Brief Life History of William
William Taylor was born about 1875, in Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom as the son of Sara Jane Grissom.
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Parents and Siblings
–1877 Female
Siblings (4)
1871– Male
1875– Male
1877– Male
1880– Male
World Events (3)
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
Age 5
1884
Age 9
1908
Age 33
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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