Henrietta Louisa Bellyse (later
Henrietta Louisa Baker)
1 November 1824 (baptised) to 4 May 1880
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Henrietta Louisa Bellyse, married
as his second wife her first cousin, William Baker, JP, MFH, of Highfields, and
had issue. He died 1876 (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).
1824
Henrietta Louisa Bellyse, the
daughter of Dr John Bellyse MD (BEL00003) and
Hannah (nee Baker) Bellyse (BAK00101),
was born in 1824 and baptised on 1 November 1830 (Audlem Parish Records).
1841
1841 Census, Sandy Lane, Mount Pleasant,
Audlem
John Bellyse, 50, surgeon
Richard Bellyse, 30, surgeon
Hannah Bellyse, 55
Louisa Bellyse, 15
Eliza Bellyse, 10
1849
Henrietta married her widowed
first cousin, William Baker the Younger (BAK00121)
on 6 February 1849 at St James, Westminster (St James, Westminster Parish Records).
1851
1851 Census – Woodhouse Lane,
Buerton, Nantwich, Cheshire
William Baker, 34, born 1817, fund holder
Henrietta Louisa Baker, 26,
born 1825
Henrietta Baker, 2, born 1849
John Bellyse Baker, 0, born 1850
Margaret Green, 28, nurse
Ann Maria Austin, 19, nurse
1861
1861 census – Kinsey Heath, Buerton, Audlem, Cheshire
William Baker, 43, head, landed proprietor
Henrietta Baker, his wife 36
John Bellyse Baker, 10
Arthur Baker, 1
Elizabeth Daniels, 18, unmarried, governess
Three servants
1871
1871
census –
Highfields, Buerton, Audlem, Cheshire
William Baker,
54, head, landowner
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
Two visitors,
including John Percy, their agent
Three servants
1873
William was a Justice of the Peace
for Shropshire and for Cheshire from 1873.
1876
Henrietta’s husband, William died
on 19 May 1876. He was buried on 24 May 1876 (St James the Great, Audlem Parish Records). His will was proved on 21 July
1876 (Probate Index).
One of the stained
glass windows at Audlem church has the inscription To
the glory of God, and in memory of William Baker who died AD 1863, and of
William Baker his son, who died 1876, both of Highfields in this parish,
justices of the Peace, this window is dedicated.
1879
(Letter from Louisa Baker of Highfields to her son,
John Bellyse Baker (in South America), 27 December 1879, Baker Records, 61)
1880
Henrietta died on or about 4 May
1880, aged 55 (General Records Office
Volume 8a page 237), after a long illness.
(Court of Probate, 1880)
Her daughter, Chatty Baker, who
died the following year, wrote in her diary:
January 1880
Sun 18th. Mamma is still very
poorly she keeps to her room now and has not been out of bed much for the last
week.
Jan 29th. Mamma is better again
today. I hope she will keep improving. Poppy has a bad cold
but she is not so troubled with it now.
February 1880
Tues 1st. Mamma is better again
but Aunt Sarah is poorly in bed but I hope she will
soon be all right again.
March 1880
Thurs 4th. Last Sunday Mamma was very
ill indeed but she rallied a little before night, during Monday she was better
but last night she was much worse again, it was shock yesterday since she began
with the sharp pain feeling. Jack and Arthur came home from South America a
week tonight we were very glad to see them again. They are changed very little
indeed during the seven months they were away. Dr. Jay is coming to see Mamma
again tonight, he does not always come twice a day but
Miss Evans and Poppy have sat up nearly all the night with her poor neck.
Fri 5th. Mamma is about the same
today. Dr. Jay has only been once. I hope he will not have any reason to come
twice again. I have written to Aunt Sarah today to tell her about Mamma. Aunt
Charlotte has been with us since Thursday afternoon.
Sun 7th. I did not write last
night. I am sorry to say Mamma is not so well to-night.
Mon 8th. Mamma has sent for Dr.
Jay to-night. I hope he will be here before long.
Sat 13th. Mamma has not been so
well. Today her cough does trouble her again, it quite exhausts her to cough at
all. Mrs Ashe has been to see her, with Aunt Sarah, but they did not stay very
long.
Sun 14th. Mamma still
keeps about the same, she does not get any stronger.
Tues 30th. Mamma is not so well.
Today she has been very sick and it makes her feel so
much weaker.
April 1880
Sun 4th. Mamma still
keeps about the same. She does not seem any better at all. It seems a very
long time since Miss Evans has been out for a walk with us children, she has
been so busy looking after Mamma since she came home from her holidays.
Sun 18th. Mamma still
keeps very ill. She does not get any better. Aunt Hannah is coming to
see her very soon, but she is not coming to stay here, but at Aunt Jane’s
house. Joe has been here this afternoon, he saw Mamma for a few minutes, at
least, and makes her cough to talk much at a time. Jack and Arthur are still without
anything settled to do yet. I wish they could. I think it is troubling Mamma
and keeping her from getting well. Dr. Jay is going to leave Audlem, we are
very sorry he is going now, but we know who is coming next. He is an Irishman,
and his name is Dr. Newman, he seems a pleasant man.
Wed 21st. Mamma is very ill today.
I do not think that the doctors think she will get better. Aunt Hannah is at
Audlem, she has seen her very much changed. Mr Atkinson has this evening to see
Mamma, I hope that she asked him to come tomorrow. Mr.
Corbett has been about letting their house, I am sure it would be a great
weight off Mamma’s mind if it could be either let or sold. Nothing of any
importance has happened.
September 1880
Sun 12th. Since I last wrote a
great deal has happened. Dear Mamma has been taken from us. I feel her loss
more each day.
Sun 19th. I think this year has
been a gloomy one so far. Dear Mamma was ill up in her room from November to May
when she died. I do not seem able to think of her in any other way than when I
saw her the last morning when I think of her. I seem to see her dear face so
distinctly. Perhaps it was with me being with her whilst she was ill.