When Deliverance Taylor was born about 1690, in Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Taylor, was 51 and her mother, Elizabeth Fuller, was 36. She married John Veale about 1705. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died after 1740, in her hometown, and was buried in Virginia, 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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