This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker - Bunbury - Dennis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JCC.2ACEB/8639 Message Board Post: The Baker family arrived in Ireland during the time of the Elizabethan Lord Deputy, the Earl of Sussex. In 1667 they were confirmed in possession of 1200 Irish acres at Lismacue near Bansha in Co. Tipperary. The house, set up a splendid avenue of lime and beech, was designed and built by William Robertson in 1813. William Bker was murdered three years later. According to London Times, Feb 9, 1816., “Edward Meagher, Thomas Hurley, Michael Kearney, Thomas Fitzgerald, and William Maher, were convicted of setting fire to and consuming the house of William Burke of Cappagh. These persons were apprehended by the late William Baker, Esq. who was murdered shortly after their apprehension”. According to “The History of Clonmel” by the Revd. W. Burke, Baker was “returning from Cashel Sessions, Novr. 27th 1815, [when]he was met by two men at the gate of Thomastown Park and shot through the Head. Though a reward of £5,000 was offered and tho! ugh scores of suspected persons were lodged in the Bridewells the secret which was known to hundreds was long kept. Eventually two men named Keating and Maher were imprisoned in Cahir. Keating through connivance or otherwise obtained some whiskey, and their conversation being overheard, Keating was induced to give evidence and Maher was hanged.” (Quoted in “ Chronicle of the Baker family in Tipperary”, Sir Augustine F. Baker, MA, (1922)) His son Hugh Baker duly succeeded to Lismacue. He was born in 1798, the eldest son of Hugh and Anne Baker of the Lismacue family. His brother Rev. William Baker was Rector of Shornell Rectory in Co. Tipperary and father to Rev. Hugh Sidney Baker, resident preacher in Cashel Cathedral. Hugh married Marion Conyers, only child of Charles Conyers of Castletown Conyers, Co. Limerick. He died on 5th November 1868, having had four sons and four daughters. His eldest daughter Marion married George Cole Baker of Ballydavid in February 1865. George was murdered in a dispute over the impending eviction of a tenant at Ballydavid Wood on 31st December 1868. The murderer was never apprehended. Marion subsequently married Marion Baker married Frederick Browne, a wealthy lawyer from the Isle of Douglas. On 9th May 1866, Hugh's second daughter Anne Baker, married Lieutenant Colonel Morley Stratford Tynte Dennis (1811 – 1903), JP for Co. Wicklow. They lived at Barraderry House in Kiltegan. He served with the 76th Foot, or "Hindoostans", a regiment raised by the East India Company in 1787 for service in India at a time when war with the French was imminent. In this capacity he was variously quartered in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Corfu and Malta. He was second-in-command to Colonel H Smyth when the 76th Foot was stationed in Waterford from 1859 to 1861. When the regiment departed the city in January 1861, Waterford’s principal magistrates, aldermen and councillors wrote a series of letters congratulating Colonel Smyth for “the very excellent conduct” of his men and “also for the kind liberality with which the splendid band of the Regiment was at all times given for the amusement of the citizens generally”. Lieutenant Colonel De! nnis retired from the army shortly thereafter and settled at Barraderry. In 1876, the Barraderry estate comprised 433 acres. Lieutenant Colonel Morley Stratford Tynte Dennis died without children on 19th July 1903 aged 92. His widow, Anne, predeceased him on 31st January 1902. They are both buried in Kiltegan. Hugh's son and heir, Hugh Baker (1845 – 1887), was a noted cricketer and horseman, “being endowed with more than the average physical strength”. He married Francis Massey of Kinsgwell, Co. Tipperary (she married secondly Major Ralph Hall Bunbury of Noremount, Co. Kilkenny). The second son Charles (1847 - 1905), a barrister, married Harriet Akken of Okadale, Ockley, Surrey, and eventually purchased Lismacue. Another son William took over the Directorship of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes on the death of the Founder in 1905. The youngest son Sir Augustine FitzGerald Baker was President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in 1903.