THE BAKERS OF HEADLEY

notes by Liz & John Partington

These notes are about Liz’s ‘Baker’ ancestors.  For details of Emma’s forebears, see here.

NICHOLAS BAKER OF HEADLEY  (1736 - 1808)

The earliest Baker known definitely to be an ancestor of ours is Nicholas, who was born in Headley, Hampshire, on 23 July 1736.  He married Mary Hurst on 27 October 1759 in Frensham, Surrey, and they had nine children:   John born in 1760, Mary in 1762, Anne in 1764, Stephen in 1767, William in 1769, James in 1772, George in 1774, Richard in 1777 and Sarah in 1780 (details below).  Like several generations of his forebears he lived at Simmondstone Farm.  Mary died on 4 July 1801, being buried at Headley four days later, and Nicholas himself died on 10 January 1808, being buried at Headley five days later.  (A probable line of ascent from Nicholas is given in the Appendix.)

THE CHILDREN OF NICHOLAS  (1736 - 1808)

Nicholas’ first child, John, was born on 20 September 1760.  He married Hannah Gill in Frensham, Surrey on 22 November 1792, and they had five children:  John born in 1793, George in 1795, Thomas in 1797, William in 1798 and Stephen in about 1799.  Hannah died in 1799 and was buried at Frensham on 11 February;  and on 10 June 1802 John married Sarah Craft, still 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.  (Details of all eleven children are below.)  John died in 1836 and was buried at Frensham on 23 June;  Sarah died (or had died) that same year.

Nicholas’ second child, Mary, was born on 22 May 1762.  She was married twice:  first in Headley in 1792 to a Mr W Collens, who died that same year;  and secondly to Richard Hammond (presumably the widower of her younger sister Anne).  No children are known.

Nicholas’ third child, Anne, was born on 18 May 1764.  She married a Richard Hammond at Headley in 1790.  She died in 1821, and was buried at Frensham.

Nicholas’ fourth child, Stephen, was born on 3 February 1767.  On 19 November 1793 he married Mary Dutton (born 1774);  no children are known.  Mary died on 12 July 1848, and Stephen in 1851;  both were buried at Frensham.

Nicholas’ fifth child, William, was born on 8 October 1769;  nothing further is known of him at present.

Nicholas’ sixth child, James, was born on 31 January 1772;  he died in 1860, being buried at Frensham.  Nothing further is known of him at present.

Nicholas’ seventh child, George, was born in Headley on 23 December 1774, and baptized that same day.  On 30 May 1805 he married Anne Swann (born 1782), with whom he had ten children:  Charles born in 1805, Abraham in 1807, John in 1808, Jane in 1809, Mary in 1813, Sarah in 1817, William and Edward in 1818, Henry in 1820 and Robert in 1821 (details below).  Both the 1841 and 1851 censuses record George at Simmondstone Farm in Headley.  Anne died on 21 November 1841, being buried at Headley six days later.  George died on 1 November 1851, and was buried in Headley on the fifth.

Nicholas’ eighth child, Richard, was born on 11 April 1777.  He was married twice:  first, on 6 August 1801, to Anne Maria Harding, with whom he had a daughter, also called Anne Maria, born later that year.  Anne died in 1809, being buried on 2 December, and the following month, on 25 January 1810, he married Frances Keen at Headley.  Richard and Frances had two children:  Richard, born in September of that same year and Edward two years later.  (Details of all children are below.)  Richard senior died on 14 October 1849, and Frances on 25 January 1859;  both were buried in Frensham churchyard.

Nicholas’ ninth child, Sarah, was born in 1780.  Nothing further is known about her at present.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1760 - 1836)

John’s first child by his first marriage, John, was born on 6 December 1793 and baptized at Frensham on 10 January the following year.  On 5 December 1829, still at Frensham, he married Mary Moorey, with whom he had fourteen children:  John, baptized in 1830, Ellen born in 1832, Stephen in 1833/4, Maria in 1835, Joseph in 1837, Angelina in 1838, Priscilla in about 1840, Clara in 1843, Selby in 1844, Albert in 1846, Matilda Mary in 1847, Kate Amelia in 1849, Maurice Moorey in 1842, and Emily, date unknown (details below).  He worked as a farmer.  Mary died on 17 February 1869, and John on 1 December 1879.

John’s second child by his first marriage, George, was born in 1795.  Nothing further is known at present.

John’s third child by his first marriage, Thomas, was born in 1797.  On 24 August 1825 he married Sarah Collyer at Frensham.

John’s fourth child by his first marriage, William, was born in 1798.  He died in 1826, being buried at Frensham on 25 May.

John’s fifth child by his first marriage, Stephen, was baptized on 11 February 1799.  He married Anne Loveland in Frensham on 10 February 1834, and died in 1860.

John’s first child by his second marriage, Mary, was born in Frensham on 10 September 1803 and baptized on 1 October.  On 23 September 1824 she married Henry Grover.

John’s second child by his second marriage, Sarah, was born in Frensham on 6 October 1804 and baptized on 17 November.  On 15 October 1825 she married a widower, Robert Boxall.

John’s third child by his second marriage, Edward, was born in Frensham on 31 October 1805 and baptized there on 13 December.  On 11 May 1833 he married Esther Hall, with whom he had six children:  Elizabeth born in 1835, Edwin in 1836, Alfred in 1838, Anne in 1842, Richard in 1844 and Andrew in 1848 (details below).  In 1881 Edward was widowed and living with his son Alfred at Red Herne, Frensham, working as an “agricultural labourer”.

John’s fourth child by his second marriage, Ann, was born in Frensham on 19 December 1806 and baptized on 25 January the following year.  She died in 1859 and was buried on 22 January.

John’s fifth child by his second marriage, Richard, was born on 29 January 1808, was baptized on 2 April and died on 22 June the following year.

John’s sixth child by his second marriage, Elizabeth, was born on 2 April 1809 and baptized on 7 May.  Nothing further is known of her at present.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1793 - 1879)

John’s first child, another John, was baptized at Frensham on 4 April 1830.  He died in 1850, being buried on 28 May.

John’s second child, Ellen, was born in 1832, and baptized on 22 July 1832 (or possibly 16 February 1834?).  In 1881 she was recorded as unmarried, living with (or visiting?) her brother Maurice at Shamley Green.

John’s third child, Stephen, was baptized at Frensham on 22 July 1832.  In 1881 the census records him as married (but living alone?) at Netmoore in Frensham, a “farmer of 18 acres employing two men and one woman”.  He died (childless?) in 1917.

John’s fourth child, Maria, was baptized at Frensham on 6 September 1835.  Nothing further is known of her at present.

John’s fifth child, Joseph, was born in Frensham on 10 May 1837 and baptized there on 3 July.  He was married twice, first to Elizabeth Fox, with whom he had six children:  Allen, born in 1866, Frank in about 1867, George in 1869, James in 1874, Joseph in 1878 and John Nicholas, date unknown.  The 1881 census records the family at Crosswaters Farm in Churt;  Joseph was a “farmer of 26 acres employing one boy”.  Elizabeth evidently died soon after that, for Joseph married again –  Mary (surname unknown), with whom he had a further two children:  Leonard M (birth date unknown) and Florence May, born in 1893.  Details of all the children are below.  Mary died on 4 July 1910, and Joseph on 16 November 1932, still at Crosswaters Farm;  he was buried with his wife in the village churchyard.

John’s sixth child, Angelina, was baptized at Frensham on 7 October 1838.  Nothing else is known at present.

John’s seventh child, Priscilla, was born in Churt in about 1841.  In 1881 she was recorded as unmarried, visiting the Smith family, grocers in Seale;  her occupation was “housekeeper”.  She died in about 1915.

John’s eighth child, Clara, was baptized on 19 March 1843.

John’s ninth child, Selby, was baptized on 6 October 1844.  The 1881 census records him as living, unmarried, at Crosswaters Farm:  he was a pork butcher.

John’s tenth child, Albert, was baptized on 12 April 1846.  He married Mary A (surname unknown) by whom he had at least eight children:  Angelina born in 1867/8, Edwin J in 1869/70, Matilda K in 1870/1, Emily in 1873/4, Ellen in 1874/5, Maurice in 1876/7, Mary Ann in 1880 and Edith Ethel in 1890 (details below).  The first six children were born in Haslemere, but by 1880 the family had moved to Farnham, where the following year’s census recorded them at 5 Blount Cottages on Union Road:  Albert was working as a “railway flagman”.

John’s eleventh child, Matilda Mary, was baptized on 19 September 1847.  She died in 1899.  Nothing further is known of her at present.

John’s twelfth child, Kate Amelia, was born in Churt and baptized on 1 July 1849.  In 1881 she was recorded as unmarried, a housemaid at Godstone Place.  She died in 1909.

John’s thirteenth child, Maurice Moorey, was born on 14 September 1852.  He married twice:  first, Margaret Ann Hayward on 5 October 1880.  The following year they were living at Shamley Green, where Maurice was the “grocer & baker”;  his sister Ellen was with them.  They had five children:  Maurice Moorey in 1888, Herbert in 1890, Reginald in 1892, Laurie and Edith Mabel, dates unknown (details below).  In 1909 he married Nellie Lampard.

John apparently had another child, Emily, who died in childhood in 1858.

THE CHILDREN OF JOSEPH  (1837 - )

Joseph’s first child by his first marriage, Allen, was born in 1866.  In 1881 the census recorded him at home with his family at Crosswaters Farm, Churt, the “farmer’s son”.  He apparently married and had five children:  Ernest Richard, Mary Elizabeth, Emily Edith, Ellen Ethel and Margaret Rose.

Joseph’s second child by his first marriage, Frank, was born in about 1867.  In 1881 the census recorded him at home with his family at Crosswaters Farm, Churt.  He married Nellie Hardiman, and they had six daughters:  Cora born in 1902, Gloria Gladys in 1905, Alice in 1907, Elsa in 1908, Marjorie in 1913 and Doreen in 1915.

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, with whom he had four children:  Martin, George Frederick born in 1896, Bernard, and Sylvia born in 1907.

Joseph’s fourth child by his first marriage, James, was born in 1874.  In 1881 the census recorded him at home with his family at Crosswaters Farm, Churt.  He married Emma Maria (surname unknown), and they had a daughter, Florence.

Joseph’s fifth child by his first marriage, Joseph, was born in 1878.  In 1881 the census recorded him at home with his family at Crosswaters Farm, Churt.  He married Annie (surname unknown).

Joseph had another child by his first marriage, John Nicholas, birth date unknown.

Joseph’s first child by his second marriage, Florence May, was born in 1893;  he had another child by his second marriage, Leonard M, birth date unknown, who died sometime after 1932.

THE CHILDREN OF ALBERT  (1846 - bef. 1929)

Albert’s first six children were born in Haslemere:  Angelina in 1867/8, Edwin J in 1869/70, Matilda K in 1870/1, Emily in 1873/4, Ellen in 1874/5 and Maurice in 1876/7.  In 1881 they were living with their parents at 5 Blount Cottages, Union Road in Farnham, described as “scholars”.

Albert’s seventh child, Mary Ann, known as “Nancy”, was born in Farnham in 1880.  The following year she was living with her family at 5 Blount Cottages in Union Road.  She married Charles Shipp.

Albert’s eighth child, Edith Ethel, was born in 1890.  She apparently worked as a governess.

THE CHILDREN OF MAURICE MOOREY  (1852 - )

Maurice Moorey’s first child, another Maurice Moorey, was born on 7 September 1888.  He married Letchumi (surname unknown) in about 1918.

Maurice Moorey’s second child, Herbert, was born on 5 April 1890.  He married Maud Thorpe in 1915.

Maurice Moorey’s third child, Reginald, was born on 26 February 1892.  He married Elsie Baguley on 21 April 1920.

Maurice Moorey’s fourth child, Laurie, married Cyril John Charles Girling in 1915, and they had a son, Maurice Jack Hayward.

Maurice Moorey’s fifth child, Edith Mabel, married Henry Cottrell Swayne in 1907.

THE CHILDREN OF EDWARD  (1805 - aft. 1880)

Edward’s first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1835.  Nothing further is known of her at present.

Edward’s second child, Edwin, was born on 22 September 1836.  By the early 1860s he was living in Lambeth.  He married Charlotte (surname unknown), and they had three children:  Esther born in 1864/5, William in 1866/7and Frank in 1873/4 (details below).  In 1881 the family were living at 14 Andersons Walk, Lambeth;  Edwin was working as a waiter in an inn.

Edward’s third child, Alfred, was born on 25 March 1838.  In 1881 he was still unmarried, living at Red Herne in Frensham with his father and working as an agricultural labourer.

Edward’s fourth child, Anne, was born on 18 September 1842, and his fifth, Richard, on 15 December 1844.  Nothing further is known of them at present.

Edward’s sixth child, Andrew, was born on 29 October 1848.  He married Harriet Barber, with whom he had four children:  Kate born in 1869, Edward in 1871, Andrew in 1873 and Frederick in 1875 (details below).  Harriet evidently died in the late 1870s, for in 1881 Andrew was recorded as a widower, living at Lion Green, Frensham, and working as a “general labourer”.

THE CHILDREN OF EDWIN  (1836 - aft. 1880)

Edwin’s first child, Esther, was born in Lambeth in 1864/5.  In 1881 she was living with her family at 14 Andersons Walk, working as a “book folder”.

Edwin’s second child, William, was born in Lambeth in 1866/7.  In 1881 he was living with his family at 14 Andersons Walk, working as a painter.

Edwin’s first child, Frank, was born in Lambeth in 1873/4.  In 1881 he was living with his family at 14 Andersons Walk, a “scholar”.

THE CHILDREN OF ANDREW  (1848 - aft. 1880)

Andrew’s children were all born in Frensham:  his first, Kate, in 1869, his second, Edward, in 1871 and his third, another Andrew, in 1873.  In 1881 they were living with their widowed father at Lion Green in Shottermill, Haslemere.

Andrew’s fourth child, Frederick, was born in Frensham in 1875.  In 1881 he was living with his family at Lion Green in Frensham. On 30 July 1898 he married Helen Kate Luff at Stephen’s, Shottermill.  They had two children:  Eveline Grace born in 1900 and Robert John in 1906.

THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE  (1774 - 1851)

George’s first child, Charles, was born on 20 December 1805 in Headley.  Nothing more is known of him at present.

George’s second child, Abraham, was born in Headley on 2 May 1807.  He was married twice:  first, on 26 November 1835, to Jane Chalcraft, with whom he had a son, William, in 1837.  Jane died soon after, and on 12 March 1840 Abraham married Mary Ann Boulting, with whom he had a son, Robert, in 1852 (details of both children are below).  Abraham died on 15 November 1853, “due to an accident”;  Mary Ann’s date of death is unknown.

George’s third child, John, was born on 18 June 1808, his fourth, Jane, on 11 November 1809, and his fifth, Mary, on 28 February 1813.

George’s sixth child, Sarah, was born in Headley in about 1815.  She is recorded as living, unmarried, at Simmondstone Farm by both 1841 and 1851 censuses.

George’s seventh child, William, was born in about 1816.  He married Ann Philps on 2 January 1841;  but ten years later is recorded as a widower, living at Simmondstone Farm.  A directory of 1859 records William and his younger brother Henry as farmers at Simmondstone.

George’s eighth child, Edward, was born on 11 March 1818.

George’s ninth child, Henry, was born in Headley in about 1819.  Both 1841 and ’51 censuses record him, unmarried, at Simmondstone Farm.  He married Priscilla Ann (surname unknown), with whom he had two children:  Harry John in about 1862 and Helen M in about 1871 (details below).  In 1881 he was living at Elm Cottage, Frensham with his family and twenty-two year old unmarried “daughter-in-law” (ie step-daughter) Kate Poulton.  He was working as a “surveyor and assistant overseer”.  He died on 28 September 1887, and was buried at Frensham.  Priscilla died on 12 February 1912 and was buried with her husband.

George’s tenth child, Robert, was baptized on 29 April 1821.  He is presumably, however, the fifteen year old Robert at Simmondstone Farm in 1841.

THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM  (1807 - 1853)

Abraham’s son by his first marriage, William, was born in 1837.  Nothing further is known of him at present.

Abraham’s son by his second marriage, Robert, was born on 19 October 1852 in Holloway, north London.  He married Elizabeth Ann Gilbert on 22 December 1877, and they had three children:  Reginald Gilbert born in 1878, Millicent Mary in 1880 and Dorothy Elizabeth in 1895 (details below).  The 1881 census records the family at 5 Devonshire Road in Islington:  Robert was working as a bookseller’s clerk.

THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT  (1852 - aft. 1893)

Robert’s first child, Reginald Gilbert, was born on 7 November 1878.  In 1881 the census records him with his family at 5 Devonshire Road, Islington.  He married twice: Constance Saunders and Frances Harrison.  He served in the army in both the Boer War and the First World War – in which he served apparently in the “Canadian Force”.

Robert’s second child, Millicent Mary, was born on 12 February 1880.  The following year the census records her at 5 Devonshire Road, Islington.  She married Charles Wade on 29 April 1910.

Robert’s third child, Dorothy Elizabeth, was born on 28 February 1895.

THE CHILDREN OF HENRY  (1819 - 1887)

Henry’s first child, Harry John, was born in about 1862.  In 1881 he was living with his family at Elan Cottage in Frensham.  He married Kate Poulton (born in 1871), and is remembered as the author of “Frensham: Then & Now”.

Henry’s second child, Helen M, was born in about 1871.  In 1881 she was living with her family at Elan Cottage in Frensham.  Nothing further is known of her.

THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD  (c. 1777 - 1849)

Richard’s daughter by his first marriage was Anne Maria, born in Frensham on 15 November 1801.  Nothing further is known of her at present.

Richard’s older son by his second marriage, also named Richard, was born in Frensham in September 1810, and baptized there on the 28th of that same month.  He married Mary Loveland in Frensham on 10 February 1834, and they had eleven children:  Martha born in 1835, Fanny in about 1837, Mary in 1839, Richard in 1840, John in 1842, Jane in 1844, George in 1845, James in 1847, William in 1850, Frederick in 1852 and Frank in about 1854 (for details see below).  In 1841, Richard & Mary were living in Frensham parish, lower Churt to be precise, with Martha, Fanny and Richard;  Richard was a farmer.  Ten years later the family were at Emly Farm in Thursley.  Mary died sometime in the 1850s, and by 1861 Richard was living on Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, the “farmer of 150 acres, employing 10 men and 3 boys”.

Richard’s younger son by his second marriage was Edward, born in 1812.  He died of chickenpox just thirteen years later, in Churt, and was buried in Headley on 3 September 1825.

THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD (1810 - aft 1860)

Richard’s first child, Martha, was baptized on 1 November 1835 at Frensham.  In 1841 she was living with her parents and Fanny & Richard at Lower Churt, and ten years later was with the family at Emly Farm, Thursley, a “scholar”.    She married George Scovell on 5 May 1857 at Shalford.  The couple had five children:  Mary E born in 1859/60 and Fanny in 1862/3 in Kensington, and Emily J in 1865/6, Annie in 1868/9 and Richard H in 1875/6 in Twickenham.  In 1861 the family were at 5 Queen’s Buildings, Brompton, and twenty years later at at The Mall, Hampton Road in Twickenham

Richard’s second child, Fanny, was baptized in Frensham on 14 May 1837.  In 1841 she was living with her parents and Martha & Richard at Lower Churt, and ten years later was with the family at Emly Farm, Thursley, a “scholar”.  In 1861 she was was with her sister Martha in Brompton.

Richard’s third child, Mary, was baptized in Frensham on 7 April 1839.  In 1861 she was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as a “housekeeper”.

Richard’s fourth child, Richard, was baptized in Frensham on 29 November 1840.  The following year he was living with his parents and Martha & Fanny at Lower Churt, and ten years later was with the family at Emly Farm, Thursley, a “scholar”.  In 1861 he was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as “working on the farm”.  He 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;  Richard was working as a railway porter.

Richard’s fifth child, John, was born in Frensham in 1842.  In 1851 he was living with the rest of the family at Emly Farm, Thursley.  In 1861 he was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as “working on the farm”.

Richard’s sixth child, Jane, was born in Frensham in 1844.  In 1851 she was living with the rest of the family at Emly Farm, Thursley.  In 1861 she was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as “working on the farm”.

Richard’s seventh child, George, was born in Frensham in 1845, and died in April the following year, being buried on the 21st.

Richard’s eighth child, James, was born in Frensham in 1847.  In 1851 he was living with the rest of the family at Emly Farm, Thursley, and in 1861 he was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford and described as “working on the farm”.

Richard’s ninth child, William, was born in 1850, in Dockingfield, Hants.  The following year he was living with the rest of the family at Emly Farm, Thursley.  In 1861 he was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as a “scholar”.  In 1881 he was living, still unmarried, with his sister Martha (now Scovell) and her family at The Mall, Hampton Road, Twickenham:  he is described as a “printer & stationer”.

Richard’s tenth child, Frederick, was born in 1852.  In 1861 he was living with the family at Chinthurst Lane in Shalford, described as a “scholar”.

Richard’s eleventh child, Frank, was born in about 1854.  Nothing else is known of him at present.

APPENDIX

A descendant of the family has contributed details of seven earlier generations of Bakers, from John born in about 1530, as below.  I’ve not yet checked this independently.

John Baker was born in about 1530;  he married Susan Kimber on 26 November 1555 at Headley.  They had at least one son, another John, born (baptized?) in Headley on 28 May 1562.  This younger John married Joane Morer on 23 May 1584.  John & Joan had a son, yet another John, born in Headley on “about 1 June 1586”.  This John married Elizabeth Harding in Headley on 3 September 1605, and they had at least two sons:  Christopher (birth-date unknown) and Nicholas, baptized on 21 June 1607.  Nicholas married Jane Jackson, and they had a son, another Nicholas, on 6 July 1640.  This Nicholas married Elizabeth Lee in Headley on 7 February 1664, and they had four children:  Christopher, baptized in Headley on 26 October 1675, Anne, born (baptized?) in 1680, William in 1683 and Jane in 1684.  Christopher married Ann Hunt in Headley on 20 June 1715, and they had a son Nicholas, born in 1720;  Christopher died in 1739.  Christopher & Ann’s son Nicholas was baptized in Headley on 20 May 1720.  He married Anne Loveland at Haslemere on 21 May 1736, and they had three children:  Nicholas born in 1736, John in 1738 and Stephen in 1742.  Nicholas senior died in 1742, being buried on 17 November.

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