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Nathan Bailey was the foremost English lexicographer before Samuel Johnson.
Sir Joseph Bailey was a pioneer of the iron industry in South Wales in the early 19th century.
Beetle Bailey, begun in 1950 by Mort Walker, is the oldest comic strip in America still being produced.
David Bailey was the celebrated English photographer of the 1960's.
Andrew Bailey devised Bailey's Irish cream liqueur in Dublin in 1974.
F Lee Bailey is a legendary defense attorney of many high profile trials in America.
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The bailey or bailiff, from the Old
French bailli, was a free man
of importance for the lord of the manor. He was the supervisor of
the peasants who worked on the land. The term was also later used
as a public administator of a district. The word baillie is still the common form
for a chief magistrate or sheriff in Scotland.
The Middle English baille, meaning "the outer wall of a castle" and giving us the Old Bailey in London, provides an alternative derivation. one who lived by this outer wall. Bailey was and is also a place name in the Ribble valley in Lancashire.
Among the earliest records of the name were Henry Baily and William Baillie in Oxfordshire in 1273. Bailey and Bayley families can be traced to Shropshire, Wiltshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire in Elizabethan times. Thomas Bailli appeared in Scottish records in 1312. His descendants were granted lands in Lanarkshire (Lamington). One branch of this family later settled in Ireland.
The Middle English baille, meaning "the outer wall of a castle" and giving us the Old Bailey in London, provides an alternative derivation. one who lived by this outer wall. Bailey was and is also a place name in the Ribble valley in Lancashire.
Among the earliest records of the name were Henry Baily and William Baillie in Oxfordshire in 1273. Bailey and Bayley families can be traced to Shropshire, Wiltshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire in Elizabethan times. Thomas Bailli appeared in Scottish records in 1312. His descendants were granted lands in Lanarkshire (Lamington). One branch of this family later settled in Ireland.
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- The Name and Family of Bailey. Baileys in England and America.
- Don's Bailey Family History. Baileys in Virginia.
- West Virginia Baileys. Baileys in West Virginia.
Nathan Bailey was the foremost English lexicographer before Samuel Johnson.
Sir Joseph Bailey was a pioneer of the iron industry in South Wales in the early 19th century.
Beetle Bailey, begun in 1950 by Mort Walker, is the oldest comic strip in America still being produced.
David Bailey was the celebrated English photographer of the 1960's.
Andrew Bailey devised Bailey's Irish cream liqueur in Dublin in 1974.
F Lee Bailey is a legendary defense attorney of many high profile trials in America.
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- 111,000 in the UK (most numerous in Sussex)
- 85,000 in America (most numerous in Texas)
- 46,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia)