Baker
The baker — oven smoke in every market town.
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The seat of Baker
Seat vacantChief
No chief yet. The seat awaits its first claimant — be the first to stake your name to Baker.
Current mission
No mission proclaimed. The chief, once seated, sets the clan’s public focus — a campaign, a contest, a piece of restoration, a year of remembrance.
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Stake your name →What does the Baker name mean?
Occupational — baker. Old English bæcere.
The history of Baker
Assize bread laws made bakers unpopular arithmeticians — one ounce wrong and the pillory waited — yet every market needed their ovens at dawn. The surname marks guild craft from Chester to Canterbury; migration then carried smoke-stained pride into the empire's port cities.