Editing Richard Baker (chronicler) (section)

==Marriage and issue==
About 1600, Baker married Margaret Mainwaring (d.1654),<ref>Will of Dame Margaret Baker, widow, City of London, 9 February 1654</ref> daughter of [[George Mainwaring (MP, died 1628)|Sir George Mainwaring]] of [[Ightfield]], Shropshire, by whom he had three sons and four daughters:
*Sir Thomas Baker, baptised in 1602, married on 9 April 1629 at St Mary in the parish of [[Lambeth]], Frances Wilford, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford of Ileden, [[Kent]], and Elizabeth Sandys. They had eight children.<ref>"The Oxinden Letters 1607–1642", Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Dorothy Gardiner, published by London Constable and Co ltd 1933, p.223-24.</ref>
*Mainwaring, baptised in 1603.
*Arthur (died in 1644), barrister at law.
*Anne, baptised in 1607, who married a Mr. Bury. 
*Margaret, who produced three manuscript recipe books.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Connor |first=Kimberley |date=2022-05-16 |title=Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying the Author of Three Manuscript Receipt Books |url=https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol12/iss1/2 |journal=ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 |volume=12 |issue=1 |doi=10.5038/2157-7129.12.1.1252 |issn=2157-7129|doi-access=free }}</ref> 
*Cecily/Cecilia (died in 1635), who married on 27 April 1625 at [[Steeple Aston]], Oxfordshire, Francis Wroughton son of George Wroughton. They had six children. 
*Frances married on 18 October 1645 at [[St Anne and St Agnes]], London, Robert Smith, citizen and tailor in London. Smith is said to have burned a manuscript of Baker's life.