Brief Life History of Loring
When Loring Baker was born on 8 June 1834, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Sylvanus Baker, was 45 and his mother, Sally Phillips, was 39. He married Sarah Jane Howes on 4 April 1871, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 25 December 1915, in Harwich Port, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Harwich Port, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Lovering Baker in household of Sylvanus Baker, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Loring Baker - birth: 8 June 1834; Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
- Loring Baker, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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