Mary Baker

15 April 1823 (baptised) to 6 November 1905

BAK00125A

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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

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1823

Mary Baker was the daughter of William and Ann (nee Hough) Baker (BAK00102). She was baptised at Audlem on 15 April 1823.

Mary, born April 1823, married Beaumont Piercy of Market Drayton, Shropshire (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)

1841

1841 Census, Highfields, Buernton

William Baker, 50, land

Ann Baker, 45

Richard Baker, 25, solicitor

William Baker, 20, land

Sarah Baker, 20

Ann Baker, 20

John Baker , 15

Mary Baker, 15

Jane Baker, 15

George Baker, 13

Thomas Baker, 4

Charlotte Baker, 9

Charity Baker, 7

1851

1851 Census – Highfields, Woodhouse Lane, Buerton, Nantwich, Cheshire:

William Baker, 63, head, magistrate esquire

Ann Baker,57

Ann Baker, 30

Mary Baker, 27

Jane Baker, 25

George Baker, 23

Thomas Dod Baker, 21

Charlotte Baker, 19

Charity Baker, 17

4 servants

Waggoner

1861

1861 Census – Kinsey Heath, Buerton, Nantwich, Cheshire

William Baker, head, widower, born Leominster, Herefordshire in 1788, 73, magistrate

Ann Baker, daughter, unmarried, 38, magistrate’s daughter, born Buerton

Mary Baker, daughter, unmarried, 33, magistrate’s daughter, born Buerton

Jane Baker, daughter, unmarried, 30, magistrate’s daughter, born Buerton

George Baker, son, unmarried, 28, solicitor, born Buerton

Charlotte Baker, daughter, unmarried, 25, magistrate’s daughter, born Buerton

Henrietta Baker, granddaughter, unmarried, 11, born London

Jane E Baker, granddaughter, unmarried, 6, born Buerton

Richard D Baker, grandson, unmarried, 4, born Buerton

A visitor, John R Piercy, 29 (who would marry Mary Baker in 1863)

3 house servants and a groom

1863

Mary Baker married John Beaumont Piercy (c 1834-1900), known as Beaumont, an architect and later secretary of the Staffordshire Waterworks Co, eldest son of Rev. John Piercy, rector of Rushock, Worcestershire, on 22 April 1863 at Audlem (Audlem Parish Records).

Piercy-Baker. On the 22^nd inst at the Parish Church, Audlem, Cheshire, by the Rev Holland Sandford, Vicar of Eaton-under-Haywood, assisted by the Rev J M Gillington, Curate of Audlem, John Beaumont Piercy Esq, eldest son of the Rev John Piercy, Rector of Rushock, Worcestershire, to Mary, third daughter of W Baker Esq, Highfields, Cheshire (Birmingham Gazette, 27 April 1863).

April 22, at the parish church, Audlem, Cheshire, by the Rev Holland Sandford, vicar of Eaton under Heywood, assisted by the Rev J M Gillington, curate of Audlem, John Beaumont Piercy Esquire, of Northwood cottage, Hanley, eldest son of the rev John Piercy, rector of Rushock, in this county, to Mary, third daughter of William Baker esquire, Highfields hall, Cheshire. No cards sent. (Berrow's Worcester Journal, 25 April 1863).

1871

1871 census – High Fields, Buerton, Audlem, Cheshire

William Baker, 54, head, land owner

Henrietta Baker, his wife 46

Henrietta Baker, 22

John Bellyse Baker, 20

Richard Dod Baker, 14

Arthur Baker, 11

Charity Baker, 8

Charlotte L Baker, 4

Emily J Baker, 2

John Beaumont Piercy, 37, agent, visitor

Mary Piercy, 47

Three servants

1881

1881 Census, Farm House, Leigh, Uttoxeter

John Beaumont Piercy, 47, secretary to waterworks company

Mary Piercy, 49

Emily Baker, 49, visitor, widow of Thomas Dod Baker, BAK00128).

Mary Abbots, 23, servant

1891

1891 Census, 63 Whitchurch Road, Madeley, Newcastle under Lyme

John Beaumont Piercy, 57, secretary to waterworks company

Mary Piercy, 60

Eliza Buckly, 29, servant

1901

1901 Census, Limehurst, Audlem

Joseph H Bellyse, 63, solicitor

Jane Bellyse, 70

Mary Piercy, sister and widow, 77, living on own means

Fanny Bowler and Edith Bowler, servants

1905

Mary Piercy died on 6 November 1905. Administration of her goods was granted on 6 January 1906. Piercy, Mary of Audlem Cheshire widow died 6 November 1905 Administration Chester 6 January to Jane Bellyse (wife of Joseph Hayward Bellyse) Effects £306 13s 9d (probate records).