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William Thomas Baker was born 27 May 1860 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Alfred Baker (1836-1919) and Sarah Penitent Gill (1839-1915) and died 4 October 1930 Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia of unspecified causes. He married Sarah Ann Jane Wright (1860-1922) 1881 in West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.


Children


Offspring of William Thomas Baker and Sarah Ann Jane Wright (1860-1922)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Ivy Annie Baker (1883-1887)
William Herbert Baker (1885-1948)
Alfred Thomas Baker (1886-1968) 1886 Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia 4 August 1968 Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia Margaret Eliza Parkinson (1889-1970)
May Baker (1891-1960)


Obituary

Mr. William Thomas Baker, a respected Wallsend resident for many years, died on October 4, at the residence of his son-in- law, Mr. L. Thompson, of Brooks-street, Wallsend. He was 70 years of age, and was born in Sydney. In early childhood his parents took him to Morpeth, where he remained until about the time of his marriage to a daughter of the late Mr. John Wright, of Morpeth. He had lived in Wallsend 43 years, and was an old member of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge. Failing health compelled him to relinquish work about nine years ago. His wife died in 1922. He leaves a family of two sons and a daughter, viz., Messrs. Herbert and Thomas Baker (Muswellbrook), and Mrs L. Thompson (Wallsend). Rev. William Stewart officiated at the grave in the Methodist portion of Wallsend Cemetery. Pall-bearers were Messrs. S Smith, J. Blair, Clarence Baker (grandsons), and P. Innes (nephew). Among floral tributes were those from—Herb and Martha and family, Tom and Maggie and family, Mat and Lawrence and family, sisters Annie and Agnes and Mr. and Mrs. M. Dawson and family.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 11 October 1930, page 4







Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General
¶ Death
  • User:Mrlance claims that he died in 1960, with no further detail
  • BDM Index ref for death: 17673/1930
  • BAKER.—October 4, 1930, died suddenly at his late residence, 32 Brooks-street, Wallsend, William Thomas Baker, beloved father of Herbert, Thomas, atnd May; aged 70 years. At rest.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 11 October 1930, page 8
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