Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Taylor was born on 16 November 1828, in Ashperton, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Taylor, was 50 and his mother, Elizabeth Gwatkin, was 41. He married Hannah Matilda Chapman on 25 December 1858. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Monmouth Township, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 22 October 1901, in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ashperton, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Thos Taylor, "United States Census, 1900"
- Thomas Taylor, "England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898"
- Thomas Taylor, "United States Census, 1880"
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Shawnee, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Shawnee, Kansas, United States
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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