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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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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
22585 BAKER, A1893ENG,     Jun 1905 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
26109 BAKER, A G1887ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
26183 BAKER, Albert1892ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
2652 BAKER, Alfred1910ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
6763 BAKER, Alfred1901ENG,     Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
3969 BAKER, Alfred Augustus1886ENG, MDX, Whitechapel, London Jul 1898 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
2653 BAKER, Amy1908ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
19071 BAKER, Annie1886ENG, WOR, Dudley Aug 1901 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
17134 BAKER, Arthur1884ENG,     Mar 1899 : Dominion CAN National Childrens Home  
11904 BAKER, Arthur Leonard1900ENG,     Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
8949 BAKER, Arthur W1911ENG,    , Arlesey May 1925 : Montclare CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
10907 BAKER, Bertie1892ENG,     Jul 1903 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
19128 BAKER, Bessie1888ENG,     Aug 1901 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
17130 BAKER, Catherine1899ENG,     Aug 1907 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
2654 BAKER, Charles1911ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
5724 BAKER, Charles1870ENG,     Aug 1875 : - Unknown - CAN Louisa Birt  
14484 BAKER, Charles1913ENG,     Oct 1927 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
5049 BAKER, David1914ENG, YKS, Leeds Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond CAN Barnardos  
15784 BAKER, Edgar Frank1896ENG, LDN, London Jul 1909 : Scotian CAN Barnardos  
11678 BAKER, Edith1892ENG,     May 1902 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
22555 BAKER, Edith1900ENG,     Jul 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
25044 BAKER, Edith1894 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
3968 BAKER, Edith Jemima1887ENG, SRY, Camberwell Jul 1902 : New England CAN Barnardos  
9177 BAKER, Edward 1894ENG,     Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
16181 BAKER, Edward George1909ENG, MDX, Staines Jun 1921 : Scandinavian CAN Barnardos  
11358 BAKER, Edwin 1892ENG,     Oct 1900 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
21835 BAKER, Edwin Matthew1913ENG, LIN, Boston Jul 1928 : Doric CAN Church of England Waifs and Strays Association newron11  
7996 BAKER, Eliza1848ENG,     Jun 1869 : Austrian CAN Maria Rye  
15096 BAKER, Elizabeth1881ENG,     Jul 1895 : Vancouver CAN British Women\'s Emigration Association  
9801 BAKER, Ellen 1898ENG,     Jul 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
23344 BAKER, Elsie1901ENG,     Sep 1914 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
13266 BAKER, Emily1901ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
20129 BAKER, Emily M1894ENG,     Jul 1910 : Virginian CAN Maria Rye  
14354 BAKER, Emma 1886ENG,     1898 : - Unknown - CAN British Women\'s Emigration Association  
13052 BAKER, Ernest1897ENG, SOM, Weston Super Mare Apr 1913 : Lake Manitoba CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
4896 BAKER, Ernest F1913ENG, LDN, London Mar 1925 : Aurania CAN Liverpool Sheltering Home  
15140 BAKER, Ethel1901ENG,     Sep 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
15592 BAKER, Eva L ENG,     - Unknown - CAN Unknown  
19173 BAKER, Francis1903ENG,     Sep 1912 : Victorian CAN MacPherson Homes  
17317 BAKER, Frank1899ENG,     Jul 1909 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
19176 BAKER, Fred1898ENG,     Sep 1912 : Victorian CAN MacPherson Homes  
17318 BAKER, Frederick1898ENG,     Jun 1910 : Mongolian CAN Middlemore  
20340 BAKER, Frederick1874 Mar 1887 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
23032 BAKER, Frederick1898ENG,     Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
21884 BAKER, George1875ENG,     Sep 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
10932 BAKER, George Edward Windsor1937ENG, HAM, Southampton May 1948 : Empire Brent (formerly Letitia II) AUS Fairbridge Homes  
13265 BAKER, Gertrude 1900ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
13600 BAKER, Gladys May1897ENG,     Sep 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
26011 BAKER, H F1884ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
16437 BAKER, Harold William1914ENG, WAR, Kings Heith, Birmingham May 1924 : Franconia CAN Middlemore  
19526 BAKER, Hilda 1900ENG,     Apr 1913 : Teutonic CAN Hurst House Training Home  
15767 BAKER, Horace1876ENG,     1889 : - Unknown - CAN Unknown  
20050 BAKER, Hy R1871ENG,     Jun 1886 : Lake Superior CAN Barnardos  
20051 BAKER, Hy W1869ENG,     Jun 1886 : Lake Superior CAN Barnardos  
5943 BAKER, Ivy1899ENG,     May 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
24482 BAKER, Ivy1899 Jun 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
9781 BAKER, J E A1883ENG,     Apr 1896 : Scotsman CAN Barnardos  
20545 BAKER, James1874 Mar 1887 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
21885 BAKER, Jessie1869ENG,     Sep 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
2655 BAKER, John1915ENG, WAR, Birmingham 1920 : - Unknown - CAN Middlemore  
9241 BAKER, John 1891ENG,     Mar 1901 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
12078 BAKER, John1916ENG,     May 1928 : Ballarat AUS Fairbridge Homes  
27444 BAKER, John S1860 Aug 1872 : Sarmatian CAN Macpherson Homes  
22739 BAKER, Joseph1874ENG,     Sep 1892 : Mongolian CAN Barnardos  
4001 BAKER, Joseph Ernest Albert1881ENG, KEN, Newington Apr 1896 : Scotsman CAN Barnardos  
22903 BAKER, Kathleen D1900ENG,     Sep 1912 : Ascania CAN Salvation Army  
4899 BAKER, Lilian E1911ENG, LDN, London Mar 1925 : Aurania CAN Liverpool Sheltering Home  
19086 BAKER, Mabel1897ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
4002 BAKER, Margaret Eugenie Blanche1879ENG, KEN, Newington Sep 1895 : Sardinian CAN Barnardos  
17154 BAKER, Maud1903ENG,     Aug 1907 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
2974 BAKER, Miriam1897ENG,     May 1911 : Victorian CAN Waifs & Strays  
23687 BAKER, Nellie1894ENG,     Jun 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
11254 BAKER, Oscar1884ENG,     Jul 1899 : Lake Huron CAN Barnardos  
17835 BAKER, Pamela1904ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1913 : Mongolian CAN Middlemore  
8489 BAKER, Phyllis1901ENG,     Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
8266 BAKER, Sidney1913ENG, LDN, London Apr 1928 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
17089 BAKER, Thomas1900ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1913 : Mongolian CAN Middlemore  
22556 BAKER, Thomas ENG,     May 1911 : Corsican CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
26184 BAKER, Thomas1895ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
20212 BAKER, V ENG,     May 1911 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
11785 BAKER, W1890ENG,     May 1902 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
20257 BAKER, Walter ENG,     May 1911 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
22290 BAKER, Walter ENG,     Apr 1892 : Sarnia CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22512 BAKER, Walter B1909ENG,     May 1923 : Scythia CAN Middlemore  
13255 BAKER, William1900ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
14130 BAKER, William1888ENG,     Jul 1899 : Lake Huron CAN Barnardos  
21886 BAKER, William1880ENG,     Sep 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
9274 BAKER, William Arthur1905ENG,     Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
23009 BAKER, William N.1890ENG,     May 1903 : Kensington CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
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