The notes below have been adapted from Reg Perrott's researches and put into a form which makes further research easier: generations are numbered and information is concentrated in a strictly-ordered list of descendants. Please feel free to use it as the basis of further research!
WILLIAM SALISBURY was born in 1661 or 1670 (two appear in the date records)
1. STEPHEN SALISBURY (1699-?)
1.1 WILLIAM SALISBURY (1735-1807)
1.2 JOHN SALISBURY (1736-1792). His wife Mary was born in 1756.
1.2.1 ?? STEPHEN SALISBURY (1782-1857) cohabited with Anne Baker. Stephen later married Jane Stevens on 8 May 1814.
See below.
1.3 REBECCA SALISBURY (1739-1815)
1.4 THOMAS SALISBURY (1739-1806)
2 MARY SALISBURY (1700-?)
?? STEPHEN SALISBURY (1782-1857) cohabited with Anne Baker. Stephen later married Jane Stevens on 8 May 1814. (Anne married John Bishop, the village school master, on 17 September 1815. A daughter, Sophie, was baptized on 20 September 1815, a son, William, on 7 December 1817 (buried on 11 May 1818), a daughter, Mary, on 18 April 1820, another daughter, Sarah, on 23 November 1821, a son, James, on 12 March 1824. John may have died, aged 80, and been buried on 21 June 1868. Ann was known as "Granny Bishop" in her old age, and reputed to be "a very fine horsewoman") In 1815, Stephen was described as a farmer. Jane may have died in October 1821. Stephen was buried on 13 April 1857.
1 EDWARD SALISBURY BAKER (1808-1886), baptized at Shepton Beauchamp on 30 January 1808. He married Anne Amelia Moon on 10 August 1828 at Shepton Beauchamp. In 1851 he was a cordwainer living next door to his brother John. At this time and in 1861 his wife was recorded as Mary S Baker, from Barrington, Somerset. (She assisted as a shoebinder.) He was buried at Shepton Beauchamp on 7 September 1886.
2 STEPHEN SALISBURY BAKER (1809-?) He married Jane Garrett on 5 January 1829 at Shepton Beauchamp. Jane presumably died, possibly in 1842, and he married again, to Eliza Hucker on 23 July 1850.
By Jane, he had issue,
2.1 STEPHEN SALISBURY BAKER (1829-), baptized on 11 November 1829. He was a yeoman farmer. He married Eliza and had issue: Eliza (baptized 11 January 1851), Sarah (baptized 2 March 1853), Mary and Martha (twins?)(11 July 1855)
2.2 JANE BAKER (1831-), baptized on 13 November 1831.
2.3 EDWARD BAKER (1832-), baptized on 21 October 1832. In 1881 he was farming at Underhill Farm, Shepton Beauchamp.
2.4 JOHN BAKER (1835-), born on 8 May 1835, and baptized with his younger brother on 7 March 1838. He married Jane Maddock, a butcher's daughter, at Shepton Beauchamp on 29 April 1855.
2.5 WILLIAM BAKER (1838-), born on 2 February 1838 and baptized on 7 March 1838.
3 JOHN SALISBURY BAKER (1811-1890) He married Elizabeth Beck, a glover living in Ilminster (1813-1887), on 14 February 1836. In 1851 the family were living in Shepton Beauchamp. John was a sawyer. In 1881, he was an agricultural labourer.
3.1 JOHN BAKER (1837?-?), aged 13 in 1851, when he was already an agricultural labourer. He married Sarah Godfrey in the second quarter of 1861. In 1881 he was a blacksmith at Kingston-upon-Thames
3.1.1 LAURA GODFREY BAKER (1862-?), born in Ruishton, Somerset in the fourth quarter of 1862. She married Maurice Manfred Merrell, a reporter and printer's compositor, in the autumn of 1890 in Kingston-on-Thames. They had two daughters, both well known to the Danbury Bakers:
3.1.1.1 IVY VICTORIA MERRELL (1897-19??), born on 31 March 1897.
3.1.1.2 STATIRA EVELYN MERRELL /1900-??), born on 17 September 1900. She married Archibald W Deavin, a builder and public works contractor, in the first quarter of 1923. The Deavins still lived in Danbury in 1979, as did two of their three children.
3.1.2 FREDERICK G BAKER (1866-?), born in Ruishton, Somerset in the first quarter of 1866.
3.1.3 LILLA JANE BAKER (1868-?), born in Ruishton, Somerset in the first quarter of 1868.
3.1.4 KATE SALISBURY BAKER (1871-?), born in Kingston in the last quarter of 1871.
3.2 MARY BAKER (1840?-?), aged 10 in 1851, and helping her mother as a glover. She married James Bullen at Shepton Beauchamp on 17 July 1862, lived at Barrington in Somerset and had four or five children most of whom died young.
3.3 WILLIAM BAKER (1846-1929), born at Shepton Beauchamp on 5 February 1846. After gaining a bursary from the village school, he was apprenticed to a Mr Lillycap of Taunton. This was probably a millwrighting firm at Spaxton, some eight miles north of Taunton. He afterwards worked for Thomas Penny & Sons of Taunton, by whom he was sent to Colchester to supervise the erection of buildings for an agricultural show. He liked the area and moved to Chelmsford, being given a supervisory post by Mr Christy, looking after works in Ireland and perhaps in Canada.
He married Mary Godfrey (1841-1935), from Ruishton in Somerset, at Kingston Baptist Church on 29 September 1870 (Mary was the sister of Sarah who married John, and the daughter of William Godfrey and Joan Dean).
In 1871 he was living at Burgess Road, Chelmsford. He persuaded his two brothers, John and Edward, to come to the area, John later moving to Kingston; Edward to Ipswich. It appears to have been about this time that he joined the Brethren, and around 1878 he leased a house and Blacksmith's and Wheelwright's business in Danbury and and founded the firm later known as Baker & Sons. The house at Eves Corner, Danbury was once the home of J D Rockefeller's grandmother. In later years it became a school known as Heathcote. An interesting link is that several of William's great grandchildren received their early education there. He died on 8 May 1929, and is buried in Danbury churchyard. His wife, Mary, survived him, and died at Danbury on 14 December 1935.
3.3.1 CHARLES SALISBURY BAKER (1871-1945), known as Charlie, born at Chelmsford on 22 July 1871. He was active in the family business. He married Laura Martha Cozens from Ruishton, Somerset, in the first quarter of 1896.
3.3.1.1 HORACE WILLIAM JOHN BAKER (1896-1978), born on 31 December 1896. He married Hilda M Collins, born on 16 June 1896, in the second quarter of 1929.
3.3.1.2 DOUGLAS CHARLES BAKER (1899)
3.3.1.3 NORMAN BAKER (1904), born on 16 May 1904. His wife, Naomi, was born on 28 July 1910. He became a garage proprietor, and in 1939 was at Burrator, Beehive Lane, Chelmsford.
3.3.1.4 ENID LAURA BAKER (1908), born on 15 April 1908. She was still living at home in 1939.
3.3.1.5 MYRA BAKER (1910-1915), who died in Essex at the beginning of 1915, aged four.
3.3.2 HENRY EDWARD BAKER (1872-1954), known as Harry, born at Chelmsford on 1 September 1872. Harry spent many years in New Zealand. He married Gladys Brewster late in life, in the third quarter of 1931. They had no children.
3.3.3 MELIORA GODFREY BAKER (1874-1965), born at Chelmsford on 30 December 1874. She married (i) Harry Arthur Cozens (brother of Laura Cozens, above) in the first quarter of 1906. He was a farmer in Ruishton. Harry died in the fourth quarter of 1919, and Meliora subsequently married (ii) Frederick H Knapman at the end of 1921.
3.3.3.1 STUART BAKER COZENS (1907-??), born at Ruishton in the first quarter of 1907.
3.3.3.2 KATHLEEN COZENS (1908-??)a, born in the third quarter of 1908.
3.3.3.3 RAYMOND J COZENS (1912-??), born in the first quarter of 1912.
3.3.4 ALBERT GEORGE BAKER (1876-1956), born at Chelmsford on 14 March 1876. In 1911, he was farming at Rectory Farm in Danbury. He married Emily Kate Goldfinch, from Sittingbourne, Kent, a cousin of Marion Dodd (see below) in Croydon in the last quarter of 1903, and they had six sons.
3.3.4.1 GILBERT BAKER, aged 6 in 1911.
3.3.4.2 STUART BAKER, aged 4 in 1911.
3.3.4.3 GEOFFREY BAKER (1911-??), six weeks old and still unnamed on Census Day 1911.
3.3.4.4 WILFRED BAKER
3.3.4.5 FREDERICK BAKER
3.3.4.6 RONALD BAKER
3.3.5 CONSTANCE MARY BAKER (1877-1934), born at Chelmsford on 17 October 1877, who died unmarried. In 1911, she was at Argyle Roade, Whitstable, working as a draper's assistant, living with Alice Butcher.
3.3.6 FRANK BAKER (1879-1943), born in Danbury on 4 March 1879. Frank married Marion Bessie Dodd and they had children:
3.3.6.1 DORIS FRANCES MARION BAKER (1905-2000), born on 29 August 1905, who married Ernest Pettman, and had three sons Marcus, Jonathan and Barnabas and one daughter Joanna.
3.3.6.2 CECIL FRANK BAKER (1906-1982) who married Inez Ford and had children June, Annette and Roger. A second little girl Margaret died at a very young age.
3.3.6.3 JOHN BAKER (1908-) who married Agnes Shackleton and had children Jocelyn, Heather, Patrick and Timothy.
3.3.6.4 MARY JANET BAKER (1910-) who married Reginald Ernest Perrott and had children Godfrey, Gillian and Edward.
3.3.6.5 MARGARET JOAN BAKER (1912-) who married Arthur John Willoughby Barker and had children Bridget, Nicholas and Kenneth (adopted).
3.3.6.6 EILEEN BAKER (1914-) who married Allan Richard Ford and had children Richard, Catherine and Annabel.
3.3.6.7 DAVID THOMAS BAKER (1919-1943) who as a Spitfire fighter pilot was killed in 1943 in the 1939-45 war.
3.3.7 WINIFRED MABEL BAKER (1882-1971), born on 13 September 1882. She married Robert Armour at the end of 1913.
3.3.7.1 MILDRED ARMOUR (1916)
3.3.7.2 ROBERT ARMOUR (1917)
3.3.8 MAUD BAKER (1884-1983), born on 24 October 1884, who died unmarried.
3.4 SARAH BAKER (1847-1921), aged three in 1851.
3.5 SUSAN BAKER (1851-1921), three months old at the time of the 1851 census. She married Joseph Browning, a Somerset farm worker "late of H.M. Marine Artillery" on 5 December 1878. In 1881, the couple were living with Susan's parents in Shepton Beauchamp. They had children:
3.5.1 MARY ELIZABETH BROWNING (1879-), born in the Alderbury, Wiltshire, registration district at the end of 1879.
3.5.2 BESSIE BROWNING (18??-)
3.5.3 JOHN WILLIAM BROWNING (1882-)
3.5.4 WINIFRED KATE BROWNING (1893-)
3.5.5 FLORENCE LOUISA BROWNING (1885-)
3.5.6 CASSIE BROWNING (1887-19??) who married Reginald Best early in 1922. They had a daughter, Edna Best.
3.6 EDWARD BAKER (1855-) He married Cassey Elizabeth A Keeble at Ipswich in the third quarter of 1880. In 1881 he was a bill poster and living at 24 Orford Street, Ipswich. He was a successful businessman in Ipswich.
3.6.1 CASSEY ELIZABETH BAKER (1881-), born in Ipswich in the third quarter of 1881.
3.6.2 EVA PRISCILLA BAKER (1883-), born in Ipswich in the first quarter of 1883.
3.6.3 EDWARD BAKER (1884-), born in Ipswich in the fourth quarter of 1884.
3.6.4 FRANK BAKER (1887-), born in Ipswich in the third quarter of 1887.
3.6.5 FANNY BAKER
3.6.6 ROSIE BAKER
3.6.7 JESSIE BAKER (1893?-). She married Philip Smith of Danbury at Ipswich in the first quarter of 1935.
3.6.8 IVY BAKER (1897-)
3.7 DIANA BAKER
4 MARY SALISBURY (1815-1891). She was baptized at Shepton Beauchamp on 5 February 1815. She married William Best (b.1815) at Shepton Beauchamp on 13 June 1850.