Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Baker was born on 22 August 1867, in Duplin, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Frank Baker, was 29 and his mother, Molsey J. Bishop, was 22. He married Agnes Caroline Mercer on 3 April 1891, in Smith Township, Duplin, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Smith Township, Duplin, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years and Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom in 1948. He died on 15 December 1948, in Duplin, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Beulaville, Duplin, North Carolina, United States.
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- Henry Baker, "United States Census, 1910"
- Henry Baker, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Henry Baker, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
Spouse and Children
1867–1948 Male
1873–1933 Female
Children (8)
1892–1955 Female
1894–1962 Female
1898–1970 Male
1901–1987 Male
1904–1994 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1838–1909 Male
1845–1923 Female
Siblings (5)
1867–1948 Male
1868–1889 Female
1871–1945 Female
1878–1913 Female
1881–1950 Male
World Events (8)
1877 · Last Troops Leave
Age 10
1884
Age 17
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
Age 30
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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