Danial Baker

Brief Life History of Danial

When Danial Baker was born in 1838, in Dereham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Daniel Baker, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Mann, was 37.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Baker
1799–1851
Sarah Mann
1801–
William Baker
1825–
Henry Baker
1827–
Maria Baker
1830–
Martha Baker
1831–
Sarah Baker
1832–
Rhoda Baker
1834–
Danial Baker
1838–
Thomas Baker
1839–1840
Elizabeth Baker
1842–

Sources (2)

  • Danial Baker in household of Sarah Baker, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Danial Baker - birth: 1838; East Dereham, Norfolkshire, England, United Kingdom

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World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1854 · The Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.

1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children

School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.

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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