Richmal Charity (“Chat”) Baker

23 July 1895 to 29 April 1978

BAK00168

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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

Headlines of Chat Baker’s life are in brown.

Dates are in red.

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Context and local history are in purple.

1895

Richmal Charity Baker was the daughter of John Bellyse and Richmal (nee Mangnall) Baker (BAK00151). She was born on 23 July 1895 and baptised at Audlem on 1 September 1895 (Audlem Parish Records).

1901

1901 Census – 41 South Promenade, St Anne on the Sea, Lancashire

John B Baker, 50, Boarding House Keeper

Richmal Baker, 42

Richmal C Baker, 5

Mary E Banks, 16, domestic servant

1911

1911 Census – Swanbach, Audlem

Florence Mangnall, Single, 54, School mistress, born 1857 Prestwitch Lancs

Blanche Mangnall, Sister, 50, School mistress, born 1861 Prestwitch Lancs

Bessie Mangnall, Niece, Single, 29, Assistant teacher, born 1882 Fallowfield Manchester

Richmal Charity Baker, Boarder, niece, Single, 15, student, born 1896 Hindley Green Lancs

Madeline Johnson, Boarder , 9, Student, born 1902 Shavington Nr Crew

Margaret Hulse, Servant, Single, 21, House-maid domestic, born 1890 Audlem Cheshire

Elizabeth Lea, Servant, Single, 20, Cook domestic, born 1891 Audlem Cheshire

1917

Richmal Baker of Hillside, Audlem, was a cook at the Cheshire Branch of the British Red Cross Society Volunteers, from, January 1917 to May 1919

1921

1921 Census – Stafford Street, Audlem

Jane Baker, Head, Female, b1849, 72, Audlem, Cheshire -Home Duties (see BAK00127)

Ellen Baker, Daughter, Female, b1877, 44 Audlem, Cheshire - Governess, Private (see BAK00162A)

Richmal C Baker, Visitor, Female, b1895, 25, Hindley Green, Lancashire, Governess, Private

1939

She was working as 'daily governess' in 1939.

1939 Register – 57 Hospital; Street, Nantwich

Dorothy Baker, born 10 October 1888, private school master, single, ARP work

Charity (Richmal) Baker, born 23 July 1895, daily governess, single

She lived at Nantwich and later at Old Colwyn with her elder sister, Dot.

1950

Aunty Dot with Margot Atkinson, 1950s Chat, Dot and Peggy Baker Chat

1978

Chat died unmarried on 29 April 1978 in Colwyn, Denbighshire and her will was proved on 18 August 1978. Baker, Richmal Charity of 24 Kensington Avenue Old Colwyn Colwyn Bay Clywd died 29 April 1978 Probate Sheffield 18 August £46682 (Probate Records).