Brief Life History of James William
When James William Baker was born in 1839, in Henry, Tennessee, United States, his father, Peter Kennel Baker, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Josephine Browning, was 16. He lived in Henry, Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died on 26 December 1864, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (4)
- James Baker in household of Peter K Baker, "United States Census, 1850"
- William Baker, "Find A Grave Index"
- 1864-Pvt William Baker in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s
Parents and Siblings
1819–1896 Male
1823–1878 Female
Siblings (6)
1839–1864 Male
1842–1863 Male
1844–1869 Female
1846–1928 Male
1848– Male
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World Events (8)
1846
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1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized
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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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