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Con James Baker was an adventurer and soldier in WWI who lived through the exciting Roaring Twenties in Chicago to later become a gentleman farmer. He was also a great storyteller whose tales of distant relatives in the Midwest and New England instilled in his son, the author, a thirst to investigate his past and discover the facts behind the lives and times of those elusive Baker ancestors.

This book is the first known attempt to construct a complete ancestry and family history of Con James Baker’s antecedents through the generations, thus encompassing all known ancestral branches of the family. It traces the family lines from Con’s generation backward in time following his bloodline across America to New England, the British Isles, and beyond.

The Baker ancestral tree includes John Baker of Hartford, Connecticut; George Soule of the Mayflower; Reverend Francis Doughty of Bristol, England, and Flushing, New York; Roger Marshall; and Judith Lewis, who came to Saco, Maine, from Shropshire, England. Other notable ancestors include Henry III of England; William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke; Llwellyn ap Iorwerth of Wales; Charles Martel of France; and many more during medieval times.

The work is presented in three volumes, this being the first of the three. Each volume covers a number of generations with accompanying descent tree charts, maps, and photographs. Volume I describes ancestral generations one through twenty-three in America and Europe. Volume II presents generations twenty-four through twenty-nine, all overseas. Volume III describes what is known about generations thirty through fifty in the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Europe, and contains the reference list and the overall index for all volumes.

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