When Vail was born in 1797, in Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Augustus Vail, was 30 and his mother, Lavina Leonard, was 27. He died in 1797, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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 .
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