Thomas Baker (1887-1976)


Dates

Birth: 18 July 1887 Upper Highfield Farm Thursley, Surrey, UK
Father: Edward Baker 1842-1935
Mother: Maria Keen 1849-1940

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 5 December 1921 St John, Forton, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Ethel Chivers 1898-1980

Death: 29 August 1976 SW Surrey, UK

Children

Audrey Ethel Baker [Gardner] 1922-2006
Jeffrey Thomas Baker 1923-a1946

Notes

Birth of Thomas Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1887 in Hambledon (2a 134) which included 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 and living with (Edward and Maria (parents?), John (brother?) and Annie and Louisa (sisters?) in Hambledon, Surrey.

Marriage of Thomas Baker and Ethel Chivers in FreeBMD in October-December 1921 in Alverstoke (2b 1415).

Audrey was born in Alverstoke and Jeffrey in Farnham.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Thomas Baker born on 18 July 1887, in Surrey SW (17 1084) in July-September 1976.

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.

David Pink has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Thomas Baker born in 1888 in Thursley, Surrey, parents Edward Baker and Maria Keen. Ron Baker has similar information adding the 1891 and 1901 censuses.

The Forton where he married is part of Gosport, and not the Forton near Andover.

Relationship

Thomas Baker was my half second cousin twice removed.

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