Hugh Cossart Baker^[1]

1818 - 1859  (41 years)

• Name	Hugh Cossart Baker  [2]
  Birth	1818	England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Mar 1859	Savannah, Georgia, USA   [3]
  Burial	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Person ID	I420	Heddle fam tree
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Captain G. W. Baker   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F149	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emma Wyatt,   b. 8 Aug 1824, Suffolk, England d. 1 Jun 1859 (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	18 Nov 1845	St. Luke's Anglican Church, Wellington Square (Burlington), Ontario, Canada   [2, 4]
  	The wedding announcement reads, "At St. Luke's Church, Wellington Square, on 18th inst., Hugh Cossart Baker, of Hamilton, eldest son of Captain G. W. Baker, of Woodroofe, Ottawa River, late of the Royal Artillery, to Emma, eldest daughter of Henry Wyatt, late of Long Ditton, Surrey, England. The Reverend John Gamble Geddes performed the ceremony."
  Children	1. Hugh Cossart Baker, Jr.,   b. 9 Dec 1846, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada d. 18 Mar 1931 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

• Photos

  photo head - Hugh Cossart Baker 1818-1859.jpg Scanned from book: Since 1847. The Canada Life Story. An Authentic and Often Colourful Account of the First Canadian Life Assurance Company from its Founding at Hamilton in the Province of Canada in 1847 to the Present Day.

  
  

• Notes

  He has a page at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3761 He has a wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cossart_Baker,_Sr. (the . is part of the URL) He was the founder and president of the Canada Life Assurance Company www.canadalife.com

  
  

• Sources

  [S200] Book - Since 1847 - The Canada Life Story., (Scan available online here (pages 45 and 46 transposed accidentally... i'll fix that asap) http://x.heddle.com/documents/since%201947%20-%20the%20canada%20life%20story.pdf). [S21] Web - Wyatt family history by Emma Wyatt, (http://www3.sympatico.ca/dljordan/WyattFamily.htm Contact: lsjordan@sympatico.ca). [S174] George W. Brown, Trudel, Marcel, 1917-, David M. Hayne, Francess G. Halpenny, Book - Dictionary of Canadian Biography, (1976, University of Toronto Press ISBN 0802033199). [S208] William D. Reid, Book - Reid's Marriage Notices of Ontario 1813-1854, (Published 1980 by Hunterdon House, Lambertville, NJ), Page 292 (Reliability: 3).