When Harriet Bailey was born on 13 May 1806, in Alburgh, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Bailey, was 42 and her mother, Jemima Borret, was 40. She married William Bunting Bootman on 26 June 1838, in Denton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Newington, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and St Pancras, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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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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