Family Connections

Stanley Baker was born in 1893 in the village of Westhay, Meare, near Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels. He worked as a wheelwright for his father, along with the local blacksmith they made wheels and wagons. Stanley’s other occupation was the village undertaker. He made coffins from elm and oak; the average cost of a coffin was fifty shillings.

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