When Nancy Caroline Bailey was born on 20 December 1818, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Moses Freeman Bailey, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Davis, was 31. She married John L Chostner on 13 September 1838, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Bollinger, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 25 May 1878, at the age of 59, and was buried in Bailey Cemetery, Lorance Township, Bollinger, Missouri, United States.
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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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