Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth
When Sarah Elizabeth Baker was born on 10 May 1811, in Summerside, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada, her father, Jesse Baker, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Schureman, was 23. She married John Ellison Maxfield on 26 March 1827, in Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 3 March 1894, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Maxfield, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Elizabeth Baker - birth: 10 May 1811; Bedeque, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Sarah Elizabeth Baker Maxfield, "Find A Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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John Ellison Maxfield
John Ellison Maxfield was born at Youton, Yorkshire, England, in the Parish of Alne, March 21st 1801. John was the sixth of eleven children born to John Maxfield and Hannah Appleton. His middle nam …
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