Margaret Taylor

Female1 August 1801–3 July 1867

Brief Life History of Margaret

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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Family Time Line

James Ross
1800–1868
Margaret Taylor
1801–1867
Marriage: about 1818
John Ross
1819–1821
William Ross
1821–1858
Elizabeth Ross
1822–1823
James Darling Ross
1824–1878
Ellen Ross
1826–1826
Robert Ross
1827–1877
Daniel Ross
1829–1830
Margaret Ross
1831–1844
Gabriel Ross
1832–1833
Daniel Ross
1834–1895
Hannah Ross
1837–1837
Sarah Ross
1838–1838
John Ross
1839–1914
Agnes Ross
1841–1917
Mary Ross
1844–1888

Sources (18)

  • Margaret in entry for James D Ross, 1878, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
  • Margaret Taylor in entry for John Ross, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Margaret Ross in household of James Ross, "Scotland Census, 1861"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1818Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Children (15)

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

    Age 1

    In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.

    1815

    Age 14

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    1820 · """The """"Radical War""""."""

    Age 19

    The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.

    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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