Brief Life History of Huldah
When Huldah Baker was born on 22 May 1737, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Judah Baker, was 36 and her mother, Jane Nickerson, was 38. She married Isaac Mayo on 2 April 1776, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 12 November 1812, in Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Hulde Baker, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Huldah Baker, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Huldah Mayo, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1733–1806 Male
1737–1812 Female
Children (2)
1778–1815 Male
1781–1814 Female
Parents and Siblings
1701–1782 Male
1699–1781 Female
Siblings (6)
1730–1809 Female
1731– Female
1732–1814 Female
1733–1814 Male
1737–1812 Female
+1 More Child
World Events (4)
1776
Age 39
1776 · The Declaration to the King
Age 39
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 63
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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