Hamlin William son of Hamlin Baker of London Street, carpenter, and Harriett Sarah Ann (baptismal record)
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In May 1900 Hamlin William Baker and his wife Louisa were present at the marriage of Hamlin's brother Charlie Edward Baker and Sarah Amey Waller in Brighton St. Matthew.
At the time of the 1901 England Census Hamlin Baker, age 32, born in Brighton Sussex, hatter & umbrella maker, and wife Louisa, age 29, born in Brighton, were living at 36 Whichelo Place Brighton. With them were children (born in Brighton): May B (4) and Elsie L (2). Hamlin's parents were living at no. 38.
At the time of the 1911 England Census Hamlin William Baker, age 42, born in Brighton Sussex, hatter's shop assistant (salesman), and wife of 16 years Louisa, age 39, born in Ovingdean Sussex (mother of 3 children), were living at 36 Whichelo Place, Brighton Sussex. With them were children (born in Brighton): May (14), dressmaker's assistant, Elsie (12), school, Ethel (8), school.
In Mar 1931 Hamlin William Baker, gas company employee, was granted Probate of his late parents' personal effects.
In the 1939 Register Hamlin W Baker (b. 14 Mar 1869), widowed, gas company cleaner (retired), was living at 36 Whichelo Place, Brighton Sussex.
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Hamlin W Baker died aged 78 years. 3
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TRAGEDIES DURING CHRISTMAS
... Mr. Hamlin Baker (78) was found dead in a gas-filled room in a house in Whichelo-place....
West Sussex Gazette, 1 January 1948, p. 8
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Hamlin William Baker of 36 Whichelo-place Brighton died 24 December 1947. Probate Lewes 24 January 1948 to Arthur Charles Steadman, gas company employee, and Edwin George Baker, commercial traveller. Effects £826 14s. 7d. 4
Marriage Information:
Hamlin married Louisa Stoner, daughter of William Stoner and Eliza Humphry, on 1 Oct 1894 in St. Matthew's Church, Brighton, Sussex, England. (Louisa Stoner was christened on 29 Oct 1871 in Ovingdean, Sussex, England and died in 1931 in Brighton, Sussex, England, aged 60 years.)
Marriage Notes:
Hamlin William Baker, age 25, bachelor, hatter, resident of 46 Bute Street, son of Hamlin Baker, carpenter, and
Louisa Stoner, age 23, spinster, resident of 4 Somerset Street, daughter of William Stoner, milkman
Married after Banns
Witnesses: Walter Wallace Baker, Alice Tucknott
