Birth: January-March 1838 Hurtmore, Godalming, Surrey, UK
Father: George Westby 1807-1892
Mother: Maria Sumner 1807-1882
Christening: 28 March 1838 St Peter and St Paul, Godalming, Surrey, UK
Marriage: January-March 1874 Kensington, Middlesex, UK
Husband: Richard Baker 1840-1887
Death: April-June 1917 Dorking, Surrey, UK
George Westby Baker 1875-1894
Birth of Emma Westby in FreeBMD in January-March 1838 in Guildford (4 174).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Emma Westby on 28 March 1838 in Godalming, Surrey, parents George and Maria Westby.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Emma Westby on 28 March 1838 in Godalming, St Peter and St Paul, parents George and Maria Westby."Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Godalming in the County of Surrey in the Year 1838 [...] 1838 March 28 No. 529 Emma parents George, a Labr, and Maria Westby of Hurtmore".
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Emma Westby on 28 March 1838 in Godalming parents George and Maria Westby. "Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Godalming in the County of Surrey in the Year 1838 [...] 1838 March 28 No. 529 Emma parents George, a Labr, and Maria Westby of Hurtmore".
In the 1841 census as Emma Westby aged 3, born in Surrey, and living with George and Maria (parents?), William (brother?) and Mary (sister?) in Hurtmore, Godalming, Surrey.
In the 1851 census as Emma Wettley (sic - in the index, Westby on the original), aged 13, born in Godalming, Surrey , and living with her parents (George and Maria), and two sisters (Ann and Mary) in Bramley, Surrey.
In the 1861 census as Emma Westby aged 23, born in Northbrook, Surrey, single and a servant (nurse) living with Thomas Russell (aged 34, born in Croydon, Surrey and a solicitor), his wife (Harriett aged 26 and born in Farningham, Kent), son (Layton aged 1 and born in Croydon, Surrey), daughter (Ada J aged 8/12 and born in Guildford, Surrey) and two other servants (Jane Fremees aged 23, born in Shipton, Sussex and a cook, and Charity Hardy aged 19, born in Milford Heath, Surrey and a housemaid, both single) at White Hull ?, Stoke, Guildford, Surrey
In the 1871 census as Emma Westly (sic - in the index, Westby on the original) aged 31, born in Gintford (sic - in the index, Guildford on the original), Surrey, single and a servant (nurse) living with James Danberry (aged 44, born in Bath, Somerset, a colonel a a gent), his wife (Mary L aged 35 and born in Brighton, Sussex), two daughters (Violet M aged 4 and Mabel A aged 1, both born in London, Middlesex), and three other servants (Elizabeth Gass aged 42, born in Lorton, Somerset and a cook, Anne Wald aged 26, born in Middlesex, London and Emma Drury aged 18, born in Middlesex, London, both housemaids, and all single) at 8 Eaton Terace East Side, Belgrave, St George Hanover Square, London.
Marriage of Maria Westby and Richard Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1874 in Kensington (1a 129)
Her son was born in St Saviour in 1875.
In the 1881 census as Emma Baker aged 42, born in Godalming, Surrey, a railway porter's wife, and living with her husband (Richard) and son (George W) at P Block, Peabody Square, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, Surrey.
Her husband died in St Saviour in 1887.
In the 1891 census as Emma Baker aged 51, born in Guildford, Surrey, widowed, a waiting room attendant, and living with her son (George W) in two rooms at 32 Gladstone Steet, Wimbledon, Surrey. This address was shared with another family.
Her son died on 5 March 1894 at 37 St George's Road, Wimbledon, Surrey and left effects of £195 to Emma Baker widow, but probate was not granted until 26 March 1900.
In the 1901 census as Emma Baker aged 59, born in Godalming, Surrey, widowed, a char woman, and boarding with William B Bloomfield (aged 27, born in Paglesham, Essex, and a milk carrier), his wife (Elizabeth Bloomfield aged 36 and born in Kingston, Surrey), two daughters (Violet I Bloomfield aged 1 and born in Wandsworth, Surrey, and Daisy Bloomfield aged 12 and born in Wimbledon, Surrey), three boarders (George Kirby aged 20, born in Hillemgan Heath, Middlesex, single and a clerk, William Baker aged 21, born in Whimple, Devon , single and a railway porter, and William H Long aged 22, born in Colyton, Devon, single and a railway porter), and a visitor (Henson Kerby aged 16, born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, single, and a nursery gard assistant) at 1 Ali Grove, Wimbledon St Mary, Surrey. She appears to have had two rooms, the rest 6 rooms.
In the 1911 census as Emma Baker aged 73, born in Godalming, Surrey, widowed, and living in one room at 1 Alt Grove, Wimbledon, Surrey.
Death of Emma Baker in FreeBMD in April-June 1917 aged 79 in Dorking, Surrey (2a 274).
Baker's of Headley states Richard’s fourth child, Richard, [...] married Emma (surname unknown); they moved to Southwark and had at least one child there: George W, born in 1874/5. In 1881 the family was living at “P Block” in Peabody Square, Blackfriars Road.
There are seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Emma Westby.
Emma Westby was the wife of Richard Baker, my second cousin three times removed.
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