Jean Baker

Brief Life History of Jean

When Jean Baker was born from 1780 to 1790, in Virginia, United States, her father, James Baker, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Denton Montgomery, was 24. She married William Rice on 5 December 1808, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died from 1840 to 1850, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States, and was buried in Wayne, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Rice
1784–1863
Jean Baker
1780–1850
Marriage: 5 December 1808
Charlotte Rice
1809–1891
Sytha Rice
1812–1919
Grandall Preston Rice
1818–1891
Ebenezer Baker "Eben" Rice
1819–1876
Mary Polly Rice
1820–1882

Sources (3)

  • Jean Baker, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Deeds, 1800-1901; general index to deeds, 1800-1960. William Rice Sells Land in Wayne County, Kentucky 17 August 1818
  • Jane Baker, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

World Events (8)

1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital

On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.

1781 · The First Constitution

Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.

Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .

History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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