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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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.
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.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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