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Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 9 Mar 2015 3:08PM GMT
Classification: Cemetery
Edited: 9 Mar 2015 3:11PM GMT
Surnames: Baker
I am writing on the off chance that someone may see this message and be able to help me.
I am wondering if the grave marker still exists on the grave of John and Catherine Baker? They are both buried in Section T, Row 4 Lot 47 of St. John's Anglican Cemetery in Halifax, N.S. John was buried there in 1907 and Catherine in 1913. I have checked the Find a Grave site but sadly only a few of the graves in the cemetery are listed and theirs isn't among the list.
As I live in the U.K I am unable to check for myself.

Thanks

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 9 Mar 2015 9:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Louise,

Is John's wife Catherine Dooks? There seem to be suggestions in that direction but also some date inconsistencies. Looking at the marriage record (1867), in NS Vital Stats, of John Baker and Catherine Dooks, John's age is given as 22 (so b. ca 1845) but the 1907 death record for John gives his age as 74 years, indicating a birth about 1833.

John Cordes
Halifax, NS

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 9 Mar 2015 10:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Is it possible that the marriage age is "legal" that age being some specific number that John is over making him legal? I've had that on some U.S. marriages. It's just marked 21 no matter what real age they were. Occasionally, especially if they are "old" it just says "legal".

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 9 Mar 2015 10:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello John,

Yes, I believe John's wife to of been Catherine Dooks. As you have picked up there are some inconsistences with his birth dates listed. According to their 1891 census return he was born in 1833 but in the 1901 return his date of birth was listed as 7th October 1835. Luckily they had their children living with them which help to make things a little clearer. Their daughter Laura has Catherine Dooks listed as her mother on Laura's death certificate.

Kind regards,
Louise

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 9 Mar 2015 10:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
That's interesting Toni, I wonder if we could still get away with that one these days how many of us would put 21 on our marriage certificates?

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 9 Mar 2015 11:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
It's just a blank and if they are over the legal age, it's just checked and called legal. Here in most places it was/is 21. My great grandfather was 20 so the age on their marriage license is filled in with the numeral 20 and my ggrandfather's permission from his guardian was attached. Most couples who are "older" have Legal/legal as their age meaning they are both over the age of 21. Occasionally there will be a number filled in but not every time. My grandmother filled hers in every time and it depended on the age of her husband what her age was. She was 15 years older than her last one but said she was a couple years younger (I can't remember how many years she fibbed). The question I've always had is how she explained her adult children living in the same town. I doubt her new husband didn't know! Everybody knew everybody!

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 1:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ah yes, I see that; also in her (second) marriage record.
As far as your original question goes, it would be pretty difficult to determine just now -- we have a heavy snow and ice cover over most everything these days, including the streets and sidewalks. I don't think anybody's likely to go exploring in the cemetery for a while yet.

John

Re: Grave marker of John & Catherine Baker at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 2:43PM GMT
Classification: Cemetery
Surnames: Baker
Thanks to the brilliant N.S Vital statistics site I think I am slowly piecing together the family history. Like many families of the time they had a bumpy ride, Catherine's brother Willoughby died in the Halifax explosion and Laura's twin Margaret died from T.B leaving a young family.

I can see I timed my message board post poorly, spring is slowly starting to show it's face over here and so I wrongly presumed it was warming up with you.

Louise
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