Sarah Baker1

#22773, (c 1808 - a 1881)
FatherWilliam Baker2 (s 1776 - )
MotherMary Bonnycastle2 (1781 - )
RelationshipGrandniece of John Bonnycastle
Pedigree

Family

James Forster (c 1804 - bt 1851 - 1861)
Children

Life Events

BirthSarah Baker was born circa 1808 in Bierton, Buckinghamshire.3
 
MarriageShe married James Forster on 30 Dec 1832 in Holy Trinity Islington, Middlesex.
James Forster, bachelor, Sarah Baker, spinster, both of this parish, married after banns. The witnesses were Lyonel Ward [a frequent witness] and William Tarry?1 
1851 CensusJames and Sarah Porter [sic] appeared on the 1851 Census of Shoreditch, Middlesex, at MacDowell Place, enumerated 30 Mar 1851. James was 47, a baker, and born in Aylesbury, Bucks. Sarah was 43 and born in Bierton Bucks. Their children were George (13) and John (11) born in Islington, and Ann (6) born in Shoreditch.3 
1861 CensusSarah Forster and her daughter Ann appeared on the 1861 Census of Hackney, Middlesex, at 14 Havelock Road, enumerated 7 Apr 1861. Sarah was a widow, age 53, Milliner, and was born in Aylesbury, Bucks. Ann was 16, also a milliner, born in Shoreditch.4 
1871 CensusSarah Forster appeared on the 1871 Census of Hackney, Middlesex, at 38 De Beauvoir Square Hertford Road. She was 70 [sic], a widow born in Aylesbury Bucks, and was a monthly nurse for the Wilson family who had 3 children, including one who was two weeks old.5 
1881 CensusSarah Forster appeared on the 1881 Census of Hackney, Middlesex, at 101 Wellington Road. Sarah was a lodger at this address. She was 73, a widow, nurse, and was born in Bierton, Bucks.6 
DeathSarah died after 1881.
There is a registration in Dec quarter 1887 in Hackney for a Sarah Forster age 75.7 
Last Edited26 Aug 2010

Citations

  1. Marriages of Holy Trinity Islington. Register at London Metropolitan Archives. Image viewed at Ancestry. James Forster & Sarah Baker, 1832.
  2. Comment: Sarah Baker was born in Bierton and gave the name Bonicastle to her daughter.
  3. England & Wales 1851 Census. HO107/1537 folio 640 page 14.
  4. 1861 Census for England & Wales, RG9/163 Folio 94 Page 4.
  5. 1871 Census for England & Wales, RG10/318 folio 37.
  6. 1881 Census for England & Wales, RG11/290 Folio 27 Page 47.
  7. FreeBMD. Sarah Forster, age 75, Dec Q 1887, Hackney RD.
  8. Baptisms of the parish of Holy Trinity Islington. Register at London Metropolitan Archives. Image viewed at Ancestry. Marianne Bonicastle Forster, 1835, #570.
  9. Baptisms of the parish of St Mary Islington, Middlesex. Register at London Metropolitan Archives. Image viewed at Ancestry. George William Forster, 1837, #1453.