The Baker Family
Fanny Shuttleworth (Baker) Baker
1852, in Southsea, Hampshire, England
Henry Baker
Fanny
Alderson (Alderson) Baker
Samuel
Sidney
Baker in 1875, in Maldon
district, Essex, England
1861:
13 Burlington Street, Walcot, Somerset
1871: St
Peter, Maldon, Essex
1881:
Hawkwell
Hall, Hawkwell, Essex
- England Birth Index
(1Q1852 Portsea vol 2b p418); exact place from 1881 census
- Fanny Shuttleworth
Baker is named in the petition dealing with trusts within Fanny
Alderson's inheritance (see note on Fanny Alderson (Alderson) Baker);
father and stepmother named in 1861 census
- England Marriage
Index (2Q1875 Maldon vol 4a p329)
Henry Baker
1809/10, in Maldon, Essex, England
28 August 1810, in All Saints and
St Peter, Maldon, Essex, England
Benjamin Baker
Frances (Shuttleworth) Baker
Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge
Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897
p207
Baker, Henry: son
of Benjamin Baker, surgeon, of Maldon, Essex. Born there. Educated at
Stow, Essex, under Mr. Brown. Age 18. Admitted pensioner, Feb 8, 1828.
Re-admitted in 1839. M.R.C.S., Dec. 20, 1833. Surgeon in the R.
Navy, 1840-9-.
Fanny
Alderson Alderson on 23/30 January 1851, in St Marylebone, Middlesex,
England.
The Gentleman's Magazine vol 189 p422
(Sylvanus Urban, 1851)
MARRIAGES.
Jan. 30.
At St. Marylebone, Henry Baker,
esq. Surgeon of H.M. ship Britannia, son of Dr. Baker, of Maldon hall,
Essex, to Fanny, eldest dau. of the late Christopher A. Lloyd Alderson,
esq., of Ashford lodge, Hants.
Sarah Amelia Hart in 1855, in
Maldon
district, Essex, England. Sarah was born in 1821/2, in Woodham
Mortimer, Essex, and baptised on 15 May 1822 in St Margaret, Woodham
Mortimer, the daughter of William and Margaret Hart. She died on 28 May
1863, in Hadleigh, Essex, aged 41, and was buried on 3 June 1863 in St
Mary's churchyard, South Benfleet, Essex.
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Sarah's name and date of death id
inscribed on the gravestone of her parents in St Margaret, Woodham
Mortimer, although burial records indicate she was actually buried
in St Mary's churchyard, South Benfleet
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A memorial to her is also on her parents' gravestone in St Margaret
churchyard, Woodham Mortimer. Sarah's will was left unadministered by her
husband and administration was eventually granted, after Henry death, to
her stepdaughter, Fanny Baker on 22 February 1887.
England & Wales,
National Index of Wills and Administrations 1863 p28
BAKER Sarah
Amelia. 28 July. Letters of Administration (with the Will
annexed) of all and singular the Personal estate and effects of Sarah
Amelia Baker (Wife of Henry Baker Esquire) formerly of Maldon but late
of Hadleigh both in the County of Essex who died 28 May 1863 at
Hadleigh aforesaid were granted at the Principal Registry to
Henry Baker of Hadleigh aforesaid the sole Executor named in the said
Will he having first been sworn. Effects
under £5,000.
England & Wales,
National Index of Wills and Administrations 1887 p256
BAKER Sarah
Amelia. 22 February. Administration (with the Will) of the
Personal Estate of Sarah Amelia Baker (Wife of Henry Baker) formerly of
Maldon but late of Hadleigh both in the County of Essex who died
28 May 1863 at Hadleigh was left unadministered by the said Henry Baker
was granted at the Principal Registry under certain Limitations
to Fanny Baker (Wife of Samuel Sidney Baker, Esquire) of Hankwell Hall
Hawkwell in the said County the Residuary Legatee named in the Will of
the said Henry Baker. Former Grant Principal Registry July 1863.
Personal Estate under £207 4s. 11d.
Census & Addresses:
1841: Woodham
Mortimer, Essex
1851: Woodham
Mortimer, Essex
1861:
13 Burlington Street, Walcot, Somerset
1863: Hadleigh House, South Benfleet, Essex (burial record)
Naval Surgeon. Henry was
admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons on 20 December 1833,
and joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon on 28 February 1835. On 8
April 1835, he was appointed Hospital Mate at the Royal Hospital, Haslar, in
Gosport, Hampshire (Navy List 1836). On 6 June 1839, Henry was
appointed to the Revenge,
stationed in Lisbon, as assistant surgeon (1840
list). He was awarded a medal for his service off the coast of Syria
and the capture
of St Jean d'Acre in 1840, and promoted to surgeon as of 4 November
1840. On 28 July 1841, Henry joined the Ardent
as surgeon with annual pay of £182. The Ardent
was in Africa in 1841,
South America in 1843,
and back in Africa in 1844.
From 1846 he was a surgeon in charge of convicts (1847 Navy List), then on 3 November 1848 he
joined the Amazon, bound for the
East Indies (New Navy List 1849). On 23 August 1849,
Henry transferred to the sloop Columbine
in Hong Kong. Interestingly, the paymaster and purser on the Columbine
at this time was Beresford Scott. A year later, Beresford was to marry Kitty
Alderson Alderson, and six months after that Henry married Kitty's twin
sister Fanny! Beresford Scott wrote a
book that is an account of action that the Columbine
participated in off the coast of China in September and October of
1849. Back in England, Henry joined the Britannia,
based in Portsmouth, as surgeon, on 4 December 1850 (Navy List 1851 p131), then the Neptune
also in Portsmouth, on 1 December 1851. (1852
list). Henry resigned from the navy about 1854, and his name had been
removed from the Navy List by
1855.
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Hadleigh House, renamed Victoria House by
the Salvation Army. This photo was taken prior to 1906
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Henry owned and lived at Hadleigh House right on the parish boundary of
Hadleigh and South Benfleet for a short period of time.
History of Rochford Hundred
pp65-6 (Philip Benton, 1867)
“Hadleigh House”... was originally built about 60 years ago by Mrs.
Dunlop (popularly called “Lady Dunlop),” but the major part of the
mansion, including the frontage, was erected during Mr. Harvey’s
occupation. In 1822 it was the property of the Rev. G. Hemming, who sold
it to the Rev. Sir John Head, Bart., rector of Rayleigh, who at one time
was resident, and at whose death it was purchased by Thomas Brewitt, of
Down Hall. It has since belonged to a variety of owners: J. L. Ricardo,
of the Stock Exchange; Richard Walker, who died there; Henry Baker,* son
of Dr. Baker of Maldon; and Allen, who sold it in 1864 to Sir Charles
Nicholson, Bart., who has enlarged the pleasure grounds.
* Baker sold Hadleigh House in consequence of his wife’s death.
Her maiden name was Sarah Amelia Hart, daughter of Hart, of Woodham. She
died in 1863, aged 41 years, and was buried at Bemfleet.
19 March 1876, at
Ashfield Lodge, Hamlet Road, Upper Norwood, Surrey, aged 65
England & Wales,
National Index of Wills and Administrations 1876 p202
BAKER Henry
Esq. 31 May. The Will with a Codicil of Henry Baker late of
Maldon in the County of Essex Esquire who died 19 March 1876 at
Ashfield Lodge Hamlet-road Upper Norwood in the County of Surrey was
proved at the Principal Registry by Henry Baker of Ashfield
Lodge a Commander in the Royal Navy and Francis Philip Francis of
Colchester in the County of Essex the Executors named. Effects
under £10,000.
1841: Maldon
Hall, Meldon, Essex
1851: High
Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire
1861:
13 Burlington Street, Walcot, Somerset
1866: Maldon Hall, Maldon, Essex (London Gazette 4 May 1866 p2778)
1871: St
Peter, Maldon, Essex; a visitor in this census is Kitty Scott
Alderson, niece of Henry's first wife
1874: Maldon Hall, Maldon, Essex (Post Office Directory of Essex 1874)
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