Baker, Susannah

Birth Name Baker, Susannah
Gender female
Age at Death about 70 years, 16 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1843 Moulton St Mary, Norfolk Birth of Susannah Baker  
Census 30 Mar 1851 Bell Street, North Shields, Northumberland 1851 Census: Susannah Baker, with mother Susan Ann Baker and half-sister Sarah Ann  
Census 7 Apr 1861 Bell Street, North Shields, Northumberland 1861 Census: Susannah Baker, with mother Sarah Ann and half-sister Sarah Ann  
Death 17 Jan 1913 County Asylum, Morpeth, Northumberland Death of Susannah Baker  

Families

Family of Fannan, Archibald and Baker, Susannah
Married Husband Fannan, Archibald ( * 7 Jul 1839 + ... )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 10 Jul 1866 St Hilda’s Parish Church, South Shields, Co. Durham Marriage of Susannah Baker and Archibald Fannen  
Note

Marriage of Susannah Baker and Archibald Fannen: Susannah was illiterate. Witnesses John Ord and Mary Frysh.

married after banns by Charles Dent

Census 2 Apr 1871 5 Queen Street, Tynemouth, Northumberland 1871 Census: Susannah Baker with son John James  
Census 3 Apr 1881 113 Church Road, Tynemouth, Northumberland 1881 Census: Archibald Fannen, wife Susannah, step-son John James, mother-in-law Sarah Ann.  

Family of Baker, Susannah
Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Baker, John James8 Aug 1864before 7 Feb 1918

Notes

Note: 1

Susannah Baker:

One problem I have is at the time of the marriage between John Collard and Sarah Baker, Sarah is down as a spinster and her father was William Baker (marriage certificate in Sarah Baker record), but by all of her daughters Susannah Baker marriages her father was Robert, so I do not know if all the information on Sarah marriage is correct.
Regards
Stan Baker

Sarah Collard (Baker) is also my 3rd great grandmother. An examination of the time line offers a solution to Stan's question.

Sarah (Ann) Baker was born either in 1820 or 1823. John Collard was baptised in 1820.
Sarah's daughter Susannah was born in 1843
John Collard married Sarah (Ann) Baker in 1846.
Therefore, Susannah was born illegitimate and took her mother's surname, Baker. When she got married she named her father as "Robert" and the vicar assumed he was "Robert Baker" but this was almost definitely not the case. Who "Robert" was I do not know; did Susannah know who her father was, or did she invent the name? There is no evidence to suggest that Sarah (Ann) had been married before she married John Collard.

As Stan has documented, Susannah had many marriages and may have been guilty of bigamy.

Sarah Collard (Baker) is my 3rd Great Grandmother, her daughter Susannah had a illegitimate Son John James Baker, (before she married Archibald Fannen), my Great, Great Grandfather, He married Emily Davison, and one of their son's John James Baker married Catherine Thompson, and their son Thomas Stanley Baker is my father.
Regards
Stan Baker

 

 

Note: 2

Susannah Baker - am unable to find a birth of baptism record for her. "Civil registration of births in England and Wales officially began on 1 July 1837, with the creation of the General Register Office (GRO)"

She has a number of marriages including two to the same man, one when she was living with Archibald Fannen!! Needs sorting out!!

Pedigree

    1. Baker, Susannah
      1. Fannan, Archibald
        1. Baker, John James