FAMILY HISTORY George Frederick Baker and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley
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FAMILY HISTORY George Frederick Baker and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley Deal, Kent to Australia 1854 September, 2013 George Frederick Baker and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley COPYRIGHT: This work is copyright © Mark Christian, 2010-13, and is intended for private use only. Many of the illustrations are public domain but permission has not been sought or given for the use of any copyrighted images. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Thanks to fellow Baker family members and researchers Lesley Booth, Gayle Thomsett and Frances Terry for sharing their research, contacts and first-hand knowledge. Peter Swan, Richard Swan and Barbara Spencer, Scott Baker, Deanne Waugh, Lyn Veitch, Steve Ager, Lyn Hudson-Williamson, Fraser Chapman and others have also shared information. Ron Frew from Tumbarumba Historical Society kindly provided information about the Chapman family’s time in that town. Thanks also to Coralie Welch who did a lot of the original research on the Bakers and whose book “The Bohemian Girl” (2002) tells the story of her parents Rose Seidel and Lee Baker, and the wider family of Charles Baker. George Frederick Baker and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley Table of Contents George Frederick Baker (1827 – 1900) and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley (1826 – 1885) ........................................................ 1 Deal, Kent, England ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 George Baker and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley in Sydney (1854 – 1882) .......................................................................... 9 George and Sarah Baker in Wagga Wagga (1883 – 1886) ......................................................................................... 17 George Baker and Mary Angove nee Merritt (1886-1900) ......................................................................................... 18 Baker Family Honour Roll .......................................................................................................................................... 20 William Frederick Baker (1852 – 1899) ..................................................................................................................... 22 Charles Baker (1853 – 1920) ...................................................................................................................................... 26 Charles Eugene George Baker ............................................................................................................................................. 29 Isabel Mary Baker ................................................................................................................................................................ 31 Grace Veronica Baker .......................................................................................................................................................... 31 Mary Casimir Robina “Ruby” Baker (1887 – 1939) ............................................................................................................ 34 Eugene, Connell and Leo Baker in the Great War ............................................................................................................... 35 Leo Bernard “Lee” Baker ................................................................................................................................................................. 36 Eugene James “Gene” Baker ............................................................................................................................................................ 38 Connell Raymond “Con” Baker ....................................................................................................................................................... 39 Tasker Baker, Leonard Carroll and Max Welch – Tobruk and El Alamein ......................................................................... 41 Arthur Wilkinson Baker (1858 – 1918) ...................................................................................................................... 52 Arthur Richard Baker ........................................................................................................................................................... 57 William George Baker ......................................................................................................................................................... 60 Reginald Charles Waterson .................................................................................................................................................. 62 The Baker Sisters- Elizabeth, Emma, Laura, Julia and Ada ....................................................................................... 64 Ada Winifred Weekes Baker (1866 – 1949) ............................................................................................................... 65 Vera Hall .............................................................................................................................................................................. 73 Douglas John Richards ......................................................................................................................................................... 74 Peter Richards ...................................................................................................................................................................... 77 Juliet Wilkinson Baker (1860-1944) ........................................................................................................................... 78 Ethel May Grant ................................................................................................................................................................... 82 Norman Frederic Grant ........................................................................................................................................................ 87 Eric George Grant ................................................................................................................................................................ 89 Elizabeth Harriett Baker (1849- 1931) ........................................................................................................................ 91 Laura Eliza Swan ................................................................................................................................................................. 95 Elizabeth Agnes “Bessie” Swan ........................................................................................................................................... 96 George Henry Swan ............................................................................................................................................................. 97 Trevor Winchester Swan .................................................................................................................................................................. 97 Hazel May Swan and Claude Pickford ........................................................................................................................................... 104 Emma Baker (1850 – 1930) ...................................................................................................................................... 121 Elizabeth Laura Lowe ........................................................................................................................................................ 122 Clara Louisa Lowe ............................................................................................................................................................. 124 William John Lowe ............................................................................................................................................................ 127 James Frederick Lowe ........................................................................................................................................................ 129 Laura Wilkinson Baker (1856 – 1925) ...................................................................................................................... 131 John Henry “Jack” Chapman ............................................................................................................................................. 136 George Whitmee Chapman ................................................................................................................................................ 141 Charles Cyril Chapman ...................................................................................................................................................... 143 Ethel Sarah Chapman ......................................................................................................................................................... 144 Rita Marie Chapman .......................................................................................................................................................... 147 Frank Gordon Chapman ..................................................................................................................................................... 147 The Baker Family Ancestors – Deal, Kent ............................................................................................................... 148 The Baker Family ..............................................................................................................................................................