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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #108 on: Tuesday 20 October 09 08:44 BST (UK) »
Been hunting around the Bourke's while trying to find the time to go the the British Library to see if I can find the Indian link. So far all I have found is that Helena's younger sister Kate, appears to have emigrated to America and went to Chicago

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BAKER            Staffordshire, India, Bengal, (1880's)   
BROWNING    Kent      
LAMING            England, Dover      
SHEPPARD         England, Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Coventry, Warwickshire
BOURKE             Ireland (early 1800's) Merthyr, London, India/Burma

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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #109 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 14:41 BST (UK) »
Some news on the Baker front.....

I had a reply from Cedric's old school in Bedford who have kindly looked through their records and among other things, confirmed that his previous school was Mistress Phillips Private School, Mussoorie, N India. (can't find a trace of it anywhere) So the family did return to India after Cedric's birth in 1897 and this would explain their absence from the 1901 census. The school also said that his father, William had already died by the time Cedric started in May 1909.

May is a bit of an odd time to start a new school so I guess that he started school straight after returning from India. If you had children needing to start new schools I would have thought that you would return to fit in, as far as possible, with new school years (September) unless the return was unexpected.....
BAKER            Staffordshire, India, Bengal, (1880's)   
BROWNING    Kent      
LAMING            England, Dover      
SHEPPARD         England, Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Coventry, Warwickshire
BOURKE             Ireland (early 1800's) Merthyr, London, India/Burma

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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #110 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 17:09 BST (UK) »
Well done Chris,
                          keep digging, you're doing wonders... :o ;D
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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #111 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 17:16 BST (UK) »
It's exhausting! I am on my 12th country (so far) with this lot, and I haven't started on my mum's side yet and she is Dutch. My parents have been over and left me with a pile of old photos and albums now that I am officially the family genealogist, so off to PC World to buy a new scanner  ???

Lots of fun though!  ;D
BAKER            Staffordshire, India, Bengal, (1880's)   
BROWNING    Kent      
LAMING            England, Dover      
SHEPPARD         England, Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Coventry, Warwickshire
BOURKE             Ireland (early 1800's) Merthyr, London, India/Burma

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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #112 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 17:20 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #113 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 17:43 BST (UK) »
Lots on Mussoorie schools but can't see Miss Phillips,it probabily still there under a new name...
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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #114 on: Friday 23 October 09 11:10 BST (UK) »

There seem to be quite a few schools there, including one linked to the Railway Co. but I could not find his. I guess it is likely to have been a prep school as he left when he was no more then 11 years old. If he was a boarder then his parents could have been miles away or otherwise they were living and working in the area.

I can't find anything on the passenger lists either for them leaving the UK after 1897or returning by May 1909.
BAKER            Staffordshire, India, Bengal, (1880's)   
BROWNING    Kent      
LAMING            England, Dover      
SHEPPARD         England, Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Coventry, Warwickshire
BOURKE             Ireland (early 1800's) Merthyr, London, India/Burma

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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #115 on: Friday 23 October 09 15:06 BST (UK) »
Do we have any idea when William Baker was born?
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Re: India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal
« Reply #116 on: Friday 23 October 09 15:15 BST (UK) »
No idea so far
BAKER            Staffordshire, India, Bengal, (1880's)   
BROWNING    Kent      
LAMING            England, Dover      
SHEPPARD         England, Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Coventry, Warwickshire
BOURKE             Ireland (early 1800's) Merthyr, London, India/Burma
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