Bagehot, for Bagot.

Bagot. A baronial family (Normandy); came to England at the Conquest. Henry Bagod, ancestor of house of Stafford.

Bailey, Baillie, from the Norman office of Le Bailli. The Baillies of Scotland a branch of De Quincys.

Baine, Bayne.

Baird. Ralph Baiart in Normandy before the Conquest. Godfrey Baiard in 1165 held a barony in Northumberland. From this line descended George Washington, the great American General.

Baker, Normandy, 1086; England, 1086.

Baldwin, Normandy, William Baldwinus, 1180; Robert, 1183; England, 1116.

Ballance, for Valence, Normandy, 1210.

Bally, for Baly.

Bamfyld, from Baionville, near Caen, 1093. In Thirteenth Century held lands of the Honour of Wallingford.