Birth: 1819 Simmonstone, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: George Baker 1774-1851
Mother: Anne (Ann) Swann c1782-1841
Christening: 4 April 1819 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: 28 November 1867 Hale, Farnham, Surrey
Wife: Priscilla Ann Waterman [Poulton] 1828-1912
Death: 28 September 1887 Frensham, Hampshire, UK
Buried: St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK 1887
Harry John Baker 1869-1940
Mary Helen Baker 1872-1937
Christening of George Baker in the IGI on 4 April 1819 in Headley, Hampshire, parents George and Anne Baker.
The same information is in Headley Baptisms adding his father was a farmer at Simmonstone, but spelling his mother's name Ann.
In the 1841 census as Henry Baker aged 20, born in Hampshire, employed as a farmer and living with George and Ann (parents?), Robert (brother?) and Sarah (sister?) at Simmondstone, Headley (Frensham Pond Hotel/White Horse is the next property). His brother? John and a male and female servant are shown living separately at the same address.
His mother died just after the 1841 census.
In the 1851 census as Henry Baker aged 31, born in Headley, single, no stated employment, and living with his widowed father (George), brother (William), sister (Sarah), nephew (Albert - son of William), a visitor (John Baker aged 40, born in Headley, unmarried and a farmer of 49 acres employing three labourers - brother?), and two servants (William Mills aged 23, unmarried and employed as an agricultural labourer and Martha Shrube (sic - Shrub on the original) at Simmondstone, Headley.
In the 1861 census as Henry Baker aged 41, born in Headley, Hampshire, and living with his brother (William), his sister (Marry), nephew (Albert - son of William) and two servants (Mark Barrnett aged 18 and Agmes Hunt aged 19, both born in Headley, Hampshire) in Headley, Hampshire.
Marriage of Henry Baker and Priscilla Poulton in FreeBMD in October-December 1867 in Farnham (2a 129).
Marriage of Henry Baker, father George Baker, and Priscilla Poulton, father Charles Waterman, in the IGI on 28 November 1867 in Hale, Surrey.
His son was born in Aldershot in 1869.
In the 1871 census as Henry Baker aged 52, born in Headley, Hampshire, a (farm) bailiff, and living with his wife (Priscilla), son (Harry J) and (step)daughter (Alice Poutta) at Bailiffs Cotage, Aldershot Park, Aldershot, Hampshire.
His daughter was born in Frensham in 1872.
In the 1881 census as Henry Baker aged 62, born in Headley, Hampshire, a surveyor and assistant overseer, and livng with his wife (Priscilla A), son (Harry J), daughter (Helen M), daughter-in-law (Kate Poulton - step-daughter) , and a visitor (Mary Nash aged 75, born in London, Middlesex, widowed and an annuitant) at Elm Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.
Death of Henry Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1887 aged 68 in Farnham (2a 77).
In Baker's of Headley it states George’s ninth child, Henry, was born in Headley in about 1819. Both 1841 and ’51 censuses record him, unmarried, at Simmondstone Farm. He married Priscilla Ann (surname unknown), by whom he had two children: Harry John in about 1862 and Helen M in about 1871. In 1881 he was living at Elm Cottage, Frensham with his family and twenty-two year old unmarried ‘daughter-in-law’ Kate Poulton – presumably Harry’s fiancée. He was working as a “surveyor and assistant overseer”. He died on 28 September 1887, and was buried at Frensham. Priscilla died on 12 February 1912 and was buried with her husband. (Kate was his step-daughter, and neither Harry nor Kate married).
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Henry Baker born in 1820 in Headley, Hampshire, son of George Baker and Anne Swann, may be baptised on 4 April 1819, living at Elm Cottage, Frensham and a Surveyor & Assistant Overseer but also at Simmondstone Farm, his son and daughter, his death on 28 September 1887 in Frensham, Surrey and burial at Frensham Parish Church.
Henry Baker was my first cousin four times removed
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