Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Baker was born on 2 May 1820, in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, her father, Richard Baker, was 43 and her mother, Mary King, was 40. She married William Gunn on 17 August 1844, in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 23 January 1861, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Gunn in household of William Gunn, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Emma Baker, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Emma Gunn, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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."
1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
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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Fanny Gunn daughter of William Gunn and Emma Baker written by Murcy Boyer, Coalville, Utah who received information from Lois Boyer
Fanny Gunn Fanny Gunn was born November 11, 1846 in Stansted, England. She joined the church and came to America in 1855 on the ship George Washington, and went to Phiadelphia, a …
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