Elizabeth Farwell

Elizabeth Baker, wife of Sir .John Farwell, a Gent Pensioner to K. Charles I. She died 31 Aug. 1633.

Origins

Medical History , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 203 - 211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300045397

George Baker was born in 1540, the second son of Christopher Baker of Tenterden, Kent. His grandfather was John Baker of Tenterden, and his great grandfather was Simon Baker of Haversham. He had a younger brother William and an elder brother Peter, the latter an admiral of the Blue Squadron, and died a prisoner of war in Spain.

Baker married twice. His first wife was Anne, daughter of William Swayne of Hacking, Middlesex. They had four children: Alexander, JP, Master of the Company in 1622, surgeon to James I,d. 1635 and buried in Westminster Abbey; Frances, Dowglas, and Ann.

His second wife was Anne, daughter of or possibly widow of Paul French, a prebend of Windsor. They had three children: George, Grace, and Elizabeth (typewritten biography).

References

• The visitation of the county of Worcester, begun by Thomas May, Chester, and Gregory King, Rouge dragon, in Trinity vacacon, 1682, and finished by Henry Dethick, Richmond, and the said Rouge dragon, pursuivant, in Trinity vacacon, 1683, by virtue of several deputacons from Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux kinge of armes. “Baker of Feckenham.” Page 5-7. < Archive.Org >
• (The second set of children are not listed at The visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635. Made by Sr. Henry St. George, kt., Richmond herald, and deputy and marshal to Sr. Richard St. George, kt., Clarencieux king of armes. “Baker.” Page 39. < Archive.Org >)