When Esther Baker was born in 1770, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, David B Baker, was 25 and her mother, Peace Chase, was 22. She married Caleb Macomber on 5 October 1797, in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States in 1850. She died on 21 September 1860, in Macedon, Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 90.
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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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