Brief Life History of Annie
When Annie Baker was born on 28 January 1885, in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Baker, was 43 and her mother, Eunice Rowsell, was 33. She married Henry Charles Cole on 21 May 1907, in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in New Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1911 and Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1939. She died in February 1944, at the age of 59.
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Sources (6)
- Annie Baker in household of Charles Baker, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Annie Baker, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Annie Baker, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
Spouse and Children
1878–1945 Male
1885–1944 Female
Children (3)
1908–1961 Male
1909–1941 Male
1914–1965 Male
Parents and Siblings
1841–1910 Male
1851–1918 Female
Siblings (10)
1875–1958 Female
1877–1938 Female
1879–1939 Male
1881–1952 Female
1883–1951 Male
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World Events (8)
1890 · Welsh Industry Affected by U.S Tariff
Age 5
1900 · Strike at Penrhyn Slate Quarry
Age 15
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
Age 19
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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