Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Baker was born on 3 January 1772, in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, John Baker, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth King, was 30. She married Asahel Seamans on 3 October 1789, in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 14 January 1818, in Schroon Lake, Schroon, Essex, New York, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Baker Street Cemetery, Schroon Lake, Schroon, Essex, New York, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Mary Baker Seamans, "Find A Grave Index"
- Essex and Warren County cemetery records
- Mary Baker Seaman, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1768–1831 Male
1772–1818 Female
Children (4)
1790–1874 Female
1794–1878 Female
1798–1815 Female
1807–1891 Male
Parents and Siblings
1740–1827 Male
1742–1815 Female
Siblings (10)
1765–1828 Female
1767–1850 Male
1772–1818 Female
1775–1860 Female
1778–1840 Male
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World Events (8)
1776
Age 4
1776 · Rhode Island Declares Independence
Age 4
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Age 14
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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