When George Sloan Bailey was born on 15 September 1819, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father, James George Bailey, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Sloan, was 20. He married Barbara H Urie on 16 February 1839, in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Rocky Hill, Gillespie, Texas, United States in 1850 and Greenwich, Piute, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 30 December 1886, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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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