Brief Life History of Ray Ervin
When Ray Ervin Baker was born on 2 March 1940, in Dallastown, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Milton Leroy Baker, was 30 and his mother, Edna May Douglas, was 33. He died on 1 December 1976, at the age of 36, and was buried in Upper Black Eddy, Bridgeton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Ray Baker in household of Milton Baker, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ray E Baker, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Ray E Baker, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · The Four Freedoms
President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.
1950
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
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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