When Samuel Taylor was born in 1734, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Reuben Taylor, was 31 and his mother, Eunice Couch, was 28. He married Eunice on 12 February 1755. He died on 27 January 1805, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Colonial Cemetery, Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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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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