Birth: April-June 1855 Cross End, Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, UK
Father: John Clarke (Clark) 1811-1879
Mother: Jane France c1816-1881/91
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 22 January 1876 St Michael, Yorktown, Surrey, UK
Husband: Thomas Baker 1851-1924
Death: 5 May 1932 Farnham Infirmary, Farnham, Surrey, UK
Burial: 9 May 1932 Section 11, Plot 3, Row 10, Grave 8, St Michael, Yorktown, Surrey, UK
Emily Jane Baker [Seaby] 1878
Bessie Catherine Baker 1881
Thomas Edward Baker 1883-1976
Florence May Baker 1884
Minnie Edith Baker 1885
Alexander Baker 1887
Alice Adeline Baker [Croucher] 1888-a1968
Gertrude Baker 1890
Another child who died before 1911
Birth of Betsey Clarke in FreeBMD in April-June 1855 in Newport P (3A 423).
In the 1861 census as Betsey Clark (sic - on the original) aged 5, born in Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, and living with her parents (John and Jane), brother (Edward) and four sisters (Catherine, Harriett, Mary and Sarah) at Cross End, Wavendon, Buckinghamshire.
In the 1871 census as Betsy (sic - on the original) Clarke aged 15, born in Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, a lace maker, and living with her parents (John and Jane) at Cross End, Wavendon, Buckinghamshire.
Marriage of Betsey Clarke and Thomas Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1876 in Farnham (2A 151).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for Betsey Clarke aged 20, father John Clarke, and Thomas Baker aged 24, father Aaron Baker, on 22 January 1876 at Camberley, St Michael, Frimley. "Page 58 1876 Marriage solemnized at Yorktown Church in the Parish of Frimley in the County of Surrey. No. 115 January 22nd Thomas Baker [aged] 24 [a] Bachelor [and] Waiter [of] Yorktown [father] Aaron Baker [a] Labourer, [and] Betsey Clarke [aged] 20 [a] Spinster [of] Yorktown [father] John Clarke [a] Labourer. Married in the Church of Yorktown according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns".
Her daughter was registered in January-March 1878 in Farnham.
In the 1881 census as Betsey Baker aged 25, born in Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, and living with her husband (Thomas) and daughter (Emily J) at 11 Park Road, Camberley, Frimley, Surrey.
Her daughter was registered in July-September 1881, son in April-June 1883, two daughters in July-September 1884 and October-December 1885, son in April-June 1887, daughter in October-December 1888, and two daughters in October-December 1888 and April-June 1890, all in Farnham, the family living in Prince's Street Camberley in 1886 and in Gordon Road, Camberley from 1887 from her husband's entries in the Electoral Registers. The 1911 census indicates another unknown child.
In the 1891 census as Betsy Baker aged 35, born in Naiendon (sic - in the index, Wavendon on the orignal), Buckinghamshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), two sons (Alexander and Thomas) and six daughters (Alice A, Bossie C, Emily J, Gertrude, Florence M and Minnie E) in Gordon Road, Frimley, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Betsy Baker aged 47, born in Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), son (Alexander) and two daughters (Alice and Gertrude) in Gordon Road, Frimley, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Betsy Baker aged 55, born in Warendsey, Buckinghamshire, married for 35 years with nine children, one having died, and living with her husband (Thomas), grandson (Richard Thomas Leaby) and a boarder (Florence Amelia Hamsher aged 47, born in Marylebone, London, single and a dressmaker working on her own account at home) at Worldham Cottage, Gordon Road, Camberley, Surrey.
There are three entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Betsey Baker address Worldham, Gordon Road, Frimley, Farnham from 1919 to 1921, other occupant Thomas Baker (husband?).
In the 1921 census as Betsy Baker aged 66 years 1 month, born in Wavendon (not indexed), Buckinghamshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), daughter (Alice Adeline) and a boarder (Florence Macdonald aged 51 years 10 months, born in Waterloo, Lancashire, single, and a superintendent of a girls club YWCA in Park Street, Camberley) in five rooms at Worldham, Gordon Road, Camberley, Surrey.
There are three entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Betsey Baker address 70 Gordon Road, Frimley, Farnham from 1922 to 1924, other occupant Thomas Baker (husband?).
Her husband died on 3 October 1924 at Worldham, Gordon Road, Camberley Surrey, and left effects of £:536 12s. 2d. to Betsey Baker widow.
There are eight entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Betsey Baker address 70 Gordon Road, Frimley, Farnham from 1925 to 1932, other occupants Thomas Edward and Hettie Baker (son and daughter-in-law) from 1926 and Henrietta Roberts from 1930.
Death of Betsey Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1932 aged 76 in Farnham (2A 230).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Betsey Baker on 9 May 1932 aged 76 at Yorktown, St Michael. "Page 15 Burial in the Parish of Yorktown in the Diocese of Guildford and County of Surrey in the Year 1932 [...] Betsey Baker No. 118 [of] Gordon Road [on] May 9th 1932 [aged] 76 yrs. Certified under Act 43-44 Vic Chap 41". The burial was performed by the undertaker instead of by a church official.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Betsy Baker died 5 May 1932 in Surrey, probate 11 Jun 1932 in Birmingham. "Baker Betsy otherwise Betsey of Worldham 70 Gordon-road Camberley Surrey widow died 5 May 1932 at the Infirmary Farnham, Surrey Probate Birmingham 11 June to Betsey Baker Emily Jane Seaby (wife of Frank Richard Seaby). Effects £65 13s. 3d."
Entry in Find a Grave for Betsey Clarke Baker born in Wavendon, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in 1855, husband Thomas Baker, son Thomas Edward Baker, died 5 May 1932 in Farnham, Waverley, Surrey and buried in Section 11, Plot 3, Row 10, Grave 8, St Michael's, Camberley, Surrey Heath, Surrey. Betsey Baker (nee Clarke) was born in Wavendon in Buckinghamshire in 1855 the daughter of John Clarke and his wife Jane (formerly France). Her father was a farm labourer. In 1861 they were living in Fenny Stratford. Her mother was a lace-maker. In 1871 they were still living in Fenny Stratford. Betsey was helping her mother as a lace-maker. Betsey married Thomas Baker at St Michael's in Camberley on the 22nd of January 1876. They had at least eight children. He was working as a waiter most likely at the Royal Military Academy (now the RMA) or the Staff College. Initially they lived at Park Street but by 1891 Thomas was working as a Butler and living at a cottage in Gordon Road which he named Worldham after his birthplace. Thomas died on the 3rd of October 1924 and was buried at Camberley. Betsey died at Farnham Infirmary on the 5th of May 1932 and was buried at Camberley on the 9th of May.
Betsey Clarke was the mother of Alice Adeline Baker, wife of Leonard Croucher, grandnephew of Edmund Croucher, husband of Eliza Othen, sister of Moses Othen, husband of Ellen Shrubb, my first cousin three times removed.
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