Brief Life History of Polly
When Polly Baker was born on 6 November 1862, in West Union, Steuben, New York, United States, her father, Samuel James Baker, was 33 and her mother, Maranda Ingley, was 28. She married Nathan Benjamin Edwards on 6 November 1881, in Independence, Independence, Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Independence, Independence, Allegany, New York, United States in 1900. She died on 8 July 1938, in Whitesville, Independence, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Whitesville Rural Cemetery, Whitesville, Independence, Allegany, New York, United States.
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- Palley Edwards, "New York State Census, 1905"
- Polly Edwards, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Polly Baker in entry for Robert Church, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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