Brief Life History of Tabitha Bithy
When Tabitha Bithy Baker was born in 1845, in Hazard, Perry, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Jackson Baker III, was 50 and her mother, Rachel Fields, was 37. She married Andrew J Howard about 1866, in Hazard, Perry, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Magisterial District 1 Hyden, Leslie, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died in 1888, in Perry, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 43.
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- Tabitha Haward in household of Andrew Haward, "United States Census, 1870"
- Vitha Baker in entry for John Howard, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
- Betha Baker in household of Jack Baker, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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