Catalogue description PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO HAZEL BAKER AND FAMILY

Baker, Hazel, fl 1982, of Worthing, West Sussex

• London
• Glasgow, Strathclyde

The depositor's great-grandfather, Joseph Taylor, came from Kovno, Lithuania to Manchester and married Margaret Goldstone of Stockport. In 1871, when their oldest of ten children, Dora was born, Joseph was working as a tailor and living in Moreton Street, Strangeways. The Taylors were respected members of the Manchester Jewish immigrant community. Joseph was a founder of the Jewish Hospital and an early President of the Burial Society of Polish Jews, and his wife, Margaret, a founder of the Talmud Torah.

Dora Taylor, the depositor's grandmother, married Harry Baker (Herman Backer), an immigrant from Lithuania in 1916 (after a 20 year engagement), in the Higher Broughton Synagogue. At the time of his marriage, Harry Baker was a brush manufacturer, and in 1917 is mentioned as a hardware merchant, living in Great Clowes Street, Broughton. He subsequently moved to London, where he started an artist's brush factory with his brother. The family lived in Kew.

The Taylor family tree is attached.