Tirzah Taylor

Brief Life History of Tirzah

When Tirzah Taylor was born on 2 January 1769, in Charlemont, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Othniel Taylor, was 49 and her mother, Martha Arms, was 40. She married Silas Holbrook on 21 August 1783, in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States in 1850. She died in June 1853, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

Silas Holbrook
1757–1835
Tirzah Taylor
1769–1853
Marriage: 21 August 1783
Tirzah Holbrook
1787–1867
Vesta Holbrook
1789–1859
Thester Taylor Holbrook
1792–1873
Walter Holbrook
1795–1878
William Cutler Holbrook
1796–1816
Silas Arms Holbrook
1802–1852
Erastus Holbrook
1806–1816

Sources (15)

  • Tirzah Holbrook in household of Thestor T Holbrook, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Tirzah Taylor, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Tirzah Taylor, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"

World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776

New York is the 11th state.

1791

Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.

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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Tirzah Taylor

Tirzah Taylor Holbrook BIRTH 2 Jan 1767 Charlemont, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA DEATH 13 Jun 1853 (aged 86) BURIAL Springvale Cemetery East Elba, Genesee County, New York, USA Dr. Silas, d. …

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