When Lester Delos Bailey was born on 15 May 1855, in Elk Grove, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Delos John Bailey, was 29 and his mother, Amelia Baker, was 27. He married Amanda Estelle Tipple on 22 December 1878, in Oregon, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Moffit, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States in 1925 and Long Lake Township, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States in 1930. He died on 13 November 1934, in Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Moffit, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1862: Lincoln, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Lincoln, South Dakota, 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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