When Julia Elaine Bailey was born in 1927, in Washington, United States, her father, John Edwin Bailey, was 26 and her mother, Lenora Jenifer, was 25. She lived in Davenport, Lincoln, Washington, United States in 1935 and Idaho Falls Election Precinct 7, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1940.
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.
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