When Joseph F Taylor was born on 21 July 1855, in Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Lorenzo Dow Taylor, was 40 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Sidwell, was 21. He married Sarah A Famous about 1896, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Fawn Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States for about 40 years and Stewartstown, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. In 1880, his occupation is listed as blacksmith in Fawn Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 4 January 1932, in Rinely, North Hopewell Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Airville, Lower Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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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