Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Baker was born on 2 January 1820, in England, United Kingdom, her father, William Durrant Baker, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Farman, was 39. She married Samuel Bee on 15 August 1839, in Canterbury St Paul, Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 6 September 1891, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Jane Bee in household of Saml Bee, "United States Census, 1860"
- Jane Bee, "BillionGraves Index"
- Jane in entry for Edith Bee Whitney, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1831 · Old London Bridge Opens
"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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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