Adrianus Bakker

Brief Life History of Adrianus

When Adrianus Bakker was born on 23 February 1885, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, his father, Johannes Age Bakker, was 40 and his mother, Aagtje Voordijk, was 32. He married Pietje Russner on 27 August 1907, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Burch Creek, Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Ogden City Legislative District 4, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 18 December 1952, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Adrianus Bakker
1885–1952
Gerarda "Ida" Koning
1890–1965
Marriage: 28 September 1909
Cornelia Gertrude Baker
1913–1988
John Age Baker
1915–2003
Helen Baker
1916–2008
Norma Baker
1920–1923

Sources (65)

  • Adrian Baker, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Adrianus Bakker, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"
  • Adrian Baker, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Gerrit, Dirk, Klaas, Cornelis, Cornie, Durk, Frans, Kees, Michiel, Pieter, Aaltje, Adrianus. German Konrad, Claus, Erwin, Frieda, Gerhard, Hans, Hertha, Johannes.

Dutch and North German: occupational name for a baker, Dutch and Low German bakker. Compare Backer and Baker .

Norwegian: habitational name from any of the farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway; it is the indefinite plural form of Bakke .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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