Brief Life History of William Thomas
When William Thomas Bailey was born about 1724, in Licking Hole District, Goochland, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas T Bailey, was 30 and his mother, Edith Ann Pleasant, was 21. He died in March 1817, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 94.
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Spouse and Children
1724–1817 Male
1755– Female
Parents and Siblings
1695–1771 Male
1704–1745 Female
Siblings (7)
1720–1787 Male
1724–1817 Male
1727– Male
1729–1792 Male
1732–1797 Female
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World Events (5)
1758 · Mount Vernon
Age 34
1776
Age 52
1792 · Becomes the 15th State
Age 68
Name Meaning
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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