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Entry No. 439CrimeEngland

William Bakersugar baker

William Baker was indicted as a sugar baker a trade matching his surname at the Old Bailey in 1750.

Trade
sugar baker
Field
Crime
Country
England
Dates
died 1750
Name origin
English occupational surname (baker)

Checked

oldbaileyonline.org

Trial for forging tea warrants; 1750 predates surname-as-coincidence era but post-descriptive naming.