Page 74 - ‘A Blaker Family History’ The family history of Joseph Blaker (1916-2007; ‘Joe’)

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Wales! No photographs have been discovered of either ‘Lily’ or her
husband, Thomas.

6.23.4 Christopher John Blaker (1888-1958)
Born: 1 September 1887, 64 Wellfield Road, Streatham, Surrey
Christened: 6 November 1887, St. Leonard’s, Streatham, Surrey
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Married: 1 : 26 March 1916, aged 27 years, married Ada Brown;Wesleyan
Church, Broadway, Streatham
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2 : 18 July 1920, aged 33 years, married Beatrice Eugene
Blaxland; St. George’s Church, Bickley, Kent
Died: 17 February 1958, aged 70 years; Laurel Cottage, Nichol Lane,
Bromley, Kent

St. Leonard’s Church Interior, Streatham: Old Postcard

He was recorded in the 1891 Census, as a 3 year-old boy, living with his
parents and siblings at 64 Wellfield Road, Streatham.

Christopher was known as ‘John’ or ‘Jack’. He was educated at Eardley
Road School, Streatham and Salters Hill School, Gypsy Hill. He left school
on 27 November 1887, aged 10 years.

No unambiguous record of ‘John’ has been found in the 1901 Census.

In the 1911 Census, ‘John’ was included as a 21 year-old ‘Baker’s
Assistant’, living at 7 Wimbledon Park Parade, Wimbledon. He was then
working for Ernest Stafford Moule, a ‘Baker and Confectioner’.

‘John’ enlisted into the Army and joined the Royal West Kent Regiment as
Private TF/240780 until the end of WWI. In 1916, whilst still in the Army,
‘John’ married Ada Brown.

6.23.4.1 Ada Brown (1890-1918)
Born: 1890
Married: 26 March 1916, aged 26 years, married Christopher John Blaker;
Wesleyan Church, Broadway, Streatham
Died: 17 November 1918, aged 28 years; 94 Elm Park, Norwood, London

Very little is known about Ada Brown. The first definitive record is that
detailing her marriage to ‘John’ Blaker. At the time of her marriage, Ada
was working as a ‘Domestic Servant’, living at 8 Eckley Road, Streatham.

Wesleyan Church, Streatham: Old Post Card

6.23.4.2 Christopher John Blaker and Ada Brown
At the time of their marriage, ‘John’ was living in Pembury Road,
Tonbridge, Kent, and was described as a ‘private in the West Kent