When Agnes Baldy was born in 1785, in Ceres, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Baldy, was 54 and her mother, Isobel Foreman, was 51. She married James Pryde on 28 November 1808, in Ceres, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 3 July 1858, in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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Scottish: from the personal name Baldy or Baldie, a pet form of Archibald .
English: variant of Baldey. From the Middle English female personal name Baldith (Old English Bealdgȳth, formed with beald ‘bold, brave’ + gȳth ‘combat, war’) or from the Middle English female personal name Baldive (Old English Bealdgifu, formed from beald + gifu ‘gift’). In Suffolk, possibly from a Middle English survival of the Old Norse male personal name Baldi, from an ancestor of Old Norse ballr having a sense like Old English beald ‘bold, brave’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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