Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Baker Susans of Udimore, 1677 was born on 8 July 1677, in Udimore, Sussex, England, her father, William Baker, was 20 and her mother, Hannah Anne Diggenson, was 21. She married William Susans of Denton, 1677 on 1 May 1698, in Northiam, Sussex, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 22 December 1709, in Beckley, Sussex, England, at the age of 32, and was buried in Beckley, Sussex, England.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Baker - Published information: birth-name: Margaret Baker
- Margaret Baker, "England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910"
- Beckley Parish, Sussex, England; East Sussex Records Office
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1688 · Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
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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