Brief Life History of Vail
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.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Legacy NFS Source: Infant - Published information: birth: 8 February 1798; Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont, United States
- Legacy NFS Source: Vail - Published information: death: 1797; Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Parents and Siblings
1767–1835 Male
1770–1845 Female
Siblings (11)
1797–1797 Male
1798–1813 Female
1798–1798 Male
1800–1826 Male
1804–1871 Male
+6 More Children
Name Meaning
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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