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| Name |
Thomas BAKER |
| Born |
1535/1553 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Nov 1593 |
Folkestone, Kent, England  |
| Person ID |
I14773 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
9 Jan 2022 |
| Family |
Elizabeth PALMER, b. 1535/1553 |
| Children |
| | 1. Thomas BAKER, c. 1575, Folkestone, Kent, England , d. Apr 1615, Folkestone, Kent, England (Age ~ 40 years) |
| | 2. Susanna BAKER, c. 1577, Folkestone, Kent, England |
| | 3. Robert BAKER, c. 1580, Folkestone, Kent, England |
| | 4. Henry BAKER, c. 9 Apr 1581, Folkestone, Kent, England |
| | 5. Richard BAKER, c. 1583, Folkestone, Kent, England |
| | 6. Alice BAKER, c. 1584, Folkestone, Kent, England |
| | 7. Joane BAKER, c. 1585, Folkestone, Kent, England |
| | 8. Hester BAKER, c. 1587, Folkestone, Kent, England |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F4424 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Potential father of Thomas Baker who married Agnes Baker is very likely
WILLIAM BAKER & 1)?? ?2)DIONISIAM LOVETT m.20.06.1564 ?3)CHRISTIAN MAY m.22.12.1567
Thomas d.14.04.1564 - need to check this
William 03.04.1564 d.14.04.1564
Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 20, p. 248, "Sandgate Castle, A.D. 1539-40.
"In the fifth month, expense of William Baker of Folkestone, jurat, for certain business concerning the King's great works at Sandgate: A horse hire and for horse meat and man's meat riding to Chartham for trowels 12d.: Two times riding to the Downs to have certain communication with master-comptrollers there concerning the use and custom of freemasons and hard-hewers 2s., etc.
Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 20, p. 246, "Sandgate Castle, A.D. 1539-40.
"Officers, Clerks, and Expenses. - For the first nine months, Thomas Cocks and Richard Keys were the Commissioners for the work, that is to say from the 30th March until the 7th December 1539. These Commissioners do not sign the accounts which officially emanated from them; every page of the ledger, during the nine months, bears the confirmatory signatures of Stephanus de Hashenperg. ic., William Baker, Mayor [of Folkestone], Robert Lynsted, warden [master-mason], John Pallmer, carpent. [master-carpenter], Edward Inmyth, jurat, Thomas Medley, jurat, John Lambert, clerk of the check, and Thomas Warren, clerk of the call. During the subsequent period so many signatures were not considered necessary.
1539 Thomas Baker was a jurat of Folkestone
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BREDMER, usually called Broadmead, is another manor, near the western bounds of this parish, adjoining to Cheriton, in which it is partly situated. It was most probably, in early times, in the possession of a family of its own name; for in the antient deeds and courtrolls of Valoigns, who were owners of Cheriton in king Edward II. and III.'s reign, there is frequent mention of several of this name, who held lands of the Valoigns family; but before the latter end of king Edward III.'s reign, it was come into the possession of William de Brockhull, of Saltwood, whose second son Thomas Brockhull leaving an only daughter and heir Elizabeth, she carried it in marriage to Richard Selling, in whose descendants it remained till Henry VIII.'s reign, when it was passed away to Edmund Inmith, a retainer to Thomas, lord Clinton, and he gave it to his second son Edmund Inmith, who leaving two daughters and coheirs, one of whom married Rayner, and the other Baker, the latter of them, in right of his wife, shared this manor as part of her inheritance, and in king James I.'s reign alienated it to Beane, in which name it continued some length of time, and till it was sold to Worger, and thence again to Bayley, in which name it remained till Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey and other conveyed it to William Bouverie, earl of Radnor, whose son the right hon. Jacob, earl of Radnor, is the present owner of it. A court baron is held for this manor.
MOREHALL is a small manor near Cheriton, which was antiently held of the barony of Folkestone by knight's service, by William de Valentia, who in the 27th year of king Henry III. obtained a charter of privileges for it. William de Detling held it in king Edward II.'s reign; after which it passed into the possession of a family who took their name from it. When this family was extinct here, which was about king Henry IV.'s reign, the Bakers, of Coldham, became possessed of it. At length John Baker, of Coldham, dying anno 17 Henry VI. Joane, one of his daughters and coheirs, entitled her husband Robert Brandred to it; and their son Robert, about the latter end of that reign, passed is away to Sir Tho. Browne, of Beechworth-castle, whose descendant Sir Matthew Browne, at the very latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, alienated it to Thomas Godman, of London; (fn. 9) from which name it was sold, anno 3 Charles I. to John Eldred, esq. one of whose descendants, anno 34 Charles II. passed it away to John Michel, esq. and from him, anno 5 queen Anne, it was alienated to Jacob Desbouverie, esq. in whose family it has continued in the same manner as the rest of his estates in this parish, to the right hon. Jacob, earl of Radnor, the present possessor of it. A court baron is regularly held for this
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Caldham, usually named Coldham, from its exposed situation, is a manor in the south-east part of this parish [Capel-le-Ferne], which was anciently the patrimony of a family bearing the same name. Prior to the time of Richard II it passed away to the Bakers, in which it continued to John Baker, of Caldham, porter of Calais under Henry V and VI, who, dying without male issue, and leaving five daughters, this estate went with Joane to Robert Brandred, whose son, of that name, at the close of the reign of Henry VI, passed the property to Sir Thomas Browne, of Beechworth Castle.
[Source: Englands Topographer: Or a New and Complete History of the County ..., Volume 2, 1829.
By William H. Ireland, p 159.]
CALDHAM, now usually called Coldham, from its cold and exposed situation, is a manor in the south-east part of this parish, which appears by records to have been antiently the patrimony of owners of the same name, who bore for their arms, Gules, a fess, ermine, between three martlets, argent; but before the reign of king Richard II. they had passed it away to Baker, a family of good account in this part of the county, having a peculiar chancel belonging to them in Folkestone church, who resided at it; and in this name it continued down to John Baker, of Caldham, who was gentleman porter of Calais in the reigns of Henry V. and VI. and bore for his arms, Argent, on a fess, nebulee, sable, a tower, triple-towered, of the first, between three keys of the second; perhaps in allusion to his office. He died without male issue in the 17th year of the latter reign, holding this manor in capite, and leaving five daughters his coheirs; and upon the division of their inheritance, Robert Brandred, in right of Joan his wife, the fourth daughter, became entitled to it; and their son Robert, about the latter end of king Henry VI. passed it away to Sir Thomas Browne, of Beechworth castle, whose descendant, Sir Anthony Browne, in the 33d year of king Henry VIII. exchanged it for other premises with that prince, who in his 36th year, granted it to William Wilsford, and others, citizens of London, to hold in capite; and they, in the 37th year of it, alienated it to John Tuston, esq. of Hothfield, whose grandson Sir Nicholas Tuston, knight and baronet, was by king Charles I. created Baron of Tuston and Earl of Thanet, in whose descendants it has continued down to the right hon. Sackville, earl of Thanet, the present owner of it.
[Source: Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Capell', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (Canterbury, 1799), pp. 142-147. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp142-147 [accessed 10 April 2017].]
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Kentish archæology, Volume 1, p. 10, "Folkestone Church"
By William Archibald Scott Robertson
In the latter year, 1464, John Baker directed his executors to "make one work called 'an yle' with a certain window in the same, acting upon the best advice they can obtain from such parishioners as are most worthy of being consulted upon the matter; this work shall be built and constructed between the vestry of the church, and the great window, with such materials as shall be bet and most suitable for it, in stone, glass, iron, lead, wood, and all things needful." We are enabled to fix the position of this aisle by means of the tetiony of Philipot, the herald and historian, who was himself born at Folkestone, about 100 years after John Baker made his will In his account of the parish of Capel ['Villare Cantianum,' p. 96.] Philipot says that the family of Baker, of Caldham in Capel, and of Morehall in Folkestone, had a peculiar chancel belonging to them in this church; he adds that it was near the vestry door, and over the charnel house His mention of the vestry door identifies the Baker Chancel with the aisle built or rebuilt by John Baker's executors, and his allusion to the charnel house shews that the Baker Chancel was upon the south side of this church. The charnel house is a vault beneath the south chancel, in which vault tradition says were interred the bones of men killed in a great battle fought near Folkestone, the bones of their opponents, far greater in number, being deposited in a charnel house beneath the south chancel of Hythe Church. The battle theory is questionable; but there is great likelihood that bones from the desecrated cemetery of the old Priory and Church may have been deposited together in one vault here.
In connection with Baker's south chancel, we may mention as bequest made by Thos. Newsole in 1465 for a window in the south part of this church, opposite the altar of St George. To the light of St. George, John Baker left a bequest of 4d. Newsole's bequest may have referred to the south wall of the old nave, if not, it must have been an addition in or near to John Baker's Chancel, and this idea is supported by Baker's bequest to St. George's Light. What was the dedication of Baker's south chancel we cannot clearly ascertain. He left bequests to the Light of the Little Cross of which he was a brother, and to the Light of St Mary of Pity. From other wills we learn that there was a chancel dedicated to St Mary of Pity, and that there was a "Light of Holy Cross in the chancel of St Mary de Pity," [John Cole's will, 1472.] so that we may perhaps have ground for supposing that Baker's chancel was dedicated to St. Mary of Pity. It is probable, but not certain.
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Testamenta Vetusta: Being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, etc. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families, Volume 1, p. 306, "John Baker." [London: Nichols and Son, Parliament Street, 1826.] By Nicholas Harris Nicolas
John Baker.
John Baker, of Folkstone [apparently of the family from which Sir Richard Baker, the celebrated Chronicler, was descended.] on the Wednesday [26th September] next before the Feast of St Michael, 1464. Alicia, my wife. I will that, immediately after my decease, my executors, out of my goods and chattels, shall place my aforesaid wife in the House or Hospital of St Bartholomew, Sandwich; and I will that all my lands and tenements, within the ville and liberty of Folkstone (except three roods of land at Dullingburgh, and my lands at Merefeld, which I bequeath to my second sister, Granriger), be sold, and with the money arising therefrom that my said executors make a new work called an Isle [aisle], with a window in it, with the advice of the parishioners, which said work shall be built between the Vestry there and the great window, and to be built of stone, with lead, glass and wood, as is seemly and meet for such a work. [Query, Ann, daughter and coheir of John Baker, of Coldham, near Folkestone, in Kent?]
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- [S78] Will, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Registered Wills, 17 Nov 1593.
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the seven and twentieth day of July 1593 in the 35th year of the reign of our sovereigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc, I, THOMAS BAKER of the Town of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, jurat, being sick in body but in good and perfect remembrance (laud and praise be given to almighty God therefore) do make this my present Testament containing my last Will in manner and form following,
First, I bequeath my soul to almighty God my creator and to Jesus Christ my only saviour and redeemer through whose death and bloodshedding I am in full and perfect trust to be save, And my body to be buried in the churchyard of Folkestone aforesaid.
Item, I bequeath 20 shillings to the poor people of the Town and parish of Folkestone aforesaid, to be distributed and given to them by mine Executors within one year next after my decease.
Item, I bequeath to THOMAS BAKER my son my bedsteddle in the parlor one fetherbed, one coverlet, one bolster, one blanket and one undercloth, one cupbourd and one table in the parlour, my great brass pot, my great spitt, one table and one form in the hall and my silver salt, to be delivered unto him at the death of his mother.
Item, I bequeath to ROBERT BAKER my son two silver spoons, one great brass pot, one fetherbed, one bolster and coverlett, one blanket and one undercloth, to be delivered unto him at the death of my wife.
Item, I bequeath to RICHARD BAKER my son two silver spoons, one fetherbed, one bolster, one coverlet, one blanket and one undercloth to be delivered unto him at the death of my wife.
Item, I bequeath to HENRY BAKER my son two silver spoons, one fetherbed, one bolster, one coverlet, one blanket and one undercloth, to be delivered unto him at the death of his mother.
Item, I bequeath to ALICE BAKER my daughter, one cow and two silver spoons.
Item, I do bequeath unto JOANE BAKER my daughter one fetherbed, one bolster, one coverlet, one blanket, and one undercloth, one cow, two silver spoons and ten pounds in money to be delivered and paid unto her by mine Executors at her age of twenty years or at the day of her marriage which shall first happen.
item, I do bequeath unto HESTER BAKER my daughter, two silver spoons, one cow and ten pounds of money, to be delivered and paid unto her by mine Executors at her age of one and twenty years, or at the day of her marriage, which shall first chance.
And if it shall fortune either of my said two daughters JOANE or HESTER to die before her age of one and twenty years or the day of her marriage, then I will that the other of them then living shall be heir to her which so deceaseth.
Item, I do bequeath to every one of my godchildren 12 pence.
Item, I bequeath and will to my sister BADLE one russet peticoat to be provided for her by mine Executors within one month next after my decease.
The residue of all my moveable goods not above bequeathed, my debts, legacies and funeral charges being paid, I will and bequeath unto ELIZABETH BAKER my wife, which said ELIZABETH my wife and THOMAS PALMER her father I do make and ordain my sole Executors to so this my last Will and Testament proved.
And I do also ordain and make THOMAS JENKIN my son-in-law and THOMAS TYDEMAN to be overseers of this my said last Will and Testament.
THIS IS the last Will of me the said THOMAS BAKER made the day and year abovesaid touching and concerning the disposition of all my lands and tenements,
First, I will to THOMAS BAKER my son my messuage at Eastbrooke, one barn, one stable and one peice of land containing by estimation sixteen acres called Mordifield with their appurtenances which I bought of Gyles Uden and one little spot of ground which I bought of Thomas Hogbin over the way against the door of the said messuage, to him and to his heirs in fee simple forever.
Item, I will to ROBERR BAKER my son one parcel of land called BRODEWAY and one other parcel of land called Hunters Meed and one lodge by the seaside to him and to his heirs in fee simple forever.
Item, I will to HENRY BAKER my son one close of land lying at Ford containing by estimation five acres which I bought of Henry Kennet, to him and to his heirs in fee simple forever.
Item, I will to RICHARD BAKER and the abovesaid HENRY BAKER my sons, 7 acres of land lying at Hyeland and one acre and dim at Jointon and two acres and dim of land lying at Philles and three acres of land in Willowsfield and four acres of land lying in the cliffe field and one barn and one orchard at Sholland, to them and their heirs in fee simply forever, equally to be divided betwixt them.
Item, my will and mind is that ELIZABETH my wife shall have the profits of all my abovesaid lands and tenements for the term of her natural life, she keeping herself a widow, towards the bringing up of my said children and she keeping the reparations thereof sufficiently and paying the Lord's rent and doing neither strip nor waste upon the same. And if the said ELIZABETH my wife do fortune to marry, then I will that she shall lose the profits of all my abovesaid lands and tenements and that then my said four sons shall pay her yearly during her life five pounds of lawful English money out of their abovewsaid several portions of land by equal portions. And moreover if the said ELIZABETH my wife do marry then I will that the aforesaid THOMAS JENKYN and THOMAS TYDEMAN shall be garders of my said sonns and take the profits of their said portions of lands and tenements till they come to full age and then to be comptable to my said sons. And if these mine Executors die then I will that the said THOMAS JENKIN and THOMAS TYDEMAN shall have the bringing up and gardage of my children if THOMAS PALMER and my wife die.
Witness hereof
ROBERT HART
THOMAS TYDEMAN
PROBATUM fuit pns suprascriptum testamentum, coram magro Willimo Hull clico substituto venlis viri mri Stephen Lakes legum dcoris offilis etc decimo septimo die mensis Novembris anno dmi 1593 juramentes ROBERTI HART and THOMAE TYDEMAN testin etc. ac approvatum etc. omnisquam Executors euisd commissum est Executrici viz ELIZABETH relict princitus iurat etc. reservatus potate alteri Executori consinnile onns cum venerit acceptatur.
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