Brief Life History of John
When John Bailey was born on 7 April 1804, in Leigh, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Bailey, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Rottin, was 39. He married Mary Caufield Rice on 5 May 1829, in Leigh, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in Weare, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 7 November 1856, in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- John Bailey in household of Elizabeth Coucher, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- John Bailey, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- John Bailey, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
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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