Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane 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
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"
Spouse and Children
1784–1863 Male
1780–1850 Female
Children (5)
1809–1891 Female
1812–1919 Female
1818–1891 Male
1819–1876 Male
1820–1882 Female
Parents and Siblings
1755–1831 Male
1766–1855 Female
Siblings (12)
1782– Female
1784– Male
1780–1850 Female
1787–1868 Female
1789– Female
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World Events (8)
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
Age 0
1781 · The First Constitution
Age 1
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 20
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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