Catherine Baker (later Catherine Edmonds)

c 1530 to c 1595 (estimated)

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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

The Bellyse Family The Family Tree of the Bellyse Family

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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 1530

Catherine Baker may have been born, almost certainly in Coventry, in or about 1530, the daughter of an unknown Baker, but her possible origins are explored at BAK00007.

c 1555

Catherine Baker married Mr Edmonds, possibly Sampson Edmonds (although it seems more likely that Sampson Edmonds was her son) in or about 1555.

1584

In his will Sampson Baker (BAK00008) left Catherine 5 Marks. In 1585 Elizabethan England, 5 marks had an accounting value of £3 6s 8d. A mark was not a physical coin but an accounting unit equal to exactly two-thirds of a pound sterling (or 13s d). Five marks therefore equalled 800d (£3.33). A standard rural cottage could be rented for about 60d a year, so 5 marks could cover over 13 years of rent. A single cow cost roughly 72 to 108d, so 5 marks could purchase an small herd of 8 to 11 cows.

Sampson Baker also gave 5 marks to his kinsman, Sampson Edmonds. It seems more likely that this was Catherine’s son, and it may well be that they decided to name their child after their subsequent benefactor.

c 1595

Catherine Edmonds may have died in or about 1595.