Brief Life History of Dorinda
When Dorinda Taylor was born on 1 July 1794, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States, her father, Uriah Taylor, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Smith, was 22. She married Robert S. Thompson about 1830, in Hart, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hart, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 November 1864, in Seymour, Hart, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Seymour, Hart, Kentucky, United States.
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- D Thompson in household of S P Taylor, "United States Census, 1860"
- Dorinda Taylor Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dorenida Thompson in household of Robt P Thompson, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (8)
1797
Historical Boundaries 1797: Warren, Kentucky, United States 1799: Barren, Kentucky, United States 1819: Hart, Kentucky, United States
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
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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