George was born in Sheffield in 1899 and was probably William Henry’s stepmother’s (Ruth Scott’s) son.

In 1901 George and his mother were living in the Gas Works Cottage, Burghley, Pilsgate at the home of his grandmother (Mary Ann Goodliff) and her second husband ( John Goodliff) who was a gas stoker on the Burghley Estate.

On the 1901 Census George was named George Scott, Scott being his mother’s maiden name. In 1906 she married William Henry Baker in Stamford. He was a widower as his first wife Emma had died in 1904.

In the 1911 Census George had taken the surname ‘Baker’. He was then living with his mother’s husband William Henry Baker, a railway checker, his half brother, William Henry aged 13, Harrold (5), Doris May (3) and Lucy (10 months). They were living at 4 Welland Street, Stamford

No military services records for George Henry Baker / Scott have been located. In the publication ‘Stamford and the Great War’ a ‘ Private Scott, G H’ is listed as having mobilised with the ‘Royal Marine Light Infantry’ in 1917.

After the war in 1920 George Henry married Zora Florence Brown in Stamford. in the Selected Marriage Record William Henry Baker is named as his father.

George and Zora had 4 children (Winifred 1921, Sidney 1922, Doris 1926 and Lucy 1927)

George died in 1937 in Stamford after which Zora remarried in 1938.