Sampson Baker

16 October 1614 (baptised) to 1670

BAK00034 

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1614

Sampson Baker was the son of Sampson and Millicent (nee Goodale) Baker (FAR00017). Sampson Baker was born at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, near Nuneaton, just north of Coventry. He was baptised on 16 October 1614 there (Market Bosworth Parish Records).

It has been suggested that Sampson was in fact the son of Sir Richard Baker MP who died in 1644 in Fleet Debtors prison. His grandfather and great grandfather were merchants of Norwich and London, the latter being the youngest son of Sir Richard Baker MP of Middle Aston, Oxford and St Brides, London, the historian. He married Margaret, the daughter of Sir George Manwaring of Ightfield, Salop and died in Fleets debtors prison, 1644; He was buried at Saint brides in St Brides. (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields, Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem District History Society, page 12).

Sampson Baker of Norwich and London, merchant, born about 1610; believed to have been a younger son of Sir Richard Baker MP, of Middle Aston, Oxfordshire and St Bride’s, London, the historian, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir George Mainwaring, of Ightfield, Salop, and died in Fleet debtor’s prison 18 February 1644/5, buried St Brides, son of John Baker, distinguished elder son of Rt Hon Sir John Baker of Sissinghurst, Kent, married, and whose issue were (1) Sampson, gentleman of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire and Rugby, Warwickshire, born about 1643, married (licence 15 February 1671) Jane Ley of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and had issue in Edward, baptised 16 July 1676, educated at Rugby and died August 1690, and (2) John Baker (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)

However Research by Nicholas Kingsley suggests Richard Baker (1676-1749), was a surgeon who moved from London to Leominster in Herefordshire. Burke's Landed Gentry says that his father was John Baker, the younger son of Sampson Baker of Norwich and London, merchant, who was 'believed to be a younger son of Sir Richard Baker MP of Middle Aston, Oxon and St Bride's, London, the historian... who died in Fleet debtors' prison 18 February 1644/5'. As far as the connection with Sir Richard Baker (and thus with the Bakers of Sissinghurst) is concerned, this seems to be a specious fantasy (Sir Richard did not marry until c.1621, and his children are all accounted for), and it is far from clear how much reliance should be put on the rest. (Landed Families of Britain and Ireland, 333 Baker of Highfields). It therefore seems right that Sir Richard Baker MP was not in this direct family line. The younger Richard Baker was baptised at Stepney (Middx) in 1676, his parents were John and Margaret, as Burke's suggests. But no marriage of a John Baker and Margaret Leighton is to be found, and nor is a baptism for a John, son of Sampson Baker. It may, however, be relevant to note that Burke's gives John a brother, Sampson Baker, gent., of Market Bosworth (Leics) and Rugby (Warks), born about 1643, and it is possible to find baptisms for both 'Samson', son of William & Susanna Baker in 1637 and his brother John in 1642 in the parish registers of Market Bosworth. William Baker of Market Bosworth was born in 1608 and was in turn the son of Sampson Baker of Market Bosworth and his wife Millicent Gooddale, who were married in 1605. It seems very possible that they are the true antecedents of this family.

The Parish Record above seems to verify that Sampson was the son of Sampson and Millicent Baker.

1640

Sampson Baker married Ester Martin at St Michael, Lichfield (north of Birmingham), Staffordshire on 9 October 1640 (St Michael, Lichfield, Staffordshire Parish Records).

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1643

John Baker (1643 to 1685) (BAK00050) and Sampson Baker (1643 to 1657) (BAK00051) were born in 1643.

Sampson Baker was a merchant of Norwich and London.

1652?

Sampson Baker married Abigail or Abigaell (? to 1668)

1653

Sampson Baker (1653 to 1659) (BAK00052) was born in 1653.

1655

Elizabeth Baker (1655 to 1656) (BAK00053) was born in 1655.

1659

On 16 October 1659, he was a surgeon living at Ratcliff, London.

1661

William Baker (1661 to 1665) (BAK00054) was born in 1661.

1666

William Baker (BAK00056) was born in 1666.

On 20 April 1666 Sampson Baker was a surgeon, living at White Horse Street, London.

If this is correct, then he was on White Horse Street just a few months before the Great Fire of London devastated large sections of the city. As a surgeon in 17th-century London, his practice would have focused on external medical treatments, setting bones, treating wounds, and performing bloodletting. This was distinct from physicians, who primarily treated internal ailments. Surgeons at the time were typically affiliated with the Worshipful Company of Barbers.

1670

Sampson Baker died in or about 1670 at Stepney, London. He was a widower by then. His will was proved on 27 June 1670 at Stepney. Administration of the estate was given to Jn Hubbucke, guardian during the minority of William Baker, his son.