Sophia Baker

Female28 May 1806–16 April 1893

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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Family Time Line

Jesse Hollingsworth
1800–1872
Sophia Baker
1806–1893
Marriage: 15 June 1826
Zebulon Hollingsworth
1827–1861
George B. Hollingsworth
1835–1863
Mary Hollingsworth
1843–1863
Anna Baker Hollingsworth
1829–1870
William Baker Hollingsworth
1831–1887
Jesse Hollingsworth
1832–1845
Jane Hollingsworth
1834–1877
Richard Jones Hollingsworth
1837–1915
Sophia Louisa Hollingsworth
1839–1864

Sources (9)

  • Sophia Hollingsworth, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Sophia Baker, "Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970"
  • Sophia Baker Hollingsworth, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    15 June 1826Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Children (9)

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    Siblings (9)

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    World Events (8)

    1808

    Age 2

    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    1812

    Age 6

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 24

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    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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