Baker family - Ewhurst, Sussex

[berylm]

Hi
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this column.
I have been immersed in the Ewhurst PR for the past month.
This is a complete register going back to the time of Elizabeth I.
The early pages are challenging, having to read an unfamiliar script, but a
photocopy from a book on early handwriting has been most useful.

I am pleased to report that the Baker and Merrick families are traceable
back to the early 17th century. As they say "from time immemorial" . 
It was fascinating to discover we are descended from the village blacksmith!
I have always wondered why my grandfather was such a big man. 
I guess it was in the genes.

I have screeds of notes, so if anyone else is interested in these names, let me know.
Cheers
BerylM

[Ochsenkopff]

HI BERYLE
MARIA  BAKER WAS CHRISTENED 23 JULY 1815 TO THOMAS BAKER AND MARY CROUCH AT BODIAM[EWHURST]
HER BROTHER SAMUEL CH.20 JUNE 1813 DID COME TO AUSTRALIA ON THE PALMYRA, ALSO MARY THEIR SISTER CH.10 SEPTEMBER 1809 CAME OUT ON THE MAITLAND 1838.

MARY BAKER WAS ONE OF MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS.

THIS WILL HELP YOU.
 

[Ochsenkopff]

HI BERYLM
YES YOU ARE ALSO RIGHT ABOUT THE MERRICKS THEY DO JOIN UP WITH THE BAKERS THROUGH THE CROUCH FAMILY.
THE MERIK/MERRICKS GO BACK AS FAR AS 1597

HAPPY RESEARCH
COLIN[COUSINS]

[berylm]

Hi Colin
Glad to met you
Maria Baker was my gt gt grandmother
I spent weeks looking at the Ewhurst PR on microfilm & got back to
William Merricks bap 1673  m. Anne Mosley 1693.
Have you got this all written up?
Have been chatting by email with several descendants of Samuel Baker in Australia.

Was your Mary Baker,  Mary Anna Baker bap 10 Sept 1809?
I also have a Thomas and Mary Baker's youngest daughter Mary , bap. 25 July 1830?
 (To have emigrated to NSW in 1838 she would have needed to be the older.)
Who was she married to?
Another group of my cousins the Blanch family from Rolvenden were also on the Maitland in 1838. I have been reading a book on Medical Superintendents on emigrant ships and that was unfortunately  sailing.
It would seem as if  Samuel, Maria,  Mary, and Aaron Baker all emigrated to Australia!
Great to chat to you
BerylM

[Ochsenkopff]

Hi Berylm
There was a Aaron Baker born to a Thomas and Mary in 1826 Ewhurst but I am not sure if he is ours or not.
Came to Australia with his wife Sophia in 1857 on the ship John Bunyan Film 2138/ 2476 Sophia died 1857 parents were also Thomas and Mary, AAron remarried in 1862 to a Caroline Furner reg. at Chippendale and they had a large family in the Glebe Redfern area.
Aaron died 1907 reg. Granville and parents given as Thomas and mary.

Need to see this film before I could say where he came from but I do not go to the Latter Day Saints very often now.

I think one of his children was named Moses and another Alice and Samuel.

[berylm]

Hi
There is a archival entry I have which lists the last 2 children of Mary Baker (nee Crouch)  as Aaron & Mary.
I have seen both the bap. entries in the Ewhurst PR.       The one for Mary is easily missed!
I have been sent the family tree of the Aaron Baker family in Australia.
I spent weeks with the Ewhurst PR & have the list of Thomas & Mary's children. I didnt know they had a Moses.

Maria Kennard (nee Baker) named her last son Aaron.
He was my gt grandfather!
BerylM

[Legacy]

Hello Berylm & Oshsenkopff

I would think Aaron is their son as long as we are talking about the same couple, Thomas & Mary. See my previous posting for the bapt., as Thomas & Mary are common for first names. I also found this on the A2A SITE for Ewhurst removal orders;
Reference: PAR324/32/3/88  Removal order to Ewhurst
Creation dates: 16 Jun 1831
Scope and Content
Mary, wife of Thomas Baker, and children Aaron (5) and Mary (2) from Wrotham, Kent     Endorsed: suspension of order; re-instatement of Order, 25 Jul 1831

I too have been looking at the films for Ewhurst given my connections to the Baker, Goodsell and Smith families from there.

Would the Samuel Baker, b.1813, not be the one who M.1834 Ewhurst to Ann Gutsell, dau. of Henry & Mary Smith?
Legacy

[berylm]

Hi Legacy
Yes the removal order is what I was meaning by the "Archive". That confirmed for me the Aaron & Mary, as the youngest children.

Indeed Samuel Baker did marry a Goodsell. I spent hours late last year transcribing Goodsells for one of my Aussie cousins.
There are a number of Samuel Baker descendants in Australia busily compiling trees!
Are you another Baker descendant?
I would be interested to hear if any of the family actually stayed in England.
BerylM

[Ochsenkopff]

Hi
There is a archival entry I have which lists the last 2 children of Mary Baker (nee Crouch)  as Aaron & Mary.
I have seen both the bap. entries in the Ewhurst PR.       The one for Mary is easily missed!
I have been sent the family tree of the Aaron Baker family in Australia.
I spent weeks with the Ewhurst PR & have the list of Thomas & Mary's children. I didnt know they had a Moses.

Maria Kennard (nee Baker) named her last son Aaron.
He was my gt grandfather!
BerylM