Bailey Family History
Bailey Name Meaning
status name for a steward or official, Middle English
bail(l)i (Old French baillis, from Late Latin
baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus
‘attendant’, ‘carrier’ ‘porter’).topographic name for someone who
lived by the outer wall of a castle, Middle English bail(l)y,
baile ‘outer courtyard of a castle’, from Old French
bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to
enclose’, a word of unknown origin. This term became a place name 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.habitational name from
Bailey in Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.Anglicized form of
French Bailly.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bailey
Name Distribution of Bailey Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bailey families
 2,790 - 5,577  931 - 2,789 |
 1 - 930  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bailey families
|
41 - 80 14 - 40 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bailey Family Origin
Bailey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bailey Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bailey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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