Charity Baker (later Charity Piercy)

7 March 1834 to 9 December 1920

BAK00130

The Bakers Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Bakers Family part of the website

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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Audlem, Cheshire

1834

Charity Baker was the daughter of William and Ann (nee Hough) Baker (BAK00102). She was born on 7 March 1834 and baptised at Audlem, 9 March 1834.

(St James the Great, Audlem, Parish Records)

Charity, born 7 March 1834, married Henry Piercy of Market Drayton, Shropshire, the second son (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, Buerton

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, Audlem

Richard B Bellyse, 51, surgeon and apothecary, MRCS

Lizzie Bellyse, 30, surgeon’s daughter

Charity Baker, 27, visitor, magistrate’s daughter

Mary Clarke, 60, cook

Eliza Jones, 17, housemaid

Lowthorpe, near Bridlington, Yorkshire

1862

Charity Baker married Henry Onslow Piercy (1835-1909), son of Rev John Piercy on 19 February 1862 (Audlem Parish Records).

The Yorkshire Gazette, 22 February 1862: PIERCY-BAKER. On the 19^th inst, at Audlem, Cheshire. By the Rev E Groghagen, assisted by the Rev J M Gillington, Henry Ounslow Piercy, Esq, of Harpham, in this county, son of the Rev J Piercy, rector of Rushock, Worcestershire, to Charity, daughter of William Baker, Esq, of Highfield, Cheshire.

They had a family.

1871

1871 Census – The Elms, Lowthorpe

Henry Onslow Piercy, 35, farm agent and surveyor

Charity Piercy, 36

Henry Montagu Piercy, 8

Edith Frances Piercy, 6

Adolpha Wykeham Piercy, 5

Frederic Onslow Piercy, 3

Beaumont Wykham Piercy, 1

Jane Ellen Brown, 57, unmarried, governess

A nurse and 3 servants

1881

1881 Census – The Elms, Lowthorpe

Henry Onslow Piercy, 45, farm agent and surveyor

Charity Piercy, 47

Henry Montagu Piercy, 18, banker’s clerk

Edith Frances Piercy, 16

Frederic Onslow Piercy, 13

Beaumont Wykham Piercy, 11

Maud M Piercy, 9

William P Spencer, unmarried nephew, tutor and teacher

A cook and housemaid

1891

1891 Census – The Elms, Lowthorpe

Henry Onslow Piercy, 55, land agent and surveyor

Charity Piercy, 56

Henry Montagu Piercy, 28

Frederic Onslow Piercy, 23, architect and surveyor

Maud M Piercy, 19

Others

1901

1901 Census – The Elms, Lowthorpe

Charity Piercy, 66, head, married

Frederic Onslow Piercy, 33, land agent, auctioneer and surveyor

Maud M Piercy, 29

Others

1920

Charity Piercy died at Bridlington, Yorkshire on 9 December 1920 and was buried at Lowthorpe, Yorkshire on 14 December 1920 (Lowthorpe Parish Records). Her will was proved on 6 May 1921. Piercy Chairty of 3 Pembroke terrace Bridlington Yorkshire widow died 9 December 1920 Probate York 6 May to Edith Fiennes Hartley (wife of William Atchibald Hartley) and Adolpha Wykeham Holt (wife of Harrison Holt). Effects £775 12s 10d (Probate Records).