Queenie Elsie Taylor

13 January 1904–11 April 1984 (Age 80)
Lewiston Woodville, Bertie, North Carolina, United States

The Life Summary of Queenie Elsie

When Queenie Elsie Taylor was born on 13 January 1904, in Lewiston Woodville, Bertie, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Henry Taylor, was 42 and her mother, Catherine Ann Miller, was 34. She married Luther Edward Newsome Sr on 25 November 1924, in Camden, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Woodville, Bertie, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Norfolk, England, United Kingdom in 1939. She died on 11 April 1984, in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

Cornelius Hobson Walker
1897–1985
Queenie Elsie Taylor
1904–1984
Marriage: 4 October 1941

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    4 October 1941Norfolk, Virginia, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels
    Age 2
    The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
    1914 · Britain Enters the Great War
    Age 10
    After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
    1927
    Age 23
    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    (1997: 241254;2007: 532882; 2010: 751209)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.

    Possible Related Names

    Tayloe
    Schneider
    Tayler
    Tailor

    Sources (15)

    • Queenie E Taylor in household of William H Taylor, "United States Census, 1920"
    • Elsie Queenie Taylor in entry for Luther Edward Newsome and Peggy Hope Woodard, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
    • Elsie Walker in entry for Cornelius Hobson Walker, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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