Lydia Baker

Brief Life History of Lydia

When Lydia Baker was born on 12 June 1712, in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joshua Baker II, was 35 and her mother, Miriam Hurlburt, was 29. She died on 21 November 1712, in New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

Joshua Baker II
1677–1740
Miriam Hurlburt
1683–1771
Sarah Baker
1705–
Joshua Baker III
1706–1770
Samuel Baker
1707–1793
Elizabeth Baker
1709–1803
Gideon Baker
1711–1805
Lydia Baker
1712–1712
James Baker
1714–1795
Anne Baker
1716–1755
Stephen Baker
1719–1760
Sarah Baker
1721–1797
John Baker
1723–1813
Asa Baker
1726–1816

Sources (7)

  • Lydia Baker, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Lydia Baker, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ancestry Family Trees

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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