Individual Details

Thomas BAKER

(Abt 1791 - 4 Sep 1869)

Events

Birth	Abt 1791	Hawkhurst, Kent, England, Great Britain
Marriage	31 Mar 1812	, witnessed by Thomas' brother George, Susannah's mother Sarah Osborne & John Heathfield - St Mary the Virgin, Salehurst, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - Susannah OSBORNE
Note	7 Jan 1822	Thomas Baker was obviously struggling with a young family & no wife. According to the vestry minutes of the Etchingham Parish (1821-1826) made by the Rev Hugh Totty, Thomas made 3 requests for relief from the local parish & was granted 2 gallons of flour each time
Marriage	18 Jan 1824	St Mary of the Assumption & St Nicholas, Etchingham, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - Sarah Ann TESTER
Emigration (fam)	1 Jun 1839	with their 5 children on board the 'Neptune', a barque of 643 tons. Thomas' son Benjamin was 20 years old & recently married by this time and remained in England. The family arrived in Sydney on 27 Sep 1839 - Gravesend, Kent, England, United Kingdom - Sarah Ann TESTER
Living	20 May 1857	Hunter River, New South Wales, Australia
Death	4 Sep 1869	'Pickering', Denman, New South Wales, Australia
Burial	8 Sep 1869	which was a property of 6,000 acres settled by William Ogilvie in 1825 near Denman, opposite the junction of the Goulburn & Hunter Rivers. Why he was buried on Ogilvie's property when he died on 'Pickering', a nearby property settled in 1825 by Captain John Pike & sold in 1859 to Archibald Bell Jnr (famous for exploring the Bell Line of Road across the Blue Mountains), is not known - 'Merton', Denman, New South Wales, Australian Colonies

Families

Spouse	Susannah OSBORNE (1792 - 1820)
Child	Harriet BAKER (1813 - 1829)
Child	Ben BAKER (1814 - 1819)
Child	Thomas BAKER (1817 - 1871)
Child	Benjamin BAKER (1819 - 1884)

Spouse	Sarah Ann TESTER (1799 - 1871)
Child	William BAKER (1824 - 1884)
Child	Anne BAKER (1827 - 1839)
Child	Henry BAKER (1827 - 1893)
Child	Edward BAKER (1830 - 1913)
Child	Jesse BAKER (1832 - 1884)
Child	Sarah Ann BAKER (1836 - 1915)

Father	Benjamin BAKER (1760 - 1805)
Mother	Susanna PANKHURST (1766 - 1847)
Sibling	Benjamin BAKER (1785 - 1794)
Sibling	George BAKER (1788 - 1862)
Sibling	Sarah BAKER (1790 - 1878)
Sibling	Ann BAKER (1795 - 1849)

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