Brief Life History of Nelson T.
When Nelson T. Baker was born on 3 March 1851, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Elisha Baker, was 46 and his mother, Diadama Briggs, was 40. He married Matilda London on 5 March 1873, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1940, at the age of 89.
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- Nelson L Baker in household of Elisha Baker, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Nelson Tamberlain Baker, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986"
- Nelson T Baker in entry for Anna Maria Baker, "New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899"
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1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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1880 · Legislature in Fredericton Destoryed by Fire
On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
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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