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James Baker
- Preferred Name: James Baker[1] [2] [3]
- Gender: M
- Burial: DEC 1558
- Death: 23 DEC 1558 in Cranbrook, Kent, England at LATI: N1.0968 LONG: E0.5376
- Birth: 1490 in Sissinghurst Castle, Cranbrook, Kent, England at LATI: N1.1094 LONG: E0.56
- FSID: L22J-G78
Preferred Parents:
Father: Richard Baker, b. ABT 1455 in Cranbrook, Kent, England d. 9 AUG 1504 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Mother: Joan Hendley, b. ABT 1457 in Cranbrook, Kent, England d. 1530 in Cranbrook, Kent, England
Family 1: Alice Forflode, b. 1490 d. 1590
- Alice Elizabeth Baker, b. 1520 in Lydd, Kent, England d. 1582 in Lydd, Kent, England
Sources:
- Title: PCC Will of Richard Baker of Cranbrook, Kent 1504
Author: Source Citation The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 14 Source Information Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Publication: Name: http://interactive.ancestry.com/5111/40611_311113-00326?pid=886188&backurl=//search.ancestry.com//cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DHCd28%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26db%3DCanturburyPrerogativeCourt%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26MS_AdvCB%3D1%26gsln%3Dbaker*%26gsln_x%3DNP_NN_NS%26MSAV%3D2%26uidh%3Dzny%26pcat%3D36%26fh%3D33%26h%3D886188%26recoff%3D6%252018%26ml_rpos%3D34&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=HCd28&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true;
Note: extract by CHutchinson
PCC Will of Richard Baker of Cranbrook, Kent 1504
Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Name of Register: Holgrave. Will of Richard Baker of Cranbrook, Kent.
Held by: The National Archives - Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Date: 15 November 1504
Reference: PROB 11/14/375
will written 7 August 1504
Richard Baker of Cranebrok [Cranbrook, Kent]
-son John under 24
-in default to son Thomas[under 24]
-3 daughters
-son James
-wife Johanne
-John Baker scoolmster in Cranbrook, and also to Elizabeth the wife of the said John
-William Garrard
-executors John Davy and Thomas Sheff
-overseer Gervase Hendele
WILL
-mother Benet
Page: named as a son in this will of his father, Richard Baker
- Title: will of Benedict Baker, widow of Thomas Baker of Cranbrook, Kent 1505
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSGB-3RQ1;
Note: will of Benedict Baker
Will of Benedict Baker of Cranbrook, Kent 1505
FHL film # 188922
digital film # 8228272
Probate records of Kent County, England Archdeaconry of Canterbury
volume 8-9 1500 to 1509
image 390 of 714
will written October 1504
Benedict Baker vidua [widow] of Thome [Thomas] Baker de Cranebroke [Cranbrook]
-in Latin?? Alex[ander] Cortopp and John Baker
-Johanna Baker filia [daughter]
-Thomas Sheffe
-Stephan Atkocke
-I bequeath to Johane Baker my daughter in law my best gown my greattest ches Also I bequeath to Johane Baker my sones daughter...
-servant Alice Higham
-John Baker my sons son
-Thomas Baker my sonnes son
-Elizabeth Baker
-Kateryn Baker
-James Baker
-Robert Baker
-Margaret Dran'r
-Agnes Richards
-Thomas Skorne
-Sir John Hougeston
-Sir Richard Dale
-Benett Midilton my blewe [blue] gowne
-Marshall wif [Marshall;s wife]
-Geffery the bedde that he lieth in
-Thomasyn Vezege my white peticott of Kotyn
-Benett Brekynden
-Kateryn Courtoppe
-Benett Sampson
-Johan Fenway
-Ric[hard] Cortoppe
-Kateryn Brekynden
-Benett Baker
-to my brother Thomas Middilton
-Robert Hynkestede
-Spenser's wife
-Robert Midiilton's wife
-Benett Atkocke
probate 6 May 1505 by Alexander Courthopp executor John Baker
Page: James Baker
- Title: Tudor P.C.C. Will Transcription by L. L. Duncan - RICHARD BAKER, Will 7 August 1504
Author: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Bk49+50/page%20026.htm
Publication: Name: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Bk49+50/page%20026.htm;
Note: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Bk49+50/page%20026.htm
Tudor P.C.C. Will Transcription by L. L. Duncan - Books 49 & 50 page 26
RICHARD BAKER, Will 7 August 1504
7 August 1504, Richard Baker of Cranebrok. To be buried in the churcheyard of the parisshe church of Cranebrok. To reparacion of the ymage of Saint Dunstane in the foresaid church 20d. To John my sone a maser and a flate pece of siluer at his age of 24 yeres. If he decesse then to Thomas my son. My sone James my grettest brasse pot. To mariage of euery of my three doughters £16. 13. 4 to fulfil the sum of £20. All my stuff of my houshold I woll it be atte gyding of Johane my wif. If she marry then to have oon part therof. To Mr. Richard Wison, Vicar of Crankbrok 3s. 4d. To Sr. John Bolde parisshe preest of the foresaid church of Cranebrok 20d. To John Baker, scolemaister in Cranebrok 3s. 4d. To Elizabeth wife of the said John in pens and penyworth 3s. 4d. To William Garrard 6s. 8d. My executours 40s. and during the tyme till the youngest of my sones come to thage of 24 yeres 3s. 8d. yearly aboue their labour and sapences. Residue betwene my sones. Executors John Davy and Thomas Sheff. Gervase Hendele
to be ouerseer.
Last Will: My executours to suffre Johanne my wif to have to hir the mesuage that Blak Barbor now holdeth and dwellith yn and £4 yerely all the tyme she abideth my wedow and lyuing Benet my moder and if Benet my moder dye then Johane my wife then beying my wedow to have the mesuage. Residue of all my londs, tenements &e in Kent and Sussex to my executors till my eldest sone lyving cometh to the age of 24. Myn executors to pay to John my sonne yerely till he come at the age of 24 yeres to fynde hym to scole as well in recompence of the londs in Stapulhurst by my fader assigned to hym and of my bequest to fynde hym to his lernyng in Court. The londs assigned to my sone Thomas in Burwasshe by my fader. To James my sone for his part the tenement that I dwell yn and the lands apperteyning.
-son Robert
Witness: Mr. Richard Wilson Vicar of Cranebroke, John Baker, Scole Maister, Gervase Hendele, John Baker sone of the foresaid Richard Baker, John Hamme and other. Proved 15 November 1504 by John Davy executor and Thomas Sheff executor. (P.C.C. 20 Holgrave) [Tudor P.C.C. Will Transcription by L. L. Duncan - Books 49 & 50 page 26, Kent Archeological Society, http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Bk49+50/page%20026.htm]
Page: named as a son in this will of his father, Richard Baker
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