Thomas Dod Baker
23 December 1829 to 7 May 1880
BAK00128
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1830
Thomas Dod Baker was the son of
William and Ann (nee Hough) Baker (BAK00102),
was born on 23 December
1829 (Dates of Birth of the eleven
children of William Baker of Highfields, 1834, Baker Records 31). He
was baptised at Audlem on 25 February 1830 (Audlem
Parish Records).
Thomas Dod, architect, 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). Burke’s seems to be in
error, as Thomas Dod married in 1868.
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
1851
1851
Census –
Highfields, Woodhouse Lane, Buerton, Nantwich, Cheshire:
William Baker,
63, head, magistrate esquire
Ann Baker,57
Ann Baker, 30
Mary Baker, 27
Jane Baker, 25
George Baker, 23
Thomas Dod Baker, 21
Charlotte Baker,
19
Charity Baker, 17
4 servants
Waggoner
1854
William Baker the Younger (1816 to 1876) (BAK00121)
built Kynsal
Lodge in 1854, a medium sized house of character, which
was designed by Thomas Baker (BAK00128), the third and last
of the Baker architects. Thomas built a number of country
houses in the area, including Hillside, Green Lane (later the
home of Arthur Baker (BAK00155) and his family) and the Cedars (later the home of the
three rather eccentric sisters, Poppy (BAK00150), Totty (BAK00157) and Emily (BAK00158) and the bachelor Richard Dod
Baker (BAK00154).
The architect of Kynsal Lodge,
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When William died, the estate passed to his
eldest surviving son, William who, after his marriage to his cousin, Louisa
Bellyse, built Kynsal Lodge (Betty Goodwin) in 1854, a medium sized house of
some character designed by his younger brother Thomas; third and last Baker architect.
Thomas built a number of country houses in the district, including Hillside
(Lamont family) in Green Lane, occupied by his nephew Arthur Baker, and The
Cedars (Latchford family), lived in by the latter's bachelor brother Richard
and his three charming but rather eccentric sisters, "Poppy",
"Totty" and Emily. (Latham, Frank (1997), Audlem:
The History of a Cheshire Parish and its seventeen townships, page 124).
The inhabitants of the Cedars
were:
Richard Baker, 1892
John Bellyse Baker and the Misses
Baker in 1914
The Mises Baker in 1939
Arthur Baker lived at Hillside
Thomas was an architect and
surveyor at Kidderminster, in partnership with John Beaumont Piercy until 1861
and subsequently Borough Architect.
1861
1861 Census – Combeston
Farm, Kidderminster
Thomas Dod Baker, unmarried,
lodger, 31, architect
1863 to
1875
Thomas Dod Baker was registered as
a Free Mason at Kidderminster.
(United Grand Lodge of England, Register of
Contributions)
1868
Thomas Dod married Emily Woodward
on 8 September 1868 (St John the Baptist,
Kidderminster Parish Records). Baker-Woodward. 8th inst, at St John’s Church, Kidderminster, by the Rev G R
Kewley MA. Vicar. Thomas Dod, youngest son of the late William Baker Esq, JP,
of Highfields, Cheshire, to Emily, fifth daughter of the late Benjamin Higgins
Woodward Esq of Kidderminster (Chester
Chronicle, 19 September 1868).
1869
(Chester Chronicle, 1 May 1869)
1871
1871 Census – 25 Church Street, Kidderminster
Thomas D Baker, married, 40,
architect
Emily Baker, 33, his wife
Charlotte Baker, 35, his sister
Elizabeth Nauley, 19, servant
1885
Kynsal Lodge (Miss Betty
Goodwin) was built by Thomas Dod Baker about 1855 (Latham,
Frank (1997), Audlem: The History of a Cheshire Parish and its seventeen
townships, page 83).
1880
Thomas died on 7 May 1880. His will was proved on 29 May
1880. Baker, Thomas Dod. Personal Estate under £800. 29 May. The Will of
Thomas Dod Baker late of Kidderminster in the County of Worcester Architect and
Surveyor who died 7 May 1880 at Kidderminster was proved at Worcester by Emily
Baker Widow and Relict and Benjamin Woodward Carpet Master both of
Kidderminster the Executors (Probate
Record).
He was buried at St John the
Baptist, Kidderminster on 11 May 1880 (St
John the Baptist, Kidderminster Parish Records).
