George Baker

Brief Life History of George

When George Baker was born on 10 July 1800, in Hitcham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Baker, was 42 and his mother, Mary Rogers, was 38. He died in 1814, in his hometown, at the age of 14, and was buried in Hitcham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

George Baker
1759–1825
Mary Rogers
1761–1852
William Baker
1784–
Mary Baker
1787–
Ann Baker
1789–1792
Dinah Baker
1792–1862
Thomas Baker
1794–1867
John Baker
1796–1857
Robert Baker
1798–1843
George Baker
1800–1814
Jane Cooper Baker
1800–
James Baker
1806–1858

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    1801 · The Act of Union

    The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

    1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

    The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

    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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