Brief Life History of Alice Matilda
When Alice Matilda Taylor was born on 11 February 1857, in Consumnes, Sacramento, California, United States, her father, William Humphrey Taylor, was 21 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Rhoads, was 16. She married Drury Sidney Gorman on 20 January 1877, in Lampasas, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1870 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 June 1936, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (22)
- Alice M Gorman in household of Mack Mayfield, "United States Census, 1920"
- Alice Matilda Gorman, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Alice Taylor, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
Spouse and Children
1853–1916 Male
1857–1936 Female
Children (8)
1878–1971 Male
1881–1960 Female
1884–1956 Female
1887– Female
1890–1974 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1835–1911 Male
1840–1900 Female
Siblings (4)
1857–1936 Female
1859–1914 Female
1862–1952 Male
1871–1945 Male
World Events (8)
1863
Age 6
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
Age 12
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 24
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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