John Baker
1754–1757 (Age 3)
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States
The Life of John
When John Baker was born on 2 May 1754, in Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Captain Joseph Baker, was 40 and his mother, Hannah Lovewell, was 32. He died on 15 September 1757, in his hometown, at the age of 3.
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Family Time Line
Captain Joseph Baker
1714–1791
Hannah Lovewell
1721–1788
Joseph Baker Jr.
1740–1816
Baker
1761–
Lovewell Baker
1743–1835
Hannah Lovell Baker
1745–1824
Hepzibah Baker
1747–
Thomas Baker
1748–1819
Miriam Baker
1749–
Sarah Baker
1750–1798
Mary Baker
1752–1754
Elihu Baker
1753–
John Baker
1754–1757
Mary Baker
1757–
Jacob Baker
1757–
Susannah BAKER
1759–1811
Elizabeth Betty Baker
1763–1826
Esther Baker
1767–
Parents & Siblings
1714–1791Male
1721–1788Female
siblings
(16)
1740–1816Male
1743–1835Male
1745–1824Female
1747–Female
1748–1819Male
+11 More Children
Name Meaning
1 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.2 Americanized form of cognates or equivalents in many other languages, for example German Bäcker, Becker; Dutch Bakker, Bakmann; French Boulanger. For other forms see Hanks and Hodges ( 1988 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (3)
John Baker, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"- Hannah Lovewell in entry for John Baker, "New Hampshire, Births and Christenings, 1714-1904"
- John Baker, "New Hampshire, Births and Christenings, 1714-1904"
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