When Matthew Urie Bailey was born on 11 October 1854, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, George Sloan Bailey, was 35 and his mother, Barbara H Urie, was 38. He married Mary Isabella Hales on 22 June 1884, in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Park City, Summit, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 17 February 1921, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1869: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
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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.
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