When Catherine Bailey was born about 1699, in Van Cortlandt Manor, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathan Beely Bailey, was 46 and her mother, Esther Caniff, was 35. She had at least 6 sons and 3 daughters with Jacobus Ter Bos. She died on 2 November 1759, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 61.
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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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