When Francis S. Bailey was born in April 1861, in Illinois, United States, her father, John H Bailey, was 33 and her mother, Sarah J Rolan, was 14. She married William R Potts in 1880, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Oakland, Coles, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Geneseo Township, Henry, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died before 1910, and was buried in Rock Island, Illinois, 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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