When Nancy Vail was born about 1854, in Riverhead, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States, her father, George Washington Vail, was 39 and her mother, Nancy Albertson, was 34. She died about 1854, at the age of 2.
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English: occupational name from Old French de la veille ‘of the watch, watchman’, with loss of de; compare Wake . There has been some confusion with the topographic name Vale and the nickname Veal .
Scottish: shortened and altered form of McPhail , Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phàil ‘son of Paul’.
Irish: variant of Veale .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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