When William H Taylor was born on 26 January 1785, in Freckenham, Suffolk, England, his father, William Taylor, was 32 and his mother, Temperance Clarke, was 27. He married Ann Wanmer in 1818, in Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. In 1818, at the age of 33, his occupation is listed as shoemaker. He died from 1823 to 1825, at the age of 40.
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1785–1825 Male
1788–1859 Female
1819–1902 Male
1823–1851 Female
1754–1788 Male
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1785–1825 Male
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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