Brief Life History of Camillus Streit
When Camillus Streit Baker was born on 15 December 1822, in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob Baker, was 33 and his mother, Catherine Bush Streit, was 28. He married Ann Elizabeth Gaither on 2 January 1849, in All Saints Parish, Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Winchester, Virginia, United States for about 6 years and Winchester, Upshur, Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 4 January 1911, in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Winchester, Virginia, United States.
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- Camillus S Baker, "United States Census, 1850"
- Canullus S. Baker, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
- CAMILLUS S BAKER, "BillionGraves Index"
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1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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