Brief Life History of Ernestine
When Ernestine Baker was born on 12 May 1927, in Sparkman, Dallas, Arkansas, United States, her father, Lunie Baker, was 22 and her mother, Ola Mae Brumley, was 20. She had at least 1 daughter. She lived in Manchester Township, Dallas, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 27 October 2007, in Alexander, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Earnestine Baker in household of Lunie Baker, "United States Census, 1940"
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
1905–1982 Male
1906–1997 Female
Siblings (5)
1925–2008 Male
1927–2007 Female
1932–1996 Male
1938–1999 Male
1947–2005 Female
World Events (8)
1929
Age 2
1931
Age 4
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
Age 21
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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