Brief Life History of Sophia
When Sophia Baker was born on 28 May 1806, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, William A Baker, was 24 and her mother, Jane Jones, was 21. She married Jesse Hollingsworth on 15 June 1826, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in District 5, Carroll, Maryland, United States in 1860 and Maryland, United States in 1870. She died on 16 April 1893, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Eldersburg, Carroll, Maryland, United States.
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Sources (9)
- Sophia Hollingsworth, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sophia Baker, "Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970"
- Sophia Baker Hollingsworth, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1800–1872 Male
1806–1893 Female
Children (9)
1827–1861 Male
1829–1870 Female
1831–1887 Male
1832–1845 Male
1834–1877 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1781–1865 Male
1784–1868 Female
Siblings (9)
1804–1878 Female
1806–1893 Female
1807–1867 Female
1810–1855 Male
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World Events (8)
1808
Age 2
1812
Age 6
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 24
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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