When Clarissa Bailey was born on 9 February 1778, in Lisbon, Grafton, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Timothy Bailey, was 26 and her mother, Zerviah Blodgett, was 18. She married Joshua Whitcomb on 28 April 1796, in Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1866, in Coaticook, Coaticook, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 88, and was buried in Coaticook, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.
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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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