Brief Life History of Obed Outten
When Obed Outten Baker was born on 7 March 1807, in Sussex, Delaware, United States, his father, Daniel Baker, was 43 and his mother, Esther Outten, was 27. He married Mary Ann Layton Rawlins on 9 February 1837, in Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 10 September 1842, at the age of 35.
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- Obed Baker in entry for Henry W. Baker, "Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961"
- Obed Baker in entry for Henry W Baker, "Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1814 · Treaty of Ghent Signed
The Treaty of Ghent was signed on 1814, ending the War of 1812. One of the signers was James Bayard of Delaware.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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