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Richard Baker 1676 to 24 May 1749 Surgeon
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1676
Richard Baker was the son of John and Margaret (nee Claiton or
Leighton) Baker (BAK00050).
He was baptised at St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex on 28 May 1676.
Summary
In his earlier days, he seems to have shifted occupation, being at
first recorded as a gilder and button-maker and later as a 'sea surgeon'.
He later worked as a surgeon at Leominster, Herefordshire.
Research by Nicholas
Kingsley:
Richard Baker (1676-1749), was a surgeon
who moved from London to Leominster in Herefordshire. Burke's Landed Gentry
says that his father was John Baker, the younger son of Sampson Baker of
Norwich and London, merchant, who was 'believed to be a younger son of Sir
Richard Baker MP of Middle Aston, Oxon and St Bride's, London, the historian...
who died in Fleet debtors' prison 18 February 1644/5'. As far as the connection
with Sir Richard Baker (and thus with the Bakers of Sissinghurst) is concerned,
this seems to be a specious fantasy (Sir Richard did not marry until c.1621,
and his children are all accounted for), and it is far from clear how much
reliance should be put on the rest.
[Note – this seems right that Sir
Richard Baker MP was not in this direct family line – see below.]
Richard Baker was baptised at Stepney
(Middx) in 1676, his parents were John and Margaret, as Burke's suggests. But
no marriage of a John Baker and Margaret Leighton is to be found, and nor is a
baptism for a John, son of Sampson Baker. It may, however, be relevant to note
that Burke's gives John a brother, Sampson Baker, gent., of Market Bosworth
(Leics) and Rugby (Warks), born about 1643, and it is possible to find baptisms
for both 'Samson', son of William & Susanna Baker in 1637 and his brother John
in 1642 in the parish registers of Market Bosworth. William Baker of Market
Bosworth was born in 1608 and was in turn the son of Sampson Baker of Market
Bosworth and his wife Millicent Gooddale, who were married in 1605. It seems
very possible that they are the true antecedents of this family.
Very little is known about Richard Baker
(1675-1749) of Leominster, surgeon. He married at St Bride, Fleet St., London,
in 1698, and his older children were born there. He appears to have moved to
Leominster between 1705 and 1708 and he was still described as 'of Leominster'
when his will was proved in 1750. His eldest surviving son and executor was
William Baker (1705-71), about whom much more is known.
1698
Richard married
Mary, daughter of W. Smith, at St Bride, Fleet Street, London on 9 October 1698.
They had eight children.
Jane Baker’s father in law Richard and
his wife Mary. Beneath them
is a 17th century dresser
1699
Mary Baker (1699 to 1790)(BAK00065) who
later married Captain Thorley was born in 1699.
On 6 August 1699, Richard Baker was a gilder and lived at
King’s Road Court, London.
1701
On 20 March 1700 or 1701 Richard Baker
was a gilder and lived at Maiden Road, King’s Road Court House, London.
Elizabeth Baker (b 1701) (BAK00066) who later
married Thomas Nash, also a surgeon, was born in 1701.
1702
On 20 February 1702 or 1703 Richard
Baker was a button maker in Dorset.
Richard Baker (1702 to 1750) (BAK00067) who
did not marry, was born in 1702.
1705
On 14 September 1705 Richard Baker was a surgeon at
Wheatsheaf, ?.
On 26 December 1705 he lived at
Leominster, Herefordshire.
William Baker (1705 to 1774) (BAK00068), later
a famous architect, who married Elizabeth Eykyn and later Jane Dod, was born in
1705.
1708
James Baker (1708 to 1744) (BAK00069) who
later married Martha Adams, was born in 1708.
1710
Anne Baker (BAK00070)
was born in 1710.
1714
Susanna Baker (b 1714) (BAK00071) was in in 1714.
1715?
Henry Baker (BAK00072)
was born in perhaps about 1715.
1736
On 21 September 1736, Richard Baker was
a churchwarden at St James the Great, Audlem, Cheshire.
1749
Richard died on 24
May 1749. He was buried at Leominster on 26 May 1749.
1750
His will was proved at Hereford on 7 August 1750.
In his accounts books, Richard’s son William Baker later recorded
some notes about his father. He recorded his father’s death on 24 May 1749 and
that “he married Mary Smith and both she and my father were born in London,
as was myself, in St Bride’s parish.” The place of his father’s burial was
recorded as “In the covered Isle of Leominster Church near the row of
pillars and about the middle.”