When Naomi Baker was born in 1848, in Folksworth, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Baker, was 38 and her mother, Mary Ann Lewis, was 39. She married Thomas Clark in 1867, in Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 12 June 1923, in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 75.
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Become the Colony of Victoria from 2 July.
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British troops withdraw from Australia.
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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