Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Bailey was born in 1791, his father, John Bailey, was 14 and his mother, Martha Rollinson, was 13. He married Elizabeth Barker on 16 August 1815, in Holy Trinity, Hull, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died in England, United Kingdom.
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- Benjamin Bailey, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Benjamin Bailey, "England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887"
- Benjamin in entry for John Wells Baley, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1821 · New Ouse Bridge Completed
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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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