189_Baker_Records
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Introduction	Introduction
Tracing	Tracing the Bakers
Proofs	Proofs
PP_189	That Ann Baker (189) was the mother of Thomas Stayt (94)
PP_378	That Thomas Baker (378) was the father of Ann Baker (189)
PP_756	That Thomas Baker (756) was the father of Thomas Baker (378)
PP_1512	That William Baker (1512) was the father of Thomas Baker (756)
PP_3024	That William Baker (3024) was the father of William Baker (1512)
PP_6048	That Thomas Baker (6048) was the father of William Baker (3024)
Records	The Records
W_1608	1608-05-24 Will (Consistory Court of Gloucester, Will 1608/134)		1608	Thomas (6048)
	Testator: Thomas Baker of Bledington, Glocs.
	Executors: sons Richard, Thomas & William
	Date: 28 November 1607, proved 24 May 1608
	Witnesses: Thomas and William Stayte, Richard Guy
	Will: - 3s to church in Bledington
	- 4d apiece to poor of Bledington
	- 20s to daughter Joane Rooke
	- 20s each to each of her children
	- 20s each to the two children of son Thomas
	- 20s to Redigo? daughter of son Richard
	- 12d to son-in-law John H?wford, and forgo his debt of 20s
	- 5s 8d to godson Thomas Stayt the younger
	- 13s 4d to the other children of Thomas Stayt the elder to be shared equally
	- £20 owed by Thomas Stayt the elder to be repaid at £4 yearly
	Total fortune: - ca. £30, + rest
	1608 Land Purchase in Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby: ‘The Changing English Village’ by M. K. Ashby. 1974)			Family (6048)
	The reigning Leigh family becomes gradually a modern landlord and the former copy-holders modern tenants or owner-husbandmen. When the Leighs sold land in Bledington they began with the demesne leases, offering freehold. The first tenant to buy was Baker and the date 1608; others followed his example soon. In the course of the seventeenth century there came to be a score of freeholders.
	1611 Land Purchase in Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby)			Family (6048)
	The earliest date we have of one of these purchases is 1611. A deed of the early eighteenth century [1710] reviews the history of the Baker holding from that date, when Thomas Baker bought from Leigh.
	1620-01-08 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry.co.uk, 2016)			William (3024)	1620
	William Baker s. William & Elizabeth			Elizabeth (3025)
B_1622	1622-05-07 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry.co.uk, 2016)			William (3024)	1622
	William Baker s. William & Elizabeth			Elizabeth (3025)
				William (1512)
W_1625	1625-05-03 Will (Consistory Court of Gloucester, Will 1625/178)		1625	Family (6048)
	Testator: Thomas Baker of Stow-on-the-Wold, Glocs., glover			William (3024)
	Executrix: wife Christian
	Overseers: brothers Richard and William
	Date: 15 January 1624, proved 3 May 1625
	Witnesses: William Oliver, Tho M?, Robert Harbage the elder, Richard Baker, William Baker, Barnard Wright
	Will: - 10d to repair of parish church of Bledington
	- House to sons John and Thomas equally, after wife Christian’s death
	- £6 13s 8d to son Richard
	- £4 to daughter Joane
	- rest to wife Christian
	Total fortune: - ca. £11, 1 house, + rest
W_1647	1647-07-01 Will (TNA, PROB 11/201/77)		1647	Family (6048)	1647
	Testator: Joan Rooke of Bledington, Glocs., widow			William (3024)
	Executor: grandson Edmund Widdowes
	Overseers: William Stayt, William Guy
	Date: 2 January 1644, proved 1 July 1647
	Witnesses: William Baker, William Guy
	Will: - 5s to church of Bledington
	- 20s to poor of Bledington
	- 5s to daughter Joane Guy widow
	- furniture & implements to William son of daughter Joane Guy
	- 10s to daughter Anne Widdowes of Brookend
	- £25 to Anne daughter of daughter Anne Widdowes when 21
	- £20 apiece to Marie, John, Thomas, Elizabeth & George children of daughter Anne Widdowes when 21
	- 5s apiece to children of son-in-law Humphrey Rooke of Evenlode
	- 10s apiece to Thomas & Elizabeth children of son-in-law Nicholas Gibbs of Donnington
	- 6s 8d apiece to Anne, Rebecca & William children of Richard Baker of Stow
	- 20s to Joane daughter of brother Thomas Baker of Stow
	- 12d apiece to servants of daughters Anne Widdowes & Joane Guy
	- 12d apiece to godchildren
	- 40s to poor distributed at funeral
	- rest to daughter Joane Guy for life, then to her son William Guy
	Total fortune: - ca. £140, + rest
	1647 Court Case concerning Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby)
	For the year 1647 a notable document was carried by five Bledington "men of the Jury" to the Hundred Court. By that time the Civil Wars had gone on for five years. The first engagement, the Battle of Edgehill, had been fought twenty miles from here, on and below the ridge that runs from Stow via Chatleton to Sunrising and Knoll End Hills, and looks over the Vale of the Red Horse. That was in 1642; in 1643 royalist soldiers were quartered in Oddington and Stow was the scene of a contest between Lord Essex the Parliamentary leader and Prince Rupert. Essex had heavy guns which must have been heard in Bledington. Civil customs and events were disturbed: Dover's Games, we know, were halted. But as in the Wars of the Roses, much of local government continued hereabouts in its accustomed way. Whichever party, Royal or Parliamentary, held sway sent bailiffs as usual to hold Hundred Courts, and the ancient customs of open-fields farming could not be dispensed with. Yet doubtless disturbance and failure of authority in the national sphere favoured division and indiscipline in smaller communities. Certainly Bledington had its disharmony. The absence of the manorial court had left commoners with only their ancient meeting which alone had no power to compel. Men had been breaking the old rules - ignoring the dates for turning rother beasts on to the common and sheep on to the stubble. A new misdemeanour was turning sheep on to the common and baiting them there on their way to and from Stow market. Meetings of commoners had discussed these matters but the miscreants defied their fellows. There were only four or five of them against twenty one. The majority decided to appeal to the Hundred Court. They drew up a summary of the rules - mostly ancient, but with a few adjustments e.g. provision for growing oats. The duties and rights of fieldsmen and oarsmen were also set out. Finally this long clear document provided that the fines for disobedience would be the property of the Hundred Court. The twenty-one signatures to the document include the old names - Guy, Baker, Ivinge, Grayhurst, Pegler, Lord, Hathaway, Cooke, Rooke, Andrews and Dodford, besides some already named above, and a few more recent ones - Winter, Dalby, Taylor and Ellems, Cornwell and Young.
M_1661	1661-12-30 Marriage in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2017; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			William (1512)	1661
	William Baker & Lucia Rooke			Lucia (1513)
	1662-01-28 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2010; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			William (1512)	1662
	Elizabeth Baker d. William & Lucy			Lucia (1513)
	1670-02-01 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2010; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			William (1512)	1670
	Lucia Baker d. William & Lucy			Lucia (1513)
	1681 Court Case concerning Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby)
	In 1681, four children named Baker appeal to the Court to order their maintenance. The Court was of the opinion that the children ought to be relieved: it commissioned two magistrates to decide on a weekly payment. Knowing something of the prosperity of the Bakers, one thinks it likely that overseers felt that the children should be supported by their own family and that the Court was generous at the village's expense.
D_1685	1685-11-13 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry.co.uk, 2016)			William (1512)	1685
	William Baker
M_1693c	1693c Marriage ()		1707	Thomas (756)
	Thomas Baker & Mary Stayt			Mary (757)
	CRW: The will of William Stayt in 1707 mentions his daughter Mary Baker
	1694 Will (OxRO Wills 1731/98)
	John Baker, husb., Kingham, W. I. 204.261; 8/1/26
	CRW: Seen - no relation
	1694-10-07 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2010; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Thomas (756)	1694
	Lucy Baker d. Thomas & Mary			Mary (757)
B_1702	1702-01-17 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2010; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Thomas (756)	1702
	Thomas Baker s. Thomas & Mary			Mary (757)
				Thomas (378)
	1705-10-30 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2010; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Thomas (756)	1705
	William Baker s. Thomas & Mary			Mary (757)
	1709-08-16 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 2010; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Thomas (756)	1709
	Mary Baker d. Thomas & Mary			Mary (757)
	1709 Marriage Agreement in Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby)
	In 1709, Samuel Buswell, weaver, son and grandson of weavers, married a daughter or ward of Thomas Baker, a prosperous farmer, the terrier of whose land has been referred to. Baker gave her a small dowry and her husband acknowledged it by giving her some rights in his cottage, weaver's shed and half-orchard. But Samuel's father is to live in the cottage with them and is to have the right to do so till his death, with Elizabeth being "serviceable" to him, providing him with meat, drink and firing.
	1710 Deed in Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby)
	The earliest date we have of one of these purchases is 1611. A deed of the early eighteenth century [1710] reviews the history of the Baker holding from that date, when Thomas Baker bought from Leigh.
	1711 Rental, Extent or Assessment? in Bledington, Gloucs (Ashby)
	In 1711 Richard Baker's holding consisted of 250 strips, never in groups of more than three together, and only thirty groups of three and two, accounting for 66 in all. The other 184 strips lay scattered singly. The holding was represented in all the six major divisions of the "field" or arable area, and in 45 of the furlongs, beside some in picks and butts which composed the six. He had a few strips in meadows, beside his rights in the Lot Mead, the Twenty Lands and the heaths. This holding was almost precisely as it had been in the Extent of 1550.
	1721-10-13 Marriage in Stow on the Wold, Glocs. (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Family (756)	1721
	Robert Davis of Churchill & Lucy Baker of Bledington
M_1726	1726-06-07 Marriage in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire (IGI; Ancestry.co.uk, 2016)			Thomas (378)	1726
	Thomas Baker mar. Sarah Brooks			Sarah (379)
	1727-09-10 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Family (756)	1727
	Mary Baker
	1727-11-15 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Family (378)	1727
	Thomas Baker infant
D_1728	1728-10-09 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Mary (757)	1728
	Mary Baker, widow
B_1728	1728-10-19 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (IGI, 1998; Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Thomas (378)	1728
	Anne Baker d. Thomas & Sarah			Sarah (379)
				Ann (189)
	1731 Document in Bledington, Gloucs (GlocsRO Miscellaneous Documents D7011/9)
	Sir Robert Walter of Sarsden (Oxon), Baronet, to Thomas Baker of Bledington, yeoman
	1731-12-10 Baptism in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Family (378)	1731
	Thomas Baker
	1731 Will (Glocs Wills 1731/98)
	Thomas Baker, Bledington
	1740-03-08 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)				1740
	Thomas Baker sen.
	1747-09-01 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Thomas (378)	1747
	Thomas Baker
M_1756	1756-04-12 Marriage in Bledington, Gloucs (R. Stayt; Ancestry.co.uk, 2016)			Thomas (188)	1756
	Thomas Steyet and Anne Baker			Ann (189)
	1775-1807 Status (Ashby)
	Between 1775 and 1807, Peglers, Stayts, Gilberts, Roses and Wallingtons were all here and most remained far into the nineteenth century. Bakers were no longer farming: they had sold their holding to a Stayt and Trinder partnership, but they still thrived.
D_1775	1775-01-08 Burial in Bledington, Gloucs (Ancestry, Gloucestershire BMD, 1538-1813)			Sarah (379)	1775
	Sarah Baker, widow, aged 75
D_1784	1784 Burial in Bledington, Glocs (R. Stayt)			Ann (189)	1784
	Anne Stayte (born Baker)
W_1800	1800 Will (TNA, PROB 11/1350/260)		1800	Family (378)
	Testator: Thomas Baker, Bledington, Gloucestershire, Gentleman
	Executrix: niece Ann Trinder, wife of William Trinder
	Date: 16 July 1799, proved 4 September 1800
	Witnesses: Thos Perkins, John Gilkes, Jos. Knight
	Will: - income from his own messuage and land in Bledington - 50s yearly to poor of Bledington, rest to nephew Thomas Stayte of Upton for his lifetime, thereafter to his male heirs
	- farm house and land in Oddington to nephew Edward Stayte
	- two messuages in Bledington to nephew William Stayte, plus £200
	- three messuages and 10 acres in Bledington to niece Ann the Wife of William Trinder
	- messuage in Bledington inhabited by William Edginton and Sarah his Wife to them for their lives, thereafter to nephew Thomas Stayte
	- interest from £200 to Mary the Wife of Richard Cooper of Bledington for her life, thereafter to her children
	- £200 to niece Sarah Stayte
	- £200 to niece Elizabeth Stayte
	- £100 to Sarah Brookes Wife of William Brookes of Kingham
	- interest on £100 to Sarah Brookes for her daughter Sarah Baker Brookes until 21, thereafter principal to her directly
	- £20 to Samuel Collett of Withington to pay legacies
	- rest to Ann Trinder
	- remit half years' rent for William Harbert his tenant at Oddington
	© C. R. Watts 2020  created 10.12.1998, revised 24.11.2020
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