Daniel Baker

Male24 January 1717–

Brief Life History of Daniel

When Daniel Baker was born on 24 January 1717, in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Humphrey Baker, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Lathum, was 27. He married Mary Day on 16 September 1744, in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died in his hometown.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Baker
1717–
Mary Day
1721–
Marriage: 16 September 1744
Edward Baker
1745–
Sarah Baker
1746–
Elizabeth Baker
1748–
Joshua Baker
1753–
James Baker
1756–
Mary Baker
1759–1760
Daniel Baker
1761–1762
Martha Baker
1764–

Sources (1)

  • Daniel Baker in entry for Sarah Baker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    16 September 1744Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
  • Children (8)

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (10)

    +5 More Children

    World Events (3)

    1801 · The Act of Union

    Age 84

    The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

    1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

    Age 91

    The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

    1815

    Age 98

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    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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