Horace Henry Richard Baker (1880 - 1965)

Born 14 Jan 1880 in Week St Mary, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Husband of Caroline Ellen Law — married 29 Jan 1907 in Cornwall, England

Died 7 Dec 1965 at age 85 in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand

This was previously an orphaned profile

Biography

Horace was the son of Richard Baker, a cornish farmer and Olympia Uglow. He had 6 siblings, Thomas, Richard, Ada, William, Olympia and Hannah.

His father died in 1887 leaving Olympia to run the farm at Whiteleigh.

On October 3 1891, Olympia took her family of 7 children aboard the ship 'RMS Arawa' bound for New Zealand. She eventually settled in the south island at Christchurch and later Ashburton where she passed away in 1910 aged 60.

Horace settled in Marlborough and married in 1907 to Caroline Ellen Law. They had 5 known children, 4 of which were recorded before 1919, Francis Graham, Miriam Kathleen, Eleanor Agnes and Winifred Thelma.

The Baker family lived at Fairhall in the Marlborough area where Horace worked as a Farmer. On retirement, he moved to Blenheim.

He died in 1965 aged 85 and is buried at Omaka cemetery.

Sources

• "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLK-GK5X : 2 February 2018), Horace Henry Richard Baker, 1880.

• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W6VS-J3Z : 4 May 2019), Horace Henry Baker in household of Olimphus J Baker, Jacobstow, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Cornwall county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

• "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists, 1839-1973," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS1L-6PD : 23 May 2019), Horace Baker, 1891; citing ship multiple ships, Archives New Zealand, Wellington; FHL microfilm 4,413,120.

• https://www.marlborough.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemetery-records-search?surname=baker&givenNames=horace&cemetery=&yearFrom=&yearTo= Marlborough cemetery search

• https://www.ancestry.com.au

England Census 1881, 1891

NZ Electoral Rolls