Barbara McKenzie Bailey

Brief Life History of Barbara McKenzie

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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Family Time Line

Joseph Henry Wright
1842–1923
Barbara McKenzie Bailey
1841–1908
Marriage: 8 April 1860
Joseph Robert Wright
1861–1938
George Henry Wright
1864–1902
Barbara Ann Wright
1867–1868
Sarah Elizabeth Wright
1869–1940

Sources (26)

  • Barbara Bailey in household of George Bailey, "Scotland Census, 1841"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Barbara McKenzie Bailey - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Barbara Ann Bailey
  • Barbara M. Bailey Wright, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1847

Historical Boundaries: 1847: Bexar, Texas, United States 1848: Gillespie, Texas, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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