Birth: Circa 1848 Shottermill, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: Edward Dunce (Duntze) 1811/12-1889
Mother: Hannah Bookham c1813-1886
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 16 June 1867 St Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Husband: Albert Baker 1846-1926
Death: October-December 1933 Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, UK
Angelina Baker [Cranham] 1868-1942
Edwin John Baker 1869-1907
Matilda Kate Baker 1870-a1891
Emily Baker [Sims (Syms)] 1873-1958
Ellen Baker 1874-a1901
Maurice Baker 1877-1969
Mary Anne Baker [Shipp] 1880-1965
Albert Edward Baker 1884-1951
Edith Ethel Baker [Baker] 1890-1981
Another unknown child died before 1911
I cannot find an entry for her registration of birth.
In the 1851 census as Mary Anne Dundy (sic - in the index) aged 3, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her parents (Edwards and Hannah), five brothers (Edwin, George, John, Thomas and William) and a sister (Caroline) at Shottermills, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1861 census as Mary Ann Rumee (sic - in the index, Dunce on the original) aged 13, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her parents (Edward and Hannah), three brothers (Edwin, George and John), four sisters (Caroline, Charlotte, Eliza and Emily), and grandfather (Richard) at Lion Green, Frensham (in Pitfold, Shottermill).
Marriage of Mary Ann Dunce and Albert Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1867 in Guildford (2a 76).
Marriage of Mary Ann Dunce and Albert Baker in the IGI on 16 June 1867 at Saint Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Mary Ann Dance (sic) aged 20, father Edward Dance, and Albert Baker on 16 June 1867 at Guildford, St Nicholas. " Page 181 [...] Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St Nicholas Guilford in the County of Surrey. No. 362 June 16th Albert Baker aged 21, a Bachelor and Farmer of S. Nicholas, father John Baker, a Farmer, and Mary Ann Dunce aged 20, a Spinster of S. Nicholas, father Edward Dunce, a Miller. Married in the Parish Church after Banns according to the Rites and Ceremonies f the Church of England [...] in the Presence of us John ? and Ellen Dunce".
The first three children were christened in Linchmere, Sussex.
In the 1871 census as Mary Ann Baker aged 23, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with hher husband (Albert), son (Edwin J) and two daughters (Angelina and Matilda Kate) at Clay Hill, Thursley, Surrey. This was near Haslemere railway station. Haslemere parish was extremely small and Thursley curled round it on the west.
The family lived in Shottermill until 1877 but had moved to Farnham from the birth of Mary Ann in 1880.
In the 1881 census as Mary A Baker aged 33, born in Haslemere, Surrey, and living with her husband (Albert), two sons (Edwin J and Maurice ) and five daughters (Angelina, Ellen, Emily, Mary A and Matilda K) at 5 Blount Cottages, Union Road, Farnham, Surrey.
Albert was born in Frensham in 1884 and Ethel in Richmond in 1890.
I cannot find the family in the 1891 census.
In the 1901 census as Mary Ann Baker, aged 54, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her husband (Albert), three sons (Albert E, Edwin John and Maurue) and three daughters (Edith E, Emily and Mary Ann) at 20 Crown Terrace, Richmond, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Mary Ann Baker aged 63, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her husband (Albert) and granddaughter (Doris Syms) in five rooms at 20 Crown Terrace, Richmond, Surrey.
Her husband died in Richmond in 1926.
Death of Mary A Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1933 aged 86 in Richmond (2a 693).
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Mary Ann Dunce born in Frensham in two, Haslemere in one, Surrey in 1848, parents Edward Dunce and Hannah Bookham, her marriage to Albert Baker on 16 June 1867 at Guildford St Nicholas, her children, and her death in Richmond in 1933.
Shottermill was a Chapelry in Frensham Parish - Shottermill Part 2 1730 to Early 20th Century by Greta A Turner 2005 ISBN 1-873855-40-0 has some information about the Dunce family.
Mary Ann Dunce was the wife of Albert Baker, my half first cousin three times removed.
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