Henrietta Baker (874) | Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

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Henrietta Baker (874)
23/10/1831 –24/05/1900

Henrietta Baker (874)

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Plot 874: Henrietta Baker (née Chambers) (c.1832-1900)

Henrietta Chambers was born c.1832 in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, the third of John and Elizabeth Chambers’ six children. In 1841 her father was described in the census as a waterman, that is a ferryman or someone who provided passenger transport on a river. By the 1851 census, however, his occupation was given as carpenter.

Henrietta is missing from the family at the 1851 census, but in April 1861 she was at home with her father and mother, her occupation given as straw bonnet maker, like her mother. Also in the household was a boarder, Henry Baker, a tailor.

Proximity appears to have led to romance because in September that year Henrietta and Henry were married, not in St Ives, but at St James’ church, Shoreditch. Possibly Henry was working in the area at the time. If that was the case they soon moved back to St Ives where all their six children were born: Ebenezer William (1863-1940), Harry Chambers (1869-1955), Frederick George (1871-1922) and Catherine (b.1863).

Henry set up shop as a tailor and draper, later adding “insurance agent” to his portfolio. He died in 1886 aged only fifty one, and in the 1891 census Henrietta is shown as “living on her own means” in St Ives with Frederick, Ebenezer and Catherine.

Frederick George married and moved to Berkhamsted where he was publican of the Rose & Crown, Gossom’s End with his wife Ellen (Nellie). Frederick and Nellie are buried here in Plot 764.

Henrietta died in St Ives in 1900 and was brought to Berkhamsted to rest here in Rectory Lane cemetery with her grandson Frederick Lovell Baker (1896-1902).

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Plot 874: Henrietta Baker (née Chambers) (c.1832-1900)

Henrietta Chambers was born c.1832 in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, the third of John and Elizabeth Chambers’ six children. In 1841 her father was described in the census as a waterman, that is a ferryman or someone who provided passenger transport on a river. By the 1851 census, however, his occupation was given as carpenter.

Henrietta is missing from the family at the 1851 census, but in April 1861 she was at home with her father and mother, her occupation given as straw bonnet maker, like her mother. Also in the household was a boarder, Henry Baker, a tailor.

Proximity appears to have led to romance because in September that year Henrietta and Henry were married, not in St Ives, but at St James’ church, Shoreditch. Possibly Henry was working in the area at the time. If that was the case they soon moved back to St Ives where all their six children were born: Ebenezer William (1863-1940), Harry Chambers (1869-1955), Frederick George (1871-1922) and Catherine (b.1863).

Henry set up shop as a tailor and draper, later adding “insurance agent” to his portfolio. He died in 1886 aged only fifty one, and in the 1891 census Henrietta is shown as “living on her own means” in St Ives with Frederick, Ebenezer and Catherine.

Frederick George married and moved to Berkhamsted where he was publican of the Rose & Crown, Gossom’s End with his wife Ellen (Nellie). Frederick and Nellie are buried here in Plot 764.

Henrietta died in St Ives in 1900 and was brought to Berkhamsted to rest here in Rectory Lane cemetery with her grandson Frederick Lovell Baker (1896-1902).

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