Baker
A common surname in Jersey in recent times, variants of the name are found in Jersey records as early as the 14th century
Pierre Emile Aubert (1874-1931) and Sarah Baker (1875-1930) who emigrated to Canada, Sarah was born in Alderney, the daughter of soldier James
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Origins of surname
Although this very early English surname is occupational, it does not always relate to a maker of bread. It comes from the old English word boeccure. There are a number of possible origins and these include an official with special responsibilities for the baking ovens in a monastery or castle, as well as the keeper of the communal kitchen in a town or village, since most of the humbler households had no cooking facilities other than a pot over a fire. The right to be in charge of this service and to exact money or loaves in return for its use was, in many parts of Britain, a hereditary feudal privilege. Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for specifically baking fine bread or as an owner of a kiln for the baking of pottery or even bricks. The surname is first recorded in the late 12th Century, and early records include Robert Bakere, a witness in the Assize Court Rolls of Lancashire in 1246.
Early records
The name first appears at Le Bakere in Jersey records in the 14th century, but this does not necessarily mean that it was of French origin. It is more likely that the name Bakere belonged to an English immigrant, possibly a soldier, and that the 'Le' was added in an island to help it fit in with local style.
Baker baptisms are found as early as early as the 1670s in Grouville, and the family next appears in St Brelade, St John and St Helier registers in the early 18th century.
Although nearly 200 baptisms and births were recorded in Jersey up to the early 20th century, it is difficult to assemble Baker family trees because the name has long been very common in England and a significant number of Baker immigrants came to Jersey, particularly in the 19th century. St Helier registers show numerous Bakers from the West Country marrying local girls, and also a number of soldiers.
Variants
- Baker
- Le Bakere, 1340
Family records
Family trees
Trees reviewed in 2024
- Jean Baker: 18th-20th centuries
- Thomas Baker: 19th-20th centuries
- Thomas Baker 2: 18th-19th centuries
- Thomas Palmer Baker: 18th-20th centuries
- William Baker: 18th-20th centuries
- William Baker 2: 18th-19th centuries
Church records
- Baker baptisms in Jersey
- Baker marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Baker marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Baker burials in Jersey
Newspaper records
Great War service
Occupation records
- Baker Occupation identity cards
- Ronald Henry Bell Baker, Deported during the Occupation after being convicted of receiving stolen property
Family wills
Family histories
- David and George Baker
- Margery Baker: Actress, teacher and television director
Burial records
Family businesses
- Amy and Baker were trading at 16 Queen Street in the 1880s and '90, predecessors of Frederick Baker which would become established across the street
- Frederick Baker and Sons, 20th century Queen Street department store - family tree
- Noel and Porter, King Street department store acquired by the Baker family in 1953
- John Samuel Baker, Locksmith
- C Baker was a chemist at 15 King Street in the early 1880s ...
- ... and at No 16 later in the decade
- Wilfred Baker was a milliner at 55½ King Street in the 1900s and 1910s
- Watchmaker J A Baker was at 3 Queen Street in the 1880s
- Watchmaker J Baker was at 26 Queen Street in the 1890s
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Baker undertakers at 56 New Street about 1895. Mr Baker was the inventor of a window blind pulley -
J Baker, cabinet maker and upholsterer in business at 28 New Street in 1837 -
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G F Baker's undertaker's business was at 22 La Motte Street in 1874 -
J T Baker's pharmacy started out at 25 Halkett Place ... -
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... which became No 45 when the street was renumbered in the last decade of the 19th century -
1900 advert for J S Baker
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Family album
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Sgt J F Baker, photographed by Ernest Baudoux -
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The Baker family of Jersey moved to Essex and are pictured here on a charabanc outing in Epping Forest in about 1915 -
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Funeral card for Horatio Baker's wife Emma Adeline, nee Thurnell -
1919 wedding of Mabel Louise Sarah Baker and Henry Perry, with Mabel's father Horatio Pitter Baker behind her -
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Thomas Baker (1878-1949) and Mabel Maud Single (1878-1962) -
Violet Edna Baker -
Architect Eric Baker in 1977
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Family gravestones
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The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.
New records
Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form
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