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Record #15784

Name :: : Edgar Frank BAKER (1896 - 1980)
aka : Frank
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 13 May 1896
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1980

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, , London

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial, USA, San Bernardino

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 24 Jul 1909
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Scotian
Placement Family: : Walter Boyce

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesFrank was the son of William James Baker and his wife Elizabeth Drewry. Elizabeth died in 1908 after which is is likely when Frank was taken into care of the Dr. Barnardo Homes in England. Frank married Beulah Fallon on December 19, 1917 in Shell River, Manitoba. They would have two sons, both born in Canada, James Grant Baker born in 1919 and Donovan Emery born in 1921.

Frank and his wife Beulah are mentioned in the biography of her brother Charles as follows:

CHARLES N. FANNON was born on his parent?s farm two miles from Bernard, Missouri, attended Business College and secured a job with a bank at Red Oaks, Iowa. A few years after his father?s death, in the spring of 1911 his mother and sister Beuhla had come to Canada to join his sister Clara (see Walker) at Makaroff. Clara had recently obtained a teaching position and the women had come to help in the care of her son, Lewis. Charles arrived later that fall, in time for the harvest. He got a job for the sum of two dollars per day threshing for Griffith and Diamond using a portable steam outfit (the 15 H.P. engine was pulled by four horses and the 28-50 Case Separator was pulled by four horses). Tony had no binder to cut his crop so he and Charles did the stooking for Albert Alder and Albert cut their crop in return. Later Charles and Tony went to work at Cockerill?s Mill where they were paid fifteen dollars a month including board. By spring they had sufficient lumber; the boards were hauled into Roblin and shipped to Makaroff by train. The basement was dug and the Walker?s new house was completed by the fall of 1912. Charles then took up a homestead in the Duck Mountains and that winter cut tamarack posts: he hauled them out to Lachance?s Store where Tony met him and exchanged sleighs. Charles later purchased a farm west of Togo from Joe Dickie and in 1915 married Ruth Mills (see Mills)who had come to Togo in 1911. In 1917, Beuhla Fannon married Frank Baker. Frank was one of the boys brought out to Canada by Dr. Barnardo; Walter Boyce and his family had taken him in and when they had moved to Makaroff he had come with them (see Boyce). Frank and Beuhla Baker farmed the land later known as the Lindsay place. They had two sons: Jim their eldest died during WW2 and Donald went with his parents when they moved to Missouri. In the meantime, Charles Fannon like many of the early farmers, worked out periodically to make ready cash, taking on any job to ?make ends meet?. He drove a dray-team, ran Sinclair?s Steam Outfit, shingled an elevator in Togo - when it was fifteen below zero and the nails had to be heated - and went as far as Burgess, SK to help build a house for the Baulf Elevator Co. By then they had two children, so when Tony Walker and Clara built a house on their land near Makaroff, Charles and Ruth moved into their old house. In 1923, the Fannons moved to Colfax, SK where Charles worked for Bill Lennox who owned three sections of prairie land but had no available water. He learned to dig a ?dug-out? in two weeks, with one horse on a plow and three on a Fresno Scraper. Later still, they moved to Yellow Grass, SK to work for Joe Marshall, where he operated a Rumley Threshing Outfit and dug a cistern - which a cow fell into and nearly drowned. In time, Carles and Ruth had enough ?moving around? and took up a homestead at Kelvington, SK; in all they raised a dozen children, six boys and six girls: Harrison started school at Makaroff, served in the army and became a plumber; Leona was killed in a car accident at Barrie, ON; Chester served in the Army, lived in Calgary; Gordon died of Spinal Meningitis; Emory, a navigator in the Airforce, lived in Edmonton, worked for Alberta Utilities; Charles, killed in Hochwald Forest, was buried in Holland; Mark served in the Medical Corps, lived in Burlington, ON; Rose married Jack Holmes, lived at Camp Borden; Ruth married and lived at Camp Borden, and three more daughters - one at Cold Lake, one at Winnipeg and the other near Saskatoon. Charles and Ruth Fannon, at 80 and 72 years of age respectively in 1971, sold their homestead and retired, moving their house from the farm into Porcupine Plains, Saskatchewan.

ContributorsCreated : 2011-12-28 16:45:49 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-12-28 16:55:57 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3004	AARON, Alfred Robert	1899	ENG, LAN, West Derby, Liverpool	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3003	AARON, John Richard	1895	ENG, LAN, West Derby, Liverpool	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3007	ABBEY, Bertha	1890	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3006	ABBEY, John	1887	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Oct 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3161	ABBEY, Thomas	1892	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Oct 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3020	ABBOT, Alice	1877	ENG, MDX, Islington	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3047	ABBOT, William	1878	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3019	ABBOTT, Alfred	1869	ENG,	Aug 1887 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
23669	ABBOTT, Alice	1877	ENG,	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3022	ABBOTT, Bertie	1894	ENG, SFK, Ipswich	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Barnardos	sharonmx5 , patty_in_ms
3025	ABBOTT, David Henry	1891	ENG, ESS, Grays	Mar 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3055	ABBOTT, Douglas Groves	1910	ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney	Apr 1924 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
3858	ABBOTT, Emily Jane	1886	ENG, YKS, Guisborough	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
8354	ABBOTT, Frederick Albert Prosper	1885	ENG, LND, Homerton	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3036	ABBOTT, George	1894	ENG, MDX, London	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3038	ABBOTT, Herman Henry	1882	ENG, MDX, Hoxton, London	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
10624	ABBOTT, John	1913	ENG,	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos
3045	ABBOTT, Leslie	1883	ENG,	Mar 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3060	ABBOTT, Lilian	1903	ENG,	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3026	ABBOTT, Mary	1888	ENG, ESS, Maldon	Oct 1902 : Colonian	CAN	Barnardos
3049	ABBOTT, Penelope	1901	ENG, KEN, Sidcup	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
5046	ABBS, Bertie Cecil John	1914	ENG, LND, St. Pancras	Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Barnardos
3061	ABDALE, John George	1873	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Mar 1891 : Norwegian	CAN	Barnardos
3063	ABEL, Albert Edward G.	1901	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Aug 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3066	ABEL, Charles	1891	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3065	ABEL, Florence	1902	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Aug 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3067	ABEL, Frederick	1889	ENG,	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3068	ABEL, George	1887	ENG,	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3069	ABEL, George	1897	ENG,	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3071	ABEL, John	1886	ENG,	Jun 1897 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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