When Mercer Silas Bailey was born on 9 November 1841, in Laurens, South Carolina, United States, his father, Silas Mercer Bailey, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Beasley, was 31. He married Rosanna Lydia Abrams on 20 November 1860, in Clinton, Laurens, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1923 and lived in South Carolina, United States in 1870 and Hunter Township, Laurens, South Carolina, United States in 1900. He died on 19 February 1926, in Clinton, Laurens, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Clinton, Laurens, South Carolina, 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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