Sarah Margaret Baker

Brief Life History of Sarah Margaret

When Sarah Margaret Baker was born on 5 December 1871, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Booher Baker, was 70 and her mother, Margaret Forrester, was 44. She married James P Hadley on 19 March 1887, in Wick, Tyler, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in McClellan District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Meade District, Tyler, West Virginia, United States for about 40 years. She died on 20 October 1948, in Tyler, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sistersville, Tyler, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

James P Hadley
1866–1952
Sarah Margaret Baker
1871–1948
Marriage: 19 March 1887
Mamie Ethel Hadley
1887–1997
Mona Fay Hadley
1890–1979
Herman Ray Hadley
1894–1955
Norma C Hadley
1905–
Norma Flo Hadley
1905–1997

Sources (16)

  • Sarah Baker in household of John Baker, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Sarah M Baker, "West Virginia, Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Sarah Margaret Baker Hadley, "Find a Grave Index"

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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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