When James Taylor was born on 30 January 1804, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, his father, John "Westville John" Taylor, was 31 and his mother, Barbara Strickler, was 28. He married Eleanor Moody on 17 June 1824, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 10 March 1884, in Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80.
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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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