Clan Baxter History Print

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BAXTER. This surname comes from the occu-
ation of “bakester,” originally a woman that
aked, baecestre a female baker. In
Middle English the ending —estre being un-
stressed soon lost its finale, and —ster came
to be regarded as an emphatic form of -er,
and consequently was applied to men as well
as women, so that the early Middle English
feminine bakstere became later Middle English
masculine baxster. In Latin charters the word
or name is rendered pistor. Baxter was and
still is a common surname in Angus, and as
Forfar was a roval residence the Baxters
there may have been the royal bakers