When Margaret Taylor was born on 1 August 1801, in Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Taylor, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Barnet, was 22. She married James Ross about 1818, in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 3 July 1867, in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 65.
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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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