Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Baker was born in 1794, in Little Heart's Ease, Newfoundland. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Eleanor Langer.
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- Thomas Baker, "Canada, Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893"
- Thomas Baker in entry for John Baker, "Canada, Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893"
- Thomas Baker in entry for John Baker, "Canada, Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893"
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1891
HEART'S EASE A fishing settlement at the bottom of Trinity Bay, on the south side, district of Trinity, at the entrance to Random Sound. Distant from Heart's Content by boat 15 miles. Mail weekly. Population 100.
1898
LITTLE HEART'S EASE (Random), a post, fishing, farming and lumbering settlement in Trinity district; nearest money order office Britannia Cove; telegraph and railway station, Clarenville; port of entry and coastal boat, Trinity, 25 miles; contains 3 stores, 1 church; safe harbor, entrance good; population 175.
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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