Martha Lavinia Bailey

Brief Life History of Martha Lavinia

When Martha Lavinia Bailey was born on 26 October 1865, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, her father, William Franklin Bailey, was 26 and her mother, Mary Jane Hoy, was 23. She married Albert W. Ellis on 3 December 1906, in Athens, Ohio, United States. She lived in Williams District, Wood, West Virginia, United States for about 50 years and Vienna, Wood, West Virginia, United States in 1950. She died in 1930, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 65.

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Albert W. Ellis
1867–1953
Martha Lavinia Bailey
1865–1930
Marriage: 3 December 1906

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  • Lissie Bailey, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Martha L. Bailey, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
  • Martha L. Bailey, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"

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Name Meaning

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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