Esther Taylor

From "Martha's Extended Family" family tree page on Esther Baker:

http://martisgenes.info/p45.htm#i472

Esther Baker[1],[2]

• F
• Marriage* She married Thomas Yardley before 1703.[3]
• Marriage* She married William Brown on 5 December 1704.[4],[3]
• Marriage* She married Samuel Taylor after 1716.[3]

Family 1 Thomas Yardley d. b 1704

Family 2 William Brown b. 13 Mar 1682, d. 1716

• Children
  • 1. William Brown b. c 1705, d. 29 May 1786
  • 2. Margaret Brown b. s 1708
  • 3. James Brown b. s 1710
  • 4. Daniel Brown b. s 1712

~•note: > missing from children is John Brown, said to have been born c. 1711.

Family 3 Samuel Taylor

Citations:

• 1.[S184] James E. Bellarts, The Quaker Yeoman, A Genealogy of Clayton,m Reynolds, Beals, Brown and Descended and Related Lines, p. 42.
• 2.[S187] Warren E Pickett, John Piggott Sr. (1680 ?- 1738) of Susquehannah Hundred in Cecil County MD. Together with some account of the Browne and Clayton families from whom his wife Margarey Brown Piggott descended, p. 31.
• 3.[S187] Warren E Pickett, John Piggott Sr. (1680 ?- 1738) of Susquehannah Hundred in Cecil County MD. Together with some account of the Browne and Clayton families from whom his wife Margarey Brown Piggott descended.
• 4.[S184] James E. Bellarts, The Quaker Yeoman, A Genealogy of Clayton,m Reynolds, Beals, Brown and Descended and Related Lines.

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From John Marshall:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshall/esmd12.htm#id2294

Hester Baker was born 6mo 28 1680 at West Darby, Lancashire, England.

She married Thomas Yardley, son of William Yardley and Jane Heath, 9mo 6 1700 at Falls Meeting, Bucks Co., PA; 1st husband.

She married Richard Hough, son of Richard Hough, on 5 Feb 1711/12 at Falls Meeting, Bucks Co., PA; 3rd husband. She resided at Bucks Co., PA.

She immigrated 7mo 17 1684 to Philadelphia, PA; on ship 'Vine.'

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/ships/earlyships-indx.txt

Known children of William Brown and Hester Baker were as follows:

• i. Rev. William Brown was born 1705; he married Susanna Churchman, daughter of Rev. John Churchman and Hannah Cerie, 2mo 11 1728; he died 29 May 1786. He resided at Nottingham, Chester Co., PA. He resided at Harford Co., MD. He resided at Philadelphia, PA.
• ii. Margaret Brown was born 1mo 13 1706/7; she married John Churchman, son of Rev. John Churchman and Hannah Cerie, 11mo 27 1729; she died 28 Jul 1770; she was buried 30 Jul 1770 at East Nottingham, Chester Co., PA.
• iii. Daniel Brown was born 1708 at Pennsylvania; he married Susanna Oldham 9mo 11 1736; 1st wife; he married Susanna Elgar, daughter of Joseph Elgar and Mary, 3 May 1753; 2nd wife; he died 26 Dec 1791 at Virginia.
• iv. James Brown, born circa 1712; married Miriam Churchman; married Elizabeth Elgar.
• v. Samuel Brown.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baker-12361

Hester Hough formerly Baker aka Brown, Yardley, Taylor Born 28 Aug 1680 in West Derby, Lancashire, England

ANCESTORS ancestors

Daughter of Henry Baker Sr and Margaret (Hardman) Baker

Sister of Rachel (Baker) Cowgill, Sarah (Baker) Wilson, Rebecca (Baker) Piggott, Samuel Baker, Phoebe (Baker) Ratcliff and Henry Baker Jr [half]

Wife of Thomas Yardley — married 6 Nov 1700 (to 5 Feb 1703) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Wife of William Brown — married after 9 Aug 1704 (to Dec 1711) in Falls Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania Wife of Richard Hough Jr — married 2 Apr 1712 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

DESCENDANTS descendants

Mother of William Yardley, Hester Yardley, William Brown, Margaret (Brown) Churchman, Daniel Brown and James Brown

Died Apr 1715 in Buckingham, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania

Biography

Hester Baker was born in West Derby Hundred (Liverpool), Lancashire, England, in 1680. She was the daughter of Henry Baker and his wife, Margaret (Hardman) Baker. The family were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). As such, they chose to emigrate from England, where Quakers were routinely persecuted for their beliefs, to William Penn's newly-founded Quaker-led colony of Pennsylvania. They arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Vine" on September 17, 1684, and made their home in nearby Bucks County, just north-east of Philadelphia. Her father was a miller and he became an important landowner and political figure in early Pennsylvania, serving five terms in the Pennsylvania colonial Assembly.

Hester (aka Esther) Baker first married fellow Quaker, Thomas Yardley in 1700 in a Quaker ceremony in Falls MM, Bucks County. They had 2 children[1]:

William YARDLEY b: 14 AUG 1701 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Hester YARDLEY b: 18 SEP 1702 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Thomas Yardley died on 5 Feb 1703 in Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, leaving Hester a young widow with two babies to raise. The next year, on October 4, 1704, she married a Quaker weaver, William Brown (aka Browne), son of Rev. James Brown & Honour Clayton. They moved to the Nottingham lots Quaker community in Chester County, on the (contested) border with Cecil Co., Maryland; later establishing an estate, called "Puddington," also in Chester County.

The known children of William Brown and Hester Baker were:[2]

Rev. William Brown was born 1705; he married Susanna Churchman, daughter of Rev. John Churchman and Hannah Cerie, 2mo 11 1728; he died 29 May 1786. He resided in Nottingham, Chester Co., PA [land was judged to be in Cecil Co., MD in 1767 - Mason-Dixon Line]. He resided in Harford Co., MD. He resided in Philadelphia, PA. Margaret Brown was born 1mo 13 [March 13, 1707]; she married John Churchman, son of Rev. John Churchman and Hannah Cerie, 11mo 27 [Feb. 27, 1729]; she died 28 July 1770; she was buried 30 July 1770 at East Nottingham, Chester Co., PA. Rev. Daniel Brown was born August 1708 in Pennsylvania; he married Susanna Oldham 9mo 11 [Nov. 11, 1736]; 1st wife; he married Susanna Elgar, daughter of Joseph Elgar and Mary, 3 May 1753; 2nd wife; he died 26 Dec 1791 in Virginia. Samuel Brown was born circa 1710. John Brown, born circa 1711. James Brown, born circa 1712; married 1st: Miriam Churchman; married 2d: Elizabeth Elgar. Although William Brown did not die until 1716, he and Hester separated in 1711. Some say that William Brown returned to England at that time and in his absence, thinking him dead, Hester married again. She married Richard Hough Jr., b. 1687 in NJ, at Falls Meeting, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, even though some sources indicate she was pregnant with James Brown, b. April 15, 1712.[3] This would have been very unusual but so many genealogies and historical accounts (notably Falls Meeting House records) concur that it would be remiss not to mention this marriage here.

On April 2, 1712, at the Falls Meeting House (Quaker), Richard Hough Jr (b: ca. 1687 in Morrisville, Bucks Co., PA - d: April 1751) married Esther (Baker, Yardley, Brown), b: Aug. 28, 1680 - ca. 1715; daughter of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Baker, and widow of Thomas Yardley and William Brown. Their child was named Richard Hough III.

Finally, apparently just before she died in April 1715, Hester married a 4th husband, Samuel Taylor, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They had no children. This marriage is not universally recognized, for, unlike her other marriages, it was not recorded in the minutes of the Falls Meeting House (Quaker) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Consequently, until proof of this marriage is found, Hester's "Current last name" is "Hough" and Taylor is one of her "Other last names".

From Rootsweb.com:

ID: I13488 Name: Hester BAKER Sex: F Alternate Name: Esther BAKER Birth: 28 AUG 1680 in West Derby [Hundred, a suburb of Liverpool], Lancashire, England Father: Henry BAKER b: 1 MAR 1633/34 in Newtown, Lancashire, England Mother: Margaret HARDMAN Marriage (1): Thomas YARDLEY Married: 6 SEP 1700 in Falls Meeting House, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Children: William YARDLEY b: 14 AUG 1701 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Hester YARDLEY b: 18 SEP 1702 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Marriage (2): William BROWN(E) b: 13 JAN 1682 in Marcus Hook, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania [4] Married: 4 OCT 1704 in Chester, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania Six Children: William Brown b: 1705 in Nottingham, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Margaret Brown b: 13 Mar 1707 in Puddington, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (Rev.) Daniel Brown b: 1708 in Puddington, Chester, Pennsylvania Samuel Brown b: 1710 John Brown b: 1711 in Chicester, Chester, Pennsylvania James Brown b: 15 Apr 1712 Marriage (3) Richard HOUGH Married: ABT 1711 [Feb 2, 1712] Children: Richard HOUGH III b: 20 FEB 1713 Marriage (4) Samuel TAYLOR Married ca. 1715 Sources ↑ Genealogy of the Yardley Family, 1402-1881 ↑ The Brown Family - Generation Four - William Brown ↑ The real father may have been Richard Hough Jr., although the baby was always raised as "James Brown". ↑ Ancestry.com; Family Data Collection - Individual Records; Edmund West, compiler; - Provo, UT, USA: 2000. Birth date: 13 March 1682; Birth place: Marcus Hook, Delaware, PA; Death date: 1715; Death place: Marriage date: 4 September 1704; Marriage place: Marcus Hook, Delaware, PA. Note: Cited on: Jeffrey Stewart Tree - Hester Baker See also:

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Max Huff, "RICHARD AND MARGERY HOUGH OF ENGLAND AND PA," unpublished report, dated 9 March 1995. Oliver Hough papers at the Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA. Lodholm, Godfrey, Axtell, Hickcox, Steese, Brown, Wheeler, Stanford Family Tree - Hester Baker Esther Taylor on Geni.com. Cites several sources.