Eliza Roberta Bailey

Brief Life History of Eliza Roberta

When Eliza Roberta Bailey was born on 27 September 1817, in Deanshanger, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Bailey, was 30 and her mother, Fanny Burnam, was 33. She married Edward Onan Morris on 20 May 1839, in Potterspury, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1862 and lived in Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Croydon, Morgan, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 3 January 1903, in Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Onan Morris
1818–1900
Eliza Roberta Bailey
1817–1903
Marriage: 20 May 1839
Emma Morris
1840–1894

Sources (19)

  • Eliza Morris in household of Edward Morris, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Eliza Roberta Bailey, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1912

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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

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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