John Baker (c1748-1815) & Elizabeth Emberley (c1742-1826)
John Baker was born c1748. He was a cordwainer (shoemaker).
Elizabeth Emberley was born c1742.
John Baker married Elizabeth Emberley at Poole on 26 August 1771. They had five children who survived to adulthood (and who were mentioned in John’s will): John (born 1775), Sarah (born 1777), George (born 1779), Robert (born 1782), and William (born 1783). Their births were recorded in the register of the Independent Skinner Street Chapel.
The family was clearly musical. Their son, George, was a music master as well as a seller of pianos in Poole, and John’s will bequeathed “our” violincello, pianoforte and violin (along with music, and other household items) to his son Robert.
The family were non-conformist. The Skinner Street Congregational Church, now called the United Reformed Church, was built in 1777.
John Baker died aged 67, of hydrocephalus (according to the Skinner Street Chapel burial register), and was buried at the on 5 October 1815.
Elizabeth (“widow of John Baker, shoemaker”) died aged 84 years of “mere decay of nature” (according to the Skinner Street Chapel burial register), and was buried on 17 November 1826.
John and Elizabeth were buried in the Hunger Hill Burial Ground, Poole.
