The Cedars

A Short History of the Cedars, Audlem

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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

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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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c 1870

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).

1892

The Cedars was occupied by Richard Baker (Latham F A, Editor (1997), Audlem, The History of a Cheshire Parish and its five townships, Local History Group, page 143).

1901

Dick Baker and the three Miss Bakers lived at the Cedars

Census 1901 – The Cedars, Audlem

Richard D Baker, head, single, 44, solicitor, born Audlem

Henrietta Baker, single, 52, living on her own means

Charlotte L Baker, single, 34, living on her own means

Emily J Baker, single, 32, living on her own means

Sarah J Cooper, 23, servant

Miss Burton’s book tells of a kindergarten run at the Cedars, the residence of Richard Dod Baker, solicitor, by the Misses Baker (Latham, Frank (1997), Audlem: The History of a Cheshire Parish and its seventeen townships, page 101).

Arthur centre with Jack Baker and Richard Baker perhaps 1900

1914

The house was occupied by John Bellyse Baker and the Misses Baker (Latham F A, Editor (1997), Audlem, The History of a Cheshire Parish and its five townships, Local History Group, page 143).

1918

1939

The house was occupied by the Misses Baker (Latham F A, Editor (1997), Audlem, The History of a Cheshire Parish and its five townships, Local History Group, page 143).