Sarah Craft [Baker] (1782-1848)


Dates

Birth: 1782
Father: John Craft (Crawt) c1752-1841
Mother: See below

Christening: 24 April 1782 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK

Marriage: 10 June 1802 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Husband: John Baker 1760-1836

Death: April-June 1848 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Burial: 1848 Frensham, Surrey, UK

Children

Mary Baker [Grover] 1803-1846
Sarah Baker [Boxall] 1804-a1841
Edward Baker 1805-1884
Ann Baker 1806-1859
Richard Baker 1808-1809
Elizabeth Baker 1809
Hannah Baker 1811
Eliza Baker c1813-a1830
Jane Baker 1814
James Baker 1817
Caroline Baker 1820-a1841
Samuel Baker 1822-1842
Andrew Baker 1825-1848

Notes

Christening of Sarah Craft in West Surrey Family History Society Frensham Baptisms on 24 April 1782 father John Craft of Churt. I am not sure who her mother was - there are two possible marriages for John Craft - to Elizabeth Radford on 18 November 1773 and Mary Borer on 23 November 1780, but I cannot find any entries for their deaths.

There is an entry in West Surrey Family History Society West Surrey Marriages in Frensham for Sarah Craft of this parish and John Baker of this parish on 10 June 1802 by banns. There are two entries in the IGI for the marriage of Sarah Craft and John Baker, both in Frensham, on 4 June 1802 and 10 June 1802.

Her husband died in 1836

In the 1841 census aged 55 (on the original, rounded down to a multiple of 5, but given as 5 in the index), born in Surrey, no stated employment, and living with Ann and Caroline (daughters? - Caroline's age is 4 years too old) in the tything of Churt, Farnham, Surrey.

There is an entry in West Surrey Family History Society West Surrey Burials for Sarah Baker at Frensham in 1848 aged 71 which puts her birth in 1777. There is an entry in FreeBMD for the death of Sarah Baker in April-June 1848 in Farnham (4 116).

From Bakers of Headley: On 10 June 1802 John married Sarah Craft in Frensham. John & Sarah had six children: Mary in 1803, Sarah in 1804, Edward in 1805, Ann in 1806, Richard in 1808 and Elizabeth in 1809. John died in 1836 and was buried at Frensham on 23 June; Sarah died (or had died) that same year. This conflicts with the above.

Relationship

Sarah Craft was my third great grandmother.

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