William Richard Baker

Male21 April 1921–10 April 1923

Brief Life History of William Richard

When William Richard Baker was born on 21 April 1921, in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Irvin Baker, was 30 and his mother, Mamie Ethel Kahnt Baker, was 27. He died on 10 April 1923, in Burlington, Coffey, Kansas, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Irvin Baker
1891–1969
Mamie Ethel Kahnt Baker
1893–1971
Clarence Melvin Baker
1913–1971
Elnora Evelyn Baker
1918–2015
William Richard Baker
1921–1923

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  • William Richard Baker, "Find A Grave Index"

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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 2

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Age 2

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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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