When John Bailey was born on 28 April 1807, in Sheepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Bailey, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Hackett, was 21. He married Jane Allgood on 6 June 1837, in Whitwick, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Whitwick, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died on 8 February 1891, in Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Moroni City Cemetery, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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