When Charles Edward Baker was born on 5 May 1839, in Poplar, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Baker, was 28 and his mother, Jane Jean Rio Griffiths, was 28. He married Elizabeth Bird on 21 May 1860, in El Dorado, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 3 March 1888, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Olivet Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
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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.
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Possible Related NamesBy Patricia Andersen The purpose of this essay is to link together as many records as possible to accurately place the Henry and Jane “Jean” Rio Griffiths Baker family in the London area, following t …
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