When Samuel W. Baker was born on 25 July 1818, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Baker, was 34 and his mother, Jane McElwain, was 31. He married Celesta Barber on 23 September 1841, in Darke, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Warren Township, Clinton, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Royal Center, Boone Township, Cass, Indiana, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 31 March 1903, at the age of 84, and was buried in Cline Cemetery, Royal Center, Boone Township, Cass, Indiana, United States.
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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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