Brief Life History of Samuel Leavitt
When Samuel Leavitt Baker Jr was born on 17 October 1891, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, his father, Samuel Leavitt Baker, was 35 and his mother, Ann Eliza Leavitt, was 33. He married Janet Richards on 7 July 1915, in Aetna, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1911 and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada for about 5 years. He died on 4 February 1942, in Beaver Mines, MD of Pincher Creek No. 9, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Leavitt, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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- Samuel Leavett Baker, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Samuel L. Baker, "BillionGraves Index"
- Samuel Baker in entry for Janett Richards, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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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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