When Ann Taylor was born on 10 July 1690, in Bury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Taylor, was 35 and her mother, Katharine Chetham, was 38. She married Roger Booth on 24 April 1710, in Bury, Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 30 December 1716, in her hometown, at the age of 26, and was buried in Bury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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