Drewry Taylor

Brief Life History of Drewry

When Drewry Taylor was born about 1807, in Nash, North Carolina, United States, his father, Arthur Taylor, was 29 and his mother, Alsey Dew, was 29. He married Mary Screws on 13 May 1834, in Nash, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.

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Family Time Line

Drewry Taylor
1807–
Mary Screws
1807–1866
Marriage: 13 May 1834
Mary J. Taylor
1837–
David Taylor
1841–

Sources (3)

  • Drewry Taylor, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Drewry Taylor, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Drewry Taylor, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "

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World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1830 · Trail of Tears

In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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