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The Bobbs Victor Baker - Edna Anna Martha Honold Family TreeUpdated April 17, 2005 |
I've only just begun! Grandma's 100th birthday peaked my interest in the history of our family --- this sight will focus on the Bakers & Honolds. Please let me know if you have anything you would like to add at any time... photos, memories, information about you or your immediate family. It will take the efforts of our "living" family to put the family tree together for our future generations. Some points of interest: baker 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 of cognates or equivalents in many other languages, for example German Bäcker, Becker; Dutch Bakker, Bakmann; French Boulanger. For other forms see Hanks and Hodges (1988). honold German and Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Hunold, composed of the elements hun- ‘giant’ or hun ‘bear cub’ + wald ‘rule’. |
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