and Esther), brother (Albert (sic - should be Andrew), two sisters (Ann and Esther (sic - should be Elizabeth)) at Lower Churt, Frensham.

His mother died in 1857

In the 1861 census as Alfred Baker aged 22, born in Frensham, employed as an agricultural labourer, single, and living with his widowed father (Edward) and brother (Andrew) in Churt, Frensham.

In the 1871 census as Alfred Baker aged 32, born in Chuton (sic - in the index, Churt on the original), unmarried, employed as a labourer, and living with his widowed father (Edward) at Red Herne, Churt.

In the 1881 census as Alfred Baker aged 42, born in Churt, unmarried, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his widowed father (Edward) at Red Herne, Frensham (actually in Churt).

In the 1891 census as Alfred Baker aged 52, born in Churt, single, employed as an agricultual labourer, and living with an Elizabeth Baker at Red Hearn Green, Churt. Elizabeth is apparently unrelated, aged 51, born in Farnham, single, and employed as a housekeeper.

Death of Alfred Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1892 aged 57 in Farnham (2a 126).

In The Bakers of Headley it states that Edward’s third child, Alfred, was born on 25 March 1838. In 1881 he was still unmarried, living at Red Herne in Frensham with his father and working as an agricultural labourer.

Relationship

Alfred Baker was my great granduncle.

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