This is a bit more on Rebecca Brackstone and James Baker. I am searching for an Edward Baker of Southampton, whose son Edward Brackstone Baker was born in 1811. Edward Baker married Anna Frances Maria Cattley in 1810.
I found the information on James Baker and Rebecca Brackstone as below in my search for an earlier Baker and Brackstone connection. If anyone comes across a connection prior to 1811, I would be very grateful.
JAMES BAKER was born circa in 1790 Andover and married Rebecca Brackstone of Lymingon on 11 April 1826 by licence. He was listed as a currier. Rebecca was 21 and the daughter of John Brackstone. She died between 1835 and 1841.
In 1841, 1851 and 1861 James Baker lived with his unmarried sister Jane Baker, born circa 1793 in Andover and his daughters.
James Baker died on 19 January 1862 in Andover and left £8,000. His executors were his daughter Jane Saunders Baker, James Weeks of Wokingham, Berkshire, an auctioneer and George Henry Barber of Portsmouth. His daughters henceforth lived off “their own means” on income from rent of houses and land etc.
James Baker and Rebecca Brackstone had at least three children:
Mary Brackstone Baker christened 4 July 1828 Andover. She lived with her father, sister and aunt in 1861 and her sister in 1871. In 1881 and 1891 she lived in a boarding house run by Martha Barber in Andover.
She died in 1899 “on 28 July at Netley House, Ordnance Rd Southampton, Mary Brackstone Baker, of Andover, aged 71”
Jane Saunders Baker christened 25 Feb 1830 – living with her sister 1871. She married Philip Henry Luntley in 1873 in Southampton. She died in 1900 “on the 1st December, Jane Saunders, younger daughter of the late James Baker, of Andover Hants, wife of P H Luntley, Sunnybrook, Bromley, in her 71st year.”
James Brackstone Baker christened 23 Feb 1835, died 1837 Andover
