Cora Minnie Baker

Brief Life History of Cora Minnie

When Cora Minnie Baker was born on 17 December 1871, in Miller, Missouri, United States, her father, James Martin Baker, was 24 and her mother, Isabel M Sullins, was 27. She married James Weaver on 10 May 1900, in Miller, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 13 January 1956, in Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Weaver
1860–1920
Cora Minnie Baker
1871–1956
Marriage: 10 May 1900
Joseph L Weaver
1904–1982
Maurice Weaver
1906–1979

Sources (11)

  • Minnie Weaver in household of James Weaver, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Cora Minnie Weaver in entry for Maurice Allee Weaver, "Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Minnie Weaver in household of Maurice Weaver, "United States Census, 1940"

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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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