Ethel Maud (Allen) Baker (1890 - 1974)

Born 25 May 1890 in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of Roderick Manfield Baker — married 1917 in Reading, Berkshire, England

Died Jun 1974 at age 84 in Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Ethel was born in 1890. She was probably the daughter of William Henry and Emma Georgina Allen.^[1]

Possible Christening Record:

Christening Date: 4 October 1891

Event Place: Fishponds, St Mary, Gloucestershire, England^[2]

Ethel married Roderick Manfield Baker in 1917 in Reading, Berkshire, England.^[3]

They had at least one daughter; Phyllis Joyce (born in Australia).

They emigrated from England to the United States.

US Census Date 1920: Recorded as a Lodger in the household of Elizabeth Collier, along with her husband and daughter, in Los Angeles Assembly District 64, Los Angeles, California, United States. Aged 29. Her husband was an Electrician.

Her husband passed away in America in 1957.

Ethel returned to England where she passed away in 1974 at the age of 84. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XBS-HWX : 1 October 2014), Ethel Maud Allen, 1890; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006,"
2. ↑ "England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4NW-ZYC : 25 July 2017), Ethel Maud Allen, 1891.
3. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26N9-QKC : 22 May 2014), Ethel M Allen and null, 1917; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,”
4. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCT-1JYM : 4 September 2014), Ethel Maud Baker, 1974; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006,"

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Census Records

• "England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4NW-ZYC : 25 July 2017), Ethel Maud Allen, 1891.

• "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7K5-KX7 : 2 August 2017), Ethel Maud Allen in household of William Henry Allen, Weymouth, Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England; from "1911 England and Wales census,"

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQK-SVX : accessed 16 November 2017), Ethel M Baker in household of Elizabeth M Collier, Los Angeles Assembly District 64, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing ED 208, sheet 3B, line 86, family 17, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 108; FHL microfilm 1,820,108.