When John Bailey was born on 16 January 1835, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Bailey Sr, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann Woodcock, was 30. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in St Thomas in the Moors, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and St Martin in the Bull Ring Church, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died in December 1872, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 37.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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