In looking across the United States and beyond, Bailey-Bayley-
Baillie-Bailie researchers will find that our forebears left their mark
in many cities and towns. As a matter of fact they have given a
name to many of them. Perhaps you can add to the following
account which has grown with help from Donna Beers, Editor of
Bailey Newsletters, and "The Handbook of Texas Volume One by
the Texas State Historical Association which appeared in an edition
of Donna Beer's "Southern Baileys" newsletter.
BAILEY CREEK, a post-office of Tioga county, Pennsylvania. BAILEYSBURG, a post-office of Perry county, Pennsylvania BAILEYSBURG, a small post-village near the S. extremity of Surry county, Virginia, about 50 miles S. S. E. from Richmond. BAILEY'S CREEK, a post-office of Osage county, Missouri. BAILEY'S FOUR CORNERS, a post-office of Greene county, New York. BAILEYTOWN, a village of Porter county, Indiana, 14 miles N. by W. from Valparaiso. BAILEYVILLE, a post-township of Washington county, Maine, about 80 miles E. N. E. from Bangor, on the western bank of the St. Croix river, watered on the north by the outlet of Schoodic lakes. Population, 431. Baileyton, Cullman County,AL a town of under 500, is located in north
Bailey, Park County of Central Colorado is another small town of
James Levi Bailey was born in the year 1870 in Baileyville, a town of
Baileyville, KS is on Hwy 36 about 12 miles west of Seneca before Marysville
Bailey, Lauderdale County,MS sited
Bailey's Switch, Knox Co. KY is in the southeastern corner of the state.
Bailey's Station-TN on hwy 72 between Germantown TN & Collieville, TN
In 1913 Frank Baillie and Ethelyn Bailey ( parents of the author of this
John Bayley of Salisbury's 6th generation grandson, Nathaniel was born
Mount Bailey,OR 8,363 feet tall, lies east southeast of Roseburg, Oregon
The state of Texas is a veritable hotbed of Bailey place names. The Baileyville, Milam County, central Texas was not pictured on my map
Bailey's Mills, VT is not found on today's maps but was a complex of
Bailey MI is located about 20 miles east of Muskegon, MI. on route M37 (this info was sented in by Bob Bailey e-mail= BaileyR@ipfw.edu 24 May 1999-Picture below is of Bob and his cousin John Bailey III May 1987)
Over 700 persons make their home in Bailey, Nash County, North
Baileyville of Wyoming County,WVA boasts a population of 800 and is
Bailey's Harbor, WI is located in Door County, northeastern Wisconsin on a
The showman, Hachalia Bailey, moved from upper New York state in
Some 60 miles northeast of Woodland (formerly Baileyville) ME is the
Farther north in Newfoundland are Bailey's Cove, and Bailey's Point
Baillieston is an eastern suburb of Glasgow, Lanark Shire, Scotland. There is also a Bailliemore on the western shore island of Kerrea
Baillieborough was the home town of our Civil War Union General,
There is a Bailiehill in County Galway.
Can anyone add to this list of Bailey.Etc. names???
Many thank to
central Alabama.
BAILEYTON, TENNESSEE
Population 309 (199)
Latitude 36’20’N
Longitude 82’50’W
Baileyton was named for Cloudious Bailey, the founder
of the town.
He and his family left and moved to Barron Co, KY,
His son, Charles Johnston Bailey moved on to Lawrence Co, TN
with a Grandson going with his Uncle Daniel Hunt
and Aunt Agnes Bailey Hunt to Randolph Co, MO.
Where Huntsville, MO. is named after Daniel.
Thomas Porter Bailey, Cloudious Bailey’s brother
continued to live in Greene Co, TN and some of his
family still lives on the original Bailey homestead.
Thank you Jeff Bailey JRB6886@aol.com for the data on Baileyton, TN.
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about 300 persons.
about 600 souls of Ogle County, north central Illinois. James was a 9th
generation from James Bailey of Rowley and the grandfather of Donna
Beers contributor, William Bailey of Valparaiso IN (formerly of Wesley,
AR).
situated in northeastern Kansas
in East Central Mississippi, supports just over 300 persons.
Moving to the south coast of Maine we find Bailey's Island in
Cumberland County, ME seaward of Brunswick, whose 300 residents are
frequently seen selling steamer clams from roadside stands. The island
was purchased by and took its name from Deacon Timothy Bailey of
Hanover, MA, a 6th generation descendant of Thomas Bailey of
Weymouth, MA. The purchase price was one pound of tobacco and
one gallon of rum (from a DEACON?) Prior to that purchase in 1742 it
had been called Will's island after a previous "squatter" resident of the
island.
Some 20 to 30 miles north of Bailey's Island is Pemaquid Point,
Lincoln County, where John Bayley of Salisbury stepped ashore with
John Jr. and daughter Joanna from the ship Angel Gabriel on August 14,
1635. A hurricane tabbed "The great storm of August 1635" slammed
into the area on the following day sinking the Angel Gabriel, taking
several lives and causing general devastation. Some welcome! The
ship James, which numbered the grandfather of Cotton Mather among
its passengers, had anchored at the Isle of Shoals where she dragged,
then lost all other anchors. To avoid grounding and destruction the
Captain was obliged to get underway. The James arrived in Boston
with her sails in "ragges" and many seasick passengers.
article), bought a farm on about 30 acres in Round Pond ME, just a
few miles north of Pemaquid Point. Mother decided it was too far in the
"sticks" and the family moved to Taunton, MA in 1916 where this writer was born.
in Newbury,MA in 1740, the son of Deacon Edmond Bailey and his 2nd
wife Abigail Bartlett. He would lend his name to the city of Baileyville
(now called Woodland) in Washington County, ME near the border
with New Brunswick, Canada. Nathaniel was hired in 1767 to be part
of a survey team laying out the new township of Bakerstown. It would
be divided into 100 acre lots to be homesteaded by veterans of the
French and Indian wars or their heirs. When the survey party returned to
Newbury, Nathaniel and his wife, Martha Emery, decided to move
north and settle in the town he helped to survey. Martha's cousin Moses
and Nathaniel's brothers Edmond and Thomas would soon follow. This
data from "The Settlers of Early Baileyville, Maine" by their descendant
Albert W. Bailey. Albert's nephew, John Bailey, presently lives in
and is visible to the northeast of Crater Lake.
towns of Bailey and Baileyboro,TX are located in Bailey County in
northwest TX on the border with New Mexico. The county and perhaps
the towns were named after Peter James Bailey, who was born in
Lincoln County, KY and studied law at Transylvania College. James
became a member of Davy Crockett's mounted Volunteers" and was
among the casualties of the Alamo. Peter James's father, Captain John
Bailey, was a retired soldier and a country preacher who officiated at
the wedding of Henry Sparrow and Lucy Hanks, the maternal Grandmother of Abraham Lincoln.
nor was Bailey's Prairie in Brazoria County south of Houston on the
Gulf of Mexico, named for James Briton Bailey who migrated from
North Carolina and settled on the Brazos River on or before 1821.
Another small town, Bailey ,TX .is located in south central Fannin
County in northeast TX. where it was sited along the St. Louis South-
western RR. The town was named after Dr. J. S. Bailey who operated a
general store and became the Postmaster in 1890. Texas also boasts
two Bailey creeks. The first rises in western Brazoria County and flows
southeast into Varner's Creek southeast of the village of Damon.
The second is an intermittent stream flowing into the Red River
northeast of Byers in northern Clay County in north central TX., east of Wichita Falls.
mills located near Reading in Windsor County. The man behind Bailey's
Mills was Levi Bailey, 5th generation in the James of Rowley line and
the son of Samuel Bailey Jr who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
This is another ancestor of William Bailey of Valparaiso, Indiana.
Carolina which lies just east of Raleigh.
situated in southern West Virginia.
peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan and whose western shore is the
Green Bay from which the city and the NFL Packers take their name.
1837, purchasing a large tract of land on the outskirts of Fall's Church,
VA including the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike. The
purchase price came from the sale of a show elephant "Old Bet" which
his sea Captain brother had purchased for him in London prior to the
War of 1812 . He purchased or built a mansion of 100 rooms on the site
and Fred Harrison Bailey took James Anthony McGuiness under his
tutelage. James was so grateful for his guidance that he changed his
given name to James Bailey. He would later manage the "Cooper and
Bailey" Circus which would merge in 1902 with that of Phineas P.
Barnum to become the famous Barnum and Bailey Circus. This
information from a Melvin Steadman Jr. contribution to Donna Beers' newsletter " Bailey Roots in the North".
Sunbury Co, New Brunswick, Canada town of Bailey which had 143 occupants in 1979.
Moving south there is Baileytown in the Bahamas(although I was
unable to find it on any maps).
which is east of Mull Island and a Bailiehead, in southern Scotland to
is spelled Bally in Ireland where numerous towns and villages bear that
prefix.
Baillieborough is situated 54 miles north of Dublin in County Cavan,
Ireland and was named for William Baillie, a Scots planter of Ayr Shire,
who received a grant of 8,000 acres, in what was then called Briefns,
from King James the First in 1610. The land was owned by an Irishman
named O'Reilly who was probably none too happy about the entire
matter. William was to build a castle or strong house and settle as many
English and Scots farmers as possible in the surrounding area.
"Phil" Sheridan. This story courtesy of Art Bailie of Lexington, SC who
heads the "House of Baillie" society and hosts a Baillie-Bailie booth
annually at the Stone Mountain GA Highland Games.
Did you know that the original Scots were an Irish tribe which settled in
what is now Scotland? There are Kennedy, Buchanon and other very
Irish sounding Scots Clans
Frank Baillie
1693 Rooseveit Ave. SE,
Port Orchard, WA 98366
(His Mother was a Bailey)
