Brief Life History of George Reuben Agate
When George Reuben Agate Baker was born on 15 April 1870, in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Arthur Baker, was 27 and his mother, Ann Hards, was 26. He married Susannah Simons on 11 January 1893, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. He lived in Brighton, Sussex, England in 1881 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 6 November 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- George R Baker in household of William A Baker, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- George Reuben Agate Baker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Geo R Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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