Mary Helen Baker (1872-1937)


Dates

Birth: April 1872 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: Henry Baker 1819-1887
Mother: Priscilla Ann Waterman [Poulton] 1828-1912

Christening: 28 April 1872 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK

Marriage: Not married

Death: July-September 1937 Sleaford, East Sussex, UK

Children

Believed none

Notes

Birth of Mary Helen Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1872 in Farnham (2a 105).

Christening of Mary Helen Baker in the IGI on 28 April 1872 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Henry and Priscilla Baker.

In the 1881 census as Helen M Baker aged 9, born in Frensham, Surrey, and livng with her parents (Henry and Priscilla A), brother (Harry J), half-sister (Kate Poulton), and a visitor (Mary Nash aged 75, born in London, Middlesex, widowed and an annuitant) at Elan Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.

Her father died in 1887.

I cannot find her in the 1891 census but she was not living with her mother.

In the 1901 census as Mary Helen Baker aged 27, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, single and a surveyor employed by her brother, and living with her widowed mother (Priscilla), brother (Harry John), (half)sister (Kate Poulton), nephew (Charles John Leslie), and a servant (Minnie Mullard aged 15 and born in Churt, Surrey) at Elm Cottage, Frensham, Surrey.

In the 1911 census as Mary Helen Baker aged 37 and living with Priscilla (mother?) and Harry John (brother?) in Farnham, Surrey.

Her mother died in Farnham in 1912.

Death of Mary H Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1937 aged 66 in Sleaford (7a 408).

Bakers of Headley states Henry’s second child, Helen M, was born in about 1871. In 1881 she was living with her family at Elan Cottage in Frensham. Nothing further is known of her.

Susan F Belsey has an entry for Helen M Baker, daughter of Henry and Priscilla Ann Baker, born about 1872 in Frensham, Surrey, and died after 1881.

Relationship

Mary Helen Baker was my second cousin three times removed.

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