Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Baker was born on 23 December 1887, in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England, her father, Charles Baker, was 46 and her mother, Eunice Rowsell, was 36. She married Stephen Albert Gibbs on 25 December 1911, in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Taunton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Wilton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in March 1937, in Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Wales, at the age of 49.
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- Elizabeth Baker, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Elizabeth Baker, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Baker in entry for Charles J Gibbs, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
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1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
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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