Birth: 1781 Tilford, Surrey, UK
Father: Edward Keen (Keene, Keens) 1753-1838
Mother: Sarah Knight 1757-1844
Christening: 27 January 1781 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 25 January 1810 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Richard Baker 1777-1849
Death: 25 January 1859 Spreakley, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Burial: 31 January 1859 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Richard Baker 1810-1886
Edward Baker 1811-1825
George Baker 1813-1888
Ann Baker 1814-1875
Frances Baker 1817-1879
James Baker 1819-1899
William Baker 1821-1896
Sarah Baker [Sturt] 1823-1905
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Frances Keen on 27 January 1781 at Frensham, St Mary, father Edward Keen. "1781 Frances Daughter of Edward Keen of Tilford Bapd January 27".
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Frances Keen and Richard Baker on 25 January 1810 in Headley, Hampshire.
Entry in Headley Marriages for Frances Keen of Headley, single, and Richard Baker on 25 January 1810, witnesses John Hunt, Sarah Keen and Mary Keen.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Frances Keen and Richard Baker on 25 January 1810 at Headley, All Saints. "Page 56 The Year 1810 No. 166} Richard Baker of this Parifh Widower & Frances Keen of the same Parish, Spinster Married in this Church by Licence this twenty fifth Day of January in the Year One Thoufand Eight Hundred and ten [both signed their names] in the Prefence of us John Hunt, Sarah Keen and Mary Keen".
In the 1841 census as Frances Baker aged 55 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Surrey, and living with Richard (husband) William (son?), and Ann, Frances and Sarah) at Upper West End, Frensham, Surrey. Her widowed mother was living separately at the same address.
Her husband died in Frensham in 1849.
In the 1851 census as Frances Baker aged 70, born in Headley, Hampshire, widowed, a farmer of 150 acres employing 12 labourers, and living with her son (James), three daughters (Ann, Frances and Sarah), a house servant (Lucy Wilkinson aged 16 and born in Farnham, Surrey), a shepherd (Stephen Croft aged 18 and born in Headley, Hampshire), and a farm Servant (George Hill aged 13 and born in Frensham, Surrey) at Spreakley, Frensham, Surrey.
Death of Frances Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1859 in Farnham (2a 5[58] - last digit could be 5 or 8).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Frances Baker on 31 January 1859 aged 78 at Frensham, St Mary. "Page 125 Burials in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1859 [...] Frances Baker No. 994, of Spreakley on Jan 31st aged 78".
Entry in Bakers of Headley for Richard Baker "1809 [...] on 25 January the following year he married Frances Keen (born c. 1780) at Headley. Richard and Frances had two children: Richard, born in September of that same year and Edward two years later. [...] Richard senior died on 14 October 1849, and Frances on 25 January 1859; both were buried in Frensham churchyard."
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Frances Keen born 1780, married to Richard Baker on 25 January 1810 in Headley, two children (Richard and Susan), died on 25 January 1810 in Headley and buried in Frensham, Churchyard, Surrey.
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frances Keen.
Frances Keen was the wife of Richard Baker, my third great granduncle.
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