Brief Life History of Barker
When Barker Bailey was born on 22 January 1801, in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Clark Bailey Jr, was 32 and his mother, Chloe Mann, was 30. He married Alice Ayers on 20 February 1825, in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 15 December 1872, in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Barker Bailey, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Barker Bailey, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Parker Bailey, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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