Brief Life History of Daniel
When Daniel Baker was born on 21 June 1713, in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Baker, was 33 and his mother, Rebecca Backus, was 28. He married Alice Austin on 25 April 1758. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters.
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Sources (5)
- Daniel Baker, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Danll Baker, "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955"
- Daniel Baker in entry for Elles or Alice Austin, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
Spouse and Children
1713– Male
1715– Female
Children (4)
1759– Female
1760– Female
1767– Male
1770– Male
Parents and Siblings
1679–1750 Male
1685–1720 Female
Siblings (7)
1707– Female
1708–1735 Male
1712–1787 Male
1713– Male
1716– Female
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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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