Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Baker was born on 26 April 1826, in Huntsville, Randolph, Missouri, United States, her father, Noah Christopher Baker, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Mayo, was 25. She married Sterling Birch Matlock on 10 November 1842, in Randolph, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Clifton Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 17 July 1892, in Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Clifton Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (10)
- polly craton in household of Samuel Prophet, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Matlock, "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Mary Elizabeth Baker Creighton, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1822–1850 Male
1826–1892 Female
Children (4)
1844–1865 Male
1848– Female
1848–1876 Female
1850–1930 Male
Parents and Siblings
1800–1870 Male
1801–1860 Female
Siblings (8)
1826–1892 Female
1830–1915 Female
1832– Female
1832–1901 Male
1834–1912 Male
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World Events (7)
1829
Age 3
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 4
1846
Age 20
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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