| Name |
Ernest Jeffrey BAKER |
| Suffix |
alias Tom\Ernie |
| Birth |
28 May 1915 |
81 Dunedin Road, Leyton, Essex  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
c 1935 |
 |
Ernest Baker aged abt 22
|
| Census |
1939 |
116 St Peters Rise, Bedminster Down, Bristol |
| Aero engine fitter |
| Residence |
1938-1940 |
116 St. Peter's Rise, Bedminster Down, Bristol |
 |
116 St Peters Rise, Bedminster Down, Bristol
|
| Occupation |
1942 |
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire |
| Junior foreman in Bristol Aeroplane Company's aircraft engine factory. |
- In Accrington/Clayton-le-Moors more than 11,000 people were employed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to shadow its principal plant at Filton in the manufacture of Hercules engines. Nearly 14,400 engines were made for installation in Lancaster, Halifax, Stirling, Wellington and Beaufighter aircraft together with a small number of its more powerful development, the 18-cylinder Centaurus. [Lancashire County Council web site, 15 Dec 2009]
|
| Residence |
13 Aug 1948 |
18 Lime Street, Accrington, Lancs. |
| Residence |
1962 |
53 Woodside Road, Huncoat, Accrington |
| Burial |
Sep 1962 |
Lancashire |
| Death |
06 Sep 1962 |
Victoria Hospital, Accrington, Lancs. |
| Age: 47 |
| Cause: Cardiac asystole, myocardiac sochaema, coronary artery disease |
| Probate |
07 Dec 1962 |
Administration granted to Nellie Baker, widow, value £708 0s 9d.
|
| Notes |
- 1942: Daughter's birth certificate gives address as Bristol, but in fact he was living in Lancashire by then.
- According to his daughter Barbara, he was kind and loving, well respected and liked by his work colleagues. Very good looking with an extremely dry sense of humour. Good mathematician. Moved to Lancashire with Bristol Aircraft during World War II as a junior foreman. Most of the workforce returned to Bristol after the War, but he remained having met Nell Smith. Factory was taken over by Courtaulds and subsequently by English Electric. Tom was made Superintendent, and was a member of the Royal College of Aircraft Engineers.
Hobbies included golf (member of Whalley Golf Club), fishing (salmon & trout) {Ruby recounted having spent her honeymoon in the Wye Valley watching him fishing!}, and breeding tropical fish. Secretary of the Local Society, member of the Local Working Men's Club, and a Freemason.
A slightly different picture of him was painted by Ruby, who branded him a compulsive liar! It wasn't until his death that she discovered that she was older than him - he had told her that he was two years her senior. He endeavoured to keep in touch with his daughter Vivienne after his divorce, but Ruby was not happy about this and tried to prevent contact. He offered to pay for Vivienne's university education, but Ruby insisted that she should go out to work instead. He once visited Vivienne in the Tax Office where she was working, but she was not aware of his identity.
When he was 40 he had two operations, one on his tonsils, the other on his sinuses, and his health subsequently deteriorated. He spent long stretches in hospital having treatment for heart disease.
Admitted to hospital on 31st August, heart attack on 5th September from which he seemed to be recovering when he had further attack and died whilst having breakfast on 6th.
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| Person ID |
I326 |
Gadd |
| Last Modified |
16 Feb 2016 |
| Father |
William Ernest BAKER, b. 20 Jul 1889, 44 Evesham Road, West Ham, Essex d. 12 Jan 1974, Shirley Cott.,Brook St.,Yoxford, Suffolk (Age 84 years) |
| Mother |
Maggie JEFFRIES, b. 24 Oct 1892, Bilson Green, East Dean, Gloucestershire d. 4 Sep 1968, 147 Victoria St., Cinderford, Gloucestershire (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
23 Mar 1913 |
Leyton Parish Church, Essex [1] |
| Separation |
1929 |
| Family ID |
F111 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Ruby Olive SKRINE, b. 26 Sep 1911, Stanley Street, Bristol d. 4 Jul 1995, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
27 Mar 1937 |
St. Paul's, Bedminster, Bristol |
 |
Ernest Baker marries Ruby Skrine
|
 |
Newspaper announcement of wedding of Ruby Skrine and Ernest Baker
Ernest is described as the only son of Mrs. W. Baker, yet she had another son, Tony, aged under two years at this time. (The photo in the cutting is of a different wedding.) |
| Divorce |
26 May 1948 |
Bristol Divorce Court |
 |
Decree nisi for marriage of Ruby and Ernest Baker
|
| Residence |
18 Jul 1948 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Vivienne Marie BAKER, b. 25 Feb 1942, Oakfields Nursing Home, 2 Oakfield Rd., Clifton, Bristol d. 11 Dec 1994, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry (Age 52 years) |
|
| Histories |
 | Bristol's Blitz
Hitler claimed that Bristol had been completely destroyed in a night raid on 2 November 1940 in which 5000 incendiary and 10.000 high explosive bombs were dropped on the old city. |
| Family ID |
F113 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 Oct 2023 |
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