Samuel Baer 1865-1939
Metal Merchant
Middx Ancestry family tree
Above received from Carolyn
1865. Samuel Baer was born to Max Baer & Karoline Strauss( her surname from his 1898 m.c.) 11/5/1865 at Mergentheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany- from his 1893 Naturalization papers & 1898 Mannheim m.c.
~1884. Samuel Baer likely arrived in England
1891C. .Samuel Baer, 25, metal merchant, was living South Hill Park Hampstead
Anna I | Larkins | Head | Married | Female | 47 | 1844 | - | London, Middlesex, England |
Arabel S | Larkins | Daughter | Single | Female | 22 | 1869 | Governess | London, Middlesex, England |
Aimee S | Larkins | Daughter | Single | Female | 21 | 1870 | Governess | Walham Green, London, England |
Milton | Larkins | Son | Single | Male | 17 | 1874 | Metal Merchants Clerk | Manchester |
Samuel | Baer | Boarder | Single | Male | 25 | 1866 | Metal Merchant | Germany |
Louis T | Meyer | Boarder | Single | Male | 25 | 1866 | Civil Engineer | France |
Fritz | Salmony | Boarder | Single | Male | 24 | 1867 | Stock Broker | Germany |
Charlotte L | Robinson | Servant | Single | Female | 22 | 1869 | Domestic Servant | London, Middlesex, England |
1893. He was registered as a British Citizen : he obtained his Naturalization, aged 28, on 4/9/1893, an unmarried clerk
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Naturalization documents, 4/9/1893, showing his parents & origin - & signed by Herbert Asquith!
1893. Samuel Baer married Ida Wolff in OctoberMarylebone Dec 1893 - not on Ancestry/FMP or FS; nothing on FMP Newspapers . She was the daughter of a wealthy Wine Merchant from Russia and his German wife
Samuel & Ida had 2 children: Elsie Lillie Baer 1895/1894 & Alfred Max Baer Hampstead Sep 1896 - these 2 both dead by 1988, see solicitor's letter
1896. Lily Ida Wollf ,23, died Hampstead Sep 1896
I remember hearing something about him marrying his dead wife’s sister and this not being acceptable in the day - Carolyn.
1898. Samuel Baer, ~33, married Alice Wolff 7/4/1898 in Mannheim
Richie & Renate have deciphered the central part of this: they think it says
"Max Baer, before living in Bamberg and his widow Carolina, born as Strauss".
This implies that Max Baer has died, but that his mother, Carolina, widow, was still alive
1898. Samuel Baer was living 18 Adamson Road, Camden - Ancestry London Electoral registers
1900. Samuel Baer was a director of Henry R Morten & Co. Ltd., Metal Exchange Buildings, E C,: FMP Newspapers, 23/2/1900, "Alledged forged Telegram"
1901C. Cannot find- has he gone to the US?? But his 2 children were at 18 Adamson Road, Hampstead!! - suspect the parents were just omitted by mistake from this entry!
Elsie | Baer | Daughter | Single | Female | 6 | 1895 | - | London, Middlesex, England |
Alfred | Baer | Son | Single | Male | 4 | 1897 | - | Hampstead, Middlesex, England |
Florence | Lewis | Servant | Single | Female | 22 | 1879 | Nurse Domestic | Baughurst, Hampshire, England |
Martha | Finch | Servant | Single | Female | 24 | 1877 | Housemaid Domestic | Wyton, Hampshire, England |
Alice | Shields | Servant | Single | Female | 23 | 1878 | Cook Domestic | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
1903. Gerald Otto Baer was born Hampstead Mar 1903 to Samuel & Alice
1905. Leonard Sigismund Baer was born Hampstead Dec 1905 to Samuel & Alice
1911C. Samuel Baer, 45, metal merchant, was living 13 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead in 17 rooms!!, with his 2nd wife and2 children with 5 servants and a german governess . Alice had been married 12 years, 2 children, both alive
Samuel | Baer | Head | Married | Male | 45 | 1866 | Metal Merchant | Germany Resident -since 1890 |
Alice | Baer | Wife | Married | Female | 34 | 1877 | - | London Hampstead |
Gerald | Baer | Son | Single | Male | 8 | 1903 | - | London Hampstead |
Leonard | Baer | Son | Single | Male | 5 | 1906 | - | London Hampstead |
Alice | Hemming | Servant | Spinster | Female | 41 | 1870 | Servant Cook Domestic | Hertfordshire H Hampstead |
Inelly Edith | Owes | Servant | Single | Female | 28 | 1883 | Ladysmiad Domestic | London Mayfair |
Eloisa | Sartori | Servant | Single | Female | 25 | 1886 | Governess Domestic | Germany Resident |
Florence | Stoker | Servant | Single | Female | 22 | 1889 | Housemaid Domietic | Berkshire Windsor |
Ethel | Booth | Servant | Single | Female | 22 | 1889 | Housemaid Domestic | London St Lukes |
Mildred | Rutterford | Servant | Single | Female | 23 | 1888 | Kitchenmaid Domestic | Suffolk Lakenheath |
1912. Samuel Baer, 47, Mrs Baer 35 & Elsie Baer 18 sailed on the Lusitania from Liverpool to New York. Their address 13 Maresfield Gardens, London
1912. Samuel Baer, 47, Mrs Baer 35 & Elsie Baer 18 arrived in Plymouth on 18/11/1912 from New York - Ancestry shipping records
1917. A daughtter, Doris V Baer, was born Hampstead Mar 1917. She married Hubert Simon -Marylebone Dec1937 . & Vivien Simon Baer was living in Germany in 1988 - 1988 solicitor's letter-
1925-1929 . Samuel Baer is in the London Electoral Register at 13 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead with his wife and sons, Gerald & Leonard
1928. Samuel Baer 62 & Alice Baer 51 left Southampton on a cruise to Madeira Curacao & Bermuda aboard the Arcadian, returning 6/3/1928
Maybe, l to r. Unknown, unknown, unknown, Dorothy, Gerald, Samuel, Alice. One of the 2 girls seated Gerald's sister, Doris 1917 ?
1939. Samuel Baer, ~74, of 25 Orchard Court, Portman Square, died 8/1/1939 . Probate of £ 318,811 to his widow Alice Baer, Alfred Max Baer metal merchant, Leonard Sigismund Baer stockbroker & Harry Louis Nathan solicitor . Alfred his half brother, Leonard his brother
£104,800 Estate duty was paid, and his estate nearly all went to his widow, with implied provisos: remainder on Trust to his 5 children - FMP Newspapers 18/2/1939
1946. Solicitors Ellis Piers & Young Jackson of 104 Great Russell Street took over the Will Trust in 1946- from a 1988 solicitor's letter( to be found at end of Gerald Baer's page)
1962. His widow, Alice, died