John Pool Baker

Son of John Proculus Baker (q.v.), grandson, residuary heir and namesake of Rev. John Pool (q.v.) and father of a natural son John Pool Wilkinson Baker (q.v.) with Elizabeth Wilkinson.

1. John Pool, son of John Proculus Baker and Ann Susanna his wife, was born 28/11/1774 and baptised 21/01/1775 in St Andrew, Jamaica.

2. Will of John Pool Baker of No. 22 Molyneaux Street Edgware Road [but late of Jamaica] proved 01/01/1830. Under the will [made in 1825] he left Grove Place and the enslaved people on it to his natural son John Pool Wilkinson Baker, and bequeathed an annuity of £250 p.a. to Elizabeth Wilkinson spinster late of the City of Exeter ('who now resides with me'). He also left an annuity of £30 p.a. to Honoria Eliza Beaumont residing under the care of Mrs Mary Dearing of 51 Greek Street: both were charged on the Grove Place estate [and enslaved people].

Marriage of John Proculus Baker of Kingston and Ann Susannah Pool of St Andrew 21/12/1773 at St Andrew, http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/regstand.htm [accessed 15/01/2016].

1. Familysearch.org, Jamaican parish registers, St Andrew, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1664-1807, p.90.

2. PROB 11/1765/21.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.