Brief Life History of William W
When William W Baker was born on 25 April 1915, in Lubec, Washington, Maine, United States, his father, Weston Whitney Baker, was 24 and his mother, Hazel Grace Meisner, was 24. He died on 27 June 1979, at the age of 64, and was buried in Lubec, Washington, Maine, United States.
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Sources (7)
- William W Baker in household of William W Baker, "United States Census, 1940"
- William M Baker, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Unknown, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
Parents and Siblings
1890–1918 Male
1891–1979 Female
Siblings (2)
1915–1979 Male
1918–1997 Female
World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 1
1917 · World War I Contributions
Age 2
1932
Age 17
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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