Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Taylor was born in December 1777, in Ashperton, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Taylor, was 47 and his mother, Elizabeth Lane, was 19. He married Elizabeth Gwatkin on 27 December 1809, in English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. In 1841, at the age of 64, his occupation is listed as wheelwright in Ashperton, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 22 December 1860, in Ashperton, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
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- Richard Taylor, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Legacy NFS Source: Richard Taylor - birth: December 1777; Ashperton, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
- Richard Taylor, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
1789 · The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
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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