When Barbara McKenzie Bailey was born on 9 April 1841, in Clachan of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, George Sloan Bailey, was 21 and her mother, Barbara H Urie, was 25. She married Joseph Henry Wright on 8 April 1860, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Greenwich, Piute, Utah, United States in 1880 and Koosharem Election Precinct, Piute, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 27 June 1908, in Koosharem, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Koosharem, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Bexar, Texas, United States 1848: Gillespie, Texas, 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.
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