Isabel Baker

Isabel Twining was born in England a daughter of William Twining. Isabel immigrated with her parents to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where in 1641, they were residents of Yarmouth, situated about thirty miles southeast of Plymouth.

various info on birth dates listed as both 1615 and 1625. in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Died 16 MAY 1706 in Yarmouth, Barnstable county, MA. She married Francis Baker 17 JUN 1641 in Yarmouth, MA

William TWINING was her father, mother listed as Anne DOANE. [This may be wrong. Wlliam and Anna Doane were apparently married in Eastham long after Isabel was born.] [But Isabel is shown as being born c. 1615. They could not have lived in Eastham long before that!]

Children

• 1. +Nathaniel B. BAKER
• 2. +John BAKER
• 3.   Samuel BAKER
• 4. +Elizabeth BAKER
• 5. +Daniel BAKER
• 6. +Thomas BAKER
• 7. +William B. BAKER
• 8.   Hannah BAKER

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Unspecified secondary source cited by descendant Sally Thomas:

Francis Baker, [tailor, arrived on ship planter, 1635 - this was another Francis Baker - this Francis was a cooper]. b.Hertfordshire, Eng., b. 1609, he had the following children with wife Isabel Twinning:

• 1. Nathaniel b. 27 Mar, 1642, Weymouth, MA; wife unknown,
  • His wife was NOT Desire Grey. Desire married Nathaniel Southworth in 1670 was still his wife in 1688. NOR was the wife of Nathaniel a Sarah Lane, Sarah Lane married another Nathaniel Baker, born earlier and from Hingham, MA
• 2. John b. 1645, m. Alice Pierce
• 3. Samuel b. 1 May 1648, unmarried
• 4. Daniel b. Sept 2, 1650, m. Elizabeth Chase, b. c. 1656, dau William Chase 27 May 1674. He died some time after July 20, 1713.
  • He was not married to Jemina.
• 5. Hannah, no birth date available, m. Abraham Pierce b. 1638, Jan 1718, Hannah was his 2nd wife, his 1st wife was Hannah Glass m. 1695. Hannah Baker Pierce d. bet. 4 Mar 1693 and 29 Oct 1695, date of Abrahams second marriage.
• 6. Thomas b. 1654/5, wife Bathsheba Lewis-O'Kellia
• 7. Elizabeth b. 1656. m c. 1674, John Chase, Yarmouth, b. 6 Apr.1649, son of William
• 8. William, m. Mary Pierce and March Lawrence

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References

1. http://www.gis.net/~scatt/genealogy/baker_geneology.htm
2. http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/francis-baker-and-...
3. Torrey's "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" Isabel Twining married Francis Baker 17/6/1641 Yarmouth.
4. http://capecodhistory.us/Deyo/Dennis-Deyo.htm
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Twining-53 cites
   1. Swift, Charles Francis. History of old Yarmouth : comprising the present towns of Yarmouth and Dennis : from the settlement to the division in 1794, with the history of both towns to these times. Yarmouth Port Mass. The author, 1884. pg 63
   2. Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. pg 33 subscription needed
   3. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. pgs 132-133 subscription needed
   4. Find-a-Grave. [1]
   5. The Twining family, by Thomas Jefferson Twining, born 1851, published by the author, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1905, pages 7-11 See also:
   6. Leon Clark Hills, Cape Cod Series Vol. I: History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to Ye Olde Colonie, (Copyright 1936, Hills Publishing Company, Washington D.C.)
   7. Florence W. Baker, Francis Baker and some of his Descendants to the Seventh Generation, Book 1 (Periodical: Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy, No. 106)
   8. The Twining family, by Thomas Jefferson Twining, born 1851, published by the author, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1905, pages 7-11
6. William Twining is in the Great Migration Directory, page 344, with the following notes: "Unknown; 1640; Yarmouth, Eastham [PCR 2:19, 7:21; MD 6:202, 17:201; Emerson-Benson 568-69]." Key to titles: PCR = Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, by Nathaniel Shurtleff etc. MD = Mayflower Descendant Vol 1through present. Emerson-Benson = An Emerson-Benson Saga" The Ancestry of Charles F Emerson and Bessie Benson and the Sturggle to Settle the United States, by Edmund K. Swigart (1994)