That's right: Bayard. The name is pronounced
like bear (as in the animal) with a "d"
on the end. At least, that's how we pronounce it.
It was the middle name of Curt's grandfather
on his mother's side, Charles Bayard Moran.
He went by his middle name or his nickname, "Bay".
Curt's grandparents gave that name to their first son,
but no one from the next generation bears the name.
Charles Bayard was born in 1900, the seventh of seven
children. The story goes that Curt's great-grandparents
did not have a name picked out for their seventh child
before he was born, and that his mother was so tired
after the delivery that she told her husband to pick the
child's name.
Being a literary man and a teacher by
profession, he named his son after Bayard Taylor, a
popular poet and writer of the mid-19th century who
lived in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
All of this is not to say that Matthew is named after anyone in particular. Just to give you an idea of where we got the name and how it came into our family.