Diana Dod
17
November 1689 (baptised)
DOD00119
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1689
Diana Dod was the daughter of
George and Charity Dod (DOD00101) and was
born in or about 1689 and baptised at Audlem on 17 November 1689 (Audlem Parish Records).
1736
Diana lived at Bridgnorth.
Her niece Jane Dod (DOD00130) often stayed with her, and it
was here that Jane Dod met the young architect, William Baker.
Often [Jane] would stay with her Aunt
Diana Dod, who lived at Bridgnorth and it was here that she met a young
architect, William Baker. She was staying at Bridgnorth with her grandmother in
1736 when the latter died. Jane and William were married the same year
and, as her grandfather had died some years earlier, they returned to
Highfields. (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields,
Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem
District History Society, page 11).
c 1757
At Ludlow lived Aunt Dia Dod and
several loans from her are recorded [in
William Baker’s Account Book] (Oswald, Arthur
(1954), William Baker of Audlem, Architect, in Collections for a
History of Staffordshire, The Staffordshire Record Society, page 111).
Many visits to Ludlow are recorded during the
earlier years when Aunt Dia Dod, his wife’s aunt, was living there and when he
went to see his father at Leominster.
(Oswald, Arthur (1954), William Baker of Audlem,
Architect, in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, The
Staffordshire Record Society, page 114).
Diana 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).