When James Bailey was born on 27 March 1796, in Denton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Bailey, was 32 and his mother, Jemima Borret, was 30. He married Jane Kent on 19 May 1823, in Wortwell, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1853 and Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1856. He died on 8 May 1857, in Utah, United States, at the age of 61.
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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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