Hi Bob

 

A lady called Peggy Cummings is also looking for Jeremiah.

 

From: Bob  in response to Message 1

Sent: 2007/06/10 08:33 PM

Hi Marian, many thanks for your help.  Jeremiah has proven to be very elusive to me for 35 years, but I haven't given up hope.  I had another family from Germany that I could not find for the same number of years but with perserverance I finally found the information that I sought and went back 4 more generations.   I sent pcummings an email some years ago, but never received a response.  Jeremiah's son Thomas had four children, John, b 1870, Delia b 1872, Rosanna d 1873,and Edward b 1876.  They lived in St. Clair, PA (Schuylkill Co) until at least 1880.  After that I lose them.  According to oral family tradition, they moved west.  Could be western PA or Iowa.  Maybe pcummings is part of Thomas' family.  I don't know.  Bop

Hi Bob

 

You have certainly shown great perseverance to have been searching for so many years.  Well done.

 

Before I continue, can you tell me which sources you have searched in Ireland so far, so that we don't tread the same ground over again?  It would help us very much.  Once we know this we can get going.

 

Also, please could we ask you to reply on site, and not from your e-mail inbox?  Just click Reply (pink box) on the last message.  A new window will open for you to write your message.  This saves cluttering up the site with messages twice over.  Thank you! 

 

Marian

From: Bob  in response to Message 1

Sent: 2007/06/11 02:09 AM

Marian, I apologize for the double emails.  When my son comes home on Tuesday, I hope to have the problem corrected.  For some reason, when I try to respond using your "reply" icon, the computer defaults to msn which I no longer have.   To answer your question as to sites, the best explanation I can give you is that I belong to Ancestry.com and have used many sites listed there, as well as the LSD site and Cindy's list.  Most of the sites only had records from 1850 on, or if they had older records, they were for other counties.  Although the possiblity exists that Jeremiah did not always live in Galway.  Unfortunately, family members who knew anything about where they came from passed away before I became interested in genealogy.  Bob

Hi Bob

 

Thanks very mcuh for your reply.  There are three Laurence/Lawrence Bakers listed in Griffiths Valuations as living in Ballymacward (1848-1864), but unfortunately no Jeremiah.  Was there a Laurence in the family?

 

 

Do you know which other area Jeremiah may have lived in other than Co. Galway?

 

And can you give us any other family names such as his father's first name, brothers and sisters' names? 

 

Marian

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Bob  in response to Message 1

Sent: 2007/06/11 05:41 PM

Marion, Unfortunately, Jerimiah is one of my brick walls.  I do not have his parents names.  His wife's name was Bridget McCormac, born in Ireland, and he had a son Thomas, born in Ireland around 1844.  I have two possible brothers, Michael, born abt 1815, who was married to a Bridget (may have married in the US), and John, born abt 1820, who had a wife, Mary (may have married in US).   I don't know if he lived anywhere else in Ireland.  I was told many years ago that there was a Baker clan that lived in the county south of Galway that began with an L (Limmerick??).   I have searched the available immigration sites and did not come up with anything.  So I am not sure when they came to the US.  I suspect it was between 1844 & 1848, as their son Thomas was born in Ireland abt 1844 and John was born in the US in Jul 1848.  I suspect they had some money as Jeremiah was a skilled laborer (a carpenter) in the mines here and bought property about 1850 and built 3 row houses, which were just torn down in 2006 (fire hazards).   I do not have any further information.  Bob

Hi Bob

 

Just letting you know that I am still searching  for Jeremiah but so far to no avail.  Haven't given up yet!

 

Marian

Hi Bob i found a record of a Michael Baker,Cant be sure its Correct one But time period right,There were 2 other Baker With him

 

Mike

 

Ship's Name Albion 
Date of Arrival 20/04/1847 
At Port of New York 
From Port of Galway 
Master/Captain  
 Baker, Charles        
2 Baker, Michael  28  Laborer    
3 Baker, William     

Hi Bob.In the Parish of kilconnell,It Is situated in the eastern side of the County Galway in the Barony of Kilconnell, bounded by the parish of Ballymacward, Fohanagh, Aughrim, Killaan and Killallaghtan in Kilconnell Barony, and by Kilgerril Parish in the Barony of Cloonmacnoon.

In the Griffiths Valuations 1848 to 1864,There was what i can see One baker Family

Baker           Hugh                Kilconnell           Kilconnell     Galway
So I think He is a possible relation To Jeremiah

 

Now This next section is a family,That moved to Galway,From London.Ended up in Canada.It may Well be They were Distant Relatives.But at Present I have not found the link.But Hugh Seems to be in Both Sections

 

Mike

 

Hugh Cossart Baker (1792-1862) was a major in the Artillery. He was baptized in Galway, Ireland, April 15, 1792. He was a cadet in 1808 and was posted to India, arriving December 7, 1809. He became a lieutenant on April 21, 1817 and a captain May 21, 1824. He retired on July 9, 1835. He participated in the expedition against Mauritius 1810-11 and served in Bengal in August of 1811 in the 3rd Mahralta War. (List of the Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834 by Major V.C.P. Hodson, London, 1927.) From the London Times September 24, 1862--Deaths: On the 21st instant at his residence Tuscany Villa, Notting-hill, Major Hugh Cossart Baker, deeply lamented.

 Hugh Cossart, who was born about 1792 and married Mary Anne Popplewell. They were married December 8, 1836 at the Old Church, Saint Pancres, London. They had two children: Rev. Hugh, who died in 1865 and Catherine Henrietta, christened November 1, 1843, Bletchingly, Surrey, England. She married, in 1865, Augustin William Langdon. Mary Popplewell Baker died 1855 and her husband Hugh Cossart Baker died 1862.
 Godfrey Phipps, who was born about 1786 married Sophia Dupois. In 1842 Godfrey P. Baker wrote a letter to his nephew, Hugh Cossart Baker where details of the history of the Baker family are given. Col. Baker mentioned his two daughters, Mary and Sophie in his letter. Sophia Eliza died prior to 1849, and Mary Eliza who was adopted, married Charles Cesar Bettini. They were living in Florence, Italy in 1849 at the time Col. Baker wrote his will. Colonel Godfrey Phipps Baker died 1850.
the line continues below with the son of Hugh Cossart and Dorcas Phipps Baker with their son George William Baker. Other children of Hugh and Dorcas were: