Brief Life History of William Berry
When William Berry Taylor was born on 7 February 1806, in Oldham, Kentucky, United States, his father, Maj William Berry Taylor, was 37 and his mother, Susanna Harrison Gibson, was 32. He died on 20 August 1807, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Ballardsville, Oldham, Kentucky, United States.
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- William Berry Taylor, "Find A Grave Index"
- William B Taylor in entry for George Peter Hansen Taylor, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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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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