Thomas Baker

Brief Life History of Thomas

When Thomas Baker was born on 21 January 1841, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Baker, was 21 and his mother, Mary Baker, was 22. He married Martha Ann Larson on 17 March 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Election Precinct 4 Bicknell, Wayne, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 23 December 1925, in Bicknell, Wayne, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bicknell Cemetery, Bicknell, Wayne, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Baker
1841–1925
Martha Ann Larson
1849–1894
Marriage: 17 March 1866
Thomas Henry Baker
1866–1920
George Larson Baker
1869–1870
Benjamin John Baker
1871–1944
Mary Baker
1873–1874
William James Baker
1875–1884
Alfred Charles Baker
1880–1931
Fredrick Wayne Baker
1883–1948
Philip Pugsley Baker
1884–1957
Martin Alfonzo Baker
1886–1960
Reuben Baker
1889–1893
Baker
1891–1891

Sources (58)

  • Thomas Baker in household of George Baker, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • Thomas Baker, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
  • Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1854: Nebraska Territory, United States 1854: Douglas, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Douglas, Nebraska, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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