Mavis Baker

Brief Life History of Mavis

When Mavis Baker was born on 22 November 1876, in Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands, his father, Nicolaas Bakker, was 31 and his mother, Trijntje Katherine Kuipers, was 34. He married Gertrude Wilhelmina Fredericka Josephine Unck on 29 September 1903, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1901 and lived in Ogden City Legislative District 4, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 8 October 1963, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Mavis Baker
1876–1963
Gertrude Wilhelmina Fredericka Josephine Unck
1884–1967
Marriage: 29 September 1903
Gertrude Willemina Baker
1904–1997
Nicholas Baker
1907–2004
Berend Baker
1909–1923
Catherine Jane Baker
1911–1985
Mavis Nicholas Baker
1913–1968
Marie Elizabeth Baker
1915–2005
Janie Joan Baker
1917–1932
Henrietta June Baker
1919–2019
John Unck Baker
1922–1940
Josephine Myrtle Baker
1923–1932

Sources (46)

  • Mavis Baker, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Maves Baker im Eintrag für Unknown, „Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914“
  • Maeuwes Baker, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1889

Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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Sheep on Dad's property - as told by Nick Baker in his autobiography

I remember when some people used to come with some sheep on dad’s property all the time. Dad was a little man. Where sheep had grazed cows will not graze. Because the water and spring was on Dad's p …

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