Frances Martha Shaw (1828–1893) married Frederick Augustus Baker (1827-1872) in 1854
Rev Frederick Augustus Baker was vicar of Godmanstone, Dorset. He was the son of George Baker and Sara Cochrane. He and Frances Martha had nine children. The 1871 census shows the entire family resident in Clifton, Bristol. Frederick Augustus died a year later and Frances and Frederick's children moved on to live in India, Germany, Canada and the USA.
1. Robert Alfred Baker (1856-1884)
Robert Alfred Baker was a Lieutenant in the 19th Bengal Lancers. He died unmarried in an accident in Rawalpindi.
2. George Lowbridge Baker (1858-1900) married Bertha Maude Beatrice Walker (1862-1925) in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia in 1887. Bertha Maude Beatrice Walker was the daughter of Thomas Osborne Walker and Cecilia Hitchcock. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.
George Lowbridge Baker RN was a naval surgeon. He trained in Edinburgh and was a surgeon and obstetrician in Westminster Hospital before retiring to Jersey, where he died.
The middle name Lowbridge would appear to come from Dorothy Lowbridge, who married Robert Bright, Lord of the Manor of Brockbury. Their daughter, Mary Bright, married John Innes Baker, Rev Frederick Augustus Baker’s grandfather. One of Rev Frederick Augustus Baker’s executors named in his will was Rev Robert Lowbridge Baker, long-standing and respected vicar of Ramsden, Oxfordshire and a cousin to Rev Frederick Augustus Baker.
Shortly after George's death Bertha remarried. Her new husband was Royal Navy Commander Ewen Francis Domville (1851-1912).
George and Bertha had one son.
2.1 Alfred George Innes Baker (born 1888) married Mabel Emma Milner (1885-1972) in Haringey in 1918.
Alfred George Innes Baker signed up to join the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in 1914. His occupation was recorded as "Rancher". His marriage record (1918) described him as a soldier. No further information found.
3. Alice Baker (1860-1943) married Martin John Pizey (1859-1914) in Bath in 1896.
Martin John Pizey, sometimes known as John Martin Pizey, was the son of Dr George Pizey and Julia Shipton. George Pizey was a surgeon living in Clevedon, Somerset, where Pizey Avenue was named after him. Martin John was an architect; Drake and Pizey was a Bristol based architectural practice responsible for the design of some significant buildings in Bristol as well as Swindon’s first theatre.
Alice and Martin John lived in Cotham, Bristol. They had two sons.
3.1 Noel Martin Pizey (1899-1917)
Noel Martin Pizey was another casualty in the First World War. He was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. He died in Flanders in 1917.
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3. 2 Roy Martin Pizey (1900-1985) married Barbara Helen Gilbert (1910-1999) in Calcutta in 1929.
Barbara Helen Gilbert was the daughter of Harry Gilbert and Barbara Helen Finlayson Lennox. Harry Gilbert was a tea planter in India.
Roy Martin Pizey was also a tea planter living in Assam, India. During the Second World War he was a V Force commander (Indian Army Emergency Commission) operating in the Ledo area of Assam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_Force
Roy Martin Pizey and his wife retired to Devon.
4. Ellen Baker (1861-1948) married Gottlieb M Towler (1861-1892) in Germany in 1883.
Gottlieb M Towler’s father was Reginald Heber Towler, born in Lancashire, the son of a school master. One document refers to him as Major Reginald Towler. Gottlieb Towler’s occupation is unknown but there is a reference to him as Dr Towler. Less than 10 years into their marriage Gottlieb Towler died in Stuttgart in 1892. At some point Ellen returned to the UK where she died in Surrey after more than 50 years of widowhood.
Ellen and Gottlieb had three children.
4.1 Reginald Alfred Gottlieb Towler, known as Rex, (1884-1963) married Cecilia Lawrence Christie (1890-1950) in Rawalpindi in 1911.
Cecilia Lawrence Christie was born in India, the daughter of Lawrence Christie. Rex Towler is described at different times as a book keeper, accountant and merchant.
In 1905 he was hoping to secure a position in the Indian Civil Service with a letter of recommendation from his mother’s cousin, Sir Francis Younghusband. “Sir Francis Younghusband wishes to certify that Mr Rex Towler is steady, hard-working, reliable and conscientious and as he has received some years training in a large banking establishment is well-fitted for an appointment to the Financial Dept. of the Government of India.”
Rex Towler spent the last years of his live in Cornwall. After the death of his first wife he married Doris Hanna Cunningham (nee Glegg-Smith) (1908-1997) in Bath in 1953. She was the widow of Lieutenant Commander John George Stuart Cunningham (1908-1940), who was killed on active service in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1940.
4.2 Kenneth Francis Towler (1885-1971) married Margaret Tomlinson Dickens (born 1886) in Massachusetts, USA in 1909.
Kenneth Francis Towler was born in Bristol but emigrated to the US when he was 20 years old. Starting in Massachusetts he moved on to Illinois and finally to San Francisco. His occupation was recorded as ‘Executive’ in the ship’s passenger list when he made a trip to the UK in 1937.
4.3 Sibyl Edythe Towler (1886-1969) married Thomas Keith Welsh (1878-1936) in Portsmouth in 1911.
Sibyl was born in Stuttgart. Thomas Keith Welsh was the son of William Keith Ball Welsh and Alice Matilda Long. William Keith Ball Welsh was a GP.
Thomas Keith Welsh was a master mariner. Based in Singapore he worked on cable ships laying submarine communications cables. During the First World War the British successfully cut German cables and protecting British cables was a priority. Thomas Keith Welsh was awarded WW1 Merchant Seamen Campaign Medals in recognition of his service.
5. Marion Baker (1862-1952) married John Horndon Parry (1863-1954) in Walton in Gordano, Somerset in 1891.
Rev John Horndon Parry was the son of Major John Hordon Parry and Sophia Morant-Gale. He was an Indian Army chaplain, serving in Burma and India between 1891 and 1915 before retiring to Devon. His younger brother, Edward Morant Horndon Parry, married Marion’s younger sister, Edith Augusta Baker.
Marion and John Horndon Parry had a son who died in infancy and one daughter.
5.1 Morant John Horndon Parry (1898-1898) - died in Burma when one month old.
5.2 Joyce Marion Horndon Parry (1900-1979) - unmarried.
6. Francis Shaw Baker (1864–1949)
Francis Shaw Baker (1864-1949) married a widow, Harriet (known as Hattie) Westley Lewis (nee Read), in Grimbsy, Ontario, Canada in 1890. His brother Henry (Harry) Frederick was a witness. Francis Shaw’s occupation at the time of his marriage was bank clerk. Harriet Westley was the daughter of John Westley and Sara Ann Lewis.
In 1903 Francis Shaw married Emily Sophia Dakin in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. She was the daughter of Robert Dakin and Elizabeth Smith. He and Emily were living in Montana in 1910. They later moved on to California, where Francis Shaw became a naturalised American. He died in Alameda.
7. Henry (known as Harry) Frederick Baker (1865–1955) married Mary Elizabeth Nelles (1869-1946) in Grimbsy, Ontario in 1895.
Mary Elizabeth Nelles was born in Grimsby, Ontario, the daughter of Cyrus Sumner Nelles and Emily Isabelle Millard.
Henry Frederick is referred to as Major Harry F Baker and his occupation is recorded as Fruit Grower.
Henry Frederick and Mary Elizabeth had one daughter.
7.1 Edith Frances Baker (1897-1979) married James Oscar Spence (1886-1968)
James Oscar Spence was the son of James Spence and Lydia Briggs Evans.
8. Edith Augusta Baker (1867-1950) married Edward Morant Horndon Parry (1866-1943) in Bath in 1893.
Edward Morant Horndon Parry was the son of Major John Hordon Parry and Sophia Morant-Gale. He was a Royal Insurance manager, working in Wales and then retiring to Cornwall. His older brother, Rev John Horndon Parry, married Edith’s older sister, Marion Baker.
Edith and Edward had no children.
9. Charles Edward Baker (1868-1888)
Charles died as a young man living in Clevedon, Somerset.