All The World’s A Stage

The Soldier

Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon’s mouth

The Bakers Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Bakers Family part of the website

The Bakers of Highfields Story The Story of the Dods and Bakers and of Highfields, Fenton House and Hasfield Court. A journey through the history of Cheshire and Staffordshire, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who retained his lands after the Conquest, pottery at Stoke on Trent, an encounter with Elgar, and the history of an Elizabethan manor house at Audlem

The Bakers of Highfields The family tree of the Bakers of Highfields

The Dod Family The Family Tree of the Dods, predecessors to the Bakers of Highfields

The Bakers of Fenton House and Hasfield Court The Family Tree of the pottery Bakers of Stoke on Trent

The Bellyse Family The Family Tree of the Bellyse Family

The Farndale Story The main part of this website tells the story of the Farndale family from Yorkshire Descendants of Arthur Baker, the story of the Farndale ancestry is told through the main part of this website You can also return to the Farndale website home page

The Hall Family The genealogy of the family of James Hall, linked to the Baker family through marriage to Arthur Baker

This page is still to be drafted

Richard Dod Baker … 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

Sir Anthony Dod, Agincourt?

William Dod of Highfields and the English Civil War … Sir Francis Gamul …

Captain Edward Dod was a captain in the Royal Navy. During the earlier part of his service, he was Lieutenant of HMS Dragon. Later he was given command of the Blandford. (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields, Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem District History Society, page 11). The third HMS Blandford (1741), featured in frequent skirmishes with the French. Launched in October 1741, her first master was Captain Robert Young. The vessel had a crew of 140 officers and crew and was a 20 gun frigate. She served in home, Caribbean and American waters for 20 years. Her Royal Navy service was eventful and in the 1740s she captured three French vessels. Captain Edward Dod commanded the 24-gun sixth-rate Royal Navy ship HMS Blandford from February 1742/3 until September 1747. During his service, his ship encountered a superior French squadron of seven sails between Gibraltar and Lisbon, leading to its capture and his temporary captivity in Brest, where he bravely refused to betray British fleet secrets despite being threatened with hanging. HMS Blandford was later released from her French captivity.