John Hough Baker
22 March 1821 to 10 January 1842 (buried)
BAK00124
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1821
John Hough Baker was the son of
William and Ann (nee Hough) Baker (BAK00102). He was baptised at Audlem on 6 March 1822
(Audlem Parish Records).
John Hough, Master of Foxhounds
Wheatland 1843, Shropshire 1849, Albrighton and Wheatland 1854, North
Warwickshire 1856 to 1862, born 22 March 1821, died unmarried (Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth Edition, 1972), Bellyse Baker of
Highfields in Burke’s Landed Gentry, Volume 3, pages
35 to 38).
1841
1841 Census, Highfields, Buerton
William Baker, 50, land
Ann Baker, 45
Richard Baker, 25, solicitor
William Baker, 20, land
Sarah Baker, 20
Ann Baker, 20
John Baker, 15
Mary Baker, 15
Jane Baker, 15
George Baker, 13
Thomas Baker, 4
Charlotte Baker, 9
Charity Baker, 7
Portrait of
John Hough Baker
It puzzles me that this portrait
appears to show an older man than twenty, which was the age when he died.
1842
He died unmarried and without
issue at the age of 20 in 1842 where the death was registered at Nantwich (General Register Office Volume
19, page 145) and was buried at Audlem
on 10 January 1842 (Bakers
of Highfields, Landed Families website, Audlem Parish Records, GRO Volume
19 page 145).
This is the clear record of the
death of John Hough Baker of Highfields in 1842.
Yet Burke’s suggests that he went
on to become Master of Foxhounds for Wheatland 1843, for Shropshire 1849, for Albrighton
and Wheatland 1854, and for North Warwickshire 1856 to 1862. The portrait suggests
he went on to become a much older man.
Could this be evidence of John
Baker in 1856:
(Chester Chronicle, 13 September 1856)