The Baker Family Tree

The Family Tree of the Baker Family

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The Baker family is associated with the timber framed manor house, Highfields, at Audlem in Cheshire. You can follow the passage of the property through the Dod family and then the Baker family below, by following the yellow highlighted Highfields.

John Baker 1530? to 25 February 1581 Married ? Marey Ryton upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire BAK00009

William Baker 1550? – 11 November 1615 Married Margery and on 29 September 1588 married Isabel Bond A mercer Ryton upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire, Coventry BAK00010

Child Baker 1577 to 1577 Coventry BAK00015

Ane Baker 1579 to 22 January 1625? Austrey, Coventry BAK00016

Sampson Baker 29 November 1581 to 1647 Married Millicent Goodale in 1604 or 1605 A Woolman of Baxterley, Warwickshire Coventry, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire BAK00017

Susanna Baker 15 September 1583 to ? Coventry BAK00018

Joane Baker 30 May 1592 to 3 January 1633 Coventry BAK00019

William Baker 24 February 1594 to 18 January 1669 Coventry BAK00020

George Baker 1606 to 1606 BAK00030

William Baker 1608 to 1671 BAK00031

Dorothy Baker 1610 to 1682 Coventry BAK00032

Thomas Baker 1611 to ? BAK00033

Sampson Baker 1614 to 1670 Married Mary ? in about 1643 and then Abigail ? Merchant and surgeon Market Bosworth, Norwich, London BAK00034

Elizabeth Baker 1617 to 1637 Coventry, Avon Dassett BAK00035

George Baker 1619 to 1619 BAK00036

Walter Baker 1620 to 1645 BAK00037

John Baker 1622 to ? BAK00038

Nicholas Baker 1624 to 1645 BAK00039

Millicent Baker 30 March 1628 to 1645 Market Bosworth BAK00040

John Baker 1643 to 1685 Married Margaret Claiton (or Leighton?) in 1670 Wine cooper and merchant London BAK00050

Sampson Baker 1643 to 27 June 1657 Educated at Rugby BAK00051

Sampson Baker 1653 to 16 October 1659 Stepney, London BAK00052

Elizabeth Baker 1655 to 1656 BAK00053

William Baker 1661 to 1665 BAK00054

William Baker 1666 to ? BAK00056

Richard Baker 1676 to 24 May 1749 Married Mary Smith on 9 October 1698 Surgeon London, then Leominster from 1705-1708 BAK00060

Mary Baker 1699 to February 1790 Married Captain Thorley Married James Breach, surgeon of Reading? Had issue BAK00065

Elizabeth Baker 1701 to ? Married on 5 October 1721 at Leominster to Thomas Nash, surgeon, of Leominster Four sons and one daughter BAK00066

Richard Baker 1702 to 1750 Unmarried BAK00067

William Baker 1705 to 1771 Married Elizabeth Eykyn in 1729 and Jane Dod in 1736 The Architect Acquired Highfields on his marriage to Jane Dod in 1736 Purchased the manor of Fenton Culvert, Staffs with pottery works for William in 1767 London, Leominster, Highfields, Audlem BAK00068

James Baker 1708 to 1744 Married Martha Adams of Bagnall on 14 October 1736 Apothecary BAK00069

Anne Baker 1710 to ? BAK00070 The Dod family of Highfields Highfields

Susanna Baker 1714 to ? BAK00071

Henry Baker Educated at Shrewsbury Unmarried Died young BAK00072

Judith Baker 1738 to 1738 BAK00080

Charity (”Chatty”) Baker (“Madame Barrow”) 1739 to 1817 Married Lawrence Barrow, a banker of Chetwynd, Newport on 9 November 1761 No issue Woodlam Estate, Audlem BAK00081

Mary Baker 1741 to 1809 Married Captain Edward Thorley (2^nd Queen’s Royal (Tangier) Regiment of Colchester on 28 August 1766 Seed Green, Astley, Worcestershire BAK00082

Richard Dod (“Dick”) Baker (alias Hassall, while architect and surveyor at Leominster) 1743 to 1803 Married Hannah Hassall, daughter of John Hassall of Nantwich Surveyor and Architect Bridgnorth, Shropshire, Stratford upon Avon, Leominster, Highfields, Audlem BAK00083

William Baker of Fenton 1744 to 25 November 1784. Married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Bagnall of Fenton, Lord of the Manor of Skelton, Staffordshire in 1767 Pottery William Baker of Fenton, Culvert, Staffordshire. He was Lord of the Manor, a partner with Baker & Bagnall of Fenton, potters BAK00084

Richard Dod Baker 1784 to 12 August 1807 Unmarried Brasenose College, Oxford, October 1801. Commissioned into the 17th Regiment in 1804 (Royal Leicestershire Regiment?) Sailed with his Regiment to India in July 1804 on board the Worcester. Died on his way home on 12 August 1806. BAK00100

Hannah Mary Baker 1785 (may have been 1776) to 23 August 1851 Eloped with Dr John Bellyse of Audlem and married at Mucklestone Church on 27 September 1808 BAK00101 The Bellyse Family

William Baker The Elder 1787 to 1863 Married Ann Hough of Layton, Cheshire in on 9 August 1813 Justice of the Peace Leominster, Herefordshire, Highfields, Audlem BAK00102

Jane Baker 1790 to 1849 Married Edmund Wells Oldaker Descendants live in Baltimore, USA BAK00103

Mary Baker 1791 to ? Died young BAK00104

James Baker 1792 (or 1788?) to 1818 Educated at Shrewsbury BAK00105

William Baker of Fenton 1771 to 1833 Married Mary (or Molly) Bourne, daughter of John Bourne in 1794 Lord of the Manor BAK00106 The Fenton House Line of Bakers

Richard Baker 1774 Twin BAK00107 Samuel Baker 1774 Twin BAK00107A

Jeremiah Baker 1778 BAK00108

Charity Baker BAK00109

Mary Baker 1777 BAK00110

Jane Baker 1786 BAK00111

Richard Dod Baker 1815 to 1843 Articled clerk, solicitor Unmarried BAK00120 The Bellyse Family

William Baker The Younger 1816 to 1876 Married Prudence Cliffe in 1838 and then his cousin, Henrietta Louisa Bellyse (daughter of Dr John Bellyse) in 1849 Justice of the Peace Kynsal House, Audlem until 1863 then Highfields, Audlem BAK00121

Sarah Baker 1817 to 1907 Married James Goulborun Ethches, solicitor on 28 October 1845 7 sons and 2 daughters BAK00122

Ann Baker 1819 - ? Married Rev James Alexander Wood, son of Capt James Alexander Wood on 9 February 1864 No issue BAK00123

John Hough Baker 1821 to 1842 Unmarried BAK00124

Mary  Baker 1823 to 1905 Married John Beaumont Piercy architect and later secretary of the Staffordshire Waterworks Co on 22 April 1863 BAK00125

Jane Baker 1825 to 1914 Married her first cousin Joseph Haywood Bellyse, the third son of Sir John Bellyse on 24 October 1864 No issue BAK00126

George Baker 1827 to 1877 Solicitor Married Jane Allman of Audlem in 1870 1 son and 3 daughters BAK00127

Thomas Dod Baker 1830 to 1880 Architect and surveyor Unmarried Kidderminster BAK00128

Charlotte Baker 1832 to ? BAK00129

Charity Baker 1834 to 1920 Married Henry Onslow Piercy, son of Rev John Piercy, 19 February 1862 Had issue BAK00130

Henrietta Louisa (“Poppie”) Baker 9 February 1849 to 22 November 1935 Unmarried The Cedars, Audlem BAK00150

John (“Jack”) Bellyse Baker 1850 to 1932 Married Richmal Mangnall, daughter of William Mangnall on 23 June 1884 Leased Highfields 1876-1890 Sold Highfields in 1884 during Agricultural Depression and emigrated to New Zealand, where he was a sheep farmer and grazier then returned to England 1890, farm bailey at Hildley, Lancs BAK00151

Mary Louisa Baker 1852 to 1860 Died young BAK00152

Jane Ellen Baker 1853 to 1865 Died young BAK00153

Richard (“Dick”) Dod Baker 1856 to 1902 Unmarried Solicitor, Church warden The Cedars, Audlem BAK00154

Arthur Baker 1860 to 29 April 1916 Audlem Married Marianne Hall (daughter of James Hall of Kynsal Lodge) on 16 August 1898 See the Hall Family Hillside, Audlem BAK00155

Charity Baker 1862 to 1881 Unmarried BAK00156 The Hall Line

Charlotte (“Tottie”) Louisa Baker 29 July 1866 to 1918 Unmarried BAK00157 Henrietta (“Poppie”), Charlotte (“Tottie”) and Emily Baker were together known as “the Miss Bakers” and latterly lived together with Dick Baker at the Cedars

Emily Jane Baker 7 October 1868 to 1941 Red Cross volunteer, nurse Unmarried BAK00158

Anne Baker 28 May 1871 to before 1881? Audlem BAK00162

Mary Baker 5 November 1872 to 1958 Married Arthur Scutt on 27 October 1897 Audlem BAK00161

Richard Dod Baker 16 October 1874 to 7 December 1947 Married Maude Mary Hassel on 23 August 1905 Commercial salesman London, Cardiff, Wales BAK00160

Ellen Baker 29 April 1877 to ? Governess Audlem BAK00162A

Bellyse Baker 23 June 1886 to 17 November 1947 Married Lilian (“Lily”), daughter of Joseph Crosland on 16 June 1913 Royal Field Artillery in WW1 Clerk, Sales Director, cotton manufacturers Repurchased Highfields 1946 New Zealand, Audlem BAK00165

Dorothy (“Dot”) Baker 1888 to 1965 Unmarried School Teacher New Zealand, Nantwich BAK00167

William Mangnall Baker 22 August 1890 to 24 November 1961 Married Annie, daughter of William Tattersall in October 1913 Banking secretary BAK00166

Richmal Charity (“Chat”) Baker 23 July 1895 to 29 April 1978 Unmarried Governess, Red Cross Volunteer in WW1 Audlem, Nantwich, Colwyn BAK00168

Hilda Marianne Baker 2 July 1899 to 1979 BAK00170

Margaret (“Peggy”) Louisa Baker 24 February 1901 to 1996 Married Alfred Farndale BAK00002

Geoffrey Richard Baker 1904 to 1974 Married Joyce Wright in 1938 Farmer at the Upwoods, Doveridge and then Grange Farm,, Little Ponton, Grantham Little Ponton BAK00172

Kathleen Maude Baker 1907 Cardiff

Muriel Helen Baker 2 February 1910 Cardiff

John (“Jack”) Bellyse Baker 29 November 1925 to 2010 Married Josephine May (“Jo”) Henderson, daughter of Joseph Henderson of Wilmslow, Cheshire on 4 October 1952 Author of Highfields, Audlem Highfields BAK00175

The Wensleydale Line of The Farndale Family

Jennifer (“Jenny”) Baker 1 January 1941 to ? Married William (“Bill”) Skelton Little Ponton, Grantham BAK00180

Jacqueline Baker 5 April 1943 Married HSN Sheardown BAK00181

John Bellyse Baker 1956 Married Susan Fearnall Highfields BAK00190

Josephine Charity (“Chat”) Baker 27 June 1960 Married Simon Wright BAK00191

Hannah Elizabeth Baker 1989 BAK00195

Katherine Charity Baker 1992 BAK00196