Unknown Baker
c
1500 to c 1570 (estimated)(certainly before 1584)
BAK00007
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As yet the parents of Sampson,
John and Catherine Baker of Coventry have not been identified. There are some
clues as to their origin in the evidence regarding Sampson Baker (BAK00008).
There is some evidence that the
family may have originated at Harringworth.
Alternatively they may have had a deep-seated interest in Coventry, and it is
possible that they derived their name from the bakers of Coventry. The possibility that the Bakers of
Highfields may have been descendants of the bakers of Coventry is explored
separately.
Based on Sampson Baker (BAK00008)'s Will, and pedigrees for the
Vincent family in the Visitation of Leicestershire, 1619 (Camden, William (1551-1623) and
others, The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619,
College of Arms, page
79) there are hints of
connections to a Baker family of Harringworth, in Northamptonshire. Of course
this may have been a related branch of the family who established in
Harringworth.
Indeed there was a Sampson Baker
in Harringworth. In 1560, there was a debt case in Buckinghamshire, an index
entry for which describes the plaintiff as Baker, Thomas, of Myddelton Kaynes, executor of; (Nurshe,
John) and the defendant as, Baker, Sampson, of Harryngworth,
Nhants, gent.
(University of Houston, Debt case relating to Thomas
Baker of Myddelton Kaynes, Buckinghamshire and
Sampson Baker of Harryngworth, Northamptonshire)
Although there was a Will of a Thomas
Baker of Myddleton Kenys proved on the 3 February
1559 (The National Archives, PROB11/42A/299), the Will does not appear to
mention a Sampson Baker, so any connection between Thomas and Sampson is
uncertain.
In 1569, the name Sampson
Baker appears as one of the tenants involved in a legal case against George,
Baron Zouche of Harringworth, over common rights (The National Archives REQ
2/149/12).
(Transcribed extracts from the State Papers of
Elizabeth I relating to Northamptonshire - 1558-1570 (SP 12/51, 59, 67), available
on the Medieval Genealogy site) show a Sameson Baker as of Harringworth in 1570.
This, of course, is only that
there was a Sampson Baker in Harringworth, not that this was the same person as
Sampson Baker who later purchased the Coventry Charterhouse. However the
evidence provides the probability of an association between the Bakers of
Coventry and the Bakers of Harringworth. This might be evidence of the Coventry
Sampson Baker also having interests in Harringworth, or of another contemporary
individual called Sampson Baker, in Harringworth, who is likely to be a
kinsman. This could point to a prior association of this Baker family with
Harringworth.