When Andrew Jackson Bailey was born in 1810, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Thornbury Bailey, was 39 and his mother, Nancy Tunnell, was 28. He married Nancy Sibba Ball on 18 July 1836, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States in 1840. He died on 5 February 1865, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Old Cemetery, Wayne, Tennessee, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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