Birth: January-March 1868 The (Old) Post Office, Churt, Surrey, UK
Father: Thomas Martin 1841-1908
Mother: Ann Over 1842-1920
Christening: 16 February 1868 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: October-December 1892 Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Husband: George Baker 1869-1956
Death: 26 September 1926 Bandera, Sandy Lane, Churt, Surrey, UK
Burial: 4 October 1926 St John the Evanelist, Churt, Surrey, UK
Martin Hervey Baker 1893-1895
George Frederick Baker 1896-1988
Bernard Baker 1898-1964
Sylvia Kathleen Baker [Gurling, Tyrrell] 1905-2000
Birth of Sarah Ann Martin in FreeBMD in January-March 1868 in Farnham (2A 100). Her father ran the (Old) Post Office from 1867 according to a directory (A Time of Change, Gillian Devine, 2005, p60).
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Sarah Ann Martin baptised 16 February 1868 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Thomas and Ann Martin.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Sarah Ann Marker (sic) baptised 16 February 1868 at Frensham St Mary, parents Thomas and Ann Marker. "Page 87 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of [blank in the Year 1868 [...] 1868 Feby 16th No. 694 Sarah Ann [parents] Thomas [a] Bricklayer & Ann Martin [of] Churt".
In the 1871 census as Ann Martin aged 3, born in Churton (sic - in the index, Churt on the origin), Surrey, and living with her parents (Thomas and Anne), two brothers (George and Thomas) and sister (Minnie) in Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Sarah A Martin aged 12, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her parents (Thomas and Ann), five brothers (Frank, Frederick C, George, Thomas and Walter) and three sisters (Mary E, Minnie and Selina K) at the Post Office, Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
I cannot locate her in the 1891 census but she was not living with her parents.
Marriage of Sarah Ann Martin and George Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1892 in Brighton (2b 496).
Her first son was born in Brighton in April-June 1893 and second in Fulham on 12 March 1896
Her third son was christened at St John, Worlds End in 1898 when they lived at 29 Tadeani? Road.
In the 1901 census as Sarah A Baker aged 33, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her husband (George), and two sons (Bernard and George F) in three rooms at Beltran Road, South Fulham, London. Another family were living at the same address.
Her daughter was christened at St Matthew, Fulham on 12 July 1905 when they lived at 60 Beltran Road.
In the 1911 census as Sarah Ann Baker aged 43, born in Ham (sic - in the index, Frensham on the original), Surrey, married for 18 years with four children, one having died, a dressmaker working on her own account at home, and living with her husband (George), two sons (Bernard and George) and daughter (Sylvia) in four rooms at 60 Beltran Road, Fulham SW, London.
In the 1921 census as Sarah Ann Baker born in Farnham, Surrey in 1868, and living with George (husband?), Sylvia Kathleen (daughter?) and two others in Fulham, London, Middlesex.
Death of Sarah A Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1926 aged 58 in Farnham (2A 229).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997 for Sarah Ann Baker on 4 October 1926 aged 48 (sic) at St John the Evangelist, Churt. "Page 54 Burials in the Parish of Churt in the County of Surrey in the Year 1925-6 [...] Sarah Ann Baker No. 432 [of] Bandera, Sandy Lane, Churt [on] October Fourth 1926 [aged] Fifty Eight Years".
There are seventeen entries in Family Trees for Sarah Ann Martin with ihe inscription "Sarah Anne/ Baker/Who Passed Away Sept 29 1926/Aged 59/George Frederick Baker/Died 14 April 1988 aged 92 Years/Son of George and Sarah Anne/Rest in Peace".
In Bakers of Headley it states Joseph’s third child by his first marriage, George, was born on 10 February 1869. In 1881 the census recorded him at home with his family at Crosswaters Farm, Churt. He was married twice: first to Sarah Ann Martin, by whom he had four children: Martin, George Frederick born in 1896, Bernard, and Sylvia born in 1907.
Susan F Belsey has an entry for Sarah Ann Martin (b. 1868, d. September 29, 1926) Sarah Ann Martin was born 1868, and died September 29, 1926. She married George Baker on date unknown, son of Joseph Baker and Elizabeth Fox. Annie [this was her mother, not Sarah Ann] ran the post office in Churt with Sylvia, her daughter [I doubt that this is correct as Sylvia was born in Fulham and lived in Middlesex till 1947, and I suspect it is refering to Selina Kate, Sarah Ann's sister]. Marriage: Unknown Children of Sarah Ann Martin and George Baker are: Martin Baker, b. date unknown, d. date unknown. George Frederick Baker, b. March 12, 1896, d. April 14, 1988. Bernard Baker, b. date unknown, Surrey, England, d. date unknown. Sylvia Baker, b. June 13, 1907, d. January 17, 2000.
Sarah Ann Martin was the wife of George Baker, my half second cousin twice removed.
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