William Baker

Citations

1. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165,166 (Oct. 2011, Jan. 2012): p. 50 "The 1592 and 1629 Roberts pedigrees and the 1574 visitation of Kent attribute arms to the father of John Roberts’ wife Agnes but omit her father’s name.[74] Fortunately, Agnes’ father is identified as William Baker and his father as Adam Baker in a set of documents held at the East Sussex Record Office.";
   see also ancestry chart on page 66.
2. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:50: " the father of John Roberts’ wife Agnes...is identified as William Baker and his father as Adam Baker..."
3. [S520] VWH, estimated from the approximate date of his marriage.
4. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:50 "The given name of Agnes’ mother may have been Joan. On 25 June 1424, William Baker and his wife Joan sold land in Hadlow, East Peckham, and West Peckham, Kent.^[78] Three years later Thomas Warde of Ticehurst granted to Ralph Shoeswell and his wife Elizabeth “the reversion of all the lands, which Johanna, wife of William Baker, his Mother, held for life in Ticehurst, except two pieces called Smythefeld & Orephetts, which William Warde his Grandfather had of Sir Robt. Passele, Knt.”^[79] Additional records show interactions between Adam Baker, William Warde, and an earlier generation of Shoeswells and identify the location of Adam Baker’s land in Flimwell, Ticehurst."