James Baker

1792 to 2 December 1818 (buried)

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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

The Farndale Story The main part of this website tells the story of the Farndale family from Yorkshire Descendants of Arthur Baker, the story of the Farndale ancestry is told through the main part of this website You can also return to the Farndale website home page

The Hall Family The genealogy of the family of James Hall, linked to the Baker family through marriage to Arthur Baker

1792

James Baker was the son of Richard and Hannah (nee Hassall) Baker (FAR00083). He was born in 1792.

1802

James was educated at Shrewsbury School. He was admitted there in 1802.

James, educated Shrewsbury (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).

1817

He may have lived in Audlem occupying land leased to Mrs Serjeant (Audlem Land Tax Assessments)

1818

(Audlem Land Tax Assessments)

He died in 1818 aged 26 and was buried at Audlem on 2 December 1818 (Audlem Parish Records).