See also

Claude Courtenay Harry Baker (1880-1918)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • grocers assistant3

  • Birth:

  • Q1 1880

  • Mile End, Colchester, Essex, England1 4 5 6

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 1)

  • Ebenezer Cottage, Bergholt Road, Mile End, Colchester, Essex, England4

  •  

  • son living with his parents George and Martha, brothers Albert, Cyril and Gerald, sisters Cecil (sic), Julia and Ada, and a visitor. Born in Mile End Essex

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 11)

  • 100 Maldon Road, Colchester, Essex, England5

  •  

  • son attending school living with his parents George and Martha, brother Jesse, sister Ada, and two lodgers. Born in Myland (sic) Essex

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 21)

  • 58 Geneva Road, Lambeth, London, England6

  •  

  • unmarried brother-in-law working as a grocers assistant and living with his brother-in-law Richard Tree, sister Cecily, nephews Richard and Harold, and Alfred Tree. Born in Colchester Essex

  • Census absence:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 31)

  •  

  • Death:

  • 4 Oct 1918 (age 38)

  • "Hirano Maru", 200 miles south of Ireland, Atlantic Ocean7 8

  •  

  • Cause: by drowning

    following a torpedo strike from German submarine UB91. Of the 340 on board, 292 were lost

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Colchester 1880 quarter:1 volume:4a page:419. Cit. Date: 10 July 2017.

2.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:1790 folio:92 page:15.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). St. George Hanover Square 1896 quarter:1 volume:1a page:466. Cit. Date: 5 January 2022.

4.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:1790 folio:92 page:15 schedule:692. Cit. Date: 4 January 2022.

5.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:1408 folio:10 page:13 schedule:65. Cit. Date: 5 January 2022.

6.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:431 folio:46 page:21 schedule:150. Cit. Date: 5 January 2022.

7.

Ancestry Family Trees, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Ayres Family Tree by ayers_peter. Cit. Date: 8 January 2022.

8.

Wreck Site, (on-line at www.wrecksite.eu). Hirano Maru. Cit. Date: 8 January 2022.