Birth: 26 April 1844 Horsham, Sussex, UK
Father: John Charman 1812-1885
Mother: Jane Moore 1809-a1853
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 24 December 1871 St Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex, UK
Husband: John Baker 1842-1904
Death: April-June 1923 Croydon, Surrey, UK
Harry Ernest Richard Baker 1873-1916
Edward John Baker 1875-a1891
Margaret Moore Baker [Walker, Warren] 1877-1951
James Frederick (Frederich) William Baker 1879-1948
Martha Florence Baker [Hide] 1882-1950
Frank Baker 1885-1924
Lilian Elizabeth Baker 1887-1944
Birth of Female Charman in FreeBMD in April-June 1844 in Horsham (7 380).
In the 1851 census as Margaret Charman aged 7, born in Horsham, Sussex, and living with her parents (John and Jane), two brothers (George and James), and three sisters (Ann, Jane and Mary) at Tollgate House, Ifield, Sussex.
In the 1861 census as Margaret Charman aged 17, born in Sussex, single, a palour maid, and living with her uncle and aunt (Thomas and Sarah Moore), and a servant (Louisa Grinyer aged 14, and born in Brighton, Sussex) at 12 Bedford Street, Kemp Town, Brighton, Sussex. Two other families lived at the same address, one in the dining room and the other in the drawing room.
In the 1871 census as Margaret Channer (sic - in the index, Charman on the original) aged 28, born in Horsham, Surrey (sic - in the index, Sussex on the original), single, and a housemaid living with Henrietta Bencoke aged 63, born in Frankport (Frankfurt) and a merchants widow), her family, and four other servants in Upper Denmark Road, Briston, Lambeth St Mary, Surrey. (Much illegible).
Marriage of Margaret Charman and John Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1871 in Whitechapel (1c 963).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Margaret Charman, father John Charman, and John Baker on 24 December 1871 at St. Mary's Church, Whitechapel, Middlesex,
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Margaret Charman, father John Charman, and John Baker, father Richard Baker, on 24 December 1871 at Whitechapel St Mary, Tower Hamlets. "Page 117 1871 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St Mary Whitechapel in the County of Middlesex [No.] 233 Decr 24th 1871 John Baker [of] full [age], [a] Bachelor [and] Colourman [of] Whitechapel, [father] Richard Baker, [a] Farmer, [and] Margaret Charman [of] full [age], [a] spinster of Whitechapel, [father] John Charman, [a] Road Surveyor. Married in the Parish Church accoding to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns."
Her three sons and daughter were born in Prospect Place in 1873 to 1880.
In the 1881 census as Margaret Baker aged 37, born in Horsham, Sussex, and living with her husband (John), three sons (Edward, Harry and James) and daughter (Margaret) at 5 Prospect Place, Greenwich, London.
Her daughter was born in Prospect Place in 1883, son in Greenwich in 1885, and daughter in Croydon in 1887.
In the 1891 census as Margaret Baker aged 47, born in Horsham, Sussex, and living with her husband (John), four sons (Edward, Frank, Harry and James) and three daughters (Florence, Lilian and Margaret) in three rooms at 20 Forster Road, Croydon, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Margaret Baker aged 57, born in Horsham, Sussex, and living with her husband (John), son (Frank) and three daughters (Florence, Lillian E and Margaret M) in four rooms at 14 Addelaide Street, Croydon, Surrey.
Her husband died in Croydon in 1904.
In the 1911 census as Margaret Baker aged 67, born in Horsham, Sussex, widowed, no stated employment, and boarding with her son-in-law and daughter (Herbert and Florence Hide) in five rooms at 21 Edward Road, Croydon.
Death of Margaret Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1923 aged 79 in Croydon ( 2a 300).
There are twenrty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees Trees for Margaret Charman adding her birth on 26 April 1844.
Margaret Charman was the wife of John Baker, my second cousin three times removed.
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