Jane Baker (later Jane Bellyse)

10 June 1825 to 11 April 1914

BAK00126

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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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1825

Jane Baker was the daughter of William and Ann (nee Hough) Baker (BAK00102). She was born on 10 June 1825 and baptised at Audlem on 11 June 1825.

Jane, born 10 June 1825, married her first cousin, Joseph Haywood Bellyse, of Limehurst, Audlem, third son of Dr John Bellyse, of Dorfold Cottage, Nantwich, and dsp (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

1864

Jane Baker married her first cousin, Joseph Hayward Bellyse (BEL00013) of Blandford Forum, Dorset, solicitor, son of Richard Baker Bellyse, surgeon, on 24 October 1864 at Audlem.

On the 24th ult at Audlem, Joseph Hayward Bellyse, Esquire, of Blandford, Dorset, to Jane, fourth daughter of the late William Baker Esquire, of Highfields Cheshire (Glossop Record, 3 December 1864). Bellyse-Baker. On the 24^th ult at Audlem by the Rev J A Wood, assisted by the Rev J M Gillingham, Joseph Hayward Bellyse Esq of Blandford, Dorset, to Jane, fourth daughter of the late William Baker Esq of Highfields, Cheshire (Chester Observer, 3 December 1864).

Jane and Joseph had no family.

1871

1871 Census – 243 Alexandra Street, Blandford

Joseph H Bellyse, 34, solicitor

Jane Bellyse, 36

Two servants

1881

1881 Census – 11 Laudy Lane, Audlem

Joseph H Bellyse, 44, solicitor

Jane Bellyse, 49

Sarah Halfpenny, 64, widow, 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

1911

1911 Census - Limehurst, Audlem

Joseph Hayward Bellyse, 73, solicitor and employer

Jane Bellyse, 80

Jane Baker, widow, 59, living on private means

Agnes Bowden, 50, nurse and Louisa Picker, 25, servant

1914

Jane Bellyse died on 11 April 1914. Her will was proved on 4 May 1914. Bellyse Jane of Audlem Cheshire widow died 11 April 1914 Probate Chester 4 May to Arthur Baker gentleman JP and William Eric Smith solicitor Effects £417 19s 11d (probate records).