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Sophia Baker (Conyers)

Birthdate:
Death: after 1847
Bayford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Place of Burial: Bayford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John Conyers, MP and Henrietta Frances Conyers
Wife of William Baker, M.P.
Mother of Henrietta Juliana Baker; Col. George Baker; Evelyn Frances Baker; T. R. Baker, Captain and William Baker
Sister of Charlotte Conyers; Caroline Conyers; George Conyers; John Conyers and Matilda Conyers

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About Sophia Baker

September 1847 -the family celebrated her 88th birthday at Bayford House - the Baker home. Source is her son's letter dated September 20 in family archives.



"Sophia Conyers (c.1759-1847) for whom Mrs Elizabeth Carter had a particular regard and esteem" [Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Montagu, ed. Montagu Pennington, 1817, iii. 269)

Sophia married (as the second wife) William Baker of Bayfordsbury, Hertfordshire - Member of Parliament. They had fifteen children [ Burke Landed Gentry, 1851, i 48, 253; ibid., 1900, p. 62; GM 1848, n.s. xxix, 107).

3rd Daughter: Henrietta Juliana born 12 May 1784 married Robert Henry Jenkinson, youngest son, born 8 June 1786

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Sophia Baker's Timeline

1759
1759
1784
May 12, 1784
1794
January 8, 1794
Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire, UK
1847
1847
Age 88
Bayford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
1896
September 29, 1896
Cork, Cork City, Cork, Ireland
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England, United Kingdom
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Bayford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom