Daily AncestorBaker
A baker made bread, cakes and other flour goods in an oven and usually sold them from a bakery.
A baker is a tradesperson who bakes breads and other products made of flour, and the place of work is a bakery. Baking is an ancient trade; Wikipedia credits ancient Rome with the first mass production of bread.
Older Scottish and northern English records may use baxter, an obsolete word for a baker that originally meant a woman who baked.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1880 census
Fritz Kesselbach, 36, Baker, Bavaria
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