India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal

[hepburn]

I can't see Siddall or Baker in the 81 or 91........Do you remember saying there was a William Baker age 16 in Liverpool,engineer,your William baker in the Fenton indenture..... his birth place is Lancashire....

[hepburn]

By the way, Helena looks lovely as your Avatar.

[chris2705]

I am going to get my new scanner tonight so I can have lots of fun putting different ones on there!

I think that the only place that we are going to find William is in the Indian records as I believe that he married there, worked there and in all likelihood died there

[hepburn]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,30580.0.html
http://www.fibis.org/
http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/

Ive looked and looked Chris...Zilch.

[chris2705]

me too  It is going to be a case of spending some time hunting in the British Library I think

[hepburn]

Please hurry up I'm on tenter hooks  then we can go back to find his family...

[hepburn]

IGI....William Baker all events,Asia,India, brings up loads...

[chris2705]

I am going through them...

I think he is likely to have been born 1845-1855 ish.

-He married c.1880  and had his first child in Jan 1881 in Jeypore
-By 1883 his job is "foreman" which would suggest that he would have had to work for a few years previously, so unlikely to have been much below 30 by then.
-In 1897 he was listed on Cedric's birth certificate as a Civil Engineer and was probably still working as it is it would say "retired" if that was the case. This suggests that in 1897 he is likely to be in his 50's as he went back to India presumably to work. I can't imagine he would fancy a new work challenge in his 60's that involved going back there.

This is about as much as we know but as the first child was born when Helena was 17 and she could not have married below 16 the marriage could well have occurred in Jeypore

[hepburn]

Glad you've done a recap.....I was getting lost.
There is also a multitude of Bakers born ,married and died in India.
If he was born there we could be looking at his relatives and not know it.