India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal

[chris2705]

Hi Lou

I don't have a photo  I have asked his daughter if I can make copies of relevant photos and would love to have one of Cedric in uniform. He was in the Gurkhas from 1919 to 1935 and then from 1939 to 1945 and reached the rank of Major. His medals are in the Gurkha museum in Winchester. His brother Frederick was also in the Indian Army from 1915-1922 but in the 16th Rajputs rather than the Gurkhas. There were however several Bakers in the Gurkhas and I think there might be a family connection.

Cedric's daughter is also in contact with the grand-daughter of their sister Mabel so she might well have photos and info as well. I will send you a PM with some details.

With regards to Helena and her father Patrick, he was certainly in the army in 1871 (The Royal Artillery and in England ) and I agree that it is quite likely that Helena would have been married by an army chaplain if her father was still in the army in 1880.

I have not tried Kew yet to try to find Patrick as I don't really know where to start there

[hepburn]

http://www.thepotteries.org/family_history/indexs.htm


Looks like you have another relative.....

[hepburn]

Do you have them on the censuse's?   I have them 1881 to 1901...

[hepburn]

http://www.maplandia.com/united-kingdom/england/west-midlands/city-of-stoke-on-trent/fenton/

The  addess they lived at for twenty years at least was Brunswick st,   it's name was changed in the'50s to Beville street...

[hepburn]

One of the Censuse's has George down with the middle name Fenkes,the IGI has a baptism for a George Fewkes
Sheppard 30 May 1830 St John Coventry,parents George Fewkes Sheppard and Phoebe.....

Marriage of George Fewkes Sheppard senior to Phebe Lindon Twigg 9 Nov' 1828 ,St John Coventry.These are extracted entries.....Someone
has submitted an entry,George Fenkes Sheppard to Phoebe,same date as above....

I think the Fenkes and Fewkes are the same man...

[hepburn]

George and Phoebe in the 1841 Coventry...with Lindon relatives.
Ho107/1152/book1.
Mill lane,
Christian Cosby age 65
George Sheppard age 35 bricklayer
Phoebe age 30
George age 11
Joseph Lindon age 40 worsted weaver
Sarah Lindon age 9
Eliza Lindon age 7
John Bearman age 25
Mary Bearman age 20
Elizabeth age 4 months.

[hepburn]

1851 census Mill lane Coventry.

George Fanks Sheppard age 47 bricklayer born Grove in Retford Notts
Pheobe age 43 born Warwickshire
Isaac Manton visitor age 34 brass founder born Birmingham?

Ho107/2067/40/page 26...

IGI entry George Fewkes Sheppard baptised 1802 Grove Nottingham,parents William Sheppard and Esther Maria...

[hepburn]

IGI mariage ...Extracted entry.

William Sheppard to Esther Maria Fewkes 3 Aug' 1793 Grove,Nottingham...
This getting confusing.The census entry which said Fenkes should have said Fewkes???

[hepburn]

Siblings of George Fewkes Sheppard all baptised at Grove Nottingham....
Sophia Matilda  8 June 1802(same date as George Fewkes)
Kezia 9 July 1797
Charles Ahijah 22 June 1800
Marianne Fewkes 17 June 1804....