BAILEY

English:

1. Occupational name for a steward or official (or occasionally perhaps a ironic nickname for an officious person), from ME bail (l) i (OF baillis, oblique case bailif, from LL bãiulïvus, a deriv. of bãiulus carrier, porter). The word survives in Scotland as bailie, the title of a municipal magistrate, and elsewhere as bailiff, which in England denotes an officer who serves writs and summonses and ensures that court orders are carried out.

2. Topographic name for someone who lived in a district by the ourtermost wall of a castle, ME bail(l)y, baile (apparently from OF bail(le) enclosure, a deriv. of bailer to enclose, of unknown origin). The situation is complicated by the fact that this name, originally denoting a particular prt of a castle, sometimes became a placeneme in its own right: some bearers of the name undoubtedly derive it from the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.

3. Habitation name from Bailey in Lancs., so called from OE bëg berry + leah wood, clearing. Examples of the name derived from this source occur in the surrounding area from the 13th cent. (1)

Vars.: Baillie (chiefly Scots); Bailie (chiefly N Irish); Baily, Bayl(e)y, Baylay. (Of 1 only): Bail(l)if(f), Bayliff(e), Baylis(s), Bayless, Bailess. (Of 2 only): Bail(e)(s), Bale(s), Bayl(e)(s).

Cogns. (of 1): Fr,: Bailly, Bailli(f), Lebailly, Lebaillif; Bally (Switerland). It,: Bagli(v)o; Bailo (from L bãiulus). Sp.: Baile. Cat.: Batllé. (Of 2): Fr.: Bail(l)(e), Lebail, Bayle, Beyle.

Dims. (of 1): Fr.: Baillivet. (Of 2): Fr.: Bail(l)et, Baylet, Beylet, Baillot, Baylot, Beylot. Prov.: Bailloux, Bailloud. It.: Baglietti, Baglini.

Augs. (of 1): It.: Baglione, Bailone.

Pejs. (of 1) : Fr.: Baillaud. It.: Bagliardi.

Researching: - Mary Anne Bailey d.1870 Eden/NSW

Eric Albert Bailey m.1938 Joyce Lusby b.1916 Nth Coast NSW AUS.

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