The Baker Family of Fenton House and Hasfield Court

A genealogy of this branch of the Baker Family descended from William Baker of Highfields, the architect

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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

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Joseph Bourne of Madeley Heath

Thomas Bagnall of Fenton

James Bourne 10 January 1735 to 23 August 1789 Married Jane Dayson (1738 to 1824)

Fenton House, Staffordshire

Hasfield Court, Gloucestershire

William Baker II of Fenton 18 April 1745 to 25 November 1785 Married Sarah Bagnall, daughter of Thomas Bagnall of Fenton on 22 August 1770 Lord of the Manor of Fenton Culvert A partner, Baker & Bagnall of Fenton, potters BAK00084

Sarah Bagnall Married William Baker II in 1767 Married Ralph Bourne on 21 December 1793

Ralph Bourne 2 March 1772 to 30 November 1835 Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace Lived at Hilderstone Hall Married Sarah Baker (nee Bagnall) on 21 December 1793 Became partner with William Baker II, his stepson and traded as Bourne and Baker

Mary Bourne 1770 to 1855 Married William Baker III

John Bourne 1774 to 1835 Married Amelia Blore

Charles Bourne 1776 to 1836

Charlotte Bourne 1779 to 1826

Emmeline Bourne 1794 to 1798

James Bourne 1796 to 1844

Ralph Bourne 1800 to 1800

William Baker III of Fenton 25 November 1771 to 2 July 1833 Married Molly Bourne, daughter of James Bourne in 1794 Potter, partner with Bourne, Baker and Bourne, Lord of the Manor Deputy Lord Lieutenant and JP BAK00106

Charity Baker 1773 to 11 March 1857 Married her first cousin, Major Charles Thorley, Senior Major, 96th Regiment, and commanding Essex Militia, of Colchester on 23 June 1801 Fenton, Chetwynd, Shropshire and Colchester BAK00109

Richard Baker 16 October 1774 to 1859 Married Lucy Mansfield at St Peter Ad Vincula, Stoke on Trent on 7 August 1796 Married Ann Mills at St Peter Ad Vincula, Stoke on Trent on 5 May 1833 Twin BAK00107

Samuel Baker 16 October 1774 to 1844 Married Myra Smith at St Peter Ad Vincula, Stoke on Trent on 9 November 1834 Twin BAK00107A

Mary Baker 15 July 1777 to 11 October 1847 Married Mr Francis BAK00110

Jeremiah Baker 28 September 1778 London agent for Bourne, Baker and Bourne Married Mary Aynsley at Norton in the Moors, Staffordshire on 1 December 1800 BAK00108

Jane Baker 30 November 1786 to 7 April 1855 Married Edward Warrant on 18 November 1808 BAK00111

Mary Montague Thorley (1802)

Ten children, descendants of Eizabeth settled in California

Harriet Baker 29 September 1794 to 28 January 1834 Married, 14 April 1825 at Stoke-on-Trent, Henry Cartwright of New Inn Mill, Trentham, Staffordshire BAK00298

Charity Baker 5 February 1796 to 30 July 1844 Married, 14 April 1825 at Stoke-on-Trent, Philip Barnes Broade JP (1803-52) of Fenton Manor House and Fenton Vivian No issue BAK00299

Mary Baker 2 August 1799 to 21 November 1834 Married, 25 October 1831 at Stoke-on-Trent, as his second wife, John Harvey JP of Blurton in Trentham (Staffs) BAK00300

William Baker IV of Fenton and Hasfield Court 2 February 1800 to 8 August 1865 Pottery and encaustic tile manufacturer, in partnership with Ralph Bourne and John Bourne as Bourne, Baker & Bourne at Fenton (dissolved 1835) – 500 employees He inherited Fenton House from his father in 1833 and purchased the Hasfield Court estate, Glos in 1863 for £42,500. At his death his property passed to his younger brother, Reverend Ralph Bourne Baker Unmarried BAK00301

Rev Ralph Bourne Baker of Fenton and Hasfield Court 31 October 1802 to 25 May 1875 Married Frances, daughter of Rt Rev Singer, Bishop of Meath Succeeded his brother William to the main extent in Fenton BAK00302

Jane Baker 6 January 1805 to 24 May 1860 Unmarried BAK00303

John Baker 10 July 1806 to 30 May 1837 Married Prudence Cliffe on 4 October 1836 In partnership with his brother William in the 1830s BAK00304

Sarah Baker 23 June 1808 to 7 July 1890 Married, 26 April 1832 at Stoke-on-Trent, John Hitchman (d. 1867) of Leamington (Warks), surgeon As a widow she lived at Fenton House BAK00305

Charlotte Baker 4 June 1810 to 26 December 1874 Lived at Fenton House, succeeded her brother William to some extent in Fenton A railway proprietor Unmarried BAK00306

Elizabeth Baker 12 May 1812 to 14 July 1827 Died aged only 15. Stoke on Trent BAK00306A

Mary Elizabeth Cartwright (1828)

Mary Harvey (1834)

Mary Frances Baker 21 April 1848 to 30 December 1937 Married, 28 August 1895, Canon Alfred Penny (1845-1935), prebendary and Rural Dean of Lichfield, son of Rev. Charles Joseph Penny, rector of Bubbenhall (Warks) No issue BAK00307

Sarah Adelaide Baker July 1850 to 24 April 1851 Died in infancy BAK00308

Letitia Jane Dorothea Baker 29 February 1852 to 30 November1930 Married, 28 July 1881 at Hasfield, Richard Baxter Townshend (1846-1923), youngest son of Rev. Chambré Corker Townshend No issue BAK00309

William Meath Baker of Hasfield and Fenton 1 November 1857 to 15 January 1935 Married Hannah Corbett, daughter of Captain R J Corbett Sheriff of Gloucester 1896 A close friend of the composer, Sir Edward Elgar, and was one of the friends portrayed in Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' of 1899 He inherited Hasfield Court and Fenton House from his father in 1875 and came of age in 1880. After his eldest son joined the Roman Catholic church in 1918 they agreed to break the entail on the estate so that it could be left to his second son BAK00310

Rev. William George Corbett Baker 13 May 1885 to 25 April 1947 Educated at Trinity College, Oxford (MA 1910) Ordained in the Church of England; curate of West Hoe, Plymouth, 1913; converted to Roman Catholicism in 1918 and became a priest at the Brompton Oratory Unmarried BAK00319

Francis (“Frank”) Ralph Meath Baker of Hasfield 23 June 1886 to 7 June 1940 Married Madeleine Susan Bryan on 12 April 1921 Served in the First World War with the Royal Field Artillery, 1914-16 as a Lieutenant. JP for Gloucestershire. A committee member of the Ledbury Hunt. BAK00320

Edward John Baker 4 August 1887 to 5 April 1936 Unmarried Yacht designer Served in First World War as a sapper in Royal Engineers, 1914-16 Sussex BAK00321

Lucinda Helen Mary Francis Meath Baker 19 January 1922 to 24 February 2013 Married Sir John Wells MP on 31 July 1948 BAK00332

Judith Veronica Sybil Mary Francis Meath Baker 13 July 1924 to 2 December 1974 Served in WRNS during WW2 Vice-President of the Girls Friendly Society, 1966-74 Unmarried BAK00331

William Gregory Francis (“Gregory”) Meath Baker 22 April 1930 to 12 September 2019 Married Priscilla Ann Gurney on 31 May 1958 Hasfield, Gloucestershire BAK00330

Prudence Dorothea Mary Francis Meath Baker 11 February 1932 Married Sir Anthony Salt, Sixth Baronet of Saltaire on 29 June 1957 BAK00333

W A Andrew Wells (High Sheriff of Kent 2005 to 2006), Henrietta Wells, Oliver Wells, Julia (nee Wells) Luard

Fenella Mary Houlton Salt (1959), Rebecca Madeleine Harris Salt (1961), Lucinda Mary Harriet (nee Salt) Feast (8 September 1964 to 11 November 2020), Charlotte Lavinia Francis Salt (1967)

(William John) Clovis Meath Baker 1959 BAK00340

(Samuel) Justin Francis Meath Baker 1961 BAK00341

(Hugh) Lysander Luke Meath Baker 1964 BAK00342

Joshua Ralph Meath Baker 1965 BAK00343

Dorothea Julia Cecelia Meath Baker

Boadicea Louisa Ann Meath Baker 1988

Agnes Charlotte Gertrude Meath Baker 1990

Constance Daffodil Bohemia Meath Baker 1992

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