Släkthistoria för Bailhache
Bailhache Vad efternamn betyder
apparently from Old French and Norman French (including Channel Islands) baille hache ‘give axe’ perhaps used as an occupational nickname for a woodman or an executioner. Compare Balhatchet. But continental French records almost invariably include the preposition de suggesting a place-name origin.also later continental French witness the 1701 'Draft of an Act for naturalizing... John Baillehache...' (possibly the Southampton merchant of that name).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
