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bayliss Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for an officer of a court of justice, whose duties included serving writs, distraining goods, and (formerly) arresting people. In England formerly it was also a status name for the chief officer of a hundred (administrative subdivision of a county). The derivation is from Middle English, Old French bailis, from Late Latin baiulivus (adjective), ‘pertaining to an attendant or porter’ (see Bailey).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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bayliss Family Facts

Distribution of bayliss Families in the US in 1920
Number of bayliss families
 20-38
 7-19
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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