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Europe / Re: GERMANY: Baker - from Nassau, Germany
« on: Sunday 30 July 17 01:11 BST (UK)  »
Annelise, hopefully I can help out with your grandmother's side of things. Philip(p) snr (born in Wilsenroth) came over from Germany in the late 1860's with his three brothers and played in Worthing as the Rhine Band. There are number of references to them on Google. Otto apparently returned at the outbreak of WWI but the others stayed as they were married to

Philip jnr (son of Philip(p) snr) was my great grandad and (looks like) May Emily's brother. It's weird that the names keep recurring as Philip (jnr) named one of his daughters Rene (my grandad Guy's sister) and my grandad (Guy) called one of his son's Raymond. I am going to have to draw it out in a chart as it's going to get confusing otherwise! We have a picture of Philip (jnr)' s wedding so I assume your Grandmother must be in the pic somewhere. And we also have a pic of the three original brothers and their wives (two of whom were sisters!) which we can share.

If you pm me I will give you my e-mail address.

Regards,

Neil
P.S. Which bit the USA are you from as apparently Johannes/Georges descendants have a book published about their bit of the family (who are also in the USA)?


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Europe / Re: GERMANY: Baker - from Nassau, Germany
« on: Saturday 29 July 17 01:26 BST (UK)  »
Silverwing, wow, someone else who is descended from Philipp!! Well done for tracking him down if your great grandfather was orphaned. Philipp had several offspring, one of which was also a Philip - which is where my line comes from (I tried to attached a photo of Philip jnr but the system said it is too big!). I have their birth and death certificates if you are interested, which we got from Germany with the help of my wife's mum. 

I also have a photo of the Worthing bandstand where they originally played but again the system says it's too big a file!

Let me know more about you lot, and how best you share the documents I have?

Regards,

Neil (Cowie)
My mum (Iris) was a Baker - Guy's daughter.

P.S. We also have the musical genes running through our veins!


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Europe / Re: GERMANY: Baker - from Nassau, Germany
« on: Saturday 14 July 12 18:00 BST (UK)  »

We have just got some information from the records people at Bistum Limburg who look after the records for Wilsenroth. 
 
We have ten documents dating back to 1797 as follows: (The surname is consistently spelt Backer (with an umlaut over the a)).

Four birth entries for the "boys" (Philip Bartholomew b1846, Johannes b1849, George Boniface b1852 and Christian Otto b1855)
Marriage entry for their parents in 1845 (Joseph Backer and Anna Katherina Hess)
Entry for Joesph's death in 1875
Entry for Anna Katherina's death in 1889
Birth entry for Joseph Backer in 1818 (showing parents as Joesph Backer (yes another one!) and Anna Katherina (and another one!) Jung)
Birth entry for Anna Katherina Hess also in 1819 (showing parents as Johannes and Anna Maria Hess)
Marriage entry in 1797 for Joseph Backer and Anna Katherina Jung (not sure about this one as it's very had to read)

We are busily trying to glean some more information from them (my German is not great!). If anyone wants more info please let me know?

Neil


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Europe / Re: GERMANY: Baker - from Nassau, Germany
« on: Saturday 09 October 10 10:12 BST (UK)  »
Cathy, thanks for your reply - unfortunately the Rootschat system has removed your e-mail address!! So what is the best way to make contact?

We are also pretty close to Worthing so if there's any research you need doing over there please let me know, we'd be happy to help?

Likewsie we are struggling with the link back to Germany nad have also trawled through passenger lists. I'm thinking the best bet may be to head over to Nassau for a week with someone who speaks German!

Neil

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Europe / Re: GERMANY: Baker - from Nassau, Germany
« on: Friday 10 September 10 16:48 BST (UK)  »
Pysie/Cathy/Ann et al, Nairobi (my mother-in-law) has suggested I join this site and make contact as I am descended from Philipp Baker. She was doing some research for me and suggested it would make sense for me to make proper contact.

As far as we can tell Philipp had a son (also) called Philip, who had a son - Guy Christian Baker, who had a daughter Iris Valerie Louise Baker who was my mum! There are numerous additional brothers and sisters who I won't list now but would be very keen to find out from you what you know of the family and would be keen to help you fill in any of the gaps from my side.

Let me know the best way to make contact?

Regards from Hampshire,

Neil

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