Brief Life History of Mayoma
When Mayoma Baker was born on 10 December 1913, in Chancellor, Geneva, Alabama, United States, her father, George Allen Baker, was 24 and her mother, Dollie Mae Peak, was 22. She had at least 1 daughter with Paul Early Reynolds. She lived in Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Holmes, Florida, United States in 1930. She died on 29 September 1998, in Westville, Holmes, Florida, United States, at the age of 84.
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Sources (3)
- Muyonie Baker in household of George A Baker, "United States Census, 1920"
- Unknown, "Alabama Births and Christenings, 1881-1930"
- Maoma Baker in household of Allen Baker, "United States Census, 1930"
Spouse and Children
1913–2000 Male
1913–1998 Female
Children (1)
1942–2018 Female
Parents and Siblings
1889–1968 Male
1891–1933 Female
Siblings (8)
1910–2002 Male
1912–2003 Female
1913–1998 Female
1915–1935 Female
1917–2001 Female
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1914 · Florida Involvement in World War I
Age 1
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 3
1937 · The Neutrality Act
Age 24
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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